Pseudo Coordination And Multiple Agreement Constructions

Author : Giuliana Giusti,Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro,Daniel Ross
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111248998

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Romance motion verbs in language change by Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger Pdf

Author : Marc-Olivier Hinzelin,Natascha Pomino,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110719154

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Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax by Marc-Olivier Hinzelin,Natascha Pomino,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192643810

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Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony by Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Author : Andreas Trotzke,Xavier Villalba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192644640

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Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks by Andreas Trotzke,Xavier Villalba Pdf

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. Research on the language-emotion interface has to date concentrated primarily on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via language, with semantic and pragmatic studies dominating the field. The chapters in this book, in contrast, bring together work from different linguistic frameworks: generative syntax, functional and usage-based linguistics, formal semantics and pragmatics, and experimental phonology. The volume contributes to the growing field of research that explores the interaction between linguistic expressions and the 'expressive dimension' of language, and will be of interest to linguists from a range of theoretical backgrounds who are interested in the language-emotion interface.

Author : Prashant Pardeshi,Taro Kageyama
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514077

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Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics by Prashant Pardeshi,Taro Kageyama Pdf

The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions—Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics—and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field.

Author : Zheng Shen,Sabine Laszakovits
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540389

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The size of things II by Zheng Shen,Sabine Laszakovits Pdf

This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. This Volume II discusses size effects in movement, agreement, and interpretation while the contributions in Volume I focus on size and structure building. Part I of Volume II investigates how size interacts with head movement and various phrasal movement including left branch extraction, object shift, tough movement, and multiple wh movement. Part II of this volume discusses the role size plays in agreement and morphology-related matters like allomorphy. Contributions in Part III focus on semantic-oriented issues, in particular the size of reference domains and NPI licensing. The languages covered in this volume include American Sign Language, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and various other Slavic languages, German, Icelandic, dialects of Italian, Japanese, Nancowry, Panoan languages, and Tamil.

Author : Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110692099

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Associated Motion by Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Pdf

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Author : Mark Andrew De Vos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122452530

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The Syntax of Verbal Pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans by Mark Andrew De Vos Pdf

Author : Dominique Sportiche,Hilda Koopman,Edward Stabler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118470473

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An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory by Dominique Sportiche,Hilda Koopman,Edward Stabler Pdf

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offersbeginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction toour current understanding of the rules and principles that governthe syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as‘practice’ boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitateunderstanding of both the ‘hows’ and the‘whys’ of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structuresin a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of theworkings of language – the principles and processes behindthe structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntacticresearch, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideasand theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts insyntactic theory

Author : Ludovico Franco,Mihaela Marchis Moreno,Matthew Reeve
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102006

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Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domains by Ludovico Franco,Mihaela Marchis Moreno,Matthew Reeve Pdf

This book explores the Agree operation and its morphological realisations (agreement and case), specifically focusing on the connection between Agree and other syntactic dependencies such as movement, binding and control. The chapters in this volume examine a diverse set of cross-linguistic phenomena involving agreement and case from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with a view to elucidating the nature of the abstract operations that underlie them. The phenomena discussed include backward control, passivisation, progressive aspectual constructions, extraction from nominals, possessives, relative clauses and the phasal status of PPs.

Author : Jackie Nordström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288608

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Modality and Subordinators by Jackie Nordström Pdf

This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and that and if depending on the speaker’s and/or the subject’s certainty of the truth of the proposition.

Author : Gregory D. S. Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191535642

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Auxiliary Verb Constructions by Gregory D. S. Anderson Pdf

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework. The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchers in language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295248

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Coordinating Constructions by Martin Haspelmath Pdf

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nêlêmwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.

Author : A. Butler,E. Mathieu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230501607

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The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions by A. Butler,E. Mathieu Pdf

Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.