Syntactic Categories

Author : Gisa Rauh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191613753

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Syntactic Categories by Gisa Rauh Pdf

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains their place in different theories of language. It sets out and clarifies the conflicting definitions of competing frameworks which frequently make it hard or impossible to compare grammars. Gisa Rauh describes the history and nature of traditional and contemporary accounts and definitions of grammatical categories. She explains their properties and use in generative, cognitive, and functional theories, and considers their function in language typology. She distinguishes between the cognitive functions of categories that relate to traditional parts of speech and serve to structure a language's lexicon; and those which determine the syntactic behaviour of the linguistic items they specify. Professor Rauh illustrates her account with a wide range of examples. Her clear and balanced exposition will be welcomed by students and scholars in all branches of linguistics as well as by those in related subjects such as computational science and the philosophy of language.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226120904

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Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations by William Croft Pdf

Analiza: Metodología sintáctica y gramática universal; Bases de las "marcas" lingúísticas para las categorías sintácticas; Hacia una definición externa de las categorias sintácticas; Roles temáticos, semántica verbal y estructura causal; Marcas de casos y orden causal de participantes; Formas verbales y conceptualización de los sucesos.

Author : Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808513

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A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories by Joseph E. Emonds Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521580236

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A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories by John Mathieson Anderson Pdf

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification SH again in rather traditional vein SH to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences.

Author : David Pesetsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780262525022

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Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories by David Pesetsky Pdf

A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar. In this book, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages. Supporting his argument with a detailed analysis of a complex array of morpho-syntactic phenomena in the Russian noun phrase (with brief excursions to other languages), he proposes instead that the case categories are just part-of-speech features copied as morphology from head to dependent as syntactic structure is built. Pesetsky presents a careful investigation of one of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar, the morpho-syntax of noun phrases with numerals (including those traditionally called the paucals). He argues that these bewilderingly complex facts can be explained if case categories are viewed simply as parts of speech, assigned as morphology. Pesetsky's analysis is notable for offering a new theoretical perspective on some of the most puzzling areas of Russian grammar, a highly original account of nominal case that significantly affects our understanding of an important property of language.

Author : Ana Arregui,María Luisa Rivero,Andrés Salanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198718208

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Modality Across Syntactic Categories by Ana Arregui,María Luisa Rivero,Andrés Salanova Pdf

This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted. Chapters in the book demonstrate that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality', which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal interpretation associated with the syntactic cartography internal to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery. It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely studied sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources, and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of modality are realized across a wide range of languages.

Author : Robert Borsley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849500098

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The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories by Robert Borsley Pdf

To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052186335X

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Modern Syntax by Andrew Carnie Pdf

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented with short sections of explanation with examples, followed by practice exercises. Feedback and comment sections follow to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in syntax is assumed. Students move through all the key topics in the field including features, rules of combination and displacement, empty categories, and subcategorization. The theoretical perspective in this work is unique, drawing together the best ideas from three major syntactic frameworks (minimalism, HPSG and LFG). Students using this book will learn fundamentals in such a way that they can easily go on to pursue further study in any of these frameworks.

Author : Paul Schachter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039095497

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On Syntactic Categories by Paul Schachter Pdf

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207821

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly usage-based ?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship."

Author : Tohru Noguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Anaphora (Linguistics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016303005

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The Role of Syntactic Categories in Anaphora by Tohru Noguchi Pdf

Author : Satoshi Uehara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015034007735

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Syntactic Categories in Japanese by Satoshi Uehara Pdf

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198700237

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Syntactic Nuts by Peter W. Culicover Pdf

How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.

Author : Gheorghe Paun
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814518154

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Mathematical Aspects of Natural and Formal Languages by Gheorghe Paun Pdf

This book contains original reviews by well-known workers in the field of mathematical linguistics and formal language theory, written in honour of Professor Solomon Marcus on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Some of the papers deal with contextual grammars, a class of generative devices introduced by Marcus, motivated by descriptive linguistics. Others are devoted to grammar systems, a very modern branch of formal language theory. Automata theory and the algebraic approach to computer science are other well-represented areas. While the contributions are mathematically oriented, practical issues such as cryptography, grammatical inference and natural language processing are also discussed. Contents:Substitutions on Words and LanguagesApplications to Cryptography (A Atanasiu)Grammar Systems: A Multi-Agent Framework for Natural Language Generation (E Csuhaj-Varjú)Normal Forms for Contextual Grammars (A Ehrenfeucht et al.)Control Mechanisms on #-Context-Free Array Grammars (R Freund)On Transitive Cofinal Automata (M Ito & M Katsura)Algebraic Foundations for Montague Grammars (H Jürgensen & K Tent)A Periodic Languages and Generalizations (J Kari & G Thierrin)Matrix Grammars Versus Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (V Mihalache)Reducts Versus Reducing Operators (M Novotný)On Conditional Grammars and Conditional Petri Nets (F-L Tiplea)and other papers Readership: Computer scientists. keywords:Algebra;Array Grammar;Automaton;Chomsky Grammar;Combinatorics on Words;Cryptography;Grammar System;Marcus Grammar;Mereology;Montague Grammar;Natural Language;Petri Net

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199230174

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Natural Language Syntax by Peter W. Culicover Pdf

This book introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. Its step-by-step account covers every aspect of syntax and includes exercises and suggestions for further reading throughout.