Functional Constraints In Grammar

Author : Susumu Kuno,Ken-ichi Takami
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295217

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Functional Constraints in Grammar by Susumu Kuno,Ken-ichi Takami Pdf

This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these constructions can be accounted for by the unergative–unaccusative distinction of intransitive verbs. However, this book shows through a wide range of sentences that none of these constructions is sensitive to this distinction. For each construction, it shows that acceptability status is determined by a given sentence's semantic function as it interacts with syntactic constraints (which are independent of the unergative–unaccusative distinction), and with functional constraints that apply to it in its discourse context.

Author : Caroline Coffin,Jim Donohue,Sarah North
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135692285

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Exploring English Grammar by Caroline Coffin,Jim Donohue,Sarah North Pdf

This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach. Using a problem-solving approach, readers explore how grammatical structures function in different contexts by using a wide variety of thought-provoking and motivating texts including advertisements, cartoons, phone calls and chatroom dialogue. Each chapter focuses on a real world issue or problem that can be investigated linguistically, such as "mis"-translation or problems arising from a communication disorder. By working on these problems, students will become equipped to understand and analyze formal and functional grammar in different genres and styles. With usable and accessible activities throughout, Exploring English Grammar is ideal for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of English language and linguistics.

Author : Fred Karlsson,Atro Voutilainen,Juha Heikkilae,Arto Anttila
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110882629

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Constraint Grammar by Fred Karlsson,Atro Voutilainen,Juha Heikkilae,Arto Anttila Pdf

Author : Simon C. Dik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783112420126

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Functional Grammar by Simon C. Dik Pdf

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Author : René Dirven,Vilém Fried
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215246

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Functionalism in Linguistics by René Dirven,Vilém Fried Pdf

This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.

Author : Philip A. Luelsdorff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274472

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Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar by Philip A. Luelsdorff Pdf

An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically scrutinized; some are sharpened, and others are abandoned. Many conceptual snarls having to do with the notion of error in linguistic performance are untangled in this book.

Author : Alexander V. Bondarko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277794

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Functional Grammar by Alexander V. Bondarko Pdf

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on “the Category of Aspect and its Environment” which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fields and, specifically, taxis in the Russian language. The book is divided into three sections: Functional Grammar: Subject Matter and Goals — Structural Types of Functional-Semantic Fields — Categorial Situations. This book is intended for those interested in the general theory of linguistics.

Author : Yehuda N. Falk
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575863405

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Lexical-functional Grammar by Yehuda N. Falk Pdf

With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories and now wish to approach LFG. Falk examines LFG's relation to more conventional theories—like Government/Binding or the Minimalism Program—and, in many respects, establishes its superiority.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849500104

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Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Presents an overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. This book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.

Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311013389X

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Constituent Order in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly Pdf

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Author : Philippe Blache,Henning Christiansen,Verónica Dahl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443868907

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Constraints and Language by Philippe Blache,Henning Christiansen,Verónica Dahl Pdf

The concept of “constraint” is widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. However, its implementation varies widely depending on the research domain: namely, language description, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, and problem solving. These various uses of constraints offer complementary views on intelligent mechanisms. For example, in-depth descriptions implementing constraints are used in linguistics to filter out syntactic or discursive structures by means of dedicated description languages and constraint ranking. In computer science, the constraint programming paradigm views constraints as a whole, which can be used, for example, to build specific structures. Finally, in psycholinguistics, experiments are carried out to investigate the role of constraints within cognitive processes (both in comprehension and production), with various applications such as dialog modelling for people with disabilities. In this context, Constraints and Language builds an extended overview of the use of constraints to model and process language. This book will be useful for researchers willing to get a grip on the various uses of constraints in natural language processing, and also as a class book for academic staff who want to set up advanced courses around the concept of constraint-based natural language processing.

Author : J. Lachlan Mackenzie,María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110173567

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A New Architecture for Functional Grammar by J. Lachlan Mackenzie,María de los Ángeles Gómez González Pdf

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form a new architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights. The remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of real-time language production, notably including the first ever detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement of Functional Grammar currently available. The volume thus gives a coherent account of FG as a theory which combines formal explicitness with a broad account of language functions.

Author : Simon C. Dik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110154048

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The Theory of Functional Grammar: The structure of the clause by Simon C. Dik Pdf

Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does the natural language user (NLU) work? How do speakers and addressees succeed ...

Author : Stuart M. Shieber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262193248

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Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms by Stuart M. Shieber Pdf

Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104246

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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.