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Author : Ian Michael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521143268
This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.
Author : K. Brown,J. Miller
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028617723
Complementing Brown & Miller's recent Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories (1996), to which this is a companion volume, this encyclopedia is a collection of articles drawn from the highly successful Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. It presents a collection of 79 articles, all of which have been revised and updated. It also provides a number of newly commissioned articles, one of which has been substantially updated and extended. The volume is alphabetically organised and includes an introduction and a glossary. The Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories will provide a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of the building blocks of syntax: word classes, sentence/clause types, functional categories of the noun and verb, anaphora and pronominalisation, transitivity, topicalisation and work order.
Author : John A. Lucy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521566207
John Lucy uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of the Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in Southeastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by means of a systematic assessment of memory and classification preferences among speakers of both languages.
Author : Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521824230
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Author : Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107038110
Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.
Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521851923
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,Emma Moore,Linda van Bergen,Willem B. Hollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108419567
Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Author : Ian Michael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:16146184
Author : Helga Mebus
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638065603
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In terms of Universal Grammar, our language is made up out of grammatical categories, namely lexical categories and functional categories (compare 1997 Radford: 29-60). What are grammatical categories? When little babies enter our world – do they carry categories within them? What are their first words? Do they belong to a certain category and is the child aware of that? How do children’s first word-combinations look like? Are there similarities to the adults’ language? This paper suggests answers to these questions. Since every language has a more or less different grammar, the focus stays on the English language. This makes it possible to go into detail. Moreover, the concern lies in early child English up to the age of about two years. The overall claim is that children up to that age only produce words and word combinations belonging to thematic or lexical classes. This is also Radford’s thesis presented in his book Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of Syntax (1990). To be able to understand what lexical categories are, the following chapter provides a definition of grammatical categories. Afterwards, Radford’s theory will be described. In the next section, examples of children up to the age of about two years are given and analyzed concerning the occurrence of lexical categories. Other opinions will be presented and discussed in the following section. The paper closes with a conclusion.
Author : Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107159242
The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.
Author : Vulf Plotkin
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781581129939
A description of the English language as a dynamic system in the evolutionary process of radical typological restructuring, which has deeply affected its constituent subsystems - grammatical, lexical and phonic.
Author : Anwar El-Issa
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781524612221
The book is based on systemic-functional grammar (SFG) and focuses on the concept of Theme (the element which occupies the initial position in the clause in English), which plays a special role in the textual organization of the message contained in the clause. Theme represents one of the ways by which writers construct meaningful communicative language or stretches of discourse. It signals the relationship between the thought in the speakers mind and its expression in the discourse. Therefore, it contributes to the method of development of the texts proper. The reason for choosing Theme as a tool of analysis stems from the fact that it is a fruitful approach to the understanding of texts as is shown by the fact that it has been the concern of a number of major studies. I will adopt both a qualitative and a quantitative analysis. The results of this analysis will be presented and tabulated in such a way as to underline the distinguishing features of the genre. The tools of functional grammar (Theme and Transitivity) will be applied to the data being collected. A significant, positive facet pertinent to this study lies in its pedagogical implications. The study of the structure of Theme has resulted in useful applications, and the findings drawn from the data collected will, it is hoped, have wider application; they are not meant to be merely suggestive. The findings in this book show how Theme-Rheme can have significant pedagogical values and impacts on the native and non-native learners. The learner not only has to construct his/her sentences, choosing appropriate lexis, but he/she has to make those sentences cohere into a text belonging to the genre being tackled. The findings in this book also suggest that control of the Theme-Rheme system is part of what the successful writer (native or non-native) uses to achieve such coherence. In this regard, students can be aware of a variety of linguistics choices to help them write more effectively and coherently.
Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107032798
Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.
Author : John Arthur Lucy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521384192
Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by means of a systematic assessment of memory and classification preferences among speakers of both languages. The study illustrates the distinct approach to empirical research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis which Lucy develops in a companion volume Language Diversity and Thought.
Author : Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226086651
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.