Noun Phrases And Nominalization In Basque

Author : Urtzi Etxeberria,Ricardo Etxepare,Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Beatriz Fernández,Jon Ortiz de Urbina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266422

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Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque by Beatriz Fernández,Jon Ortiz de Urbina Pdf

This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery, and including an incursion into determiners, the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with empirically detailed descriptions. Working from a micro-parametric perspective, the contributions to the volume address in depth some of the exuberant variation attested in the different dialects and subdialects of Basque. At the same time, although the contributions focus mainly on Basque data, cross-linguistic evidence is also presented and discussed. After all, the goal pursued in this book is to attempt to explain variation in Basque as a particular instantiation of variation in human language at large. The volume presents and analyzes a wide range of empirical phenomena, many typologically marked among European languages, and will therefore be a welcome resource to linguists looking for detailed description and/or theoretical discussion.

Author : Silvia Luraghi,Tuomas Huumo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394573

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Partitive Cases and Related Categories by Silvia Luraghi,Tuomas Huumo Pdf

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.

Author : Edward Keenan,Denis Paperno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400726819

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Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language by Edward Keenan,Denis Paperno Pdf

Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike.

Author : Javier Caro Reina,Johannes Helmbrecht
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110672626

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Proper Names versus Common Nouns by Javier Caro Reina,Johannes Helmbrecht Pdf

Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.

Author : José Ignacio Hualde,Jon Ortiz de Urbina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110895285

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A Grammar of Basque by José Ignacio Hualde,Jon Ortiz de Urbina Pdf

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Petra Sleeman,Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110732290

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Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case by Petra Sleeman,Giuliana Giusti Pdf

Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a broader perspective. The aim of the PARTE project, from which this volume stems, is precisely to bring together linguists of different theoretical approaches using different methodologies to address this notion in its many facets. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case in European languages, their emergence and spread in diachrony, their acquisition by L2 speakers, and their syntax and interpretation. The volume is the first to provide such an encompassing insight into the notion of partitivity.

Author : Kasper Boye,Petar Kehayov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110416619

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Complementizer Semantics in European Languages by Kasper Boye,Petar Kehayov Pdf

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Author : Jon Ortiz de Urbina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110876741

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Parameters in the grammar of Basque by Jon Ortiz de Urbina Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : Anastasia Giannakidou,Monika Rathert
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191562013

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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization by Anastasia Giannakidou,Monika Rathert Pdf

This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It reflects the intense reconsideration of the nature of quantification, and of fundamental aspects of the syntax and semantics of quantifier phrases. Leading international scholars explore novel and challenging ideas at the interfaces between syntax and morphology, syntax and semantics, morphology and the lexicon. They examine core issues in the field, such as kind reference, number marking, partitivity, context dependence and the way presuppositions are built into the meanings of quantifiers. They also consider how in this context definiteness and the definite determiner D play a central role, and the way in which D is also instrumental in nominalizations. With nominalization, the lexical semantic contribution of verbs and their arguments becomes central, and within the perspective of this book the question is asked whether syntactic nominalizations share with noun phrases the same external layer, namely the functional projection DP. If so, what exactly is the contribution of D in this case, and how much of the lexical correspondence between nouns and verbs is preserved? This book presents the latest thinking on cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic approaches in three of the most vibrant and productive research areas in linguistics. It paves the way towards a more comprehensive understanding of how quantification, definiteness, and nominalizations are encoded in the grammar.

Author : Marco Benincasa
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823391333

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A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord by Marco Benincasa Pdf

The book focusses on the grammatical feature definiteness in German, visible in the inflection of adjectives (ein schön-es Kind vs. das schön-e Kind). It argues for an analysis of this effect that draws a connection to the visible categories of number and gender on nouns and related words rather than an abstract property. This conclusion rests on the conflation of the established grammatical categories into a single one, number-gender, which explains a vast body of grammatical phenomena in German and principles of language in general.

Author : Terence H. Wilbur
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281272

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Prolegomena to a Grammar of Basque by Terence H. Wilbur Pdf

The purpose of this study is to apply experimentally the principles of recent grammatical theories to the facts of the Basque language. This study aims to test out those principles, and endeavours to discover the best form for a grammar of Basque.

Author : Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726114

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Evidential Marking in European Languages by Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese Pdf

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Author : Mario Saltarelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015046834555

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Basque by Mario Saltarelli Pdf

Author : Natalie Braber,Louise Cummings,Liz Morrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107035461

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Exploring Language and Linguistics by Natalie Braber,Louise Cummings,Liz Morrish Pdf

Introduces the key concepts of linguistics and applies these concepts to real-world settings. Numerous learning features provide extensive student support.