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Author : Christiane Fellbaum,Anne Zribi-Hertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015014987500
Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401203784
This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction. On a more abstract level, it combines the corpus-based description of mediopassive constructions with cognitive linguistic models, drawing largely on notions such as ‘prototype’, ‘family resemblances’, ‘patch’ and ‘construction’. The theoretical modelling is largely based on data from real texts. These come from publicly available machine-readable corpora, text-databases and a single-register ‘corpus’ (American mail-order catalogues). The study combines the corpus-based approach with cognitive theories and is therefore of interest to both empirical and theoretical linguists.
Author : Markus Steinbach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297556
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enables the author to offer a unified analysis of the middle, the anticausative and the reflexive interpretations. Furthermore, the crucial distinction between structural and oblique case forms is discussed and it is illustrated how specific properties of middle constructions such as adverbial modification or subject responsibility can be related to the generic interpretation of middle constructions.
Author : Linda Joyce Manney
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723051X
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees.
Author : Don Montague
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203475430
This dual-language dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms in both French and English, covering architecture, building, engineering and property terms. It meets the needs of all building professionals working on projects overseas. It has been comprehensively researched and compiled to provide an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace.
Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853596329
This study examines changes in the first language of people who know a second language. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition and syntax.
Author : P. Monteau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785996400
Author : Paul Boucher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027264183
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator with dozens of exercises in analyzing and translating French along with detailed corrections. Organized in three sections – Structure, Perspective and Coherence – the handbook first explores French word formation and syntax, then moves on to the use of tense and aspect, illocution and speech styles in various text types. Finally, problems concerning textual coherence and cohesion in both languages are discussed: anaphora and ellipsis, relevance and equivalence and information structure. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings for further discussion and a detailed glossary at the end of the book explains all technical terms used. The handbook is designed to be used either as a textbook or for individuals working at home.
Author : Vincent Torrens,Linda Escobar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253019
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturation of general principles universal to all languages. They all depart from the view that language acquisition can be explained in terms of learning language specific rules, constraints or structures. The different parts into which this volume is organized reflect different approaches that current research has offered, which deal with issues of development of reflexive pronouns, determiners, clitics, verbs, auxiliaries, Inflection, wh-movement, rssumptive pronouns, topic and focus, mood, the syntax/discourse interface, topic and focus, and null arguments.
Author : Diane Litchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 1874687501
Author : Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249715
This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.
Author : Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255099
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : North Holland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : IND:30000011367715
Author : John Charles Smith,Martin Maiden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236258
This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to the view that Romance Linguistics is not narrowly philological, but is rather General Linguistics practised with reference to particular data. The point has been made many times, but is worth reiterating, that Latin and the Romance languages offer an unrivalled wealth of synchronic and historical documentation, and provide both a stimulus and a test-bed for ideas about language structure, language change, and language variation. Many of the papers in this volume can be interpreted simultaneously as using the analytical tools of linguistic theory to illuminate the structure of individual Romance languages or of the family as a whole, and as using Romance data to throw light on general problems in linguistic theory, or on the structure of languages beyond Romance. Specific areas covered include: prosodic domains; quantification; agreement; the prepositional accusative; clitic pronouns; voice and aspect.
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.