Bare Argument Ellipsis And Focus

Author : Andreas Konietzko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266569

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Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus by Andreas Konietzko Pdf

This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripping located at the syntax-information structure interface and argues for a licensing mechanism which is strongly tied to the focus properties of the construction. Under this view, types of bare argument ellipsis such as stripping and pseudostripping, which have received different treatments in the literature, are shown to be subject to the same licensing mechanism. This analysis is also extended to instances of bare argument ellipsis in embedded contexts, which have received little attention in the literature so far. Integrating theoretical and experimental reasoning, this study presents a series of experiments investigating the extraction, prosody and context properties of stripping and thus arrives at a comprehensive and unified account.

Author : Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504488

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Architecture of Topic by Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler Pdf

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.

Author : Katy Carlson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136722882

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Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences by Katy Carlson Pdf

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following questions: (i) are ellipsis sentences processed using special routines employed only for ellipsis or are they processed using the same principles needed for unelided sentences? (ii) does parallelism influence sentence processing? if so, what kinds of similarities matter?

Author : Lyn Frazier,Edward Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319129617

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Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing by Lyn Frazier,Edward Gibson Pdf

Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on prosody (‘timing’) and intonation (‘melody’) used to constrain the parsing and interpretation of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody/intonation in silent reading, and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading? Prosody and intonation interact with phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language processes.

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199654598

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Grammar & Complexity by Peter W. Culicover Pdf

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and so much complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter Culicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the correspondence between form and meaning; secondly in the real-time processes involved in the construction of meanings in linguistic expressions. Mainstream syntactic theory has focused largely on regularities within and across languages, relegating to the periphery exceptional and idiosyncratic phenomena. But, the author argues, a languages irregular and unique features offer fundamental insights into the nature of language, how it changes, and how it is produced and understood. Peter Culicover's new book offers a pertinent and original contribution to key current debates in linguistic theory. It will interest scholars and advanced students of linguists of all theoretical persuasions.

Author : Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664809

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

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

Author : Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664793

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

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

Author : Andrew M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 019513270X

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Discontinuous Syntax by Andrew M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Pdf

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as an area of linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering a new theory with broad applications for our understanding of Greek syntax.

Author : Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000987843

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Strategies of Ambiguity by Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker Pdf

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors not only enquire into effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Kirsten Gengel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643118

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Pseudogapping and Ellipsis by Kirsten Gengel Pdf

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonethe less interpreted by the receiver, eg in the following sentence, the second instance of read is understood whether or not it is spoken Claire read a book and Heather [read] a magazine. Contemporary theoretical linguistics has described several forms of ellipsis in English, and different syntactic mechanisms have been proposed which account for their structures. Kirsten Gengel investigates pseudogapping, which, she proposes, is one variety of ellipsis. At the heart of her discussion lies the interaction between focus and deletion. Her analysis - which draws on new research in Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch, as well as data from Portuguese, French, and English - provides a novel approach to not only this particular form of ellipsis but to the derivation of ellipsis in general, and has the potential of unifying several elliptical phenomena in generative grammar.

Author : Karen Lahousse,Stefania Marzo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269263

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012 by Karen Lahousse,Stefania Marzo Pdf

This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. The present volume testifies to the significance of the analysis of Romance languages for the field of linguistics in general, and theoretical linguistics in particular. It contains eleven articles dealing with issues related to all core linguistic domains and interfaces, and representing different empirical phenomena. The articles provide data from a significant range of Romance languages and language varieties (French, standard Italian and Italian dialects, Spanish, Catalan, Catalan Contact Spanish, standard and non-standard European Portuguese, Galician), as well as from Latin, English and German.

Author : Gerrit Kentner,Joost Kremers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110651416

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Prosody in Syntactic Encoding by Gerrit Kentner,Joost Kremers Pdf

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure? A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form. The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept “intonational morpheme” (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.

Author : Sigrid Beck,Remus Gergel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346190

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Contrasting English and German Grammar by Sigrid Beck,Remus Gergel Pdf

This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.

Author : Claire Beyssade
Publisher : Presses Paris Sorbonne
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 2840502895

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Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 4 by Claire Beyssade Pdf

Author : Caroline Féry,Shinichiro Ishihara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191005404

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The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure by Caroline Féry,Shinichiro Ishihara Pdf

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on focus, topic, and givenness. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including quantification, dislocation, and intonation, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including language processing and acquisition. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.