The Diachrony Of Verb Meaning

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351719025

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The Diachrony of Verb Meaning by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author’s previous body of work and new research, the book explores the complex dynamic between linguistic structures, morphosyntactic and semantics, and the conceptual domain of meaning, employing a consistent theoretical treatment for analyzing different classes of predicates. Building on this analysis, each chapter connects the implications of these findings from diachronic change with data from language acquisition, offering a unique perspective on the faculty of language and the cognitive system. In bringing together a unique combination of theoretical approaches to provide an in-depth analysis of the history of diachronic change in verb meaning, this book is a key resource to researchers in historical linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and the history of English.

Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110399943

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Diachrony of Verb Morphology by Martine Robbeets Pdf

This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.

Author : Marion Elenbaas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114844504

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The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination by Marion Elenbaas Pdf

Author : Olga Miseska Tomic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110862010

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Markedness in synchrony and diachrony by Olga Miseska Tomic Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Bettelou Los
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107012639

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Morphosyntactic Change by Bettelou Los Pdf

Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only be separated by a direct object, but in Dutch the two parts can be separated over a much longer distance. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? How can we make sense of them in modern theories of language structure? This book sets out to answer these and other questions, explaining how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443818100

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Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony by Nikolaos Lavidas Pdf

Τhis book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in causative verbs and transitivity alternations, based on data mainly from the Greek and English diachrony (all historical data are transcribed and accompanied by glosses and translations into Modern English). Data from earlier periods provide new information on burning questions in both Historical and Theoretical Linguistics. The study shows that (a) causativisations are the result of reanalysis of intransitive verbs as transitive on the basis of the linguistic cue of Case; (b) the changes in voice morphology do not depend on the derivation and direction of new transitivity alternations. Finally, the study demonstrates that the generalisation that guides the changes in voice demands morphological differentiation of the anticausative from the passive types.

Author : Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701470

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The Diachrony of Ditransitives by Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli Pdf

While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.

Author : Ayumi Miura
Publisher : Oxford Studies in the History
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199947157

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Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions by Ayumi Miura Pdf

Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. This book tackles this under-discussed question in one of the most popular topics of English historical syntax, with special reference to verbs of emotion in Middle English.

Author : Yolanda Fernández-Pena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000282009

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Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects by Yolanda Fernández-Pena Pdf

This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change. This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

Author : Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271815

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Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs by Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman Pdf

This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages. The analyses of the structural changes and the interchange between the different grammatical categories that cause them which are presented in the chapters of this volume yield astonishing results. The diachronic perspective combined with a comparative approach provides profound knowledge of the typology of the verb and other typological issues and will serve researchers, as well as advanced and beginning of linguistics students in a way that has rarely been encountered before.

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004446793

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Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar by Martin Hilpert Pdf

In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268884

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The Diachrony of Grammar by T. Givón Pdf

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit theoretical perspective – adaptive, developmental, variationist. Taken as a whole, this work constitutes a frontal assault on Ferdinand de Saussure's corrosive legacy in linguistics. Over the years, reviewers slapped the author's wrist periodically for having dared to commit that most heinous of sins against de Saussure's hallowed legacy – panchronic grammar. In this work he pleads guilty, having never seen a piece of synchronic data that didn't reek, to high heaven, of the diachrony that gave it rise. Reek in two distinct ways: first with the frozen relics of the past that prompt us to reconstruct prior diachronic states; and second with the synchronic variation that hints at ongoing change. Conversely, the author confesses to having never seen a diachronic explanation that did not hinge on the synchronic principles – Carnap's general propositions – that govern language behavior. The synchrony and diachrony of grammar are twin faces of the same coin. To study one without the other is to gut both. By understanding how synchronic grammars come into being we also understand the cognitive, communicative, neurological and developmental universals that constrain diachronic change – and through it synchronic typology.

Author : Yolanda Fernández-Pena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000281965

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Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects by Yolanda Fernández-Pena Pdf

This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change. This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

Author : John A. Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066813

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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb by John A. Cook Pdf

In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his approach is distinguished from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. As with almost any of the world’s verbal systems, this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the author has come to frame his discussion not with the central question of “Tense or Aspect?” but with the question “What is the range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range in relation to a general meaning for the form?” In chap. 4 Cook addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions. He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew. These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook’s work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to provoke dialogue and new research.

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,Jacqueline Visconti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269881

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The Diachrony of Negation by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,Jacqueline Visconti Pdf

Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive nature. Such issues are at the heart of the present volume, which presents a twofold contribution. The first part offers a mix of large-scale typological surveys and in-depth investigation of the evolution of negation in individual languages and language families that have not frequently been studied from this point of view, such as Chinese, Berber, Quechua, and Austronesian languages. The second part centers on French, a language whose early stages are comparatively richly documented and which therefore provides an important test case for hypotheses about the diachrony of negative marking. Representing, moreover, a variety of theoretical approaches, the volume will be of interest to researchers on negation, language change, and typology.