Analyzing Syntax

Author : Virginia A. Heidinger
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0913580910

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Analyzing Syntax and Semantics by Virginia A. Heidinger Pdf

This 22-chapter text explores the structure of language and the meaning of words within a given structure. The text/workbook combination gives students both the theory and practice they need to understand this complex topic. Analyzing Syntax and Semantics features the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach. This method uses student performance objectives, practice, feedback, individualization of pace, and repeatable testing as instructional strategies.

Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521016541

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Analyzing Syntax by Paul Kroeger Pdf

Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach is a comprehensive and accessible textbook on syntactic analysis, designed for students of linguistics at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Working within the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach, it provides students with a framework for analyzing and describing grammatical structure, using extensive examples from both European and non-European languages. Topics covered include: tests for constituency, passivization and other relation-changing processes, reflexive pronouns, the control relation, Topic and Focus, relative clauses and Wh-questions, causative constructions, serial verbs, quirky case , and ergativity. As well as building on what linguists have learned about language in general, particular attention is paid to the unique features of individual languages. While its primary focus is on syntactic structure, the book also deals with aspects of meaning, function and word-structure that are directly relevant to syntax. Clearly organised into topics, this textbook is ideal for one-semester courses in syntax and grammatical analysis.

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474420396

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Analyzing Syntax through Texts by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

Author : Noel Burton-Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317293828

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Analysing Sentences by Noel Burton-Roberts Pdf

This highly successful text has long been considered the standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. It covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and also utilises tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences. In this fourth edition, Analysing Sentences has been thoroughly revised and now features a brand new companion website with additional activities and exercises for students and an answer book for the in-text exercises for professors. The extra activities on the website give students practice in identifying syntactic phenomena in running text and will help to deepen understanding of this topic. Accessible and clear, this book is the perfect textbook for readers coming to this topic for the first time. Featuring many in-text, end-of-chapter and Further Exercises, it is suitable for self-directed study as well as for use as core reading on courses.

Author : Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139443518

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Analyzing Grammar by Paul R. Kroeger Pdf

Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises. Topics covered include word order, constituency, case, agreement, tense, gender, pronoun systems, inflection, derivation, argument structure and grammatical relations, and a useful glossary provides a clear explanation of each term. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Analyzing Grammar is set to become a key text for all courses in grammatical analysis.

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474420402

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Analyzing Syntax through Texts by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

Explores the momentous changes that have taken place in the Russian nationalism since Putin's return to the presidency

Author : Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101368

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Analyzing meaning by Paul R. Kroeger Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect. Most of the chapters include exercises which can be used for class discussion and/or homework assignments, and each chapter contains references for additional reading on the topics covered. As the title indicates, this book is truly an INTRODUCTION: it provides a solid foundation which will prepare students to take more advanced and specialized courses in semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also intended as a reference for fieldworkers doing primary research on under-documented languages, to help them write grammatical descriptions that deal carefully and clearly with semantic issues. The approach adopted here is largely descriptive and non-formal (or, in some places, semi-formal), although some basic logical notation is introduced. The book is written at level which should be appropriate for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students. It presupposes some previous coursework in linguistics, but does not presuppose any background in formal logic or set theory.

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521516976

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Analysing English Sentences by Andrew Radford Pdf

This book provides a concise introduction to work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program.

Author : Clinton L. Jeffery
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781800200333

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Build Your Own Programming Language by Clinton L. Jeffery Pdf

Written by the creator of the Unicon programming language, this book will show you how to implement programming languages to reduce the time and cost of creating applications for new or specialized areas of computing Key Features Reduce development time and solve pain points in your application domain by building a custom programming language Learn how to create parsers, code generators, file readers, analyzers, and interpreters Create an alternative to frameworks and libraries to solve domain-specific problems Book Description The need for different types of computer languages is growing rapidly and developers prefer creating domain-specific languages for solving specific application domain problems. Building your own programming language has its advantages. It can be your antidote to the ever-increasing size and complexity of software. In this book, you'll start with implementing the frontend of a compiler for your language, including a lexical analyzer and parser. The book covers a series of traversals of syntax trees, culminating with code generation for a bytecode virtual machine. Moving ahead, you'll learn how domain-specific language features are often best represented by operators and functions that are built into the language, rather than library functions. We'll conclude with how to implement garbage collection, including reference counting and mark-and-sweep garbage collection. Throughout the book, Dr. Jeffery weaves in his experience of building the Unicon programming language to give better context to the concepts where relevant examples are provided in both Unicon and Java so that you can follow the code of your choice of either a very high-level language with advanced features, or a mainstream language. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own domain-specific languages, capable of compiling and running programs. What you will learn Perform requirements analysis for the new language and design language syntax and semantics Write lexical and context-free grammar rules for common expressions and control structures Develop a scanner that reads source code and generate a parser that checks syntax Build key data structures in a compiler and use your compiler to build a syntax-coloring code editor Implement a bytecode interpreter and run bytecode generated by your compiler Write tree traversals that insert information into the syntax tree Implement garbage collection in your language Who this book is for This book is for software developers interested in the idea of inventing their own language or developing a domain-specific language. Computer science students taking compiler construction courses will also find this book highly useful as a practical guide to language implementation to supplement more theoretical textbooks. Intermediate-level knowledge and experience working with a high-level language such as Java or the C++ language are expected to help you get the most out of this book.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000043037568

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Bresnan,Ash Asudeh,Ida Toivonen,Stephen Wechsler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119099215

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Lexical-Functional Syntax by Joan Bresnan,Ash Asudeh,Ida Toivonen,Stephen Wechsler Pdf

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191552106

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Natural Language Syntax by Peter W. Culicover Pdf

In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, and on the conceptual structures that correspond to particular aspects of linguistic form. He seeks to explain linguistic forms and in the process to show how these correspond with meanings. The book's clear, step-by-step exposition is presented within the Simpler Syntax framework whose development has been led by the author and Ray Jackendoff over the last fifteen years. This integrates syntactic theory with the representation of conceptual structure and casts fresh light on the interface between syntax and semantics. It also enables elegant and economical analyses of natural language phenomena without recourse to such abstract devices as functional heads and uniform binary branching. Peter Culicover opens his account with an overview of the nature of language and the aims of its analysis. He then divides the book into parts devoted to syntactic categories, syntactic structure and argument structure, argument realization, unbounded dependencies, and clausal structure. He provides exercises, problems, and suggestions for further reading throughout the book.

Author : Joseph Lovestrand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198851158

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Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand Pdf

This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verb phrases, and serial verb constructions. The version of LFG adopted here includes two recent innovations: the first is minimal c-structure, which results in simpler phrase structure representations; the second is the assumption that glue semantics accounts for argument selection, rejecting the need for a level of a-structure or for Completeness and Coherence in f-structure. Argument sharing in serial verb constructions can thus be modeled in a connected s-structure. This method of modeling semantic composition in complex predicates is extended to directional and associated motion complex predicates in Choctaw and Wambaya, removing the need to appeal to a special mechanism to unite semantic forms in such constructions.

Author : Virginia A. Heidinger
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0913580929

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Analyzing Syntax and Semantics by Virginia A. Heidinger Pdf

This 22-chapter text explores the structure of language and the meaning of words within a given structure. The text/workbook combination gives students both the theory and practice they need to understand this complex topic. Analyzing Syntax and Semantics features the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach. This method uses student performance objectives, practice, feedback, individualization of pace, and repeatable testing as instructional strategies.