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Author : E. Engdahl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400953239
Author : Olga Spevak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205841
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. "Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose "(Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order, it discusses the ordering of the verb and its arguments in declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences, as well as the ordering within noun phrases. It shows that the relationship of a constituent with its surrounding context and the communicative intention of the writer are the most reliable predictors of the order of constituents in a sentence or noun phrase. It differs from recent studies of Latin word order in its scope, its theoretical approach, and its attention to contextual information. The book is intended both for Latinists and for linguists working in the fields of the Romance languages and language typology.
Author : Ileana Comorovski,Klaus Heusinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402061974
This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.
Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191573958
This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to Lexical Functional Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Minimalism. It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars, extended phrase structure grammars, X-bar theory, and set theoretic bare phrase structure. In doing so it provides a clear, thorough, and rigorous axiomatic description of the structural properties of constituent trees. Andrew Carnie considers the central controversies on constituent structure. Is it, for example, a primitive notion or should it be derived from relational or semantic form? Do sentences have a single constituency or multiple constituencies? Does constituency operate on single or multiple dimensions? And what exactly is the categorial content of constituent structure representations? He identifies points of commonality as well as important theoretical differences among the various approaches to constituency, and critically examines the strengths and limitations of competing frameworks. This new edition includes textual revisions as well as a new final chapter and ensures that Constituent Structure remains the definitive guide to constituency for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as theoretical linguists of all persuasions in departments of linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, and related fields.
Author : Markus Patberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198845218
This book seeks to develop a new approach to EU legitimacy by reformulating the classical notion of constituent power for the context of European integration and challenging the conventional theoretical assumptions regarding the EU's ultimate source of authority.
Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812206
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Legislators
ISBN : UOM:39015041300784
Author : Harm Pinkster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192608895
In this two-volume work, the first full-scale treatment of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. He takes a non-technical and principally descriptive approach, based on literary and non-literary texts dating from c.250 BC to c.450 AD. The volumes contain a wealth of examples to illustrate the grammatical phenomena under discussion, many of them from the works of Plautus and Cicero, alongside extensive references to other sources of examples such as the Oxford Latin Dictionary and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. While the first volume explored the simple clause, this second volume focuses on the complex sentence and discourse. The first three chapters examine different types of subordinate clause; the following four then explore relative clauses, coordination, comparison, and secondary predicates. Later chapters investigate information structure and extraclausal expressions, word order, and discourse and related features. The Oxford Latin Syntax will be a valuable and up-to-date resource both for professional Latinists and all linguists with an interest in Classics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111142787
Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110875836
The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or structural properties of ordering but also the part which CO plays in linguistic communication.
Author : J. P. Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317768739
First published in 1981. This is a collection of papers presented at the second of the annual Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology which was held in May 1967 at the University of Minnesota by the Institute of Child Development.
Author : Elisabeth Huber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111082110
This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.
Author : Anders Holmberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191005367
This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no questions: those that employ particles such as 'yes' and 'no' (as found in English) and those that echo a part of the question, usually the finite verb, with or without negation (as found in Finnish). The latter are uncontroversially derived by ellipsis, while the former have been claimed to be clause substitutes. Anders Holmberg argues instead that even answers that employ particles are complete sentences, derived by ellipsis from full sentential expressions, and that the two types share essential syntactic properties. The book also examines the related cross-linguistic and intralinguistic variation observed in answers to negative questions such as 'does he not drink coffee?', whereby 'yes' in one language appears to correspond to 'no' in another. The book illustrates how a seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging consequences for theories of language, and will be of interest not only to theoretical linguists but also to students and scholars of typological and descriptive linguistics.
Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Explanation
ISBN : 9780195037432
A new approach to the definition of scientific explanation. Unlike standard theories, it focuses initially on the explaining act itself, to which reference must be made in order to understand what an explanation is and how it can be evaluated in the sciences.
Author : R. Lauermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137400437
This book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing specifically on the factors shaping constituent evaluations of the US House Representatives and the resulting implications for government.