Noun Phrase Licensing

Author : Jeffrey T. Runner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136768392

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Noun Phrase Licensing by Jeffrey T. Runner Pdf

This book examines the syntax of direct object noun phrases in English within the Principles and Parameters, specifically Chomsky's Minimalist Program, approach to generative grammar. The main focus is on the phrase structural positions of object noun phrases at the various levels of representation, and secondarily on the relationship between structural position and semantic interpretation. Supported by a variety of empirical and conceptual arguments, the central claim of the book is that direct object noun phrases in English surface in a VP-external position; a secondary claim is that while in the overt syntax direct objects appear VP-externally, their position at the level of logical form varies depending on interpretation. Four basic constructions are studied: simple transitive clauses, transitive clauses with prepositional objects, the "raising to object" construction, and the "double object" construction. This book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of phrase structure syntax, English and Germanic syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and all areas of generative approaches to syntax.

Author : Jeffrey T. Runner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136768408

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Noun Phrase Licensing by Jeffrey T. Runner Pdf

First Published in 1998.

Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373198

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Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing by Susan Rothstein Pdf

Explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. This book brings a series of papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers.

Author : Jeffrey T. Runner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017255832

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Noun Phrase Licensing and Interpretation by Jeffrey T. Runner Pdf

Author : Christine Günther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415658263

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The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English by Christine Günther Pdf

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on the (oft-neglected) parallels between the two. She also examines the use of noun ellipsis with adjectives in order to shed light on this under-researched phenomenon, drawing on data from the British National Corpus.

Author : Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589443

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Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases by Paul Portner,Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn Pdf

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.

Author : C.R. Tellier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401135962

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Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps by C.R. Tellier Pdf

The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi nality of the construction. Clearly, the intuitions that native speakers have about parasitic gaps do not stem from direct instruction; hence, it is reasoned, such knowledge follows from the restrictions imposed by Universal Grammar. Furthermore, it is unlikely that any principle of Universal Grammar refers specifically to parasitic gap constructions; their syntactic and interpretive properties must instead follow entirely from independent principles. My own interest in the phenomenon was sparked a few years ago, when, in a novel, I came across a sentence like the following: Chait un armateur; dont Ie prestige _; reposait largement sur la fortune _;, 'he was a shipbuilder of whom the prestige was largely based on the wealth'. As the indices indicate, the interpretation of the French sentence is un ambiguous: both the prestige and the wealth necessarily pertain to the same individual. In this aspect, the sentence much resembles the English parasitic gap construction above: in the former case too, the comple ments of correct and file must corefer with the noun phrase heading the relative (the reports). Yet, there is an important difference between the two constructions. Verbs like correct and file subcategorize their com plements.

Author : Kersti Borjars
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Urtzi Etxeberria,Ricardo Etxepare,Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255709

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Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque by Urtzi Etxeberria,Ricardo Etxepare,Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Pdf

This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute attention to properties and paradigms previously overlooked, and the analyses of them in the light of recent advances in syntactic theory make this book a valuable tool for syntacticians, semanticists and morphologists. This work fills a gap in the theoretical study of Basque, and the richness of data presented makes it interesting for any researcher from whatever particular theoretical persuasion. This volume is especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students of comparative grammar, typology, and theoretical linguistics.

Author : Blasius Achiri-Taboh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000995510

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The Bantu Noun Phrase by Blasius Achiri-Taboh Pdf

This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. This volume speaks to contemporary debates on the Bantu noun phrase, seeking to stimulate a greater understanding of the true nature of adnominal modification, definiteness, and anaphoric relations associated with it, with respect to various segmental and supra-segmental, noun formation, and noun classification phenomena. The ten chapters take the reader through the Grassfields, North-Western, North-Eastern and Southern present-day Bantu homeland, making important contributions to the documentation and analysis of Bantu languages. The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives is unique in its inclusion of so many North-Eastern Bantu languages in its discourse on Bantu linguistics and this important collection will be of particular interest to those researching, teaching, and studying African languages and linguistics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : OCLC:820116528

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Syntax of Dutch by Anonim Pdf

The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.

Author : Jan Fellerer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498580151

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Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe by Jan Fellerer Pdf

Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe: The Polish Dialect of Late-Habsburg Lviv makes the case for a two-pronged approach to past urban multilingualism in East-Central Europe, one that considers both historical and linguistic features. Based on archival materials from late-Habsburg Lemberg––now Lviv in western Ukraine––the author examines its workings in day-to-day life in the streets, shops, and homes of the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The places where the city’s Polish-Ukrainian-Yiddish-German encounters took place produced a distinct urban dialect. A variety of south-eastern “borderland” Polish, it was subject to strong ongoing Ukrainian as well as Yiddish and German influence. Jan Fellerer analyzes its main morpho-syntactic features with reference to diverse written and recorded sources of the time. This approach represents a departure from many other studies that focus on the phonetics and inflectional morphology of Slavic dialects. Fellerer argues that contact-induced linguistic change is contingent on the historical specifics of the contact setting. The close-knit urban community of historical Lviv and its dialect provide a rich interdisciplinary case study.

Author : Sandra Chung
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226106098

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The Design of Agreement by Sandra Chung Pdf

Sandra Chung proposes that linguistic theory must recognize not one but two agreement relations—a featural relation that lies behind agreement's impact on the form of words and a configurational relation that lies behind agreement's impact on syntactic structure. She identifies the two relations and argues that neither can be reduced to the other. Chung offers the most comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Chamorro that has appeared to date and relates her proposals to what is known about analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and other languages.

Author : Michael Rießler
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675657

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Adjective attribution by Michael Rießler Pdf

This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study contributes to historical linguistics by reconstructing the origin of new types specifically in the language contact area between the Indo-European and Uralic families.

Author : Christine Günther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135123925

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The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English by Christine Günther Pdf

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on the (oft-neglected) parallels between the two. She also examines the use of noun ellipsis with adjectives in order to shed light on this under-researched phenomenon, drawing on data from the British National Corpus.