Morphology And Syntax

Author : Lunella Mereu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284624

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Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax by Lunella Mereu Pdf

The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change. The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895491

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Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.

Author : Thomas Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139448666

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Exploring Language Structure by Thomas Payne Pdf

Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how to analyze the syntax and morphology of any language, by clearly describing the basic methods and techniques, and providing almost 100 practical exercises based on data from a rich variety of the world's languages. Written in an engaging style and complete with a comprehensive glossary, Exploring Language Structure explains linguistic concepts by using clear analogies from everyday life. It introduces a range of essential topics in syntax and morphology, such as rules, categories, word classes, grammatical relations, multi-clause constructions and typology. Providing a solid foundation in morphology and syntax, this is the perfect introductory text for beginning students, and will fully prepare them for more advanced courses in linguistic analysis.

Author : Brian Roark,Richard Sproat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191534515

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Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark,Richard Sproat Pdf

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice. The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free and various context-sensitive grammars. They relate approaches for describing syntax and morphology to formal mechanisms and algorithms, and present well-motivated approaches for augmenting grammars with weights or probabilities.

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677092

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Linguistic Typology by Jae Jung Song Pdf

This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Elson,Velma Bernice Pickett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015023452454

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An Introduction to Morphology and Syntax by Benjamin Franklin Elson,Velma Bernice Pickett Pdf

Author : Benjamin Elson,Velma Pickett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252945817

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An Introduction to Morphology and Syntax by Benjamin Elson,Velma Pickett Pdf

Author : Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299192

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Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax by Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).

Author : Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227362

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Morphology-driven Syntax by Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher Pdf

This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for “person” are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,María Pilar Larrañaga,John Clibbens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290601

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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,María Pilar Larrañaga,John Clibbens Pdf

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers (French, German, Spanish) and less frequently spoken ones (Norwegian, Russian, Swiss-German, Hebrew, Basque and Serbo-Croatian) within different language acquisition scenarios and a wide range of populations. Most contributions adopt a common theoretical background within the generative approach with the aim to advance, discuss and critically analyse other research on first, bilingual and language impaired acquisition. The various sections of this stimulating volume reflect different theoretical and methodological perspectives of current research investigating morphology and syntax and offer diverging interpretations.

Author : Berthold Crysmann,Manfred Sailer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103072

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One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics by Berthold Crysmann,Manfred Sailer Pdf

The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step. Most of the papers in this volume are formulated in a particular constraint-based grammar framework, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The contributions investigate how the lexical and constructional aspects of this theory can be combined to provide an answer to this question across different linguistic sub-theories.

Author : Liliana Sánchez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255525

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The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus by Liliana Sánchez Pdf

This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.

Author : Ali Alhaj
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783954898954

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An Introduction to English Morphology. A Textbook for Advanced University Students of Linguistics by Ali Alhaj Pdf

The experience of having taught English language and morphology – syntax in particular – for more than seven years convinced the author that students of linguistics and translation mostly need a solid grounding in the course of morphology and syntax. Once they have a basic understanding of these two important areas, they have little trouble mastering English language as a whole. Hence, both morphology and syntax are important parts of linguistic knowledge and constitute a component of student's mental grammar. Of Course, the more courses are required of students within their discipline, the more they can benefit from the fields inside their major. Such factors often help students develop a positive attitude towards linguistics to be sensitized to the morphological and syntactic system of the language while being exposed to both morphology and syntax, and especially in an unfamiliar area. Obviously, an introductory book such as this has several limitations. First, there are entire subbranches of morphology and syntax that are not included. In terms of content, this book delimits both its scope and audience by shedding new light on a subject the problems and obscurities of which look inexhaustible. Therefore, a book of this kind is an attempt to, on the one hand, to make morphology and syntax – which usually appear to be incredible complicated at first glance – easier and, on the other hand, keep the standard high so that even postgraduate students can benefit from it; because the author strongly believes that students learn best by “doing” exercises, and, to this end,he has added dozens of practice exercises. In general, these require more research or analysis beyond what can be accomplished within a single classroom period. These exploratory exercises can also form the basis for short papers. Therefore, the book can be of immense help not only to students of linguistics and translation, but also to professors of linguistics and translation and research supervisors as well as advisors around the globe and in the Arab world in particular.

Author : John Albert Bickford
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028544471

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Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages by John Albert Bickford Pdf

A textbook and practical guide for acquiring skills necessary to analyze the morphology and syntax of languages around the world.

Author : Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521821819

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The Syntax-Morphology Interface by Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages.