Lexical Grammar

Author : Leo Selivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316644758

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Lexical Grammar by Leo Selivan Pdf

This book is for anyone is interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary. The introduction looks at recent developments in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition research, and outlines the important role which chunks play in textual cohesion and in fluency, as well as in grammar acquisition. The practical part of the book provides practitioners with a large number of classroom suggestions and activities for making grammar teaching more lexical, and for making vocabulary practice more grammatical. Activities move from receptive to productive and can be used on their own or to supplement and enhance coursebook content.

Author : Teun Hoekstra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111711225

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Author : Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744354

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Author : Ruth Elizabeth King
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237166

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The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing by Ruth Elizabeth King Pdf

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Author : Susan Hunston,Gill Francis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222738

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Pattern Grammar by Susan Hunston,Gill Francis Pdf

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the two books in the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns series (1996; 1998). This volume describes the research that led to these publications, and explores the theoretical and practical implications of the research. The first chapter sets the work in the context of work on phraseology. The next two chapters give several examples of patterns and how they are identified. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss and exemplify the association of pattern and meaning. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 relate the concept of pattern to traditional approaches to grammar and to discourse. Chapter 9 summarizes the book and adds to the theoretical discussion, as well as indicating the applications of this approach to language teaching. The volume is intended to contribute to the current debate concerning how corpora challenge existing linguistic theories, and as such will be of interest to researchers in the fields of grammar, lexis, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is written in an accessible style, however, and will be equally suitable for students taking courses in those areas.

Author : Kersti Börjars,Rachel Nordlinger,Louisa Sadler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107170568

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Lexical-Functional Grammar by Kersti Börjars,Rachel Nordlinger,Louisa Sadler Pdf

A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

Author : Randolph Quirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317890812

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Grammatical and Lexical Variance in English by Randolph Quirk Pdf

Written by one of Britain's most distinguished linguists, this book is concerned with the phenomenon of variance in English grammar and vocabulary across regional, social, stylistic and temporal space.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104246

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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Author : Teun Hoekstra
Publisher : Foris Publications USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 907017636X

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Lexical Grammar by Teun Hoekstra Pdf

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262041715

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Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together. The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. Contributors Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849500104

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Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Presents an overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. This book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1881526372

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Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical-Functional Grammar was first developed by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan in the late 1970s, and was designed to serve as a medium for expressing and explaining important generalisations about the syntax of human languages and thus to serve as a vehicle for independent linguistic research. An equally important goal was to provide a restricted, mathematically tractable notation that could be interpreted by psychologically plausible and computationally efficient processing mechanisms. The formal architecture of LFG provides a simple set of devices for describing the common properties of all human languages and the particular properties of individual languages. This volume presents work conducted over the past several years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University, and elsewhere. The different sections link mathematical and computational issues and the analysis of particular linguistic phenomena in areas such as wh-constructions, anaphoric binding, word order and coordination.

Author : Heinz J Giegerich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748630554

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Lexical Structures by Heinz J Giegerich Pdf

An original study of both structural entitiesoriginating in the lexicon, and the structural characteristics of thelexicon as a module of formal grammar, this book makes two contributions toour understanding of the formal grammar of English. Firstly, it presents acoherent theory of 'compounding' in English. There is a long-standingbut unresolved dispute in the literature as to whether certain constructions(e.g. LONDON ROAD, DENTAL TREATMENT) are compound words or syntacticphrases. The question is important because in other cases the distinction isclear-cut (RING ROAD, FREE TREATMENT respectively), and because it impingeson central assumptions regarding the organisation of the grammar.Secondly,the book suggests an alternative to the commonly assumed sharp division ofthe grammar into the 'lexicon' and the 'syntax'. The lexicon-syntaxdistinction facilitates important new insights in the nature of compoundingin English. However, Heinz Giegerich argues that the Lexicalist assumptionof a sharp divide between the modules cannot be upheld: the two modulesoverlap, such that there are constructions in English that aresimultaneously compound and phrase. He suggests an alternative, tripartite,structure comprising three successive, and significantly overlapping,modules: the lexicon proper, the morphology and the syntax.The bookillustrates a grammar that is rather different from that envisaged inLexicalism (while still retaining that theory's basic insights) andprovides a better understanding of some of the most recalcitrant problems inEnglish word formation.

Author : Danica Salazar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269522

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Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing by Danica Salazar Pdf

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and filtered by frequency, key word, structure and function, and includes contextual information such as variations, authentic examples and usage notes. The first part of the volumediscusses the creation of this list based on a multimillion-word corpus of biomedical research writing and reveals the structure and functions of lexical bundles and their role in effective scientific communication. A comparative analysis of a non-native corpus highlights non-native scientists’ difficulties’ inemploying lexical bundles. The second part of the volume explores pedagogical applications and provides a series of teaching activities that illustrate how EAP teachers or materials designers can use the list of lexical bundles in their practice.

Author : Yehuda N. Falk
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575863405

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Lexical-functional Grammar by Yehuda N. Falk Pdf

With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories and now wish to approach LFG. Falk examines LFG's relation to more conventional theories—like Government/Binding or the Minimalism Program—and, in many respects, establishes its superiority.