Pragmatics Of Word Order Flexibility

Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
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Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285904

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For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of “basic”, with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.

Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229052

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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility by Doris L. Payne Pdf

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.

Author : Giuliano Bernini,Marcia L. Schwartz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892222

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Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe by Giuliano Bernini,Marcia L. Schwartz Pdf

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

Author : Eniko Nemeth,Károly Bibok
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474267

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Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning by Eniko Nemeth,Károly Bibok Pdf

Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, namely lexical pragmatics, is emerging. The eleven papers of the present book constitute a unit in the sense that they have a common aim: to explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. The authors examine phenomena such as productive sense extension, regular polysemy, multifunctionality, implicit arguments and predicates, and non-typical anaphoric pronouns, on the basis of linguistic data, for instance, from English, Norwegian, Russian, and Hungarian, as well as using a great variety of frameworks (optimality framework, two-level semantics, the theory of generative lexicon, cognitive grammar, Gricean theory, and relevance theory.

Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110847284

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The Pragmatics of Word Order by Doris L. Payne Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Pamela A. Downing,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284945

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Word Order in Discourse by Pamela A. Downing,Michael Noonan Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.

Author : Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027237200

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Stability, Variation, and Change of Word-order Patterns Over Time by Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy Pdf

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or 'harmonies' of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and among Indo-European Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Dusseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.

Author : Michael Hammond,Edith A. Moravcsik,Jessica R. Wirth
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228918

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Studies in Syntactic Typology by Michael Hammond,Edith A. Moravcsik,Jessica R. Wirth Pdf

The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations, and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of great interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004643253

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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298799

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics by Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : Mike Darnell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230447

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: General papers by Mike Darnell Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : Patrick Blackburn,Chiara Ghidini,Roy M. Turner,Fausto Giunchiglia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540449584

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Modeling and Using Context by Patrick Blackburn,Chiara Ghidini,Roy M. Turner,Fausto Giunchiglia Pdf

The refereed proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2003, held in Stanford, CA, USA in June 2003. The 31 full papers and 15 short papers presented were carefully reviewed, selected, and revised for inclusion in the book. The papers presented deal with the interdisciplinary topic of modeling and using context from various points of view, ranging through cognitive science, formal logic, artifical intelligence, computational intelligence, philosophical and psychological aspects, and information processing. Highly general philosophical and theoretical issues are complemented by specific applications in various fields.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285713

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Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H. Jucker Pdf

Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new theoretical framework that integrates recent advances both in pragmatics and in historical linguistics. The volume, which contains 22 original articles, starts with an introduction that is both a state-of-the-art account of historical pragmatics and a programmatic statement of its future potential and its different subfields. Part I contains seven pragmaphilological papers that deal with historical texts and their interpretations by paying close attention to the communicative context of these texts. The second and third parts comprise papers in diachronic pragmatics. The ten papers of part II take a linguistic form as their starting point, e.g. particular lexical items or syntactic constructions, and study their pragmatic functions at different times (diachronic form-to-function mappings), while the four papers of part III take a particular pragmatic function as their starting point, e.g. discourse strategies or politeness, and study their linguistic realisation at different times (diachronic function-to-form mappings).

Author : Theodore B. Fernald,Paul Platero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195119473

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The Athabaskan Languages by Theodore B. Fernald,Paul Platero Pdf

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms.

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521872140

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Word Order by Jae Jung Song Pdf

A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research, this comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks - linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based theories.