Case Typology And Grammar

Author : Anna Siewierska,Jae Jung Song
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298614

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Case, Typology and Grammar by Anna Siewierska,Jae Jung Song Pdf

The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special interest to researchers in morphosyntax, and linguistic typology. In addition, scholars in discourse grammar, historical linguistics, theoretical syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language contact will find articles of interest in the book.

Author : Anna Siewierska,Jae Jung Song
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229373

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Case, Typology, and Grammar by Anna Siewierska,Jae Jung Song Pdf

The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special interest to researchers in morphosyntax, and linguistic typology. In addition, scholars in discourse grammar, historical linguistics, theoretical syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language contact will find articles of interest in the book.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521004993

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Typology and Universals by William Croft Pdf

A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.

Author : Corinna Handschuh
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675190

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A typology of marked-S languages by Corinna Handschuh Pdf

A typological study of the rare marked-S language type which overtly marks the single argument of intransitive verbs (S) while one of the arguments of transitive verbs (either A or P) is left zero-coded. The formal (overt versus zero-coding) as well as functional aspects (range of uses of individual case forms) of the phenomenon are treated. The book covers languages from the Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Africa and of the North America Pacific Northwest and Pacific regions.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004363533

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Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology by William Croft Pdf

In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317419723

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A Comparative Typology of English and German by John A. Hawkins Pdf

First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities between the two languages and, in particular, looks at the question of whether contrasts in one area of the grammar is systematically related to contrasts in another, and whether there is any ‘directionality’ or unity to contrast throughout grammar as a whole. It is suggested that there is, and that English and German can serve as a case study for a more general typology of languages than we now have. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, including students of Germanic languages; language typologists; generative grammarians attempting to ‘fix the parameters’ on language variation;’ historical linguists; and applied linguists.

Author : László Dezsö
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110820843

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Studies in Syntactic Typology and Contrastive Grammar by László Dezsö Pdf

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226114333

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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology by Bernard Comrie Pdf

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206732

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Benefactives and Malefactives by Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä Pdf

Preface -- List of contributors -- Introduction: benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective / Seppo Kittilä & Fernando Zúñiga -- Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach / Denis Creissels -- Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary -- Framework for benefactive typology / Tomoko Yamashita Smith -- An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions / Paula Radetzky & Tomoko Smith -- The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses / Karsten Schmidtke-Bode -- Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives / Kaoru Kiyosawa & Donna B. Gerdts -- Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) / Marisa Censabella -- Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun / Fernando Zúñiga -- The benefactive semantic potential of 'caused reception' constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch / Timothy Colleman -- Beneficiary coding in Finnish / Seppo Kittilä -- Benefactives in Laz / René Lacroix -- Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib verb system / Nicolas Quint -- Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) / Sascha Völlmin -- A 'reflexive benefactive' in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) / Raymond Boyd -- Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Taqshelhiyt / Christian J. Rapold -- Benefactive strategies in Thai / Mathias Jenny -- Korean benefactive particles and their meanings / Jae Jung Song -- Malefactivity in Japanese / Eijiro Tsuboi -- General index (names, languages, subjects)

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264718

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On Understanding Grammar by T. Givón Pdf

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge...a book about understanding done with deep understanding – of language and its place in Nature and in the nature of humankind... The book is rich in insights, even for those who have been with linguistics for a long time. And beginners could be thankful for having it as a starting point, from which so many past mistakes have been shed". Thoroughly revised, corrected and updated, On Understanding Grammar remains, as its author intended it in 1979, a book about trying to make sense of human language and of doing linguistics. Language is considered here from multiple perspectives, intersecting with cognition and communication, typology and universals, grammaticalization, development and evolution. Within such a broad cross-disciplinary context, grammar is viewed as an automated, structured language-processing device, assembled through evolution, diachrony and use. Cross-language diversity is not arbitrary, but rather is tightly constrained and adaptively motivated, with the balance between universality and diversity mediated through development, be it evolutionary or diachronic. The book's take on language harkens back to the works of illustrious antecedents such as F. Bopp, W. von Humbold, H. Paul, A. Meillet, O. Jespersen and G. Zipf, offering a coherent alternative to the methodological and theoretical strictures of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.

Author : Pirkko Suihkonen,Bernard Comrie,Valery Solovyev
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205933

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Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations by Pirkko Suihkonen,Bernard Comrie,Valery Solovyev Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-marking principles (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of 'give' (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argument structure, typology of the Amdo Sprachbund, spatial realtors (Northeastern Turkic), core argument patterns (languages of Northern California), and typology of grammatical relations (LENCA) are the topics of articles based on cross-linguistic data. The broad empirical sweep and the fine-tuned theoretical analysis highlight the central role of argument structure and grammatical relations with respect to a plethora of linguistic phenomena.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,T. Alan Hall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282378

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Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation by Artemis Alexiadou,T. Alan Hall Pdf

The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

Author : Francesca Di Garbo , Bruno Olsson , Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101788

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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I by Francesca Di Garbo , Bruno Olsson , Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia. This volume is complemented by volume two, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225850

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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198299540

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Radical Construction Grammar by William Croft Pdf

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.