Argument Realization

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267535

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Argument Realization in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Author : Beth Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0511610475

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Argument Realization by Beth Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav Pdf

The relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an overview of this important research area, exploring theories of how a verb's semantics can determine the morphosyntactic realization of its arguments. Assuming a close connection between verb meaning and syntactic structure, the analysis constructs a bridge between lexical-semantic and syntactic research. Synthesizing work results from a range of linguistic subdisciplines and a variety of theoretical frameworks, it will be invaluable to research in syntax, semantics, and related fields.

Author : Beth Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521663311

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Argument Realization by Beth Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav Pdf

This 2005 book surveys theories about the relationship between verbs and their arguments, an important research topic in linguistics.

Author : Douglas L. Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210240532

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Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan by Douglas L. Ball Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Polger,Lawrence A. Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780198732891

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The Multiple Realization Book by Thomas W. Polger,Lawrence A. Shapiro Pdf

Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro provide a full investigation of multiple realisation - the idea that minds can be realised in ways other than the human brain. They cast doubt on the hypothesis and give an alternative framework for understanding explanations in the cognitive sciences, and in chemistry, biology, and related fields.

Author : Miriam Butt,Tracy Holloway King
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575862662

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Argument Realization by Miriam Butt,Tracy Holloway King Pdf

In this book, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King present seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages. In these papers, Butt, King, and other prominent linguists examine within the architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) the variety of ways in which arguments of a predicate may be realized in the syntax. Well-suited for this kind of examination, LFG allows for the complex interaction of arguments, syntactic positions, and grammatical functions. Case marking alternations and the overt realization of case marking within single clauses, including case stacking, have continued to engage the attention of linguists working with different syntactic theories. The phenomenon of clause union or complex predication has led linguists to look at case marking and argument realization that goes beyond the domain of the single clause. Regardless of the complexity or simplicity of the predicational structure of a clause, the papers included in this volume show how the relationship between arguments and their overt realization can be dealt with. These papers also treat multiple case marking in Australian languages, possessor alternation in Welsh, directional complex predicates in American Indian languages, and causatives in Japanese. Furthermore, they discuss representational issues that encompass underspecification and the encoding of semantic information needed to determine the correspondence of thematic arguments to their overt syntactic realization.

Author : Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780805841947

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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure by Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown Pdf

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and comprises chapters by both specialists in first language acquisition and field linguists working on a variety of lesser-known languages. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure integrates important contemporary issues in linguistics and language acquisition.

Author : Ryan Dux
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261014

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Frame-Constructional Verb Classes by Ryan Dux Pdf

While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions.

Author : Florent Perek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268754

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Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar by Florent Perek Pdf

The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a usage-based perspective, taking the view that the cognitive representation of grammar is shaped by language use, and that crucial aspects of grammatical organization are tied to the frequency with which words and syntactic constructions are used. On the basis of several case studies combining quantitative corpus studies and psycholinguistic experiments, it is shown how a usage-based approach sheds new light on a number of issues in argument realization and offers frequency-based explanations for its organizing principles at three levels of generality: verbs, constructions, and argument structure alternations.

Author : Asaf Bachrach,Isabelle Roy,Linnaea Stockall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270108

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Structuring the Argument by Asaf Bachrach,Isabelle Roy,Linnaea Stockall Pdf

While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This collection stems from an interest to find and explore practical, tangible points of intersection between theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists working on problems related to the representation and processing of verbs and their associated thematic structure. The book is organized around three core themes, (i) the basic building blocks of verbal representations and modes of construction of the verb-argument complex, (ii) non-canonical argument structure realization, with a particular focus on object-experiencer psych verbs, and (iii) the promises and challenges of neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigation into argument structure and the prospects for the future of interdisciplinary research on verb argument structure.

Author : Josep Quer i Carbonell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588114457

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001 by Josep Quer i Carbonell Pdf

The volumes "Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory" published in the series "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory "contain the selected papers of the "Going Romance" conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages."Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001" is the third such volume. It presents a selection of the papers that have been presented at the occasion of "Going Romance 2001 (XV)" which was held at the University of Amsterdam on December 6-8, 2001. The three-day program included a workshop on Determiners. The volume contains articles on specifics of one or more Romance languages or varieties: the architecture of the Determiner Phrase and properties of determiners, the left periphery of the sentence and clause structure, null elements and their interpretation, clitics, and other interesting phenomena in the Romance languages.

Author : Dimitra Papangeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Greek language, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112532440

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The Morphosyntax of Argument Realization by Dimitra Papangeli Pdf

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108602792

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The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics by Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden Pdf

The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.

Author : Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199285730

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Arguments and Agreement by Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman Pdf

This book brings together new work by leading syntactic theorists from the USA and Europe on a central aspect of syntactic and morphological theory: it explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. The authors examine the differences and parallels between nonconfigurational, pronominal- agreement languages; configurational languages which allow pronoun drop (for example, "Is coming" for "He is coming"); languages that allow pronoun drop in particular constructions only; and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. The book considers whether the morphological properties of agreement play a role in determining which of these types a language belongs to and how far languages differ with respect to the argumental status of their agreement and syntactic determiner phrases. The authors explore these and related issues and problems in the context of a wide range of languages. Their book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, linguistic typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

Author : Eystein Dahl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198857907

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Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family by Eystein Dahl Pdf

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.