Non Nominative Subjects

Author : Peri Bhaskararao,Karumuri Venkata Subbarao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295163

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Non-nominative Subjects by Peri Bhaskararao,Karumuri Venkata Subbarao Pdf

Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical perspectives study the intricate questions raised by these constructions. Some of the central issues include the subject properties of noun phrases with ergative, dative, accusative and genitive case, case assignment and checking, anaphor–antecedent coreference, the nature of predicates with NNSs, whether they are volitional or non-volitional, possibilities of control coreference and agreement phenomena. These analyses have significant implications for theories of syntax and verbal semantics, first language acquisition of NNSs, convergence of case marking patterns in language contact situations, and the nature of syntactic change.

Author : Peri Bhaskararao,Karumuri V. Subbarao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229716

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Non-nominative Subjects by Peri Bhaskararao,Karumuri V. Subbarao Pdf

Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical perspectives study the intricate questions raised by these constructions. Some of the central issues include the subject properties of noun phrases with ergative, dative, accusative and genitive case, case assignment and checking, anaphor–antecedent coreference, the nature of predicates with NNSs, whether they are volitional or non-volitional, possibilities of control coreference and agreement phenomena. These analyses have significant implications for theories of syntax and verbal semantics, first language acquisition of NNSs, convergence of case marking patterns in language contact situations, and the nature of syntactic change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53429476

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Žalyn insandary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susann Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288189

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Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation by Susann Fischer Pdf

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of grammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular case of parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches to grammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss of morphology that triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-order changes, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in the functional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270399

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Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, ‘swarm’-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.

Author : Mihaela Ilioaia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111055626

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The MIHI EST construction by Mihaela Ilioaia Pdf

This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?

Author : L. Hellan,K.K. Christensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400945722

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Topics in Scandinavian Syntax by L. Hellan,K.K. Christensen Pdf

The present collection of papers grew out of a Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax and Theory of Grammar, held in Trondheim in 1982. Five of the contributions - those by Maling, Herslund, Cooper, Platzack and Thniinsson - are developments of papers read at this workshop, and all of the contributions reflect (and have partly inspired) the strong momentum which this area of research has gained over the last few years. It is our hope that the collection will be useful for those who want to familiarize themselves with this research, as well as for those actively engaged in it. We are grateful to the authors for their collaboration in getting the volume together, and to Frank Heny and the Reidel staff (Martin Scrivener, editor, in particular) for their help, encouragement and patience through the various phases of the production of this book. Very many thanks also to our anonymous referees, and to Elisabet Engdahl for help and advice. KIRST! KOCH CHRISTENSEN LARS HELLAN vii LARS HELLAN AND KIRSTI KOCH CHRISTENSEN INTRODUCTION O. INTRODUCTION A natural theoretical perspective for a language-family-oriented anthology like the present one is that of COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. This is not to say that the papers of this volume are all focused on comparative issues (in fact, most of them are not), but rather that the language family from which most of the data are drawn lends itself naturally to comparative studies.

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195348903

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Functional Structure in DP and IP by Guglielmo Cinque Pdf

This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. In particular, it examines the functional structure of DPs (determiner phrases) and IPs (inflection phrases).

Author : Philippe Prévost,Johanne Paradis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252912

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The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts by Philippe Prévost,Johanne Paradis Pdf

This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories) across different contexts in French learners: i.e. first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingual first language acquisition and specifically-language impaired acquisition. This permits readers to see how similar issues and morphosyntactic properties can be investigated in a range of various acquisition situations, and in turn, how each context can contribute to our general understanding of how these morphosyntactic properties are acquired in all learners of the same language. This state-of-the-art collection is enhanced by an introductory chapter that provides background on current formal generative theory, as well as a summary and synthesis of the major trends emerging from the individual studies regarding the acquisition of different functional categories across different learner contexts in French.

Author : Hoskuldur Thrainsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317918646

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On Complementation in Icelandic by Hoskuldur Thrainsson Pdf

This study deals with the complementation of verbs in Icelandic. The main emphasis is on clausal complements of verbs and the syntactic rules that operate in and on such complements. This study is written with two kinds of readers in mind. First, it is written for the theoretical linguist who is looking for phenomena of general theoretical interest, i.e. facts about Icelandic syntax that bear on the question what an adequate general linguistic theory must be like and hence shed some light on the nature of human language. Second, the study is also written with a different kind of reader in mind, namely a reader who is interested in Icelandic syntax in particular, perhaps from a more descriptive point of view.

Author : Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521861489

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South Asian Languages by Kārumūri V. Subbārāo Pdf

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert M. W. Dixon,Masayuki Onishi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229503

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Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert M. W. Dixon,Masayuki Onishi Pdf

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have dative subjects, and another small set may have locative subjects. Verbs with noncanonically marked subjects and objects typically refer to physiological states or events, inner feelings, perception and cognition. The Introduction sets out the theoretical parameters and defines the properties in terms of which subjects and objects can be analysed. Following chapters discuss Icelandic, Bengali, Quechua, Finnish, Japanese, Amele (a Papuan language), and Tariana (an Amazonian language); there is also a general discussion of European languages. This is a pioneering study providing new and fascinating data, and dealing with a topic of prime theoretical importance to linguists of many persuasions.

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen M. Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9027201471

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Non-canonically Case-marked Subjects by Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen M. Carey Pdf

Based on papers presented at a 2012 conference held in Reykjavâik, Iceland.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Nepal
ISBN : UCAL:B5177576

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Nepalese Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Esterella Maria de Roo
Publisher : Holland Academic Graphics
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028921851

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Agrammatic Grammar by Esterella Maria de Roo Pdf