Partitive Determiners Partitive Pronouns And Partitive Case

Author : Petra Sleeman,Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
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Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110732221

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

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Author : Petra Sleeman,Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252883

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Existential Constructions across Languages by Laure Sarda,Ludovica Lena Pdf

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000912227

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The Linguistic Cycle by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles. Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. With coverage of a variety of micro cycles and the more controversial macro cycles, incorporating cutting-edge work on grammaticalization, and drawing on examples from many languages and language families, this book accessibly guides readers through the state of the art in the field. With practical methodological guidance on how to identify and investigate linguistic cycles, and an array of useful pedagogical features, the book provides a coherent framework for approaching, understanding, and furthering research in linguistic cycles. This text will be an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in historical and diachronic linguistics, language typology, and linguistic and grammatical theory.

Author : Julia Herschensohn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236364

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Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French by Julia Herschensohn Pdf

Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that both accusative and dative are structural cases in French and that this duality is reflected in a parallel limit on argument projection. Larson's single complement hypothesis, which allows a maximum of two internal arguments, provides the theoretical justification for this proposal. The testing ground for the binary hypothesis is a group of nonthematic subject constructions involving undative as well as unaccusative verbs, linking, according to Burzio's generalization, case suspension and lack of an internal argument. The investigation of these constructions and those involving partitive case provides not only a theoretically significant contribution to our understanding of grammar, but also a motivated explanation for a number of empirical problems in French.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004437500

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Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article by Anonim Pdf

This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of “partitive articles”. The outcome is a snapshot of current research into “partitive articles” and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal.

Author : Aet Lees
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004296367

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Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages by Aet Lees Pdf

This corpus study presents a comparative analysis of the case of objects of various verb forms, and also subjects in existential clauses in five Finnic languages. Differences between present languages and historical changes in each language are discussed.

Author : Jacob Hoeksema
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110908985

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Partitives by Jacob Hoeksema Pdf

Author : Guillaume Jacques
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103058

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A grammar of Japhug by Guillaume Jacques Pdf

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.

Author : Giuliana Giusti,Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro,Daniel Ross
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257932

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Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions by Giuliana Giusti,Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro,Daniel Ross Pdf

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.

Author : Edward Keenan,Denis Paperno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400726802

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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 : Matti Miestamo,Anne Tamm,Beáta Wagner-Nagy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268648

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Negation in Uralic Languages by Matti Miestamo,Anne Tamm,Beáta Wagner-Nagy Pdf

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.

Author : Christopher Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521368359

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Definiteness by Christopher Lyons Pdf

This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related grammatical phenomena, such as demonstratives, possessives and personal pronouns. It outlines work done on the nature of definiteness in semantics, pragmatics and syntax, and develops an account on which definiteness is a grammatical category represented in syntax as a functional head (the widely discussed D). Consideration is also given to the origins and evolution of definite articles in the light of the comparative and theoretical findings. Among the claims advanced are that definiteness does not occur in all languages, though the pragmatic concept which it grammaticalizes probably does.

Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107032798

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Late Modern English Syntax by Marianne Hundt Pdf

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

Author : Tabea Ihsane
Publisher : Syntax and Semantics
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004431128

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Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article by Tabea Ihsane Pdf

"This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of "partitive articles". The outcome is a snapshot of current research into "partitive articles" and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages---like French and Italian, but also German---to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal"--