Syntax And Morphology

Author : Lunella Mereu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284624

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Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax by Lunella Mereu Pdf

The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change. The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895491

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Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.

Author : Liliana Sánchez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255525

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The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus by Liliana Sánchez Pdf

This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.

Author : Teresa Fanego,María José López-Couso,Javier Pérez-Guerra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027247315

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English Historical Syntax and Morphology by Teresa Fanego,María José López-Couso,Javier Pérez-Guerra Pdf

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.

Author : Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521821819

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The Syntax-Morphology Interface by Matthew Baerman,Dunstan Brown,Greville G. Corbett Pdf

This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages.

Author : Tibor Kiss,Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393163

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Syntax - Theory and Analysis by Tibor Kiss,Artemis Alexiadou Pdf

This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Elson,Velma Bernice Pickett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015023452454

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An Introduction to Morphology and Syntax by Benjamin Franklin Elson,Velma Bernice Pickett Pdf

Author : Thomas Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139448666

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Exploring Language Structure by Thomas Payne Pdf

Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how to analyze the syntax and morphology of any language, by clearly describing the basic methods and techniques, and providing almost 100 practical exercises based on data from a rich variety of the world's languages. Written in an engaging style and complete with a comprehensive glossary, Exploring Language Structure explains linguistic concepts by using clear analogies from everyday life. It introduces a range of essential topics in syntax and morphology, such as rules, categories, word classes, grammatical relations, multi-clause constructions and typology. Providing a solid foundation in morphology and syntax, this is the perfect introductory text for beginning students, and will fully prepare them for more advanced courses in linguistic analysis.

Author : Brian Roark,Richard Sproat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191534515

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Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark,Richard Sproat Pdf

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice. The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free and various context-sensitive grammars. They relate approaches for describing syntax and morphology to formal mechanisms and algorithms, and present well-motivated approaches for augmenting grammars with weights or probabilities.

Author : Daniel Siddiqi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255211

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Syntax Within the Word by Daniel Siddiqi Pdf

Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph provides analyses of familiar data much of which has not been treated within the framework: argument selection, stem allomorphy and suppletion, nominal compounds in English (feet-first vs. *heads-first), and the structure of the verb phrase. This monograph also proposes a future for the theory in the form of revisions to DM including: the elimination of readjustment rules, a new economy constraint (Minimize Exponence) that triggers fusion of functional heads, and a feature blocking system.

Author : Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227362

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Morphology-driven Syntax by Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher Pdf

This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for “person” are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677092

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Linguistic Typology by Jae Jung Song Pdf

This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Author : Brian Roark,Richard Sproat,Richard William Sproat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199274772

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Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark,Richard Sproat,Richard William Sproat Pdf

"The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free, and various context-sensitive grammars.

Author : Leila Lomashvili
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255570

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Complex Predicates by Leila Lomashvili Pdf

Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the functional morphology associated with the argument structure of these constructions is unusually rich. Due to such focus, the syntax-morphology interface in causative and applicative constructions is subject to scrutiny in two main chapters of the book. The analysis includes the argument structure of causatives and applicatives along with the morpho-phonological instantiation of the functional heads involved in these constructions. The book is written very clearly and is accessible for a wide audience including undergraduate students in the introductory syntax and morphology courses as well as graduate students in basic syntax courses and seminars in linguistics. It naturally appeals to a general linguistic audience interested in theoretical linguistics.

Author : Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299192

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Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax by Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).