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Serbian Clitics

Author : Jasmina Milićević
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254641

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Serbian Clitics by Jasmina Milićević Pdf

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that characterizes “well-behaved” words, clitics prosodically depend on a stressed sentence element, called their host, which makes them look and, in some contexts, behave like affixes (parts of words). Some clitics, Serbian second-position clitics being the case in point, also obey stringent linear ordering rules, different from those holding for fully-fledged sentence elements. This monograph offers a comprehensive formalized description of second-position clitics in standard Serbian from the viewpoint of the Meaning-Text theory, an approach relying on syntactic dependencies and oriented towards speech production, which sets it apart from most contemporary frameworks. It will be of interest for general linguists, Slavists, and advanced learners of Serbian.

Dependency in Linguistic Description

Author : Alain Polguère,Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205780

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Dependency in Linguistic Description by Alain Polguère,Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk Pdf

The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their recognition are formulated, and all possible combinations are discussed in some detail. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of the general theory in two specific domains: establishing the system of Surface-Syntactic Relations in French and linear positioning of clitics in Serbian. Thirdly, it presents a formal sketch of Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar modelled in terms of syntactic dependencies.

Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language

Author : Žižka, Jan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466686915

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Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language by Žižka, Jan Pdf

Language—that is, oral or written content that references abstract concepts in subtle ways—is what sets us apart as a species, and in an age defined by such content, language has become both the fuel and the currency of our modern information society. This has posed a vexing new challenge for linguists and engineers working in the field of language-processing: how do we parse and process not just language itself, but language in vast, overwhelming quantities? Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language compiles and reviews the most prominent linguistic theories into a single source that serves as an essential reference for future solutions to one of the most important challenges of our age. This comprehensive publication benefits an audience of students and professionals, researchers, and practitioners of linguistics and language discovery. This book includes a comprehensive range of topics and chapters covering digital media, social interaction in online environments, text and data mining, language processing and translation, and contextual documentation, among others.

Morphology and Its Demarcations

Author : Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027247781

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Morphology and Its Demarcations by Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology. The external demarcation between syntax and morphology is dealt with in the papers by Rood, Cysouw, Milicevic, Blom, Enrique-Arias, and Heine & König. Demarcations of inflection and derivation are discussed in the contributions by Ricca, Lloret, Manova, Say, Žaucer, and Stump. In contrast to theoretical discussions in previous literature, which have concentrated on the internal boundary between inflection and derivation, this volume attributes equal importance to the demarcations between derivation and compounding, addressed in the contributions by Bauer, Booij, Štekauer, Fradin, Amiot, and Scalise, Bisetto & Guevara.

Clitics

Author : Andrew Spencer,Ana R. Luis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521682923

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Clitics by Andrew Spencer,Ana R. Luis Pdf

In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages clitics obey quite separate rules of placement. This book is the first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties, their uses, the reasons why they are of interest to linguists and the various theoretical approaches that have been proposed for them. The book describes a whole host of clitic systems and presents data from over 100 languages.

Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling

Author : Lambertus Christiaan Jozef Barbiers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848550209

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Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling by Lambertus Christiaan Jozef Barbiers Pdf

Contains seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling. This work provides an overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested and of the theoretical analyses available. It discusses the syntactic doubling phenomena including, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, clitic doubling and auxiliary doubling.

Clitics in the wild

Author : Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540327

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Clitics in the wild by Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz Pdf

This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.

The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian

Author : Bruno Jurilj
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638828505

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The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian by Bruno Jurilj Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: gut (2,0), Free University of Berlin (JFK Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Parameters: typology and variation, language: English, abstract: This paper is offers a short overview of the basic evidence on clitics in Serbian/Croatian. Serbian/Croatian is a language with a virtualy free word order due to ist rich morphological heritage in form of inflections for case, gender and tense marking. In this paper, I am basically concerned with a major exception to this general rule- the position of clitics. Serbo-Croat (nowdays formally divided into three standard languages Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) has a rich system of clitic forms, including Dative and Accusative pronominal clitics; verbal clitics; which are unstressed forms of finite auxiliary verbs; and the interrogative marker “li“. On the course of this paper I will confront some opposing paradigmas on the rules underlying the structural positon of clitics within the syntax of Serbian/Croatian. .

Clitics in the wild

Author : Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher ,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103362

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Clitics in the wild by Zrinka Kolaković,Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher ,Björn Hansen,Dušica Filipović Đurđević,Nataša Fritz Pdf

This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.

The Morphosyntax-phonology Connection

Author : Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210304

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The Morphosyntax-phonology Connection by Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih Pdf

The contributions included in this volume arise from the Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface, which took place at Stanford University on 12-14 October 2012.

Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages

Author : Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255136

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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages by Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski Pdf

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

New Directions in Language Acquisition

Author : Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443821834

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New Directions in Language Acquisition by Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.

Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features

Author : Olga M. Tomic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402044885

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Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features by Olga M. Tomic Pdf

This book discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. It contains a wealth of Balkan linguistic material. The focus is on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of individual languages.

Experiments at the Interfaces

Author : Jeffrey Runner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780523750

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Experiments at the Interfaces by Jeffrey Runner Pdf

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III, forthcoming 2022), history (IV, forthcoming 2023), life and practice (V, forthcoming 2025), index and remaining issues (VI, forthcoming 2026). Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world’s foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism. An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia’s ever-growing corpus of information. The online edition of volume 2 (Lives, publ. 2019) will be added in (mid-)2021, with further volumes following after their original publication in print. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.

Semantics

Author : Igor Mel’čuk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268969

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Semantics by Igor Mel’čuk Pdf

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the Meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep-Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, the present volume closes the publication of the three volume series. It discusses in detail several linguistic notions crucial to the development of Meaning-Text models of natural languages: semantic and syntactic actants, government pattern, lexical functions, linguistic connotations, phrasemes, the meaning of grammatical cases, and linguistic dependencies. The notions under analysis are illustrated from a variety of languages. Reflecting the author’s life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences, whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.