Modern Syntax

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052186335X

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Modern Syntax by Andrew Carnie Pdf

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139495042

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Modern Syntax by Andrew Carnie Pdf

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.

Author : C.T. Onions
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136898594

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Modern English Syntax by C.T. Onions Pdf

This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis. Part I contains a treatment of syntactical phenomena based on the analysis of sentences; Part II classifies the uses of forms. Cross-references indicate how the two parts supplement one another.

Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107032798

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Late Modern English Syntax by Marianne Hundt Pdf

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

Author : Liliane Haegeman,Herman Wekker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134958610

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A Modern Course in English Syntax by Liliane Haegeman,Herman Wekker Pdf

This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.

Author : Waltraud Paul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110338775

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New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax by Waltraud Paul Pdf

Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.

Author : James B. De Young
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592446896

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A Syntax-Reader for the Greek New Testament by James B. De Young Pdf

Many excellent texts on New Testament Greek grammar and syntax exist to lead students into deeper understanding of the language. Yet these approach the instruction of Greek in either a deductive or an inductive manner. The aim of this 'Syntax-Reader' is to instruct students in the learning of Greek syntax by combining what the best texts on syntax teach with a comprehensive reading of theologically significant passages of the New Testament. In this manner, students come to appreciate Greek syntax as the foundation for exegesis and their understanding of theology and the truth of Scripture. The 'Syntax-Reader' enables students to know not only Greek syntax but to know how syntax contributes to translating and interpreting most of the passages which are basic to the doctrines of Christianity. By means of translation, questions for the Òheart and mind,Ó discussion questions, assignments, and syntactical charts, students advance from the doctrine of Scripture through the doctrines of God the Father, Christ the Son, the Holy Spirit, salvation, Satan, holiness, the Church, sin, the nature of people, spiritual gifts, justification by faith, the return of Christ, the exaltation of Christ, and union with Christ. In short, students learn theology as they learn Greek, and they learn Greek as they learn theology.

Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258175

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New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax by Andrew Simpson Pdf

This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese syntax, grouped into five thematic sections on the structure of lexical and functional projections, modal verb syntax, syntax-semantics interactions, the syntax and interpretation of particles, and the acquisition of syntactic structures. With its rich descriptive content sourced from different varieties of Chinese, and its theoretical orientation and analyses, the book provides an important new resource both for researchers with a primary interest in Chinese and other linguists interested in discovering how properties of Chinese can inform the analysis of other languages.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112316009

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Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky Pdf

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Author : John C. Leeds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351904339

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Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity by John C. Leeds Pdf

The relationship between Latin and the Scots vernacular in the chronicle literature of 16th-century Scotland provides the topic for this study. John Leeds here shows how the disposition of grammatical subjects, in the radically dissimilar syntactic systems of humanist neo-Latin and Scots, conditions the way in which "the subject" (i.e., the human individual) and its actions are conceived in the writing of history. In doing so, he extends the boundaries of existing critical literature on early modern "subjectivity" to include the subject of grammar, analyzing its incorporation into narrative sentences and illuminating the ideological contents of different systems for its deployment. Though focused on the chronicles of Renaissance Scotland, the argument can in principle be applied to the entire range of Latin-vernacular relations during the early modern period. While examining the intellectual culture of early modernity, Leeds also takes aim, at every stage of his argument, at the semiotic and social-constructionist orthodoxies that dominate the humanities today. Against the notion that human subjects are "discursive constructs," he argues for the subordination of discourse to realities, both material and immaterial, that are external to language. As part of this argument, he proposes a view of neo-Latin humanism as a resistance to the onset of modernity, arguing that Latin prose provides options (at once syntactic, ideological, and ontological) that vernacular culture has, to its considerable detriment, foreclosed. In sum, Leeds advocates a renewed and theoretically-informed commitment to the humanism that the humanities themselves have been at such pains, during the last scholarly generation, to depreciate.

Author : Igor Mel'cuk
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438412764

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Dependency Syntax by Igor Mel'cuk Pdf

This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather than in terms of more familiar phrase-structure. The notions of dependency relations and dependency structure are introduced and substantiated, and the advantages of dependency representation are demonstrated by applying it to a number of popular linguistic problems, e.g. grammatical subject and ergative construction. A wide array of linguistic data is used - the well-known (Dyirbal), the less known (Lezgian), and the more recent (Alutor). Several "exotic" cases of Russian are discussed to show how dependency can be used to solve difficult technical problems. The book is not only formal and rigorous, but also strongly theory-oriented and data-based. Special attention is paid to linguistic terminology, specifically to its logical consistency. The dependency formalism is presented within the framework of a new semantics-oriented general linguistic theory, Meaning-Text theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015079952233

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-

Author : Judith Anne Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111715278

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A transformational analysis of the syntax of Ælfric's Lives of saints by Judith Anne Johnson Pdf

Author : Linda Joyce Manney
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Yen-hui Audrey Li,Andrew Simpson,Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Comparative
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199945672

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Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective by Yen-hui Audrey Li,Andrew Simpson,Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Pdf

"Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages"--