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Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521378672
Major new work arguing that grammars are profoundly shaped by language processing.
Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812206
Author : Greville G. Corbett,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290182
The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.
Author : Brian D. Joseph,Geoffrey C. Horrocks,Irene Philippaki-Warburton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284051
This volume brings together 11 original papers on a variety of themes in Greek linguistics, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, both synchronically and diachronically.Collectively, these papers report on recent advances in the study of Greek grammar within the framework of generative grammar, and provide insights into such diverse topics as the analysis of consonant clusters, the representation of stress, the status of inflectional features, the relationship between compounds and projection, derived nominals, the occurrence of weak clitic pronouns in questions, small clauses, focus constructions, word order, the placement of clitics in Cappadocian dialects, and Medieval Greek relativisation strategies. Together, they show that Greek is a vital contributor to issues of current controversy in grammatical theory.
Author : Hadumod Bussmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134630387
The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.
Author : Günter Rohdenburg,Britta Mondorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110900019
What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the book / the book's main thesis, take hostage a group of 15 holiday makers / take a group of 15 holidaymakers hostage, conceding that the argument is convincing / conceding the argument to be convincing? This is the central issue explored in this volume, which contains a unique selection of innovative in-depth empirical studies written in a broadly functional framework. The factors investigated include the following: phonological influences (such as the principle of rhythmic alternation and optimal syllable structure), frequency, pervasive semantic and pragmatic aspects (including iconicity, markedness, grammaticalization and typological tendencies), information structure, processing complexity and horror aequi (the avoidance of identity effects).
Author : Theresa Biberauer,Michelle Sheehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199684359
This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.
Author : Vilmos Agel,Ludwig M. Eichinger,Hans Werner Eroms,Peter Hellwig,Hans Jurgen Heringer,Henning Lobin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : German language
ISBN : 9783110141900
Annotation "The handbook provides an overview of the current status of this research. In its first volume, the handbook begins by presenting the historical background of the theories in which the conceptions are rooted and then goes on to deal with the individual ele."
Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199665006
This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing and cooperating principles.
Author : Rolf Kreyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110318715
Comprehensive networks of language make use of structures that go beyond the basic associative connections that can be found in the brain. The present study is an attempt to provide an account of language that restricts itself to structures of a neurophysiological kind, i.e. simple nodes, excitatory and inhibitory connections.
Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199252688
John Hawkins demonstrates a clear link between how languages are used and the conventions of their grammars. He sets out a theory in which performance shapes grammars and accounts for the variation patterns found in the world's languages.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262640449
The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided direct confrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goals is to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stresses the limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interest might have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.
Author : Kerstin Schwabe,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292643
This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure is investigated here from different theoretical viewpoints yielding typologically relevant information and structural generalizations. In the volume's introductory chapter, the editors identify two central approaches to information structure: the formal and the interpretive view. The remainder of the book is organized accordingly. The first part examines information structure and grammar, concentrating on generalizations across languages. The second part investigates information structure and pragmatics, concentrating on clause structure and context. Through concrete analyses of topic, focus, and related phenomena across different languages, the contributors add new and convincing evidence to the research on information structure.
Author : Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119075387
This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever
Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199573776
''This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as universal grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. It will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.''--