Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis

Author : Mari Nygård
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264374

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Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis by Mari Nygård Pdf

This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is generated independently of lexical items. Two major questions are addressed. Firstly, is there active syntactic structure in the ellipsis site? Secondly, how are discourse ellipses licensed? It is argued that both structural and semantic restrictions are required to account for the empirical patterns. Discourse ellipses can be seen as a contextual adaptation. Ellipsis is only possible in certain contexts. The existence of ellipsis may lead to the impression that syntax is partly destroyed. However, the analysis shows that narrow syntax is not affected. The underlying structure stays intact, as the licensing restrictions concern only phonological realization. Hence, the grammar of discourse ellipses is best characterized as an interface phenomenon.

Author : Tor A. Åfarli,Brit Maehlum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270511

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The Sociolinguistics of Grammar by Tor A. Åfarli,Brit Maehlum Pdf

The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing on language evolution and change, on multilingualism, language mixing and dialect variation, on spoken language, and on creole languages. Given the theoretical perspectives, methodological focus, and analyses, the book will be of interest to theoretical linguists as well as sociolinguists, from undergraduate students to researchers.

Author : Leiv Inge Aa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260833

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Norwegian Verb Particles by Leiv Inge Aa Pdf

This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic literature, the dialectologically oriented literature has shown for a long time that many Norwegian particles are preferred as LPrt (corresponding to English ‘throw out the dog’). While spatial particles can appear in both positions, non-spatial particles primarily appear as LPrt. A complex predicate analysis is adopted for non-spatial particles, and a small clause analysis for spatial particles. It is argued that a non-spatial LPrt construction triggers an atelic reading, and the RPrt counterpart identifies a result state. The book combines traditional dialectology with modern linguistic theories and includes much Norwegian data that has not been shed theoretical light on before: simplex and complex spatial and non-spatial constructions, phrasal particles, ground promotion, and unaccusatives. Several earlier theoretical accounts of Norwegian particles are reviewed in a separate chapter.

Author : Güliz Güneş,Anikó Lipták
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780198849490

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The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis by Güliz Güneş,Anikó Lipták Pdf

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popular 'silent structure' accounts of ellipsis, and investigate the question of when linguistic material becomes silenced during the derivation and realization of syntactic structure. The book begins with a detailed introduction from the editors that outlines the current generative syntactic approaches to the derivational timing of ellipsis. In the chapters that follow, internationally-recognized experts in the field address key topics including structure building, the architecture of grammar, the interaction of distinct modules with syntax, the order of operations in the post-syntactic component, and constraints on binding relations. The authors also present novel arguments for and against the derivational approaches to ellipsis, the licensing of ellipsis, and phonological constraints on elliptical sentences. The findings, based on data from English and other languages such as Armenian, Italo-Romance, Ossetic, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Turkish, facilitate a deeper understanding of the interaction between syntax and the neighbouring modules in the formation of elliptical utterances.

Author : Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443832250

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On Words and Sounds by Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk Pdf

The present volume On Words and Sounds is a collection of selected papers from PLM 2009. The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual international general linguistics conference. The book consists of fifteen articles, each of which can be read separately or in relation to others. The book will definitely appeal to the academic readership interested in linguistic disciplines such as: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and clinical linguistics. Collectively, the contributions investigate the interrelationships among those disciplines as well as between language and music. The central aim for the scholars was to explore the PLM 2009 leitmotif “Variants, Variability, Variation” and show that the complete study of language involves diversified frameworks often rooted in interdisciplinary approaches.

Author : Kristin Melum Eide,Marc Fryd
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259998

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The Perfect Volume by Kristin Melum Eide,Marc Fryd Pdf

Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.

Author : Jan Terje Faarlund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192550088

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The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian by Jan Terje Faarlund Pdf

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible standard languages, regional varieties, and dialects stretching from southern Jutland to eastern Finland share many syntactic patterns and features, but also present interesting syntactic differences. In this volume, Jan Terje Faarlund discusses the main syntactic features of the national languages, alongside the most widespread or typologically interesting features of the non-standard varieties. Each topic is illustrated with examples drawn from reference grammars, research literature, corpora of various sorts, and the author's own research. The framework is current generative grammar, but the volume is descriptive in nature, with technical formalities and theoretical discussion kept to a minimum. It will hence be a valuable reference for students and researchers working on any Scandinavian language, as well as for syntacticians and typologists interested in Scandinavian facts and data without necessarily being able to read Scandinavian.

Author : Kristian A. Rusten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192535764

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Referential Null Subjects in Early English by Kristian A. Rusten Pdf

This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than 500 early English texts, spanning nearly 850 years. On the basis of this substantial data, Kristian A. Rusten re-evaluates previous conflicting claims concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. He explores the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language, and provides an empirical examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed in the theoretical literature. The predictions of two important pragmatic accounts of null arguments are also tested. Throughout, the book builds its arguments primarily by means of powerful statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The volume is the most comprehensive examination of null subjects in the history of English to date, and will be of interest to syntacticians, historical linguists, and those working in English and Germanic linguistics more widely.

Author : Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504488

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Architecture of Topic by Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler Pdf

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.

Author : Thorstein Fretheim,Jeanette K. Gundel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282699

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Reference and Referent Accessibility by Thorstein Fretheim,Jeanette K. Gundel Pdf

The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in which general principles of utterance interpretation constrain possible interpretations of referring expressions. The collection arises from a workshop on reference and referent accessibility which was held at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993.

Author : Karin Aijmer,Anna-Brita Stenström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295583

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Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora by Karin Aijmer,Anna-Brita Stenström Pdf

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Author : William C. Mann,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282927

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Discourse Description by William C. Mann,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily seen. The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organization which is supported by contributions from donors. Far from simply informing the readers, the letter seeks to appeal to them on many levels, intellectual, emotional, and financial. It is a fascinating study in how texts do their work. Discourse Description is expected to serve both as a research document and as a case textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in discourse and text analysis, as well as a resource for text analysts.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521085101

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The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.

Author : Gert Rickheit,Christopher Habel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808414

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Focus and Coherence in Discourse Processing by Gert Rickheit,Christopher Habel Pdf

Author : Julius Emil Olson
Publisher : Chicago : Scott, Foresman, 1898 [c1898]
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Norwegian language
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5J4F

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Norwegian Grammar and Reader by Julius Emil Olson Pdf