Preferred Argument Structure

Author : John W. Du Bois,Lorraine Edith Kumpf,William J. Ashby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027226245

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Preferred Argument Structure by John W. Du Bois,Lorraine Edith Kumpf,William J. Ashby Pdf

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodology to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations, and to examine special populations or particular genres. This volume will appeal to linguists interested in the relationship of pragmatics and grammar generally, in the typology of grammatical relations, and in explanations derived from data- and corpus-based approaches to analysis.

Author : John W. Du Bois,Lorraine E. Kumpf,William J. Ashby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296139

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Preferred Argument Structure by John W. Du Bois,Lorraine E. Kumpf,William J. Ashby Pdf

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodology to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations, and to examine special populations or particular genres. This volume will appeal to linguists interested in the relationship of pragmatics and grammar generally, in the typology of grammatical relations, and in explanations derived from data- and corpus-based approaches to analysis.

Author : Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780805841947

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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure by Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown Pdf

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and comprises chapters by both specialists in first language acquisition and field linguists working on a variety of lesser-known languages. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure integrates important contemporary issues in linguistics and language acquisition.

Author : Amina Mettouchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1124744910

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Preferred Argument Structure in Taqbaylit Berber by Amina Mettouchi Pdf

Author : Martin Everaert,Marijana Marelj,Tal Siloni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602520

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The Theta System by Martin Everaert,Marijana Marelj,Tal Siloni Pdf

This book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains. Distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the theory in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.

Author : Ruth Aronson Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027234736

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Language Development Across Childhood and Adolescence by Ruth Aronson Berman Pdf

This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of later language development . Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon, syntax and verb argument structure, as well as peer interaction, spelling, processing of on-line writing, and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book, the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use.

Author : Shanley Allen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299154

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Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut by Shanley Allen Pdf

This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to English-speaking children, but consistent in age with speakers of non-Indo-European languages reported on in the literature; potential explanations of this difference include frequency of caregiver input and details of language structure. Morphological causatives appear slightly later in the acquisition sequence, and their first instances reflect use of unanalyzed routines. Lexical causatives are present from the earliest ages studied. Evidence of a period of overgeneralization of lexical causatives in one subject at the same time as the morphological causative shows signs of being productively acquired suggests that the seeming overgeneralization may reflect nothing more than as yet unstable use of the morphological causative. Noun incorporation structures are shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to Mohawk-speaking children; potential explanations of this difference include details of language structure and relative language use in the environments of the learners. Findings are considered in light of current debates in the literature concerning continuity versus maturation of grammatical structure, and concerning the functional categories available to the child at early stages of acquisition. Data presented argue against late maturation, and suggest that all functional categories may be accessed by the Inuktitut-speaking child early in the acquisition process.

Author : Edith L. Bavin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107605423

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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language by Edith L. Bavin Pdf

The best survey of the subject available, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other handbook on the market, with chapters covering both theories and methods in child language research and tracing the development of language from prelinguistic infancy to teenager. Drawing on both established and more recent research, the Handbook surveys the crosslinguistic study of language acquisition; prelinguistic development; bilingualism; sign languages; specific language impairment, language and autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. This book will be an essential reference for students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology.

Author : Jenny Dumont
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267498

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Third Person References by Jenny Dumont Pdf

This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to corpus linguistics, as many linguists are choosing to work with empirical data. Corpus based approaches have many advantages and are useful in the comparison of different languages as well as varieties of the same language, but what is often overlooked in such comparisons is the genre of language under examination. As this case study shows, genre is an important factor in interpreting patterns and distributions of forms. The book also contributes toward theories of anaphora, referentiality and Preferred Argument Structure. It is relevant for scholars who work with referentiality, genre differences, third person references, and interactional linguistics, as well as those interested in Spanish morphosyntax.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112316009

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Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky Pdf

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Author : Anita Steube
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110209303

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The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures by Anita Steube Pdf

The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man’s language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the tone language Hausa. The volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research. Within grammar, it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax-phonology interrelations and their interpretations, and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings.

Author : Jane Barbara Grimshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816832180

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Argument Structure by Jane Barbara Grimshaw Pdf

Author : William J. Ashby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254894

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On Spoken French by William J. Ashby Pdf

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two real-time studies appearing for the first time in English translation. To help readers visualize just how radically different the morphosyntax, morphophonology, and semantics of Spoken French are from French-on-the-page, the editor has developed a glossing framework, designed to capture the systemic, radically-prefixal morphology of Spoken French and the variability of change-in-progress. The model, presented here and used to gloss the examples from the Tours corpus, is also suitable for corpus-tagging. The volume is organized into sections preceded by an Editor’s note and followed by suggestions for further reading, and closes with an appendix of French corpora. This scholarly edition was written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field.

Author : Heike Behrens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290267

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Corpora in Language Acquisition Research by Heike Behrens Pdf

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for the concise explorations of formal phenomena, the quick retrieval of errors, and reliability checks. New probabilistic and connectionist computations investigate how children integrate the multiple sources of information available in the input, and new statistical methods compute rates of acquisition as well as error rates dependent on sample size. Sample analyses show how multi-modal corpora are used to investigate the interaction of discourse and linguistic structure, how cross-linguistic generalizations for acquisition can be formulated and tested, and how individual variation can be explored. Finally, ways in which corpus research interacts with computational linguistics and experimental research are presented.

Author : Thomas Herbst,Katrin Götz-Votteler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198775

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Valency by Thomas Herbst,Katrin Götz-Votteler Pdf

In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published in this volume for the first time with up-to-date accounts of language description and new reflections on language, above all for English and German. The volume also presents examples of contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines. The papers cover the following aspects of valency analysis: (i) theoretical aspects of the valency approach in relation to related theories of complementation (dependency syntax, FrameNet, case roles), (ii) descriptive aspects of valency and complementation, (iii) valency as a concept for the description of cognitive processes in syntactic processing, (iv) contrastive aspects of valency, above all for English and German, and (v) possible computational applications of the valency concept in fields such as automatic syntactic recognition or language processing. The volume combines papers of representatives from different linguistic schools on the topic of complementation. One of the aims is to show how concepts developed for the analysis of one language, in the case of valency often German, can be applied to other languages such as English.