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Norwegian Modals

Author : Kristin Melum Eide
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110899634

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Norwegian Modals by Kristin Melum Eide Pdf

Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian. Modal verbs in Mainland Scandinavian languages have received much less attention than their English and German counterparts, hence this book seizes the opportunity to present a range of new data and generalizations relevant for the study of Scandinavian languages, but also for the study of modality in Germanic and other languages. The book critically evaluates a range of proposals from the modality literature, focusing on the Theta-properties and the scopal properties of Modals in Germanic languages, and concludes that none of these previous proposals are able to account for the syntax of modals in Norwegian. The Theta-properties of modals are shown to depend on the construction in which the modal occurs, hence neither a raising analysis, a control analysis, nor a raising-versus-control analysis in fact suffices to exhaust these properties of Norwegian modals. The interplay of modals with tense and aspect is likewise thoroughly investigated, presenting a range of data revealing that existing universalist proposals are insufficient to account for even quite regular patterns. Instead, a new analysis is presented, building on a new compositional tense system which exploits aspectual features of predicates and selectional preferences of modal classes.

Colloquial Norwegian

Author : Margaret Hayford Oleary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134836956

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Colloquial Norwegian by Margaret Hayford Oleary Pdf

Colloquial Norwegian provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Norwegian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Norwegian will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Norwegian. Course components: The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack. Paperback: 978-0-415-11009-9 (please note this does not include the audio) CDs : 978-0-415-28685-5 eBook: 978-0-203-97630-2 (available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx. Please note this does not include the audio) MP3s: 978-0-415-47079-7 (available to purchase from http://ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/audio_viewbooks.aspx) Pack : 978-0-415-45593-0 (paperback and CDs)

Putting Adpositions in Place

Author : Kaori Takamine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265630

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Putting Adpositions in Place by Kaori Takamine Pdf

This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that Temporal and Locative appear relatively freely with respect to a certain range of the Modal/Aspect functors in the middle field, whereas the rest of the PP types are more constrained in this respect. Unlike cartographic approaches to PPs (Schweikert 2005, Cinque 2006), the book adopts the working hypothesis that the fine-grained hierarchies can be derived in a constrained manner along the lines of Svenonius and Ramchand (2014) and proposes that the properties of the PPs characterized by (i) and (ii) can be captured in a sortal domain analysis. The book appeals to a linguistic audience interested in modifier syntax as well as in Japanese.

Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Author : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198

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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Finiteness Matters

Author : Kristin Melum Eide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266972

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Finiteness Matters by Kristin Melum Eide Pdf

"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness, before elaborating on, modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways.

Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism

Author : Elizabeth Lanza
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199265062

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Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism by Elizabeth Lanza Pdf

This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.

Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

Author : Åsta Haukås,Camilla Bjørke,Magne Dypedahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351049122

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Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching by Åsta Haukås,Camilla Bjørke,Magne Dypedahl Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, divided into theoretical and empirical chapters, looks at metacognition from a variety of perspectives, including metalinguistic and multilingual awareness, and language learning and teaching in L2 and L3 settings, and explores a range of studies from around the world. This allows the volume to highlight a diverse set of methodological approaches, including blogging, screen recording software, automatic translation programs, language corpora, classroom interventions, and interviews, and subsequently, to demonstrate the value of metacognition research and how insights from such findings can contribute to a greater understanding of language learning and language teaching processes more generally. This innovative collection is an essential resource for students and scholars in language teaching pedagogy, and applied linguistics.

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Author : B. Richard Page,Michael T. Putnam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004290211

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Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by B. Richard Page,Michael T. Putnam Pdf

The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.

Out of Corpora

Author : Hilde Hasselgård,Signe Oksefjell
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 904200505X

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Out of Corpora by Hilde Hasselgård,Signe Oksefjell Pdf

Main headings: Introduction. - I. Representing language use. - II. Grammar and lexis in English corpora. - III. Contrastive and translation studies. - IV. English abroad. - List of Stig Johansson's publications (selection).

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009

Author : Janine Berns,Haike Jacobs,Tobias Scheer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282187

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009 by Janine Berns,Haike Jacobs,Tobias Scheer Pdf

The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a very special one: for the first time it was not hosted by one of the Dutch universities, but was co-organized by the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis and held in France at the Maison du Séminaire in Nice from 3–5 December 2009. The present volume contains a broad range of peer-reviewed articles dealing with syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and acquisition of the Romance languages as well as selected papers from the special workshop dealing with linguistic change in relation to linguistic theory.

Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004486638

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Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies by Anonim Pdf

Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high degree of complementarity between the two fields in terms of research methodology, interests and objectives. Offering theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives, the articles show how translation and contrastive approaches to grammar, lexis and discourse can be harmoniously combined through the use of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora and how contrastive information needs to inform translation research and vice versa. The notion of contrastive linguistics adopted here is broad; thus, alongside comparisons of Malay/English idioms and the French imparfait and its English equivalents, there are articles comparing different varieties of French, and sign language with spoken language. This collection should be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. In addition, the section on corpus-based teaching applications will be of great value to teachers of translation and contrastive linguistics.

Studies on English Modality

Author : Frank Robert Palmer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3034303106

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Studies on English Modality by Frank Robert Palmer Pdf

Inspired by Frank Palmer's work, this book addresses a set of specific topics pertaining to the description of modality in English and places them in a broader context. A number of more general theoretical and typological matters are also raised, which bear upon the theory of syntax, semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces. The methodology adopted is mostly functional-typological, though some reference is made to various theoretical frameworks, ranging from cognitive linguistics to parametric variation. Modal meanings are seen to extend beyond particular lexical and grammatical exponents, through sentential semantics and into actual contexts of use. At the same time, the study of modality seems to challenge commonly held views on the relationship between different levels of linguistic analysis. Other languages discussed include Brazilian Portuguese, Classical and Modern Greek and Spanish.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles

Author : Eric E. Andvik,Erik E. Andvik
Publisher : Language Data, Africa Series
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106010581731

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A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles by Eric E. Andvik,Erik E. Andvik Pdf

Studies a small class of uninflectable lexical items (particularly jo and na).

The Perfect Volume

Author : Kristin Melum Eide,Marc Fryd
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles

Author : Eric E. Andvik,Erik E. Andvik
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015029165068

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A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles by Eric E. Andvik,Erik E. Andvik Pdf

Studies a small class of uninflectable lexical items (particularly jo and na).