Discontinuous Syntax

Author : A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195344004

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Discontinuous Syntax by A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Pdf

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering an original new theory with broad applications for our understanding of Greek syntax. Students of epic will find a fresh perspective on orality in Homer while the general classicist will discover a more precise and explicit framework for the analysis of textual meaning in literary research.

Author : Andrew M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 019513270X

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Discontinuous Syntax by Andrew M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Pdf

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as an area of linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering a new theory with broad applications for our understanding of Greek syntax.

Author : Almerindo E. Ojeda,Geoffrey J. Huck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373204

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Discontinuous Constituency by Almerindo E. Ojeda,Geoffrey J. Huck Pdf

Author : Fortuny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255024

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The Emergence of Order in Syntax by Fortuny Pdf

The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation ('Merge') and of derivational records ('nests'), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize terminals (Kuratowski 1921), Kayne's (1994) LCA becomes dispensable. The study of how features are ordered in discontinuous, analytic and syncretic patterns, governed by the Full Interpretation Condition and the Maximize Matching Effects Principle, provides a simple account for several syntactic phenomena, like the C-Infl connection, certain cartographic observations due to Cinque (1999), the A'-status of preverbal subjects in Null Subject Languages (Solà 1992), the alleviation of wh-island effects in English when the embedded wh-phrase is a subject (Chomsky 1986) and the dynamic V2 patterns in double agreement dialects observed by Zwart (1993). The possibility that Comp-trace effects derive from the contraction of the C-Infl discontinuity is explored and subject islands and wh-islands are derived from the Relativized Opacity Principle, an alternative to Chomsky's PIC.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027219729

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French Applied Linguistics by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Focuses on French applied linguistics

Author : Stefano Rastelli
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092468

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Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition by Stefano Rastelli Pdf

With a focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process due to the existence of two different - albeit interconnected - ways of learning: Statistical Learning and Grammatical Learning. It describes how the switch between ways of learning could take place and its developmental implications for adult SLA.

Author : Jens Fleischhauer,Anja Latrouite,Rainer Osswald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110720297

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Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Jens Fleischhauer,Anja Latrouite,Rainer Osswald Pdf

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Author : Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289896

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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 : Roger Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119715410

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Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity by Roger Levy Pdf

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004236400

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The Language of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.

Author : A.M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111386065

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Latin Elegiac Verse by A.M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Pdf

A striking feature of Latin elegiac verse is its very free word order. One gets the impression that the word order is just random or that the rules of Latin syntax have been suspended for metrical convenience. Combining ample philological documentation with an overall theoretical stance, this book argues that these impressions are wrong and proceeds to analyze the syntax of Latin verse as a coherent system generated by the application of a small set of derivational rules. While these rules are independently available syntactic mechanisms like scrambling, stranding and verb raising, their systematically regular application both at the clausal and at the phrasal level is remarkable. Not only complete constituents but also partial constituents are constantly attracted towards the left edge of the phrase that contains them. The cumulative effect of this is to narrow the extent and attenuate the weight of the nuclear assertion, which reduces its processing domain and the span of its prosodic correlate. This book will be of interest both to Classicists and to linguists: it aims to solve an old problem in Classical philology, while at the same time working out a configurational syntax for a language with extreme free word order.

Author : Geoffrey J. Huck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0126135207

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Syntax and Semantics by Geoffrey J. Huck Pdf

Author : Carlotta Viti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268938

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Perspectives on Historical Syntax by Carlotta Viti Pdf

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.

Author : Dore Jesse Levy
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014447141

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Chinese Narrative Poetry by Dore Jesse Levy Pdf

Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet paradoxically, their narrative qualities have been little recognized or explored in either traditional Chinese or modern Western scholarship. The reason for this neglect is that Western literary traditions acknowledge their origins in epic poetry and thus take narrative for granted, but the Chinese tradition is fundametally based on lyric and does not admit of a separate category for narrative poetry. Drawing on both classical Chinese critical works and the most recent Western contributions to the theory of narrative, Levy shows how narrative elements developed out of the lyrical conventions of shih. In doing so, she accomplishes a double purpose, guiding the modern reader to an understanding of the nature of narrative in Chinese poetry and shedding light on the ways in which Chinese poets adapted the devises of lyric to the needs of a completely different expressive mode. Students of Chinese literature will welcome this pathbreaking study, but Chinese Narrative Poetry will interest other scholars as well because it addresses questions of crucial importance for literary theory and comparative literature, particularly the central issue of the applicability of Western critical concepts to non-Western literature and culture.

Author : David Goldstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004250680

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Classical Greek Syntax by David Goldstein Pdf

This monograph offers a novel analysis of Greek clause structure on the basis of second-position clitics.