Language Change At The Interfaces

Author : Nicholas Catasso,Marco Coniglio,Chiara De Bastiani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257871

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Language Change at the Interfaces by Nicholas Catasso,Marco Coniglio,Chiara De Bastiani Pdf

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic development of long-burning issues such as negation, word order, quantifiers, null subjects, aspectuality, the structure of the left periphery, and extraposition. The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains. The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general.

Author : Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110352306

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Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka Pdf

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.

Author : Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394924

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Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka Pdf

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.

Author : Gillian Ramchand,Charles Reiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199247455

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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces by Gillian Ramchand,Charles Reiss Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.

Author : Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110311860

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Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance by Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel Pdf

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

Author : Yury Y. Shtyrov,Andriy Myachykov,Beatriz Martín-Luengo,Olga V. Shcherbakova
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889661428

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Brain-Behaviour Interfaces in Linguistic Communication by Yury Y. Shtyrov,Andriy Myachykov,Beatriz Martín-Luengo,Olga V. Shcherbakova Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Uli Sauerland,Hans-Martin Gärtner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110207552

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Interfaces + Recursion = Language? by Uli Sauerland,Hans-Martin Gärtner Pdf

Human language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena; different mutually-unintelligeable individual languages are numerous; and the descriptions of individual languages occupy thousands of pages. Recent work in linguistics, however, has tried to argue that despite all appearances to the contrary, the human biological capacity for language may be reducible to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies. The most radical version of this view has emerged from the Minimalist Program: The claim that language consists of only the ability to generate recursive structures by a computational mechanism. On this view, all other properties of language must result from the interaction at the interfaces of that mechanism and other mental systems not exclusively devoted to language. Since language could then be described as the simplest recursive system satisfying the requirements of the interfaces, one can speak of the Minimalist Equation: Interfaces + Recursion = Language. The question whether all the richness of language can be reduced to that minimalist equation has already inspired several fruitful lines of research that led to important new results. While a full assessment of the minimalist equation will require evidence from many different areas of inquiry, this volume focuses especially on the perspective of syntax and semantics. Within the minimalist architecture, this places our concern with the core computational mechanism and the (LF-)interface where recursive structures are fed to interpretation. Specific questions that the papers address are: What kind of recursive structures can the core generator form? How can we determine what the simplest recursive system is? How can properties of language that used to be ascribed to the recursive generator be reduced to interface properties? What effects do syntactic operations have on semantic interpretation? To what extent do models of semantic interpretation support the LF-interface conditions postulated by minimalist syntax?

Author : Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198026808

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Language and Communication by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme Pdf

Computer interfaces and documentation are notoriously difficult for any user, regardless of his or her level of experience. Advances in technology are not making applications more friendly. Introducing concepts from linguistics and language teaching, Language and Communication proposes a new approach to computer interface design. The book explains for the first time why the much hyped user-friendly interface is treated with such derision by the user community. The author argues that software and hardware designers should consider such fundamental language concepts as meaning, context, function, variety, and equivalence. She goes on to show how imagining an interface as a new language can be an invaluable design exercise, calling into question deeply held beliefs and assumptions about what users will or will not understand. Written for a wide range of computer scientists and professionals, and presuming no prior knowledge of language-related terminology, this volume is a key step in the on-going information revolution.

Author : Yizhang Jiang,Maozhen Li,Pengjiang William Qian,Yaoru Sun
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832505175

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Emotion recognition using brain-computer interfaces and advanced artificial intelligence by Yizhang Jiang,Maozhen Li,Pengjiang William Qian,Yaoru Sun Pdf

Author : Brad A. Myers
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439865439

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Languages for Developing User Interfaces by Brad A. Myers Pdf

This book brings together a number of researchers and developers from industry and academia who report on their work. It is of interest to language designers and the creators of toolkits, UIMSs, and other user interface tools.

Author : Lyle F. Bachman,Andrew D. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521649636

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Interfaces Between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research by Lyle F. Bachman,Andrew D. Cohen Pdf

Second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing (LT) research have largely been viewed as distinct areas of inquiry in applied linguistics. This book provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both SLA and LT research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated.

Author : Sandro Sessarego
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108833820

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Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring by Sandro Sessarego Pdf

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

Author : Patrícia Amaral,Ana Maria Carvalho
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270177

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Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces by Patrícia Amaral,Ana Maria Carvalho Pdf

Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of exploring points of interaction between closely related varieties. It is unprecedented in its scope and unique in bringing together leading experts in a systematic study of similarities and differences between both languages. The authors explore the common boundaries of these languages within current theoretical frameworks, in an effort to combine scholarship that analyzes Portuguese and Spanish from multiple subfields of linguistics. The volume compares structures from both synchronic and diachronic points of view, addressing a range of issues pertaining to variability, acquisition, contact, and the formation of new languages. While it provides an up-to-date resource for scholars in the field, it can also be a useful companion for advanced students.

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780080552934

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Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Pdf

This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized.

Author : Jiyoung Choi,Hamida Demirdache,Oana Lungu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527509818

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Language Acquisition at the Interfaces by Jiyoung Choi,Hamida Demirdache,Oana Lungu Pdf

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference held at the University of Nantes, France, in 2015. Language acquisition, a field of inquiry that has witnessed continuous growth during the past four decades, is central to building a detailed understanding of the human amazing capacity to develop language. The papers gathered here reflect the current research in the field of first, second and heritage language acquisition, addressing a variety of topics in syntax, semantics, phonology and their interfaces, from a wide range of languages such as Tashlhiyt Berber, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, European Portuguese, Heritage Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Heritage Sign Language, and Yudja. This volume will thus serve as a valuable reference guide to all scholars interested in (first/second/bilingual) language acquisition, multilingualism, heritage languages, sign language, language pathology and impairment, and experimental research in linguistics.