Investigations In The Bulgarian And Macedonian Nominal Expression

Author : Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova,Mišeska Olga Tomić
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8251924731

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Investigations in the Bulgarian and Macedonian Nominal Expression by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova,Mišeska Olga Tomić Pdf

The current volume addresses issues of micro-parametric variation in the grammar of nominal expressions in Bulgarian and Macedonian, with a special focus on features typically attributed to the Balkan Sprachbund. It is the very first attempt to approach in detail and in parallel the structure of noun phrases in the two languages, to look at how some of these features have evolved historically, to consider the order of phrase-internal modifiers, and possible reasons for deviations from default orderings, as well as the function of items, usually labelled determiners (articles, demonstratives and possessive pronouns). The noun phrase has been selected, as it offers a wealth of phenomena within phrase-internal grammar, at the same time providing insights for, and parallels to, the syntax of clauses. The selection of papers is unique, in that they build on specialised corpora specifically collected for the purposes of work on the current project. The contributors have specialised expertise in the fields of Balkan linguistics, language typology, grammatical theory, (South-)Slavic linguistics, language diachrony, and have written numerous papers published in journals and research volumes. This book reflects work on a larger project entitled "Balkan Morpho-Syntactic Similarities" with a grant from The Norwegian Research Council.

Author : Lilia Schürcks,Anastasia Giannakidou,Urtzi Etxeberria
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512790

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The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond by Lilia Schürcks,Anastasia Giannakidou,Urtzi Etxeberria Pdf

The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.

Author : Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255136

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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages by Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski Pdf

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

Author : Mara Frascarelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197723

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Phases of Interpretation by Mara Frascarelli Pdf

This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation, namely vP, CP and DP. In particular, three basic issues are addressed, that represent major questions of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program in the last decade. A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised (including questions about the exact nature of copy and merge, the status of remnant movement, the role of head movement in the grammar), B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces. The concept of phase has also implications for the research on the functional make-up of syntactic objects, implying that functional projections not only apply in a (universally given) hierarchy but split up in various phases pertaining to the head they are related to. This volume provides major contributions to this ongoing discussion, investigating these issues in a variety of languages (Berber, Dutch, English, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian and West Flemish) and combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

Author : Andreas Blümel,Jovana Gajić,Ljudmila Geist,Uwe Junghanns,Hagen Pitsch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540181

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Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018 by Andreas Blümel,Jovana Gajić,Ljudmila Geist,Uwe Junghanns,Hagen Pitsch Pdf

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2018 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks presented at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 13) or at the parallel Workshop on the Semantics of Noun Phrases, which were held on December 5–7, 2018, at the University of Göttingen. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as situation relativization with adverbial clauses (causation, concession, counterfactuality, condition, and purpose), clause-embedding by means of a correlate, agreeing vs. transitive ‘need’ constructions, clitic doubling, affixation and aspect, evidentiality and mirativity, pragmatics coming with the particle li, uniqueness, definiteness, maximal interpretation (exhaustivity), kinds and subkinds, bare nominals, multiple determination, quantification, demonstratives, possessives, complex measure nouns, and the NP/DP parameter. The set of object languages comprises Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Torlak Serbian. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic linguistics. The original analyses prove that substantial progress has been made in major fields of research.

Author : Silvio Cruschina,Adam Ledgeway,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263254

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Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces by Silvio Cruschina,Adam Ledgeway,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect, the dialects of Italy are no exception, in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces, as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system – syntactic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic – do not necessarily operate in isolation but, rather, interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.

Author : Anna-Maria Sonnemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110756241

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Language Families in Contact by Anna-Maria Sonnemann Pdf

The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is based on Yaron Matras’ pragmatic-functional approach to language contact and follows a new direction in Romani linguistics that conceives Romani as a subgroup of closely related languages rather than a single language. The central topics discussed in the book are: Slavic impact on Romani phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax; forms and functions of Slavic verbal prefixes in Romani; Slavic impact on the Romani lexicon; Romani elements in the nonstandard lexicon of the Slavic languages; writing Romani with ‘Slavic’ alphabets.

Author : Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725858

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Clausal Complementation in South Slavic by Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser Pdf

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Author : Yaron Matras,Anton Tenser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030281052

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The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics by Yaron Matras,Anton Tenser Pdf

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Documentation and research on the language draws on a tradition of more than two centuries, yet it remains relatively unknown and often engulfed by myths. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the language including language maintenance and educational projects, the creation of digital resources, language policy initiatives, and a flourishing community of online users of the language. This Handbook presents state of the art research on Romani language and linguistics. Bringing together key established scholars in the field of linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, it introduces the reader to the structures of Romani and its dialect divisions, and to the history of research on the language. It then goes on to explore major external influences on the language through contact with other key languages, aspects of language acquisition, and interventions in support of the language through public policy provisions, activism, translation, religious and literary initiatives, and social media. This comprehensive and groundbreaking account of Romani will appeal to students and scholars from across language and linguistics.

Author : Petr Biskup,Marcel Börner,Olav Mueller-Reichau,Iuliia Shcherbina
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540853

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Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021 by Petr Biskup,Marcel Börner,Olav Mueller-Reichau,Iuliia Shcherbina Pdf

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14 or at the satellite workshop on secondary imperfectives in Slavic, which were held on June 2–5, 2021, at the University of Leipzig. The volume covers all branches of Slavic languages and features synchronic as well as diachronic analyses. It comprises a wide array of topics, such as degree achievements, clitic climbing in Czech and Polish, typology of Slavic l-participles, aspectual markers in Russian and Czech, doubling in South Slavic relative clauses, congruence and case-agreement in close apposition in Russian, cataphora in Slovenian, Russian and Polish participles, prefixation and telicity in Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian adjectives, negative questions in Russian and German and imperfectivity in discourse. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic data and the analyses presented in this collection make a significant contribution to Slavic linguistics as well as to linguistics in general.

Author : Anja Šarić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110621037

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Nominalizations, Double Genitives and Possessives by Anja Šarić Pdf

The goal of this work is twofold. First, it aims to account for double genitive constructions in Serbian. Second, it aims to re-evaluate the DP hypothesis in light of their existence in Serbian. Based on evidence from the categorial status of possessives, argumenthood in the nominal domain, the morphosyntactic structure of nominalizations, and the assignment of the genitive case, it is argued that DP projection must be assumed in Serbian.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church Slavic language
ISBN : UOM:39015079691542

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Scripta & E-scripta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olga M. Tomic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402044885

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Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features by Olga M. Tomic Pdf

This book discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. It contains a wealth of Balkan linguistic material. The focus is on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of individual languages.

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Max Johannes Wahlström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9515111862

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The Loss of Case Inflection in Bulgarian and Macedonian by Max Johannes Wahlström Pdf