The Licensing Of Nominal And Verbal Ellipsis In Romanian

Author : ALEXANDRU NICOLAE
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9786061611447

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THE LICENSING OF NOMINAL AND VERBAL ELLIPSIS IN ROMANIAN by ALEXANDRU NICOLAE Pdf

“The book is impressive through: (a) the general theoretical framework, well mastered, and by the global theoretical results; (b) the results related to the manifestation of ellipsis in Romanian, highlighting the specific features of Romanian within Romance and non-Romance languages; (c) the descriptive and theoretical results of the two sorts of ellipsis and the relation established between them; (d) several sections of convincing monographs regarding the syntax of Romanian; (e) many other detailed results which can be taken over as such, as they represent solutions to certain thorny problems in the Romanian grammar; (f) the ability to cover and master very diverse bibliographic references, and to critically comment on them; (g) the capacity to accommodate the old Romanian bibliography with the novel theoretical information; (h) the ability to use the diachronic information in order to support and account for certain interpretations and analyses.” (Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy)

Author : Gabriela Alboiu,Daniela Isac,Alexandru Nicolae
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9786061613557

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A Life in Linguistics by Gabriela Alboiu,Daniela Isac,Alexandru Nicolae Pdf

Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.

Author : Alexandru Nicolae
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192534279

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Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian by Alexandru Nicolae Pdf

The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of the Balkan Sprachbund and the influence of Old Church Slavonic. Alexandru Nicolae's analysis is based on a qualitative and quantitative examination of a large number of phenomena in a representative corpus of old Romanian texts. Some of these phenomena, such as scrambling, interpolation, discontinuous constituents, and variation in the position and linearization of DP-internal adjectival modifiers, are found across Romance, while others, such as the low position for pronominal cliticization, are relatively rare. Still others are specific to old and modern Romanian, such as the proclitic and enclitic realization of the same pronominal clitic, the low definite article, and the adjectival article construction. From an empirical perspective, the volume fills a gap in the Romance linguistics literature, as several of the phenomena it explores have been largely neglected to date. More broadly it offers a valuable contribution to research into word order typology and change, the nature and content of syntactic parameters, and the theory of grammaticalization and syntactic change.

Author : Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110311860

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Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance by Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel Pdf

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

Author : Gabriela Panã Dindelegan,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199644926

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The Grammar of Romanian by Gabriela Panã Dindelegan,Martin Maiden Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive grammar in English of present-day standard Romanian. It is an indispensable resource for Romance linguists, from advanced undergraduate level and above.

Author : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110135418

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The Syntax of Romanian by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198712350

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The Syntax of Old Romanian by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century, the date of the earliest attested Romanian texts, and the end of the eighteenth century, generally considered to mark the start of the modernization of Romanian. Gabriela Pan&a Dindelegan and her co-authors adopt both a synchronic and diachronic approach by providing a detailed corpus analysis in a given period, while also comparing old and modern Romanian. They examine the evolution of a variety of syntactic phenomena, including the elimination or diminishing of certain facts or generalization of others, the total or partial grammaticalization of phenomena, competition between structures, and cases of syntactic variation. The book takes a typological and comparative perspective, focusing on those phenomena that are considered specific to Romanian (either on the Romance or in the Balkan area), and adopts a modern framework while still remaining accessible to readers from any background.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079657410

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexandra Galani,Glyn Hicks,George Tsoulas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255617

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Morphology and Its Interfaces by Alexandra Galani,Glyn Hicks,George Tsoulas Pdf

One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227675

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Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns by Phoevos Panagiotidis Pdf

Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical expressions can be given a unified syntactic representation. The answer, derived from a wealth of cross-linguistic evidence, is largely affirmative: pronominals include a semantically empty noun as part of their internal structure. The case of null subjects in 'pro-drop' languages is also examined and it is argued that they are not empty pronominal categories but, rather, the reflex of a 'verbal determiner'. Finally, using the internal structure of pronouns as a sort of 'litmus paper', the book explores the relationship between functional and lexical heads as well as the notions of selection and licensing in syntax, and offers new insights into the categorial status of functional categories.

Author : Jason Merchant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Extraction (Linguistics).
ISBN : 0199243735

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The Syntax of Silence by Jason Merchant Pdf

A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning correspondence breaks down completely in the case of ellipsis, and yet various forms of ellipsis are pervasive in natural language:words and phrases which should be in the linguistic signal go missing. How this should be possible is the focus of Jason Merchant's investigation. He focuses on the form of ellipsis known as sluicing, a common feature of interrogative clauses, such as in 'Sally's out hunting - guess what!'; and'Someone called, but I can't tell you who'. It is the most frequently found cross-linguistic form of ellipsis. Dr Merchant studies the phenomenon across twenty-four languages, and attempts to explain it in linguistic and behavioural terms.

Author : András Bárány,Laura Kalin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110666236

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Case, Agreement, and their Interactions by András Bárány,Laura Kalin Pdf

Differential argument marking has been a hot topic in linguistics for several decades, both because it is cross-linguistically widespread and because it raises essential questions at multiple levels of grammar, including the relationship between abstract processes and overt morphological marking, between case and agreement, and between syntax and information structure. This volume provides an introduction into the current state of the art of research on differential case marking and chapters by leading linguists addressing theoretical questions in a wide range of typologically and geographically diverse languages from the Indo-European, Sinitic, Turkic, and Uralic families. The chapters engage with current theoretical issues in the morphology, syntax, semantics, and processing of differential argument marking. A central issue addressed by all the authors is the adequacy of various theoretical approaches in modelling (different varieties of) differential case marking, such as those determined by topicality, those driven by cumulative factors, and those that involve double marking. The volume will be of interest to students and researchers working on cross-linguistic variation in differential marking and its theoretical modelling.

Author : Luis Lopez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262304702

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Indefinite Objects by Luis Lopez Pdf

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis López presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; López links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the latter yielding the interpretation. The polyvalent behavior of indefinites has long been explored by linguists who have been interested in their syntax, semantics, and case morphology, and López's contribution can be seen as a synthesis of findings from several traditions. He argues, first, that scrambled indefinite objects are composed by means of Function Application preceded by Choice Function while objects in situ are composed by means of Restrict. This difference yields the different interpretive possibilities of indefinite objects. López's more nuanced approach to the syntax-semantics interface turns out to be rich in empirical consequences. Second, he proposes that short scrambling also yields Differential Marking, provided that context conditions are fulfilled, while in situ objects remain unmarked. Thus, López contributes to the extensive literature on Differential Object Marking by showing that syntactic configuration is a crucial factor. López substantiates this approach with data from Spanish, Hindi-Urdu, Persian (Farsi), Kiswahili, Romanian, and German.

Author : Carlo Cecchetto,Caterina Donati
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262028721

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(Re)labeling by Carlo Cecchetto,Caterina Donati Pdf

This book owes its title to a simple idea: words are special because they can provide a label for nothing when they merge with some other category. An exemplification of this special power of words is introduced by the familiar head-complement configurations. For example, the structure that is created when a verb and a direct object DP are merged receives a label from the verb, namely it is a VP. One idea that unifies the linguistic analyses presented in this book is that a word can provide the label even in case of movement.