Passives And Middles In Mainland Scandinavian

Author : Antonio Fábregas,Michael T. Putnam
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110670936

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Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian by Antonio Fábregas,Michael T. Putnam Pdf

This monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic variation related to these two constructions in Mainland Scandinavian. At an empirical level, we provide a detailed discussion of the morphosyntax and semantics of the two main types of passives in both languages, lexical (s-) and periphrasitic (bli-) passives. At a theoretical level, we propose an architecture of the language faculty where exponents play a central role. Exponents are selected to identify the structures generated by the grammar and provide a platform that make these units interpretable by the sensori-motor and conceptual-intentional interfaces. Exponents this play an essential role in determining the well-formedness of linguistic structures. We demonstrate how different syntactic structures identified and lexicalized by exponents in these two languages are capable of capturing the microvariation observed in the voice systems of these two languages in a straightforward way. The amount of linguistic information (i.e., aspect and mood) identified by each exponent in each language determines the types of complements and specifiers that can be integrated into and lexicalized by a given exponent. Although our approach shares certain affinities with other neo-constructionist approaches, a novel proposal we advance in this book is that exponents are housed in an intermediate level of structure that exists between the narrow syntax and its external interfaces. This exponency-level (Ʃ-structure) allows for a more parsimonious theoretical analysis that does not sacrifice descriptive adequacy.

Author : Antonio Fábregas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260338

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Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish by Antonio Fábregas Pdf

This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Spanish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish has available to build adjectives from other grammatical categories within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework. In doing so, this book sheds light on the nature of adjectives as a grammatical category and argues that adjectives are syntactically built by recycling functional heads belonging to other categories. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in the main ways of building new adjectives through suffixation in this language.

Author : Benjamin Lyngfelt,Torgrim Solstad
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027233608

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Demoting the Agent by Benjamin Lyngfelt,Torgrim Solstad Pdf

Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.

Author : Terje Wagener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110492958

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The History of Nordic Relative Clauses by Terje Wagener Pdf

This book gives an analysis of relative clauses as they evolve throughout the history of (Mainland) Scandinavian, from Ancient Nordic to Early Modern Norwegian.

Author : Werner Abraham,C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297600

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Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology by Werner Abraham,C. Jan-Wouter Zwart Pdf

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain. Special attention is given to the asymmetrical scrambling behavior of indefinites vs. definites and their semantic interpretation. Related topics are: Transitive expletive sentences, types of existential sentences with either BE or HAVE, the that-trace phenomenon and its semantics, negative polarity items, ellipsis and gapping, passivization, double negation — all of which have extensive effects both on distributional behavior and semantic disambiguation, reaching far beyond effects observable in English with its rigid, ‘un-scrambable’ word order.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255242

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Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax by Artemis Alexiadou Pdf

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.

Author : Jorunn Hetland,Valéria Molnár
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110949483

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Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations by Jorunn Hetland,Valéria Molnár Pdf

The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typological characterisation of languages as to discourse configurationality. The investigation of grammatical relations includes the interplay between syntactic functions, morphological case and thematic structure, and the study of the functional and formal complexity of passive in Germanic languages.

Author : Martin Hilpert,Jan-Ola Östman,Christine Mertzlufft,Michael Rießler,Janet Duke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110267938

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New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics by Martin Hilpert,Jan-Ola Östman,Christine Mertzlufft,Michael Rießler,Janet Duke Pdf

This book offers a survey of current work in Nordic and General Linguistics, with a special focus on language contact. The papers in this book were presented at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL) in Freiburg. The ICNGL conference series aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Scandinavian and other languages, between researchers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere. The present volume focuses on language contact, which has always been a topic of great interest in Nordic Linguistics. Additionally, the contributions in this book address issues of phonology, morpho-syntax, syntax, and grammaticalization. The book is meant to be a snapshot of Nordic Linguistics as it is practiced today, reflecting at the same time its established research traditions as well as its forages into new methodologies and theories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historical linguistics
ISBN : UVA:X030046604

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Folia Linguistica Historica by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita,Hiroshi Hasegawa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287687

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Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals by John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita,Hiroshi Hasegawa Pdf

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as English, German, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which are descended from the so-called Proto-Germanic language, and their clarification with regard to linguistic universals provided by the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar. In order to fulfill this aim, the project has to be responsive to theoretical advances in a variety of linguistic domains and approaches, such as language acquisition, pragmatics and corpus linguistics as well as philological and historical contributions on Germanic languages in various stages of their development. The present book seeks to advance these goals in ten chapters exemplifying work on a wide range of Germanic languages and linguistic universals. It is divided into three parts: Part 1. Old English and Germanic languages; Part 2. Generative Grammar; and Part 3. Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals will be of general interest to linguists who seek to understand the nature of the Germanic languages and the relationships obtaining between them.

Author : John McWhorter,Professor of Linguistics John McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195309805

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Language Interrupted by John McWhorter,Professor of Linguistics John McWhorter Pdf

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Author : Peter Ackema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255747

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Comparative Germanic Syntax by Peter Ackema Pdf

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and 'do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.

Author : Werner Abraham,Larisa Leisiö
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229809

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Passivization and Typology by Werner Abraham,Larisa Leisiö Pdf

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative, perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, modern structuralist approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, cognitive semantics, Distributed Morphology, and case grammar have been applied by the different authors.

Author : Peter Petr?
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199373406

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Constructions and Environments by Peter Petr? Pdf

This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petr? analyzes: ? The mysterious loss of the high-frequency verb weor?an 'become' as a casualty of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. ? The merger of is 'is' and bi? 'shall be, is generally' into a single suppletive verb, and how it is related to the development of a general analytic future shall be. ? The co-occurrence of multiple changes that led to become and wax crossing a threshold of similarity with existing copulas, from which they analogically adopted full productivity in one fell swoop. In explaining each of these changes, Petr? goes beyond the level of the verb and its complements, drawing attention to analogical networks and the importance of a verb's embeddedness in clausal and textual environments. Using a radically usage-based approach, treating syntax as emerging from (changing) frequencies, Petr? draws attention to general principles of constructional change, including but not limited to grammaticalization and lexicalization. He proposes novel parallelisms between linguistic and ecological evolution. Going beyond the view of language change as propagating only in social interaction, Petr? explains how each individual's mental grammar can be seen as a dynamic ecosystem with hierarchical environments (clausal niches, textual habitats). In this view, the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated changes, itself resulting from cognitive economy principles, is arguably more decisive in lexical change than is functional competition.

Author : Mate Kapović,Anna Giacalone Ramat,Paolo Ramat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317391531

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The Indo-European Languages by Mate Kapović,Anna Giacalone Ramat,Paolo Ramat Pdf

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent. Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in-depth discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic features of the Indo-European languages. This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, but also for more experienced researchers looking for an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development.