Existential Sentences In English And Lithuanian

Author : Violeta Kalėdaitė
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000087939744

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Existential Sentences in English and Lithuanian by Violeta Kalėdaitė Pdf

Existential sentences in the world's languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the existential sentence, which takes into account both semantic and syntactic criteria, is proposed for Lithuanian. The findings are drawn on the basis of the corpus and highlight conspicuous differences in the linguistic representations of the construction in the two languages. With respect to Lithuanian, communicative word order variations, language-specific structures (the BKI and the impersonal passive), and a wider use of lexical verbs present an area of special interest. Contents: The English existential: definition and classification -- General characteristics: structural patterns -- Semantic types -- Word order -- The interpretation of there -- Verbs in the construction -- The definiteness restriction -- Lithuanian existentials: the semantics of the basic sentence patterns -- Types of 'be' existentials -- Communicative types of existential sentences -- Semantic classes of acceptable lexical verbs -- Definite and indefinite subject NPs -- Language-specific existential structures.

Author : Gary L. Milsark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317931577

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Existential Sentences in English (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) by Gary L. Milsark Pdf

In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, ‘existential’ there. Thus the term will be used as a characterisation of a class of syntactic objects, not as a semantic description. With ES sentences including formations such as ‘There were several people talking’ and ‘There ensued a riot’, perhaps nowhere else do we find so clearly displayed the complexity and subtlety of the syntactic and semantic interactions which determine the nature of human language.

Author : Christer Platzack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:65028580

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Existential Sentences in English, Swedish, German, and Icelandic by Christer Platzack Pdf

Author : Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443836852

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Multiple Perspectives in Linguistic Research on Baltic Languages by Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene Pdf

The ten contributions to this volume present original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. They reflect the diversity of approaches in linguistic research on Baltic languages that has developed in recent years, after a period where these languages were studied almost exclusively from the perspective of historical-comparative linguistics. Current research perspectives include, among others, perspectives from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition research, corpus linguistics, contrastive studies, and linguistic typology. The studies in this volume explore new ways of describing the system and use of Latvian or Lithuanian from a synchronic, non-normative point of view. They focus on grammatical categories and constructions (modality, evidentiality, case, existential clauses), grammatical characteristics of lexical classes (reflexive verbs, numerals), the characteristics of certain forms of discourse (academic discourse, food discourse), and the effects of an ideology of “correct language” on language users.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110343953

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author : Jonė Grigaliūnienė,Inesa Šeškauskienė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443853859

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Anglistics in Lithuania by Jonė Grigaliūnienė,Inesa Šeškauskienė Pdf

This collection of papers offers diverse yet highly professional accounts of multiple cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of English studies in Lithuania. It is valuable for the wide variety of empirical data presented, for the insights into both English and Lithuanian, which, when studied individually, sometimes cannot escape a narrower treatment. Most of the essays in this volume deal with semantics, pragmatics and grammar, while others focus on phonetics and language pedagogy. The collection is also notable for its use of various different methodologies, including triple CL – corpus linguistic, cognitive linguistic and contrastive linguistic – principles of investigation. A particular strength of the book is its focus on the contrastive aspect of study. Further, many of the contributions included here have profound implications for both translation and teaching.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270399

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Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, ‘swarm’-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.

Author : Thomas Egan,Hildegunn Dirdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264725

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Cross-linguistic Correspondences by Thomas Egan,Hildegunn Dirdal Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other languages, shows advances within the well-established lexical work in the field. Each of the chapters takes lexical items as its starting point and compares English with one or more languages. The languages represented are Spanish, Lithuanian, Swedish, German, Norwegian and Czech. Furthermore, they emphasise the link between lexis and grammar, not only within the same language, but also across languages. Finally, several studies represent one of the more recent developments of contrastive linguistics, namely a growing focus on genre and register comparisons. The book should appeal to both established scholars and advanced students with an interest in lexis, genre, corpus linguistics and/or contrastive linguistics.

Author : Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266149

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Evidentiality Revisited by Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero Pdf

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic expressions as resources for stancetaking in discourse. The volume addresses issues such as the relationship between the conceptual domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, the role of evidential and epistemic resources in modelling stancetaking, the expression of speaker commitment to the validity status of the information, and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres. The volume offers a collection of contributions in which cross-linguistic studies and corpus-based studies contribute to provide further insights into a usage-based account of linguistic reality.

Author : Pirkko Suihkonen,Lindsay J. Whaley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269362

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On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia by Pirkko Suihkonen,Lindsay J. Whaley Pdf

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkos,Piotr Ceglowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350062481

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Approaches to Predicative Possession by Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkos,Piotr Ceglowski Pdf

This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish, Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish, Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles & Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our understanding of predicative possession across languages, with findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language families. It is an equally useful source of information for theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of linguistics.

Author : Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252883

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Existential Constructions across Languages by Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena Pdf

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Lithuania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025904801

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Who is who in Lithuania by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : IND:30000100661119

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Kalbotyra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rolandas Mikulskas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267429

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Copular Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas Pdf

The fourth volume in the VARGReB series presents an in-depth investigation of Lithuanian copular constructions from the viewpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Apart from the fundamental problems of the ontology and taxonomy of copular sentences, the author also discusses a number of more specific questions on which the Lithuanian data, contrasted with those of English and other languages hitherto dealt with in the literature, can shed an interesting light, such as the nature and distinctive features of specificationals, the problem of subjecthood in this subtype of copular constructions, the aspectual semantics of copular sentences, etc. The attention given to the grammatical context of copular constructions and the multifarious relationships linking them to other construction types enhances the book’s relevance to the field of Lithuanian studies, whereas the dialogue and confrontation between the Cognitive perspective adopted by the author and the more formal approaches hitherto applied to the problem of copular sentences will add to its interest for the general reader.