Clausal Architecture And Subject Positions

Author : Sabine Mohr
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233527

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Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions by Sabine Mohr Pdf

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Mainland Scandinavian languages and English, it is shown that crosslinguistic variation as regards, e.g., the distribution of the expletive in impersonal passives and the occurrence of a Definiteness Effect in Transitive Expletive Constructions is mainly due to the choice of different kinds of 'expletive' elements (each associated with different featural make-ups which force them to show up in different positions), namely true expletives, event arguments and quasi-arguments, whereas expletive pro is shown not to exist.

Author : Sabine Mohr
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293992

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Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions by Sabine Mohr Pdf

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Mainland Scandinavian languages and English, it is shown that crosslinguistic variation as regards, e.g., the distribution of the expletive in impersonal passives and the occurrence of a Definiteness Effect in Transitive Expletive Constructions is mainly due to the choice of different kinds of 'expletive' elements (each associated with different featural make-ups which force them to show up in different positions), namely true expletives, event arguments and quasi-arguments, whereas expletive pro is shown not to exist.

Author : Ur Shlonsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 9780195108675

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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic by Ur Shlonsky Pdf

Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach.

Author : Thórhallur Eythórsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291578

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Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory by Thórhallur Eythórsson Pdf

This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of ‘Grammaticalization Theory’. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and – more controversially – internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change ‘by itself.’ A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.

Author : Hubert Cuyckens,Hendrik De Smet,Liesbet Heyvaert,Charlotte Maekelberghe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263841

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Explorations in English Historical Syntax by Hubert Cuyckens,Hendrik De Smet,Liesbet Heyvaert,Charlotte Maekelberghe Pdf

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.

Author : Peter Herbeck,Bernhard Pöll,Anne C. Wolfsgruber
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783875489620

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Semantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality by Peter Herbeck,Bernhard Pöll,Anne C. Wolfsgruber Pdf

Peter Herbeck, Bernhard Pöll & Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Foreword Hubert Haider: On expletive, semantically void, and absent subjects Janayna Carvalho: Incorporated subjects in Existential Impersonal Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese Thórhallur Eythórsson, Anton Karl Ingason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonals Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Joan Maling: From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Impersonal interpretations of Medieval Romance se - tracing initial contexts Eduardo Amaral & Wiltrud Mihatsch: Incipient impersonal pronouns in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese based on pessoa, pessoal and povo

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443808583

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Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest by Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Phoevos Panagiotidis Pdf

This volume presents a selection of contributions from the week-long Cyprus Syntaxfest in 2006, which brought together research in syntax by several respected and prolific theoretical linguists from all over the world. During the six days of the Syntaxfest, work from a variety of viewpoints in modern generative grammar was presented, and the research discussed and debated followed diverse methodological paths, with the thematic focus on left peripheries in linguistic structures and (their) interface interpretation. The current collection of expanded versions of selected research presented at the Cyprus Syntaxfest reflects a wide variety of approaches to these topics; it also provides a glimpse of the rich sample of cross-linguistic data that informed the discussions of syntactic peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal left-peripheral phenomena and their (role in) interpretation in a variety of typologically unrelated languages. More significantly, the contributions collected here underscore the by now established importance and theoretical interest of studying the edge of constituents, whether phasal or not. In every chapter, the blueprint of a general interpretive hierarchy driving and constraining syntax is also retraced throughout.

Author : Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527527034

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Overt and Null Subjects in Bulgarian and in L1 Bulgarian-L2 German Interlanguage by Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke Pdf

This book addresses the realization of pronominal subjects in Bulgarian and its implications for late near-native competence of German as a second/foreign language. Since Bulgarian is under-researched, typological investigations were carried out prior to the empirical study of L2 subject use. The book covers the adequate classification of Bulgarian, ascertaining its pro-drop nature, and explores the possible impact of related cross-linguistic differences on near-native interlanguage grammars of speakers with the language combination L1-Bulgarian/L2-German. Although German is not pro-drop, it allows null topics and requires some obligatory null expletives, so that null subject contexts superficially overlap for the two languages. This is a source of interlanguage deficits if no proper differentiation between subject types is made.

Author : Hubert Haider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521865258

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The Syntax of German by Hubert Haider Pdf

A broad coverage of German syntax, providing an in-depth look at object-verb sentence formation in comparison with other languages.

Author : Hubert Haider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107017757

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Symmetry Breaking in Syntax by Hubert Haider Pdf

A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.

Author : Edwin Williams
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262265079

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Representation Theory by Edwin Williams Pdf

In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system—in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding—the Level Embedding Scheme—that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another.

Author : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401009911

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Objects and Other Subjects by William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky Pdf

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Author : Nigar Gülşat Aygen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114240166

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Finiteness, Case and Clausal Architecture by Nigar Gülşat Aygen Pdf

Author : Timothy Gupton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512059

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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface by Timothy Gupton Pdf

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of generative grammar, there is still uncertainty with respect to the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of languages. According to canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are arguments (A-elements). However, following non-canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are not arguments, but rather A’-elements that behave like topical preverbal direct and indirect objects, which have received a CLLD analysis in the literature (e.g. Cinque 1990). The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal subjects are non-arguments, one must question the universality of the EPP (as in e.g. Alexiadou & Agnostopoulou 1998), as well as its associated features and feature-strengths. Galician is an underdocumented Romance language within the generative paradigm. In this book, I develop an experimental program for establishing clausal word order preferences for a number of information structure contexts. The preference data suggest that preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not CLLD elements. These results inform the model of the preverbal field that I propose for Galician, which also takes into account the enclisis-proclisis divide and reco.

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199858774

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Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery by Liliane Haegeman Pdf

Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.