Advances In Role And Reference Grammar

Author : Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277510

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This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section contains an introduction to the theory which is the most thorough statement of it since FSUG, summarizing the features of Role and Reference Grammar established there and developing new theoretical components and analyses of syntactic phenomena not discussed in the earlier work. Throughout the discussion features of RRG are compared and contrasted with comparable features of other syntactic theories. The remainder of the volume is devoted to detailed analyses of specific problems, e.g. control, case marking, in a wide variety of languages, e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Nootka, Mparntwe Arrernte and Turkish. Thus the works presented here illustrate well the strong cross-linguistic approach to syntactic theory and description in Role and Reference Grammar.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723602X

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Advances in Role and Reference Grammar by Robert D. Van Valin Pdf

This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section contains an introduction to the theory which is the most thorough statement of it since FSUG, summarizing the features of Role and Reference Grammar established there and developing new theoretical components and analyses of syntactic phenomena not discussed in the earlier work. Throughout the discussion features of RRG are compared and contrasted with comparable features of other syntactic theories. The remainder of the volume is devoted to detailed analyses of specific problems, e.g. control, case marking, in a wide variety of languages, e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Nootka, Mparntwe Arrernte and Turkish. Thus the works presented here illustrate well the strong cross-linguistic approach to syntactic theory and description in Role and Reference Grammar.

Author : Rolf Kailuweit,Lisann Künkel,Eva Staudinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1077731588

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Applying and Expanding Role and Reference Grammar by Rolf Kailuweit,Lisann Künkel,Eva Staudinger Pdf

Author : Wataru Nakamura
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 1443833886

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New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar by Wataru Nakamura Pdf

New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar presents a broad picture of current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a version of parallel structure grammar with an emphasis on typological adequacy. Since its inception, RRG has been applied to a wide range of languages, in particular to case marking, complex clauses (e.g. control, raising, and serial verb constructions), unaccusativity/unergativity, and the interplay between syntax and information structure. The present book is a continued investigation of the intermodular correspondence in a variety of languages and comprises 13 papers, which not only contribute to the further development of the theory, but also investigate controversial areas of linguistic theory including inflectional and derivational morphology, verbal semantics and argument structure (anticausative and serial verb constructions), the argument-adjunct distinction, an extended typology of complex clauses, the syntax-information structure interface, and interactions between the lexicon and constructions. In addition, three papers illustrate how RRG may be applied to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation from Arabic to English.

Author : Rolf Kailuweit,Eva Staudinger,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443810654

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New applications of Role & Reference Grammar by Rolf Kailuweit,Eva Staudinger,Björn Wiemer Pdf

The first part is comprised of seven articles dealing with possible applications of RRG to diachronic syntax and grammaticalization. Beside an overview article, the papers are mainly concerned with changes either in the interaction between topic-focus structure and the Layered Structure of the Clause or in the selection of Privileged Syntactic Arguments and case assignment. The second part consists of applications of RRG to Romance languages, and most of these applications are mainly concerned with the syntax-semantics interface. Different aspects of verbs (verbs as operators, verbs as sentence predicates, verb alternations) and the syntactic and semantic structures they involve are analyzed from an RRG perspective.

Author : Delia Bentley,Ricardo Mairal Usón,Wataru Nakamura,Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009353557

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The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar by Delia Bentley,Ricardo Mairal Usón,Wataru Nakamura,Robert D. Van Valin, Jr Pdf

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a theory of language in which linguistic structures are accounted for in terms of the interplay of discourse, semantics and syntax. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this Handbook provides a field-defining overview of RRG. Assuming no prior knowledge, it introduces the framework step-by-step, and includes a pedagogical guide for instructors. It features in-depth discussions of syntax, morphology, and lexical semantics, including treatments of lexical and grammatical categories, the syntax of simple clauses and complex sentences, and how the linking of syntax with semantics and discourse works in each of these domains. It illustrates RRG's contribution to the study of language acquisition, language change and processing, computational linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and also contains five grammatical sketches which show how RRG analyses work in practice. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for anyone who is interested in how grammar interfaces with meaning.

Author : Jens Fleischhauer,Claudius Patrick Kihara
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110795295

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African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective by Jens Fleischhauer,Claudius Patrick Kihara Pdf

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.

Author : Wataru Nakamura
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443834278

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New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar by Wataru Nakamura Pdf

New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar presents a broad picture of current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a version of parallel structure grammar with an emphasis on typological adequacy. Since its inception, RRG has been applied to a wide range of languages, in particular to case marking, complex clauses (e.g. control, raising, and serial verb constructions), unaccusativity/unergativity, and the interplay between syntax and information structure. The present book is a continued investigation of the intermodular correspondence in a variety of languages and comprises 13 papers, which not only contribute to the further development of the theory, but also investigate controversial areas of linguistic theory including inflectional and derivational morphology, verbal semantics and argument structure (anticausative and serial verb constructions), the argument-adjunct distinction, an extended typology of complex clauses, the syntax-information structure interface, and interactions between the lexicon and constructions. In addition, three papers illustrate how RRG may be applied to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation from Arabic to English.

Author : Ricardo Mairal Usón,María Jesús Pérez Quintero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110895872

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New Perspectives on Argument Structure in Functional Grammar by Ricardo Mairal Usón,María Jesús Pérez Quintero Pdf

The present monograph deals with lexical representation and linking within the framework of Functional Grammar. The notion of predicate frame as originally proposed in 1978 and subsequent refinements of the theory are challenged in that a new format of representing argument taking properties is formulated. This new format opens new lines of research towards the design of a new linking algorithm in Functional Grammar.

Author : Evelien Keizer,Hella Olbertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263117

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Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar by Evelien Keizer,Hella Olbertz Pdf

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific, comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question, these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages, thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume as a whole, however, does more than this, as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG, with its unique architecture, can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207821

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly usage-based ?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship."

Author : Hella Olbertz,Kees Hengeveld,Jesús Sánchez García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230461

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The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar by Hella Olbertz,Kees Hengeveld,Jesús Sánchez García Pdf

In functional grammar, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic building blocks around which the structure of a clause is built. This book examines 5 aspects of the role of the lexicon in functional grammar.

Author : Robert D. Van
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527598101

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Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Robert D. Van Pdf

This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.

Author : Abe Soheili
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527500709

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Reflections on Persian Grammar by Abe Soheili Pdf

This book is the first authoritative survey of the historical developments of Persian grammar, from the first attested work some 200 years ago to the present day. It examines the development of Persian linguistic thought in five different periods, and analyses the underlying assumptions of the grammars belonging to each period in light of contemporary ideas on the nature of grammar and new frameworks for grammatical analysis. This historical survey shows the profound influence of Arabic and Western linguistic thinking on the development of Persian grammar, as well as a dramatic shift of perspective from a traditional grammatical analysis to new and divergent procedures adopted by more recent schools of linguistics. The end result of this transition has culminated in less reliance on foreign influence and the emergence of more self-motivated, independent researchers in the uncharted territory of Persian grammar and its sub-components. The two comprehensive Persian and English glossaries at the end of the book will enable readers to better understand the grammatical concepts covered here.

Author : Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks in Linguistic
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677078

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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis by Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog Pdf

Fifty of the world's most distinguished scholars subject the analytic frameworks of contemporary linguistics to the same set of principled questions, showing which models best explain particular phenomena and offering a unique overview of linguistic theory.