In Search Of Universal Grammar

Author : Terje Lohndal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272430

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In Search of Universal Grammar by Terje Lohndal Pdf

This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized thematically with two chapters on each topic: The grammar of the Scandinavian languages (Tor A. Åfarli and Christer Platzack); language policies and sociolinguistics (Unn Røyneland and Peter Trudgill); French (Hans Petter Helland and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen); language change (Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen); lesser-studied languages (Alice Harris and Jerry Sadock); language acquisition (David Lightfoot and Marit Westergaard); and language evolution (Erika Hagelberg and Salikoko Mufwene). This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students to scholars working on any of the areas covered.

Author : Norbert Hornstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262581299

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As Time Goes by by Norbert Hornstein Pdf

How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the problem of language acquisition. The clearly written discussion proceeds step-by-step from simple observations and principles to far-reaching conclusions involving complex data carefully selected and persuasively presented. Throughout, Hornstein focuses on the logical problem of language acquisition, highlighting the importance of explanatory adequacy and the role of syntactic representations in determining intricate properties of semantic interpretation.

Author : Terje Lohndal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255853

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In Search of Universal Grammar by Terje Lohndal Pdf

This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized thematically with two chapters on each topic: The grammar of the Scandinavian languages (Tor A. Åfarli and Christer Platzack); language policies and sociolinguistics (Unn Røyneland and Peter Trudgill); French (Hans Petter Helland and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen); language change (Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen); lesser-studied languages (Alice Harris and Jerry Sadock); language acquisition (David Lightfoot and Marit Westergaard); and language evolution (Erika Hagelberg and Salikoko Mufwene). This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students to scholars working on any of the areas covered.

Author : Stephen Crain,Rosalind Thornton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262531801

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Investigations in Universal Grammar by Stephen Crain,Rosalind Thornton Pdf

This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to overcome the numerous obstacles to empirical investigation of children's language competence. They produce research results that are more reproducible and less likely to be dismissed as an artifact of improper experimental procedure. In the first section of the book, the authors examine the fundamental assumptions that guide research in this area; they present both a theory of linguistic competence and a model of language processing. In the following two sections, they discuss in detail their two experimental techniques.

Author : Cliff Goddard,Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230638

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Meaning and Universal Grammar by Cliff Goddard,Anna Wierzbicka Pdf

Volume one of a set of studies that is founded on the idea that universal grammar is based on - indeed, inseparable from - meaning. The theoretical framework is the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka and developed in collaboration with Cliff Goddard.

Author : Margaret Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134388547

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Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition by Margaret Thomas Pdf

This book discusses how scholars in the west have conceived that human languages share important properties, and how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning.

Author : Vivian Cook,Mark Newson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8126517476

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Chomsky's Universal Grammar by Vivian Cook,Mark Newson Pdf

This new edition introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. It explains its fundamental concepts and provides an overview and history of the theory.

Author : Vivian J Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504967236

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Chomsky's Universal Grammar by Vivian J Cook Pdf

Author : Vivian J Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
ISBN : OCLC:252009984

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Chomsky's Universal Grammar by Vivian J Cook Pdf

Author : Melinda Whong,Kook-Hee Gil,Heather Marsden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400763623

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Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom by Melinda Whong,Kook-Hee Gil,Heather Marsden Pdf

This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom. Assuming that Universal Grammar plays a role in second language development, it explores generalisations from GenSLA research. The book aims to build bridges between the fields of generative second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language teaching; and it shows how GenSLA is poised to engage with researchers of second language learning outside the generative paradigm. Each chapter of Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom showcases ways in which GenSLA research can inform language pedagogy. Some chapters include classroom research that tests the effectiveness of teaching particular linguistic phenomena. Others review existing research findings, discussing how these findings are useful for language pedagogy. All chapters show how generative linguistics can enhance teachers’ expertise in language and second language development. “This groundbreaking volume ably takes on the gap that currently exists between generative linguistic theory in second language acquisition (GenSLA) and second language pedagogy, by gathering chapters from GenSLA researchers who are interested in the relevance and potential application of their research to second/foreign language teaching. It offers a welcome and thought-provoking contribution to any discussion of the relation between linguistic theory and practice. I recommend it not only for language teachers interested in deepening their understanding of the formal properties of the languages they teach, but also for linguists interested in following up on more practical consequences of the fruits of their theoretical and empirical research.” Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521475136

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Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar by Guglielmo Cinque Pdf

This volume of essays offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of Italian syntax.

Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199573776

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The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar by Ian G. Roberts Pdf

''This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as universal grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. It will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.''--

Author : Edward L. Keenan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134743285

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Universal Grammar by Edward L. Keenan Pdf

This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan’s long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal ‘foundation’ articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition of ‘Subject of’. Most of the other articles have appeared in a variety of relatively inaccessible places, and so this book brings together for the first time a large body of work supporting the research directions taken in the foundation articles. In addition, one article of a psycholinguistic sort was specially prepared for this volume.

Author : Wolfram Hinzen,Michelle Sheehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199654833

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The Philosophy of Universal Grammar by Wolfram Hinzen,Michelle Sheehan Pdf

This book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. Evidence is considered from biology, the evolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.

Author : David Herman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822316684

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Universal Grammar and Narrative Form by David Herman Pdf

In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmodernist literary experimentation and contemporary language theory. Ultimately a search for new tools for narrative theory, his work clarifies complex connections between science and art, theory and culture, and philosophical analysis and narrative discourse. Following an extensive historical overview of theories about universal grammar, Herman examines Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's The Trial, and Woolf's Between the Acts as case studies of modernist literary narratives that encode grammatical principles which were (re)fashioned in logic, linguistics, and philosophy during the same period. Herman then uses the interpretation of universal grammar developed via these modernist texts to explore later twentieth-century cultural phenomena. The problem of citation in the discourses of postmodernism, for example, is discussed with reference to syntactic theory. An analysis of Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover raises the question of cinematic meaning and draws on semantic theory. In each case, Herman shows how postmodern narratives encode ideas at work in current theories about the nature and function of language. Outlining new directions for the study of language in literature, Universal Grammar and Narrative Form provides a wealth of information about key literary, linguistic, and philosophical trends in the twentieth century.