Middle Constructions In English

Author : Claudia Haase
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783656055792

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Middle Constructions in English by Claudia Haase Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,1 (A), University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (Anglistisches Institut III), course: Verb Classes and verb alternations in English, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: With this paper I want to give a survey about middles in English, verbs which form middles, general characteristics, make obvious the relationship between middles and passives and middles and ergatives and in the end compare German and English middles. I dedicated this paper also to the question: Are verbs which form middles transitive or intransitive? Some experts claim, that middle verbs can be both, transitive or intransitive (cf. Dixon), others try to prove that verbs which form middles are always transitive and that with middle formation the transitivity is lost.

Author : Christiane Fellbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015050668469

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On the Middle Construction in English by Christiane Fellbaum Pdf

Author : Sarah M. B. Fagan,Sarah M. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521410601

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The Syntax and Semantics of Middle Constructions by Sarah M. B. Fagan,Sarah M. Fagan Pdf

"The study addresses a number of issues in the syntax of Modern German relevant to our understanding of universal grammar: 1. Lack of evidence for a class of ergative predicates in German suggests that while it is an option, ergativity is not instantiated in all grammars. 2. Impersonal clauses provide evidence that German allows subjectless clauses, suggesting that the Extended Projection Principle cannot be maintained as universal. 3. Reflexives in German are shown to be independent words capable of filling argument positions. Because they do not bear 0-roles in middle constructions, they provide evidence against the claim that complement positions are always 0-marked." "Although this study is carried out in the Government-Binding framework, the wealth of language data and descriptive detail presented here will be valuable to linguists working in any theoretical framework."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Denison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887690

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English Historical Syntax by David Denison Pdf

This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important changes in English sentence structure from Old English to present. It also features a survey of published research from both classical and modern linguistic traditions, as well as new research by the author. Provides guidance on methodology, important reference materials, and the general history of the English language.

Author : Sarah M. B. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521410606

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The Syntax and Semantics of Middle Constructions by Sarah M. B. Fagan Pdf

This study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the syntax and semantics of middle constructions in German, including those formed by using the auxiliary lassen 'let'. English and French middles are also treated in depth for comparative purposes. Sarah Fagan argues that middle constructions are not to be accounted for in the syntax, but rather in a bipartite lexicon consisting of Static and Dynamic components. This division of the lexicon helps to clarify the analysis in a number of ways. The author also considers middles in the context of recent work on generics, and examines Vendler's typology of aspectual verb classes in the light of middle formation in German and English. The study addresses a number of issues in the syntax of modern German relevant to our understanding of universal grammar: 1. the appearance of ergative predicates in German: 2. the implications of impersonal clauses in German: and 3. the use of reflexives in argument positions. The value of this study is greatly enhanced by the wealth of language data and descriptive detail given.

Author : Jiajuan Xiong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811061875

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Chinese Middle Constructions by Jiajuan Xiong Pdf

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”.

Author : Linda Joyce Manney
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723051X

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Middle Voice in Modern Greek by Linda Joyce Manney Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees.

Author : Jim Miller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748633623

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Introduction to English Syntax by Jim Miller Pdf

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key FeaturesCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided.

Author : E. Reuland,W. Abraham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401118408

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Knowledge and Language by E. Reuland,W. Abraham Pdf

1. BACKGROUND This volume is one of three which emerged from the Conference on Knowledge and Language, held from May 21-May 25, 1989, at the occasion of the 37 5th anniversary of the University of Groningen. Studying the relation between knowledge and language, one may distin guish two different lines of inquiry, one focussing on language as a body of knowledge, the other on language as a vehicle of knowledge. Approaching language as a body of knowledge one faces questions concerning its structure, and the relation with other types of knowledge. One will ask, then, how language is acquired and to what extent the acquisition of language and the structure of the language faculty model relevant aspects of other cognitive capacities. If language is approached as a vehicle for knowledge, the question comes up what enables linguistic entities to represent facts about the world. To what extent does this rely on conventional aspects of meaning? Is it possible for language, when used non-conventionally as in metaphors, to convey intersubjective knowledge? If so (and it does seem to be the case), one may wonder what makes this possible. The aim of this conference was to investigate the role of conceptual structure in cognitive processes, exploring it from the perspectives of philosophy of language, linguistics, political philosophy, psychology, liter ary theory, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The themes of these three volumes reflect the themes of the conference.

Author : Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521824230

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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary by Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson Pdf

The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.

Author : Christiane Fellbaum,Anne Zribi-Hertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015014987500

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The Middle Construction in French and English by Christiane Fellbaum,Anne Zribi-Hertz Pdf

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551118949

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An Introduction to Middle English by R.D. Fulk Pdf

An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295248

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Coordinating Constructions by Martin Haspelmath Pdf

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nêlêmwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.

Author : Pilar Guerrero Medina
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 1845537440

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Morphosyntactic Alternations in English by Pilar Guerrero Medina Pdf

This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of "diathesis alternations" --broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as "alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning" --i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ --derivational and non-derivational-- will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004446793

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Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar by Martin Hilpert Pdf

In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.