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Author : Jong-Bok Kim,Laura A. Michaelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108470339
With exercises based on real language data, this volume gives a comprehensive introduction to construction grammar, focusing on English.
Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,Emma Moore,Linda van Bergen,Willem B. Hollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108419567
Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Author : David Denison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887683
This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important changes in English sentence structure from Old English to present. It also features a survey of published research from both classical and modern linguistic traditions, as well as new research by the author. Provides guidance on methodology, important reference materials, and the general history of the English language.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112316009
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Author : Jim Miller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748633623
REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key FeaturesCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided.
Author : David M. Perlmutter,Scott Soames
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520038282
[This book] presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly written, it is an invaluable resource for working linguists as well as a pedagogical tool of unequaled depth and breadth. The chief focus of the book is syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals. It includes a wide variety of problems that guide the reader in constructing arguments deciding between alternative analyses of syntactic constructions and alternative theoretical formulations. -- Back cover.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198299540
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Author : Flor Aarts,Jan M. G. Aarts
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106016991280
Author : Marina Gorlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027215618
Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up? Is there any difference in the messages each of these alternative forms sends? If there isn't, why bother to keep both? On the other hand, is there any semantic similarity between eat the apple up and break the glass to pieces? This study takes a fresh look at a still controversial issue of phrasal verbs and their alternate word order applying sign-oriented theory and methodology. Unlike other analyses, it asserts that there is a semantic distinction between the two word order variants phrasal verbs may appear in. In order to test this distinction, the author analyzes a large corpus of data and also uses translation into a language having a clear morphological distinction between resultative/non-resultative forms (Russian). As follows from the analysis, English has morphological and syntactic tools to express resultative meaning, which allows suggesting a new lexico-grammatical category resultativeness.
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675869
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027225801
This new edition of "Syntax: A functional-typological introduction" is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and pragmatic correlates of syntactic structure. With hindsight the author now finds the de-emphasis of the formal properties a somewhat regrettable choice, since it creates the false impression that one could somehow be a functionalist without being at the same time a structuralist. To redress the balance, explicit treatment is given to the core formal properties of syntactic constructions, such as constituency and hierarchy (phrase structure), grammatical relations and relational control, clause union, finiteness and governed constructions. At the same time, the cognitive and communicative underpinning of grammatical universals are further elucidated and underscored, and the interplay between grammar, cognition and neurology is outlined. Also the relevant typological database is expanded, now exploring in greater precision the bounds of syntactic diversity. Lastly, Syntax treats synchronic-typological diversity more explicitly as the dynamic by-product of diachronic development or grammaticalization. In so doing a parallel is drawn between linguistic diversity and diachrony on the one hand and biological diversity and evolution on the other. It is then suggested that as in biology synchronic universals of grammar are exercised and instantiated primarily as constraints on development, and are thus merely the apparent by-products of universal constraints on grammaticalization.
Author : Keith Brown,James Edward Miller
Publisher : Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language: Advanced
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English language
ISBN : 0748696105
Tackling the role of syntactic constructions, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of clausal structures in written and spoken texts. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.
Author : D. Connor Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0582210127
This book adopts a distinctively new approach to a major area of syntax - the way in which adjectives are bound together with other words in phrases or sentences. Connor Ferris argues first, that syntactic constructions do not exist simply as formal abstract grammatical structure, but directly reflect the speaker's cognitive system; second, that apart from the meanings attached to words, any phrase or sentence contains a quite different kind of meaning, virtually unexplored hitherto, which is directly tied to syntactic patterns in which words occur. The author proposes a set of basic pattern meanings, and states clearly how they are expressed in the various adjectival constructions of English. The book gives a comprehensive account of the semantic grammar of English adjectives and explains why these precisely form the set of adjective constructions that are found in English. Using numerous examples from contemporary language, it is shown how interaction between the relational meaning of a construction and the word meaning of an adjective which it contains can enable us to predict in some detail when a sentence will be grammatical and when not, and what sort of meaning it will bear. Written in a lively and readable style, this book will be essential reading for all students of English Language and Linguistics, both those with English as their first language, and those who are learning it as a foreign language.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780595283156
For the educated, this book is an invaluable resource, one that allows for easy reference to any grammatical concept imaginable. the book gives thousands of examples, but it also provides explicit reasoning why we should speak and write following certain patterns. Don't feel like studying for hours to learn a concept? Look here for the diagrams you need to understand why things go where they go in a sentence. Did he act foolish? OR Did he act foolishly? Both answers are here. If you are in college, grad school, or simply interested, you decide what you want to know-your answers are here. Written by two professors who hate to condescend but love to teach, English Grammar and Syntax cuts through the pedantic wasteland.
Author : Keith Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748696093
A descriptive and comprehensive account of English syntax and grammarTackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years.Encyclopedic format gives immediate access the most relevant topicCross-referencing allows students to follow a thread and explore the interrelationships between syntactic structuresInnovative structure of the volume enables lecturers to decide the order in which they wish to discuss topics and to prescribe readingThis is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.