A Case Study In Syntactic Markedness

Author : Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
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Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112327760

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A case study In syntactic markedness by Henk van Riemsdijk Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Henk C. van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760594946

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A Case Study in Syntactic Markedness by Henk C. van Riemsdijk Pdf

Author : Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110161516

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Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1996) by Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier Pdf

Comprising a selection of papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held in Poznan in August 1996, this volume contains 28 contributions addressing a range of topics, but with an emphasis on morphological and syntactical studies on word-formation, modality and negation, and clause structure in the history of the English language. A more theoretically-oriented strain is represented by contributions treating grammaticalization or lexical diffusion in language change. There are also contributions addressing the historiography of historical linguistics including discussion of past grammarians such as Buchanan or Huish, as well as phonological studies and discussion of the development of Early Modern English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Veselovská, Ludmila
Publisher : Palacký University Olomouc
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024459660

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Wh-Questions: A Case Study in Czech by Veselovská, Ludmila Pdf

In the empirical, descriptive sections of this monograph the author develops standard argumentation in favour of the structurally-based transformational nature of Wh-questions in English and Czech. She demonstrates how Wh-questions in Slavic languages first impacted the theoretical discussion and how their description challenged some earlier assumptions based on specifically English data. The study provides a historical survey of the analyses which reflect the development of the field. Individual chapters are devoted to comparing extraction domains, locality conditions, and constraints defined in terms of the structures proposed. The Wh-characteristics are compared with Focus/ Contrastive Topic re-orderings, which leads to an improved structural analysis, using the concept of a Split CP. In spite of the demonstrable progress of the research, many so far unexplained aspects of the Wh-phenomena will without doubt continue to provide an interesting source for future research on the structure of human language.

Author : Robert May,Jan Koster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110874167

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Levels of Syntactic Representation by Robert May,Jan Koster Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198700237

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Syntactic Nuts by Peter W. Culicover Pdf

How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255150

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The Limits of Syntactic Variation by Theresa Biberauer Pdf

Against the background of the past half century s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a multi-perspective critique of the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic variation, evaluating the merits and shortcomings of the pre-Minimalist phase of this enterprise and considering and illustrating the possibilities opened up by recent empirical and theoretical advances. Contributions focus on four central topics: firstly, the question of the locus of variation, whether the attested variation may plausibly be understood in parametric terms and, if so, what form such parameters might take; secondly, the fate of one of the most prominent early parameters, the Null Subject Parameter; thirdly, the matter of parametric clusters more generally; and finally, acquisition issues.

Author : Höskuldur Thräinsson,Samuel David Epstein,Steve Peter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1402002947

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by Höskuldur Thräinsson,Samuel David Epstein,Steve Peter Pdf

O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart,Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296924

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart,Werner Abraham Pdf

This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages. Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).

Author : Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808513

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A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories by Joseph E. Emonds Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401584166

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner Pdf

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

Author : Frank Drijkoningen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111594736

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The Syntax of Verbal Affixation by Frank Drijkoningen Pdf

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Author : Pieter Muysken,Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110871661

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Features and Projections by Pieter Muysken,Henk van Riemsdijk Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521138789

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Syntactic Islands by Cedric Boeckx Pdf

A comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist?

Author : Hagit Borer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808506

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Parametric Syntax by Hagit Borer Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.