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Author : Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Franse taal- en letterkunde
ISBN : 9004045724
Author : Waugh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004655379
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110847284
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : Arie Verhagen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110856163
No detailed description available for "Linguistic Theory and the Function of Word Order in Dutch".
Author : Pamela A. Downing,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284945
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235176
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.
Author : A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199720507
Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at best using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book begins by introducing the reader to the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then proceeds to present and analyze a representative selection of data in sufficient detail for the reader to develop both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this work aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general crosscategorial system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.
Author : Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284716
The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.
Author : Susann Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255402
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Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106008033059
Author : Roland Hinterhölzl,Svetlana Petrova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110205916
The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents empirical studies on the relation between word order and information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German, language change, information structure, discourse semantics, language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.
Author : Joachim Sabel,Mamoru Saito
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197266
This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain. The articles that focus mainly on the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties. This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages. We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.
Author : Marina Gorlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027215618
Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn't, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at a still controversial issue of phrasal verbs and their alternate word order applying sign-oriented theory and methodology. Unlike other analyses, it asserts that there is a semantic distinction between the two word order variants phrasal verbs may appear in. In order to test this distinction, the author analyzes a large corpus of data and also uses translation into a language having a clear morphological distinction between resultative/non-resultative forms (Russian). As follows from the analysis, English has morphological and syntactic tools to express resultative meaning, which allows suggesting a new lexico-grammatical category resultativeness.
Author : Thomas K. Landauer,Danielle S. McNamara,Simon Dennis,Walter Kintsch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135603274
The Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis is the authoritative reference for the theory behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze how words make meaning, with the desired outcome to program machines to understand human commands via natural language rather than strict programming protocols. The first book
Author : Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191064463
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical systems, linking syntax with prosody and with semantics and pragmatics. The chapters in this volume use the tools provided by the generative theory of grammar to examine the constrained ways in which historical word order variants have given way to new ones over time. Following an introduction by the editors, the book is divided into four parts that investigate changes regarding the targets for movement within the clausal functional hierarchy; changes (or stability) in the nature of the triggers for movement; verb movement into the left peripheries; and types of movement, with specific focus on word order change in Latin. Data are drawn from a wide variety of languages from different families and from both classical and modern periods, including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Hungarian, and Coptic Egyptian. The book's broad coverage and combination of language-internal and comparative studies offers new perspectives on the relation between word order change and syntactic movement. The volume also provides a range of wider insights into the properties of natural language and the way in which those properties constrain language variation and change.
