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Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108477215
Explores how comparative correlative constructions behave in English and how these change over time and space.
Author : Eiichi Iwasaki,岩崎 永一
Publisher : 株式会社 三恵社
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9784864877299
The Syntax and Semantics of Comparative Correlatives: A Generative-Cognitive Language Design is a long awaited collection of the author's published articles and their revisions in an attempt to present a thorough and consistent analysis of the syntax and semantics of this most challenging construction. A must for anyone currently engaged in or considering writing about the Comparative Correlative.
Author : Anikó Klára Lipták
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027208187
This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on "correlative relative constructions." Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit, Serbo-Croatian and Tibetan, in comparison to correlativization in Hindi. The articles zoom in on three areas of interest: firstly, the similarities and differences between correlatives and other wh- and relative constructions; secondly, the derivation of correlative constructions and the position correlative clauses occupy in the host clause and thirdly, the matching effects that characterize the pairings between relative phrases and demonstrative phrases. The studies presented here will appeal to researchers and students with an interest in syntax in general and relativization strategies in particular.
Author : Sandra Pereira,Clara Pinto,Fernanda Pratas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443895576
Recent studies on the syntax and semantics of complex sentences have dealt with several challenges to the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. Some constructions belong to one of the two types according to syntactic criteria but relate to the other type on semantic grounds, whereas other constructions are not compatible with either the canonical syntactic or semantic tests traditionally employed to establish this distinction. Other constructions, by contrast, seem to have evolved in such a way that they now cross the divide between both types. The collection of papers in this volume delves further into the theoretical implications of previous analyses and focuses on a wide array of data from different languages, taking those challenges as a point of departure to develop innovative perspectives and to advance thought-provoking ideas.
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260703
This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and applied linguistics. The authors address stress assignment, the phenomenon of 'imala, the place of articulation of the dorsal fricative, the structure of correlatives, the CP layer, sluicing and sprouting, and clinical linguistics. They do so by using data from Standard Arabic, and from Egyptian, Jordanian, Palestinian, and Saudi Arabian varieties of Arabic. The book will be of interest to linguists working in descriptive and theoretical areas of Arabic linguistics.
Author : Stefan Müller ,Anne Abeillé,Robert D. Borsley,Jean-Pierre Koenig
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102556
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).
Author : Ronald P. Leow,Héctor Campos,Donna Lardiere
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781589015968
Little Words is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other “little words” that have played a central role in linguistic theory and in language acquisition research. Leading scholars present advanced research in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse function, historical development, variation, and acquisition by children and adults. This unique volume integrates the views and findings of these different research areas into one professional source to be used within and across disciplines. Languages studied include English, Spanish, French, Romanian, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Slavonic, and Medieval Leonese.
Author : Josep Quer,Carlo Cecchetto,Caterina Donati,Carlo Geraci,Meltem Kelepir,Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511806
"It is common for grammars to include an introductory chapter that offers a general introduction to the language under investigation as well as its users. We encourage the grammar writer to include this type of information for the sign language to be described. If a certain variant of the sign language is described, this should be made clear at the outset. The structure of this part is fairly flexible. As can be seen from the table of contents, we suggest including information about (i) the history of the sign language, (ii) characteristics of the Deaf community, (iii) the status of the sign language, and (iv) previous linguistic work on the sign language. The last section in particular will have an impact on the content of subsequent parts, as we encourage the grammar writer to include findings from previous studies in the grammatical description of the sign language. Clearly, alternative structures are possible. The overview of previous linguistic work, for instance, could be provided under the "History" header, and Deaf culture and/or Deaf education could be discussed under dedicated first-level headers - to give just two examples. Also, depending on the available information, sub-headers could be added. Note that we adopt the convention of writing Deaf with a capital D when it refers to issues related to a community that is characterized by the use of a sign language. In contrast, deaf with a small d refers to the medical condition of not being able to hear. It is up to the grammar writer to decide whether to stick to this convention in the grammar"--
Author : Augustin Speyer
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783875489576
Fragen der Koordination und der Subordination stehen seit langer Zeit im Fokus sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Während in den 70er und auch noch in den 80er Jahren die Analyse der als kanonisch zu bezeichnenden Fälle im Vordergrund stand, drängten sich in den letzten 30 Jahren vor allem Grenzfälle wie weil-V2-Sätze, abhängige V2-Sätze, selbständige und weiterführende VL-Sätze etc. in das Zentrum des Interesses. Die Beiträge zum vorliegenden Band bauen auf den Erkenntnissen dieser Arbeiten auf, ergänzen sie aber systematisch um eine breit angelegte Diskussion typologischer, diachroner und erwerbstheoretischer Aspekte. Ein weiteres zentrales Anliegen der Arbeiten besteht darin,die theoretischen Konzepte zur Modellierung relevanter Strukturbedeutungen (z.B. V2) zu präzisieren. Linguistic research has focussed on issues related to coordination and subordination for a long time. Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s, the main concern was the analysis of canonical clause structure, the interest shifted towards non-canonical phenomena such as weil-verb-second-clauses, dependent verb-second-clauses, independent and continuative verb-final clauses etc. The contributions to this issue build on findings of these studies, at the same time systematically adding a broad discussion of typological, diachronic and acquisition-related aspects. A further central concern of the studies is to make precise theoretical concepts of modelling the semantics of relevant structural configurations, such as verb-second.
Author : Hans C. Boas,Alexander Ziem
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110457155
This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic Linguistics over the past half century.
Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108428057
A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.
Author : Jong-Bok Kim,Laura A. Michaelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108470339
With exercises based on real language data, this volume gives a comprehensive introduction to construction grammar, focusing on English.
Author : Sarah Buschfeld,Thomas Hoffmann,Magnus Huber,Alexander Kautzsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269416
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic approaches. What makes the volume unique is that it is the first-ever contribution to the field which includes a section exclusively commited towards testing, discussing and refining Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model against recent realities of English world-wide (Part 1). These realities include a wide variety of case studies ranging from regions (socio)linguistically as diverse as South Africa, the Phillipines, Cyprus or Germany. Part 2 goes beyond the Dynamic Model and offers both empirical and theoretical perspectives on the evolution of World Englishes. In doing so, it provides contributions with a theoretical focus on the topic as well as cross-varietal accounts; it sheds light on individual Englishes from different geographical regions and offers new perspectives on “old” varieties.
Author : Peter W. Culicover,Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191533808
This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige
Author : Andreas Dufter,Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270290
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This volume offers a well-balanced set of articles investigating left sentence peripheries in Spanish. Some articles explore the historical evolution of left dislocation and fronting operations, while others seek to assess the extent – and the limits – of variation found between different geographical varieties and registers of the contemporary language. Moreover, the volume comprises several case studies on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and information structure, and the implications of these for pragmatic interpretation and the organization of discourse. Cross-linguistic and typological perspectives are also provided in due course in order to position the analyses developed for Spanish within a larger research context.