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Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521001102
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Author : Norbert Corver,Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110874006
The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories".
Author : Ximena Lois,Valentina Vapnarsky
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 303910831X
The problem of lexical categories and root class determination is fundamental in linguistic description and theory. Research on this topic has been particularly stimulated by studies of Amerindian languages. The essays in this collection, written by specialists in languages from South, Middle and North America, provide new insights into processes, levels, functions, and the aquisition of lexical categories, from various recent theoretical perspectives. The volume also addresses recent debates about root indeterminacy. Focusing on morphosyntax, phonology, and semantics, the contributions offer invaluable material for typological generalizations and for comprehension of the nature of the mental lexicon.
Author : William E. Nagy,Dedre Gentner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cloze procedure
ISBN : UIUC:30112106611483
Author : Helga Mebus
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638065603
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: In terms of Universal Grammar, our language is made up out of grammatical categories, namely lexical categories and functional categories (compare 1997 Radford: 29-60). What are grammatical categories? When little babies enter our world – do they carry categories within them? What are their first words? Do they belong to a certain category and is the child aware of that? How do children’s first word-combinations look like? Are there similarities to the adults’ language? This paper suggests answers to these questions. Since every language has a more or less different grammar, the focus stays on the English language. This makes it possible to go into detail. Moreover, the concern lies in early child English up to the age of about two years. The overall claim is that children up to that age only produce words and word combinations belonging to thematic or lexical classes. This is also Radford’s thesis presented in his book Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of Syntax (1990). To be able to understand what lexical categories are, the following chapter provides a definition of grammatical categories. Afterwards, Radford’s theory will be described. In the next section, examples of children up to the age of about two years are given and analyzed concerning the occurrence of lexical categories. Other opinions will be presented and discussed in the following section. The paper closes with a conclusion.
Author : Clayton Valli,Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1563680971
New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.
Author : Valentina Vapnarsky,Edy Veneziano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265951
This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical category– in a wide number of unrelated languages, and within different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Twenty languages are thoroughly analyzed. Apart from French, Arabic and Hebrew, the volume includes mostly understudied languages, spoken in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Amazonia, Meso- and North America. Resulting from a long-standing collaboration between leading international experts, this book brings under one cover new data analyses and results on word categories from the linguistic and acquisitional point of view. It will be of the utmost interest to researchers, teachers and graduate students in different fields of linguistics (morpho-syntax, semantics, typology), language acquisition, as well as psycholinguistics, cognition and anthropology.
Author : Nadezhda Vinokurova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Categorization (Linguistics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114750347
Author : Carola Trips
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 9783484305274
This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. An in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English based on data from annotated corpora reveals that all three suffixes developed from nouns into today's suffixes building abstract nouns. It is shown that the rise of suffixes is triggered by semantic change. The findings are analysed in a current model of lexical semantics of word formation (Lieber 2004). The book includes an index with all formations with the three suffixes from Old English to Modern English.
Author : Paola Merlo,Suzanne Stevenson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1588111563
This volume highlights current theories of the lexicon from the perspective of its use in sentence understanding. It includes work from researchers in psycholinguistic studies on sentence comprehension.
Author : Linda M. McManness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015037858696
This study is a generative approach to the difference between the determiner phrase in Spanish versus the determiner phrase in English. The author argues against most claims concerning the Spanish determiner phrase and poses her own argument. Her claim is that the determiner phrase in Spanish is not a functional category, but rather a lexical category. By making a solid case for viewing the Spanish determiner as lexical, McManness can more elegantly and economically account for the proper government of empty categories in Spanish determiner phrases. McManness's argument makes the book unique and provides readers with a new way of looking at Spanish grammar. This thorough and innovative book will be highly appropriate for theoretical linguistics seminars in Spanish versus English and generative linguistics seminars in Spanish syntax. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Theoretical Background; General Theoretical Assumptions About Determiner Phrases; Demonstratives and Definite Articles; Possessives and Genitives; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.
Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199641604
The word is central to both naive and expert theories of language. Yet the definition of 'word' remains problematic. The 42 chapters of this Handbook offer a variety of perspectives on this most basic and elusive of linguistic units.
Author : Heinz J. Giegerich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139425223
In Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the morphological processes of the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he uncovers and spells out in detail the principles of 'lexical morphology and phonology', a theory that has in recent years become increasingly influential in linguistics. Giegerich queries many of the assumptions made in that theory, overturning some and putting others on a principled footing. What emerges is a formally coherent and highly constrained theory of the lexicon - the theory of 'base-driven' stratification - which predicts the number of lexical strata from the number of base-category distinctions recognized in the morphology of the language. Finally, he offers accounts of some central phenomena in the phonology of English (including vowel 'reduction', [r]-sandhi and syllabification), which both support and are uniquely facilitated by this new theory.
Author : Hubert Cuyckens,René Dirven,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219074
This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.
Author : Peter Coopmans,Martin Everaert,Jane Barbara Grimshaw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237042
The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus on what the syntactic consequences are of choices that are made with respect to the lexical specifications of heads. The data in the volume are drawn from diverse languages, among which: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Mohawk, Norwegian, Polish, Russian.
