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Multiple Exponence

Author : Alice C. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190464356

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Multiple Exponence by Alice C. Harris Pdf

Multiple (or extended) exponence is the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single morphosemantic feature, bundle of features, or derivational category within a word. This book provides data and direction to the discussion of ME, which has gone in a variety of directions and suffers from lack of evidence. Alice Harris addresses the question of why ME is of interest to linguists and traces the discussion of this concept in the linguistic literature. The four most commonly encountered types of ME are characterized, with copious examples from a broad variety of languages; these types form the basis for discussion of the processing of ME, the acquisition of ME, the historical development of ME, and analysis of ME. The book addresses some of the most important questions involving ME, including why it exists at all.

Verb Clusters

Author : Katalin É Kiss,Henk C. van Riemsdijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227934

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Verb Clusters by Katalin É Kiss,Henk C. van Riemsdijk Pdf

Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This similarity is, of course, unexpected since Hungarian is not an Indo-European language like the Germanic language group. Instead it appears that the clustering, inversion and roll-up patterns found may constitute an areal feature. This book presents the relevant language data in considerable detail, taking into account also the variation observed, for example, among dialects. But it also discusses the various analytical approaches that can be brought to bear on this set of phenomena. In particular, there are various hypotheses as to what is the underlying driving force behind cluster formation: stress patterns, aspectual features, morpho- syntactic constraints? And the analytical approaches are closely linked to a number of questions that are at the core of current syntactic theorizing: does head movement exist or should all apparent verb displacement be reduced to remnant movement, are morphology and syntax really just different sides of the same coin?

The Construction of Words

Author : Geert Booij
Publisher : Springer
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319743943

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This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages. Construction Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex words are seen as constructions, that is, pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word forms, and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual words are stored, and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical domains of linguistics such as language acquisition, word processing, and language change.

Proceedings of the 12th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

Author : Stanford Linguistics Association
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 188152633X

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Proceedings of the 12th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics by Stanford Linguistics Association Pdf

Proceedings of a conference on Formal Linguistics.

One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics

Author : Berthold Crysmann,Manfred Sailer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism

Author : Tania Leal,Elena Shimanskaya,Casilde A. Isabelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257567

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Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism by Tania Leal,Elena Shimanskaya,Casilde A. Isabelli Pdf

This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic theory and psycholinguistic methodologies have impacted second language acquisition research in the last decade, from the linguistic properties under investigation and L1-L2/Ln language pairings down to the specific research questions in each study. The minimalist view of language architecture is at the center of studies investigating L2 acquisition of raising, scope, definiteness, phonological representations, and interlanguage transfer. The volume also showcases the latest research on interface phenomena, language processing, and working memory. Studies analyze data collected with a variety of L2 populations from adult foreign language learners to adolescent L3 learners and heritage speakers.

Free Variation in Grammar

Author : Kristin Kopf,Thilo Weber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249333

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Free Variation in Grammar by Kristin Kopf,Thilo Weber Pdf

Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable – or ‘free’ – grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Mayan.

Current Issues in Morphological Theory

Author : Ferenc Kiefer,Mária Ladányi,Péter Siptár
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248404

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Current Issues in Morphological Theory by Ferenc Kiefer,Mária Ladányi,Péter Siptár Pdf

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of language use in one or another sense, covering issues of regularity, irregularity and analogy, as well as the role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition. The languages discussed include Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Lovari (Romani) and Russian. The contributors are Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Mario Andreou, Márton András Baló, Dunstan Brown, Gabriela Caballero, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Roger Evans, Alice C. Harris, László Kálmán, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha, Laura E. Lettner, Maria Mitsiaki, Péter Rácz, Angela Ralli, Péter Rebrus, Alan K. Scott, and Miklós Törkenczy.

Morphotactics

Author : Gregory Stump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009168212

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Morphotactics by Gregory Stump Pdf

Drawing on rich data sets, this guide to morphotactics reveals the principles by which a word form's parts are arranged.

Variation and Change in Morphology

Author : Franz Rainer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248268

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Variation and Change in Morphology by Franz Rainer Pdf

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Semitic Languages in Contact

Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004300156

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Semitic Languages in Contact by Aaron Butts Pdf

This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.

Phonology in Multilingual Grammars

Author : John Archibald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190923334

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Phonology in Multilingual Grammars by John Archibald Pdf

"The primary goal of this book is to articulate a unified architecture for a model of second language phonology. By explicitly addressing the phonological interfaces, I will show how a common set of principles can account for diverse phenomena from phonetics, through to morphology and syntax. As we shall see, phonology is critical to these interfaces. I also hope to show that the empirical evidence strongly suggests that the phonological grammars of L2 learners is composed of rich, abstract, complex, hierarchical representations"--

On looking into words (and beyond)

Author : Claire Bowern,Laurence Horn,Raffaella Zanuttini
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234920

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On looking into words (and beyond) by Claire Bowern,Laurence Horn,Raffaella Zanuttini Pdf

While linguistic theory is in continual flux as progress is made in our ability to understand the structure and function of language, one constant has always been the central role of the word. On looking into words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word-based morphology, morphosyntax, the phonology-morphology interface, and related areas of theoretical and empirical linguistics. The 26 papers that constitute this volume extend morphological and grammatical theory to signed as well as spoken language, to diachronic as well as synchronic evidence, and to birdsong as well as human language.

Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages

Author : Patience Epps,Danny Law,Na'ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429641619

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Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages by Patience Epps,Danny Law,Na'ama Pat-El Pdf

This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward developing better informed approaches to language documentation and description. The volume brings together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars and represents a globally and linguistically diverse range of languages.The collected papers demonstrate the ways in which endangered languages can challenge existing models of language change based on more commonly studied languages, and can generate innovative insights into linguistic phenomena such as pathways of grammaticalization, forms and dynamics of contact-driven change, and the diachronic relationship between lexical and grammatical categories. In so doing, the book highlights the idea that processes and outcomes of language change long held to be universally relevant may be more sensitive to cultural and typological variability than previously assumed. Taken as a whole, this collection brings together perspectives from language documentation and historical linguistics to point the way forward for richer understandings of both language change and documentary-descriptive approaches, making this key reading for scholars in these fields.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Author : Stefan Müller ,Anne Abeillé,Robert D. Borsley,Jean-Pierre Koenig
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102556

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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar by Stefan Müller ,Anne Abeillé,Robert D. Borsley,Jean-Pierre Koenig Pdf

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).