Essays On Nominal Determination

Author : Henrik Høeg Müller,Alex Klinge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290304

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Essays on Nominal Determination by Henrik Høeg Müller,Alex Klinge Pdf

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms.

Author : Matti Miestamo,Kaius Sinnemäki,Fred Karlsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027231044

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Language Complexity by Matti Miestamo,Kaius Sinnemäki,Fred Karlsson Pdf

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. The sixteen chapters of the volume approach the notion of language complexity from a variety of perspectives. The papers are divided into three thematic sections that reflect the central themes of the book: Typology and theory, Contact and change, Creoles and pidgins. The book is mainly intended for typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and creolists, as well as all linguists interested in language complexity in general. As the first collective volume on a very topical theme, the book is expected to be of lasting interest to the linguistic community.

Author : Marco Benincasa
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823391333

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A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord by Marco Benincasa Pdf

The book focusses on the grammatical feature definiteness in German, visible in the inflection of adjectives (ein schön-es Kind vs. das schön-e Kind). It argues for an analysis of this effect that draws a connection to the visible categories of number and gender on nouns and related words rather than an abstract property. This conclusion rests on the conflation of the established grammatical categories into a single one, number-gender, which explains a vast body of grammatical phenomena in German and principles of language in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004437500

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Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article by Anonim Pdf

This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of “partitive articles”. The outcome is a snapshot of current research into “partitive articles” and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal.

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271259

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New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond by Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall Pdf

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.

Author : María Victoria Escandell Vidal,Manuel Leonetti,Aoife Ahern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857240934

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Procedural Meaning by María Victoria Escandell Vidal,Manuel Leonetti,Aoife Ahern Pdf

This is a collection of edited papers which were presented at the international conference 'Procedural Meaning'. It is suitable for those who are interested in or already working on procedural meaning from different points of view and to identify various challenges that can determine the directions for research.

Author : Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377088

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Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax by Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark Pdf

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

Author : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,Cora Pots,Tanja Temmerman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501510199

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Recent Developments in Phase Theory by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,Cora Pots,Tanja Temmerman Pdf

The overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases. The volume is divided into three parts, of which the first focuses on the traditional role played by phases in defining successive cyclicity, while at the same time examining the interaction between that traditional role and Chomsky (2013)’s proposal about labeling. The second part focuses on the question of whether only the highest projection of the clausal and nominal domain, CP and DP, are phases or whether those domains also contain an internal phase: vP and NP/NumP/QP, while the third part contains two chapters that focus on the extent to which ellipsis can be used as a reliable diagnostic for phasehood. As a whole, the volume provides a detailed and in-depth view on a number of recent developments in Phase Theory, which will likely continue to dominate the debate for several years to come.

Author : Patrick Grosz,Pritty Patel-Grosz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614517016

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The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation by Patrick Grosz,Pritty Patel-Grosz Pdf

The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection.

Author : Pieter Muysken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291363

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From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics by Pieter Muysken Pdf

From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the Guapore-Mamore (Amazon) regions have never before been studied in an areal perspective, and yet other areas are involved in current debates. The insight has gained ground that languages owe many of their characteristics to the languages they are in contact with over time. Yet the nature of these areal influences remains a matter of debate. Furthermore, areas are often hard to define. Hence the title: a shift from linguistic areas as concrete and circumscribed objects to a new way of doing linguistics: areally. New findings include the observation that there may be many more language areas than previously recognized. The book is primarily directed at linguists working in descriptive, comparative, historical and typological linguistics. Since it covers linguistic areas from four continents, it will have a wide appeal.

Author : Ian E. Mackenzie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030105679

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Language Structure, Variation and Change by Ian E. Mackenzie Pdf

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectionality of linguistic change. Importantly, it reveals that Old Spanish and modern Spanish are more similar to one another than is usually supposed and demonstrates that many of the differences between the two varieties are quantitative rather than qualitative. This theoretically sophisticated examination of historical corpora will provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Old and modern Spanish, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax.

Author : Laure Gardelle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031445613

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Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface by Laure Gardelle Pdf

Author : Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen,Wiebke Ramm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027231095

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'Subordination' Versus 'coordination' in Sentence and Text by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen,Wiebke Ramm Pdf

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific - predominantly semantic - topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.

Author : Felix K. Ameka,M.E. Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291387

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Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages by Felix K. Ameka,M.E. Kropp Dakubu Pdf

This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or potentiality of an event, hence with modality, rather than the purely temporal sequencing associated with tense. The primary grammatical contrasts are perfective versus imperfective. The main languages discussed are Akan, Dangme, Ewe, Ga and Tuwuli while Nzema-Ahanta, Likpe and Eastern Gbe are also mentioned. Knowledge about these languages has deepened considerably during the past decade or so and ideas about their structure have changed. The volume therefore presents novel analyses of grammatical forms like the so-called S-Aux-O-V-Other or “future” constructions, and provides empirical data for theorizing about aspect and modality. It should be of considerable interest to Africanist linguists, typologists, and creolists interested in substrate issues.

Author : Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205704

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Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses by Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman Pdf

The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.