Auxiliary Selection In Spanish

Author : Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270405

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Auxiliary Selection in Spanish by Malte Rosemeyer Pdf

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.

Author : Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110348866

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Auxiliary Selection Revisited by Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer Pdf

A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.

Author : Raúl Aranovich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229813

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Split Auxiliary Systems by Raúl Aranovich Pdf

The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language families are extended with data from lesser studied languages and dialects (Romanian, Paduan), and also with experimental and historical data. Moreover, the book goes beyond the usual language families in which the phenomenon has been studied, with the inclusion of two chapters on Chinese and Korean. The theoretical background of the contributors is also broad, ranging from current Generative approaches to Cognitive and Optimality-Theoretical frameworks. Readers interested in the structural, historical, developmental, or experimental aspects of auxiliary selection should profit from this book's comprehensive empirical coverage and from the plurality of contemporary linguistic analyses it contains.

Author : Aria Adli,Marco García García,Göz Kaufmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346855

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Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches by Aria Adli,Marco García García,Göz Kaufmann Pdf

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393

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The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner Pdf

What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252971

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The Acquisition of Spanish by Silvina Montrul Pdf

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement (topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Romance languages
ISBN : 9780198870807

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Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony by Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Author : Paola Crisma,Giuseppe Longobardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199560547

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Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory by Paola Crisma,Giuseppe Longobardi Pdf

This text of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of historical linguistics and grammatical theory. It then tests their value and applicability by examining diachronic transmission of syntax at different times and in a wide range of languages

Author : José Camacho
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248028

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Romance Linguistics 2006 by José Camacho Pdf

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Author : Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Sandro Sessarego
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000193121

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Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Sandro Sessarego Pdf

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological techniques—ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-based analysis to experimental approaches—to offer rich insights into different aspects of Ibero-Romance grammar. The volume consists of three parts, organized in accordance with the topics treated in the chapters they comprise. Part I focuses on structural patterns, Part II analyzes pragmatic ones, and Part III investigates the acquisition of linguistic aspects found in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers. The authors address these issues by relying on empirically rooted linguistic approaches to data collection, which are coupled with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of sentence structure, discourse dynamics and language acquisition. The volume will be of interest to anyone researching or studying Hispanic and Ibero-Romance linguistics.

Author : Irene Amato
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249272

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Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance by Irene Amato Pdf

This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how cross-linguistic data can be accounted for. The solution to these issues consists of an Agreebased analysis that accounts for auxiliary selection in root clauses and restructuring in Standard Italian and in Italo-Romance varieties, which is also compatible with participle agreement. By answering these questions, the book also touches upon more theoretical and foundational problems, such as the distribution of labor between syntax, morphology and the lexicon, and the conditions on the operation Agree (in particular, multiple probing, locality, and minimality). This work contributes to the discussion in the fields of formal morpho-syntax, theoretical linguistics, and Romance linguistics.

Author : British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:555026073

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Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society by British and Foreign Bible Society Pdf

Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.

Author : Alejandro Cortazar,Rafael Orozco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443830966

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Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy by Alejandro Cortazar,Rafael Orozco Pdf

This book depicts new paradigms in Hispanic linguistic, literary and cultural studies. Part I: Literary and Cultural Studies includes eight essays focusing on a new trend of cultural representation attempting to find new meaning(s). They explore a series of reflections on some of those moments – from the period that begins with the cry for independence in 1810 and that spans beyond 2010 – textually translated as new approaches of analysis on the “recollections of things to come.” The contexts examined evince critical occurrences related to periods of change toward democracy and social justice that eventually lead to “revolutionary” or “emancipating” ends, by way of artistic, textual manifestations. Part II: Linguistic and Cultural Studies contains nine articles representative of the most current, ground breaking research on Hispanic linguistics. It focuses on important linguistic and cultural issues pertaining, geographically, to various corners of the Hispanic world, spanning from central Florida and New York City, to Bolivia, and on to the Prince Islands in Turkey. The issues explored include the sociolinguistic and cultural identity of Puerto Ricans in the United States, the pragmatics of humor in Mexican film, the effects of language evolution on modern Spanish, and the acquisition of Spanish by English speakers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015068905465

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Studies in Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gessica De Angelis,Ulrike Jessner,Marijana Kresic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474235877

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Crosslinguistic Influence and Crosslinguistic Interaction in Multilingual Language Learning by Gessica De Angelis,Ulrike Jessner,Marijana Kresic Pdf

Which strategies do multilingual learners use when confronted with languages they don't yet know? Which factors are involved in activating prior linguistic knowledge in multilingual learning? This volume offers valuable insights into recent research in multilingualism, crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction. Experts in the field examine the role of background languages in multilingual learning. All the chapters point to the heart of the question of what the «multilingual mind» is. Does learning one language actually help you learn another, and if so, why? This volume looks at languages and scenarios beyond English as a second language – Italian, Gaelic, Dutch and German, amongst others, are covered, as well as instances of third and additional language learning. Research into crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction essentially contributes to our understanding of how language learning works when there are three or more languages in contact.