Nominal Phrases From A Scandinavian Perspective

Author : Marit Julien
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 365 pages
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Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294128

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Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective by Marit Julien Pdf

This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is particularly well-suited for explorations into nominal syntax. Among the topics covered are the basic syntactic structure of nominal phrases, definiteness, adjective phrases, possessors, relative clauses, and nominal predicates. The model is however meant to be a tool for analysing the nominal phrases of any language. While the base-generated structure is taken to be universally uniform, the model allows for variation in the feature makeup of individual elements, in the phonological realisation of the features, and in the movements that may or may not apply. Hence, as shown in the final chapter, patterns found in languages outside of Scandinavian can also be accounted for within the model.

Author : Marit Julien
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233519

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Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective by Marit Julien Pdf

This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is particularly well-suited for explorations into nominal syntax. Among the topics covered are the basic syntactic structure of nominal phrases, definiteness, adjective phrases, possessors, relative clauses, and nominal predicates. The model is however meant to be a tool for analysing the nominal phrases of any language. While the base-generated structure is taken to be universally uniform, the model allows for variation in the feature makeup of individual elements, in the phonological realisation of the features, and in the movements that may or may not apply. Hence, as shown in the final chapter, patterns found in languages outside of Scandinavian can also be accounted for within the model.

Author : Lars-Olof Delsing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Scandinavian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015032931415

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The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scandinavian Languages by Lars-Olof Delsing Pdf

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675572

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Grammaticalization in the North by Östen Dahl Pdf

This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish dialects, although the differences between them and Standard Swedish are often larger than between the latter and the other standard Mainland Scandinavian languages. In addition to being conservative in many respects – e.g. in preserving nominal cases and subject-verb agreement – these varieties also display many innovative features. These include extended uses of definite articles, incorporation of attributive adjectives, and a variety of possessive constructions. Although considerable attention has been given to these phenomena in earlier literature, this book is the first to put them in the perspective of typology and grammaticalization processes. It also looks for a plausible account of the historical origin of the changes involved, arguing that many of them spread from central Sweden, where they were later reverted due to the influence from prestige varieties coming from southern Scandinavia.

Author : Kersti Borjars
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631208716

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Feature Distribution in Swedish Noun Phrases by Kersti Borjars Pdf

This book examines in some detail two issues associated with Swedish noun phrases. Firstly, it considers the issue of the headedness of these phrases in the light of a general discussion of criteria for head status. Secondly, the status of the definite ending is discussed from a typological perspective. Based on the findings of this examination of the data, a theoretical account of Swedish noun phrases is provided in terms of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

Author : Antonia Petronella Sleeman,Harry Perridon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255549

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The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic by Antonia Petronella Sleeman,Harry Perridon Pdf

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.

Author : Madeleine Halmøy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394788

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The Norwegian Nominal System by Madeleine Halmøy Pdf

This study presents a unified, economic account of the intricate relationship between form, meaning and interpretation in the Norwegian nominal system – without reference to polysemy. It covers all kinds of nominal signs, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and determiners, as well as the conventionalised syntactic combinations between them. Among its central innovations is the introduction of the feature general number into Norwegian morphology.

Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Anne Zribi-Hertz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004261440

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Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Anne Zribi-Hertz Pdf

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.

Author : Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104673

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Noun phrases in early Germanic languages by Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff Pdf

On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects, the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing, classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlof Bouma of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic. Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional predicates, which occur across the early Germanic languages.

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1013285417

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Grammaticalization in the North by Östen Dahl Pdf

This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish dialects, although the differences between them and Standard Swedish are often larger than between the latter and the other standard Mainland Scandinavian languages. In addition to being conservative in many respects - e.g. in preserving nominal cases and subject-verb agreement - these varieties also display many innovative features. These include extended uses of definite articles, incorporation of attributive adjectives, and a variety of possessive constructions. Although considerable attention has been given to these phenomena in earlier literature, this book is the first to put them in the perspective of typology and grammaticalization processes. It also looks for a plausible account of the historical origin of the changes involved, arguing that many of them spread from central Sweden, where they were later reverted due to the influence from prestige varieties coming from southern Scandinavia. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Dorian Roehrs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255235

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Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries by Dorian Roehrs Pdf

Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are base generated below adjectives and subsequently move to the left periphery in a successive-cyclic fashion. Demonstrating that determiners are complex elements, it is proposed that languages vary with regard to when and what part of the determiner they move. This provides a novel account of the variation in the Scandinavian noun phrase. With various copies left behind by moving the determiner, the restrictive and non-restrictive readings of adjectives and relative clauses are suggested to follow from the interpretation of these different copies. The system is extended to the strong and weak adjective inflections in German. Proposing that determiners are auxiliaries in the nominal domain explains these apparently unrelated data in a uniform way.

Author : Elisabeth Stark,Elisabeth Leiss,Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230994

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Nominal Determination by Elisabeth Stark,Elisabeth Leiss,Werner Abraham Pdf

The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count nouns); Kupisch & Koops (Specificity and negation); Jäger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the or­ig­inal demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Goth­ic, Old High German); Lohndal (Double definiteness during Old Norse); emergence of DP in ontogeny/phylogeny by Osawa (DP, TP and aspect in Old English and L1 acquisition); Bittner (Early functions of definites in L1 acquisition); Wood (Demonstratives and possessives emergent from Old English); Bauer ((in)defin­ite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).

Author : Dana Louagie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512933

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Noun Phrases in Australian Languages by Dana Louagie Pdf

This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the results call into question the classic idea that Australian languages tend to lack phrasal structures in the nominal domain, with over two thirds of the languages showing evidence for phrasehood. Moreover, it is argued that it may be more interesting to typologise languages on the basis of where and how they allow phrasal structure, rather than on the basis of a yes-no answer to the question of constituency. The analysis also shows that a determiner slot can be identified in about half of the languages, even though they generally lack 'classic' determiner features like obligatory use in particular contexts or a restriction to one determiner per NP. Special attention is given to elements, which can be used both inside and beyond determiner slots, demonstrating how part of speech and functional structure do not always align. The book is of interest to researchers documenting Australian languages, as well as to typologists and theorists.

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271259

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New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond by Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall Pdf

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : WISC:89105806434

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Journal of Linguistics by Anonim Pdf