Case And Grammatical Relations

Author : John M. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
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Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429864988

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On Case Grammar by John M. Anderson Pdf

Originally published in 1977, On Case Grammar, represents a synthesis of various lines of research, with special regard to the treatment of grammatical relations. Arguments are assessed for and against case grammar, localism, lexical decomposition and relational grammar. The book surveys the important evidence to support the validity of the choice of a case grammar as the most satisfactory of current accounts of the notion of grammatical relations. This evidence is derived from a detailed examination of various processes in English and from a typological comparison of other languages, notably Dyirbal and Basque. The book also looks at the establishment of principled limitation on the set of case relations. Lexical, syntactical, semantic and morphological evidence suggests that the set of cases is in conformity with the predictions of a strong form of the localist hypothesis, which requires that case relations be distinguished in terms of source vs. goal vs. location.

Author : D. N. S. Bhat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134923755

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Grammatical Relations by D. N. S. Bhat Pdf

This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object are required in the case of the Indian language of Kannada. Furthermore, the notion of transitivity or transference which forms the basis for postulating grammatical relations does not play the expected central role in all languages: in the case of another Indian language, Manipuri, it is volitionality and transitivity which plays the central role in clause structure. Dr. Bhat argues against the universality and necessity of grammatical relations; his provocative hypothesis will be a challenge to all those concerned with the nature of language.

Author : Kristin Davidse,Béatrice Lamiroy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027228140

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The Nominative & Accusative and Their Counterparts by Kristin Davidse,Béatrice Lamiroy Pdf

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing descriptive studies of ten different languages, not only Romance and Germanic languages, but also Polish and Basque, as well as Cora, Warrwa and Ewe. These studies show that the formal devices used to mark the two nuclear cases may be quite diverse (including non-overt and 'configurational' coding), but that all the languages studied crucially display a subject-object asymmetry, even languages such as Basque and Ewe for which this had been questioned. One of the most striking subthemes to emerge from this collection is the complexity of the object-zone, both with regard to formal and functional diversity. Various studies in the volume also contribute reflections, couched mainly in broadly cognitive-functional terms, about the semantic function of the subject-object contrast and why it is so central across languages.

Author : Petra Campe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228116

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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations by Petra Campe Pdf

This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a remarkable feature of the project is the use of computer corpora of authentic material. This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in research into case and case-related phenomena. This includes not only morphological case markers, but also the crossconstituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations. In addition, the bibliography reflects the implications of case research for other disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence. More than 6000 publications are listed. An extensive Subject Index provides easy access to all the topics and major concepts covered. A Language Index and a Guide to Languages/Language Families conclude the book. The other volumes in the series include The Dative (2 vols), The Genitive, The Nominative and Accusative, and Non-nuclear Cases.

Author : Greville G. Corbett,Michael P. Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229946

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Case and Grammatical Relations by Greville G. Corbett,Michael P. Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.

Author : Jan Terje Faarlund
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230587

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Grammatical Relations in Change by Jan Terje Faarlund Pdf

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages dealt with include Old English, Mainland Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and other Germanic languages, Latin, French and other Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and Popolocan. This book provides an opportunity to compare different theoretical approaches to similar phenomena in different languages and language families.

Author : John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Case grammar
ISBN : 0429460864

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On Case Grammer by John Mathieson Anderson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : LCCN:sn98050054

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Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602669860

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On Case Grammar by John Mathieson Anderson Pdf

Author : Cynthia L. Allen
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198238673

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Case Marking and Reanalysis by Cynthia L. Allen Pdf

English underwent sweeping changes to its inflectional system in the Middle English period and it is widely assumed that the loss of case-marking distinctions had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. Allen here makes a detailed study of these changes, questioning the results of previous analyses which, she argues, posit too direct a link between the morphological and syntactic changes.

Author : Andrew Carnie,Dan Siddiqi,Yosuke Sato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317751045

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The Routledge Handbook of Syntax by Andrew Carnie,Dan Siddiqi,Yosuke Sato Pdf

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches. The handbook covers key issues within the field that include: • core areas of syntactic empirical investigation, • contemporary approaches to syntactic theory, • interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system, • experimental and computational approaches to syntax. Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.

Author : Cynthia L. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : English language
ISBN : 1383013403

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Case Marking and Reanalysis by Cynthia L. Allen Pdf

A detailed study of the sweeping inflectional changes which took place in the English language in the Middle English period, which questions the results of previous analyses that posit too direct a link between morphological and syntactic changes.

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229311

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Grammatical Relations by Talmy Givón Pdf

This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only be described properly by a basket of neither necessary nor sufficient properties — thus within a framework akin to Rosch's theory of Prototype. Some GR properties are functional (reference, topicality, accessibility); others involve overt coding (word-order, case marking, verb agreement). Others yet are more abstract, involving control of grammatical processes (rule-governed behavior). Building on Keenan's pioneering work, this volume concentrates on the structural aspects of GRs within a functionalist framework. Following a theoretical introduction, the papers in the volume deal primarily with recalcitrant typological issues: The dissociation between overt coding properties of GRs and their behavior-and-control properties; GRs in serial verb constructions; GRs in ergative languages; The impact of clause union and grammaticalization on GRs.

Author : Alec Marantz
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262630907

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On the Nature of Grammatical Relations by Alec Marantz Pdf

This book presents a theory of grammatical relations among sentential constituents which is a development of Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory. The cross-linguistic predictive power of the theory is unusually strong and it is supported in the examination of a wide range of languages.Within the syntax of a language, grammatical relations determine such things as word order, case marking, verb agreement, and the possibilities of anaphora (co- and disjoint reference) among nominals. Other approaches to grammatical relations have considered them to name classes of constituents that share clusters of properties, including most prominently structural positions or case marking, Still others have claimed that grammatical relations are primitives in syntactic theory, but are related essentially to semantic roles. Rejecting these approaches, this monograph develops a theory which includes at its core a "projection principle": The syntax of a language is assumed to be a (direct) "Projection" of the compositional sematics, and the mechanisms of projection are explicitly spelled out.Chapters cover the two asymmetries and two lexical features on which the theory is built; semantic and syntactic data from a wide variety of languages that support the universal applicability and explanatory power of these asymmetries and features; features of passive, antipassive, dative-shift, anticausative, causative, and applied verb constructions in the worlds' languages explained by the theory; confirmations of the theory's predictions in languages for which alternative approaches to grammatical relations fail to provide successful analyses; and, comparison of the book's conception of grammatical relations to those in the GB framework, Montague Grammar, Relational Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar.Alec Marantz is affiliated with the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. On The Nature of Grammatical Relations is a Linguistic Inquiry Monograph.

Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0937073865

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Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog by Paul Kroeger Pdf

Over the last twenty years or so, most of the work on the syntax of Philippine languages has been focused on the question of whether or not these languages can be said to have grammatical subjects, and if so which argument of a basic transitive clause should be analysed as being the subject. Paul Kroeger's contribution to this debate asserts that grammatical relations such as subject and object are syntactic notions, and must be identified on the basis of syntactic properties, rather than by semantic roles or discourse functions. A large number of syntactic processes in Tagalog uniquely select the argument which bears the nominative case. On the other hand, the data which have been used in the debate to assert the ambiguity of subjecthood are best analysed in terms of semantic rather than syntactic constraints. Together these facts support an analysis that takes the nominative argument as the subject. Kroeger examines the history of the subjecthood debate and uses data from Tagalog to test the theories that have been put forth. His conclusions entail consequences for certain linguistic concepts and theories, and lead Kroeger to assert that grammatical relations are not defined in terms of surface phrase structure configurations, contrary to the assumptions of many approaches to syntax including the Government-Binding theory. Paul Kroeger is presently doing fieldwork in Austronesian languages and teaching linguistics to fieldworkers from around the world.