Language Description Informed By Theory

Author : Rob Pensalfini,Myfany Turpin,Diana Guillemin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270917

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Language Description Informed by Theory by Rob Pensalfini,Myfany Turpin,Diana Guillemin Pdf

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

Author : Britta Stolterfoht,Sam Featherston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614510888

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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory by Britta Stolterfoht,Sam Featherston Pdf

The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work. More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist. This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.

Author : Lori Repetti,Francisco Ordóñez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263896

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 by Lori Repetti,Francisco Ordóñez Pdf

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.

Author : Dilin Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136199332

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Describing and Explaining Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT by Dilin Liu Pdf

Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute an important part of their knowledge. This book provides a balanced treatment of both theory and practice. It focuses on some of the most important and challenging grammar and vocabulary usage questions. Using these questions as examples, it shows how theory can inform practice and how grammar and vocabulary description and explanation can be made more effective and engaging. Part I describes and evaluates the key linguistic theories on language description and teaching. Part II discusses and gives specific examples of how challenging grammar and vocabulary issues can be more effectively described and explained; each chapter focuses on one or more specific grammar and vocabulary. An annotated list of useful free online resources (online corpora and websites) for grammar and vocabulary learning and teaching, and a glossary provide helpful information.

Author : Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110279771

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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia by Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.

Author : Jerrold J. Katz,Paul Martin Postal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252320298

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An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions by Jerrold J. Katz,Paul Martin Postal Pdf

Author : William A. Foley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110872835

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The Role of Theory in Language Description by William A. Foley Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Martin J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933373

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Theoretical Linguistics and Disordered Language (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by Martin J. Ball Pdf

The rapid increase of interest in disordered speech and language among linguists over the past decade or so has resulted in many books of practical help to speech pathologists in terms of assessment and remediation. Little, however, has appeared to examine the theoretical implications of the interaction between these two fields. This book aims to fill this gap, by showing how speech pathology can inform linguistic theory and vice versa.

Author : Emily Clem , Peter Jenks , Hannah Sande
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102051

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Theory and description in African Linguistics by Emily Clem , Peter Jenks , Hannah Sande Pdf

The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.

Author : Ulf Grenander,Michael I. Miller,Michael Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198505709

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Pattern Theory by Ulf Grenander,Michael I. Miller,Michael Miller Pdf

'Pattern Theory' provides a comprehensice & accessible overview of the modern challenges in signal, data & pattern analysis in speech recognition, computational linguistics, image analysis & computer vision. Aimed at graduate students the text includes numerous exercises & an extensive bibliography.

Author : Virginia Hill,Gabriela Alboiu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198736509

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Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian by Virginia Hill,Gabriela Alboiu Pdf

The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian, focussing on the combination of Balkan syntactic patterns and Romance morphology. It presents a new perspective on the manifestation of Balkan Sprachbund properties in the language, and on the nature of parametric differences in relation to other Romance languages.

Author : Federica Cognola,Jan Casalicchio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192547880

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Null Subjects in Generative Grammar by Federica Cognola,Jan Casalicchio Pdf

This book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specific contexts. In generative syntax-the approach adopted in this volume-the phenomenon has traditionally been explained in terms of a 'pro-drop' parameter with associated cluster properties; more recently, however, it has become clear that pro-drop phenomena do not always correlate with all the initially predicted cluster properties. This volume returns to the centre of the debate surrounding the empirical phenomena associated with null subjects. Experts in the field explore the cluster properties associated with pro-drop; the types of null category involved in null-subject phenomena and their identification; and the typology of null-subject languages, with a special focus on partial null-subject languages. Chapters include both novel empirical data and new theoretical analyses covering the major approaches to null subjects in generative grammar. A wide range of languages are examined, ranging from the most commonly studied in research into null subjects, such as Finnish and Italian, to lesser-studied languages such as Vietnamese and Polish, minority languages such as Cimbrian and Kashubian, and historical varieties such as Old French and Old High German. The research presented also contributes to the understanding of other key syntactic phenomena, such as the nature of control, the role of information structure and semantics in syntax, the mechanisms of language change, and the formalization of language variation. The breadth and depth of the volume will make it a valuable resource not only for generative syntacticians, but also for all those working in the fields of historical linguistics, typology, comparative grammar, semantics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics more generally.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199571055

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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1 by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship.

Author : Chiara Gianollo
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198812661

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Indefinites Between Latin and Romance by Chiara Gianollo Pdf

This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no', and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these elements have undergone significant diachronic change since the Classical Latin period, the modern Romance languages show a remarkable degree of similarity in the way their systems of indefinites have evolved and are structured today. In this volume, Chiara Gianollo draws on data from Classical and Late Latin texts, and from electronic corpora of the early stages of various Romance languages, to propose a new account of these similarities. The focus is primarily on Late Latin: at this stage, the grammar of indefinites already shows a number of changes, which are homogeneously transmitted to the daughter languages, leading to parallelism in the various emerging Romance systems. The volume demonstrates the value of using methods and models from synchronic theoretical linguistics for investigating diachronic phenomena, as well as the importance of diachronic research in understanding the nature of crosslinguistic variation and language change.

Author : Carol M. Eastman
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
ISBN : 0397473788

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Linguistic Theory and Language Description by Carol M. Eastman Pdf