Clitics In The Languages Of Europe

Author : Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804010

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Clitics in the Languages of Europe by Henk van Riemsdijk Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Frits H. Beukema,Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227519

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Clitic Phenomena in European Languages by Frits H. Beukema,Marcel den Dikken Pdf

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Boškovič, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevič Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomič). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.

Author : Frits Beukema,Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299253

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Clitic Phenomena in European Languages by Frits Beukema,Marcel den Dikken Pdf

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Boškovič, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevič Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomič). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.

Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812206

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Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe by Anna Siewierska Pdf

Author : Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 876 pages
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Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110157462

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Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe by Typology of Languages in Europe (Project) Pdf

This is part of a series of nine volumes publishing the results of the research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP)--based on a 1988 workshop by the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the European Science Foundation, and involving participation by more than 100 linguists. The major goal of EUROTY was to study the cross-linguistic patterns and limitations of variation in nine focal areas: pragmatic organization of discourse, constituent order, subordination and complementation, adverbial constructions, tense and aspect, noun phrase structure, clitics, and word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe. This effort provided a testing ground for theoretical controversies and new theory development, as detailed here by a dozen contributors. Includes a language index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197099

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Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe by Östen Dahl Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Frans Plank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197075

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Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe by Frans Plank Pdf

The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197082

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Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe by Harry van der Hulst Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255136

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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages by Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski Pdf

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

Author : Bernd Kortmann,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220254

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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe by Bernd Kortmann,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics ofEurope: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduatereadership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.

Author : Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238815

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Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language by Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.

Author : Birgit Gerlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227721

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Clitics Between Syntax and Lexicon by Birgit Gerlach Pdf

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.

Author : Andrew Spencer,Ana R. Luis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139560313

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Clitics by Andrew Spencer,Ana R. Luis Pdf

In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages clitics obey quite separate rules of placement. This book is the first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties, their uses, the reasons why they are of interest to linguists and the various theoretical approaches that have been proposed for them. The book describes a whole host of clitic systems and presents data from over 100 languages.

Author : Marios Mavrogiorgos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255433

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Clitics in Greek by Marios Mavrogiorgos Pdf

This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax."

Author : Steven Franks,Tracy Holloway King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199729425

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A Handbook of Slavic Clitics by Steven Franks,Tracy Holloway King Pdf

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.