The Parameter Of Aspect

Author : C.S. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401579117

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During the period I have been working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and the Spencer Foundation, for a stimulating environment in which the basic idea of this book was developed. The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen enabled me to spend several months working on the the manuscript. ANational Science Foundation grant to develop Discourse Representation theory, and a grant from The University Research Institute of the University of Texas, allowed me time to pursue this project. I also thank the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas for research support. I thank Helen Aristar-Dry for reading early drafts of the manuscript, Östen Dahl for penetrating remarks on a preliminary version, and my collaborator Gilbert Rappaport for relentIess comments and questions throughout. The individuals with whom I have worked on particular languages are mentioned in the relevant chapters. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the members of my graduate seminar on aspect in the spring of 1990: they raised many questions of importance which made a real difference to the working out of the theory. I have benefitted from presenting parts of this material publicly, including cOlloquia at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, the University of Texas, and the University of Tel Aviv.

Author : C.S. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401156066

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The Parameter of Aspect by C.S. Smith Pdf

This work presents a unified theory of aspect within Universal Grammar. It provides an unusual combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, and gives detailed linguistic analyses of five languages with very different aspectual systems: English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Navajo and Russian. This second edition has been completely revised to include further development of the two-component theory, including new treatments of boundedness, dynamism and a general account of aspectual shifts. It includes syntactic and semantic tests.

Author : Azita H. Taleghani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290687

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Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian by Azita H. Taleghani Pdf

This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea that the syntactic structure maps on the semantic interpretation or vice versa. The discussion presented in this monograph shows that the syntactic structure of Persian modals is uniform no matter if the modals are interpreted as having root or epistemic readings. Although it is claimed that modals are raising constructions in different languages, modals in Persian, which does not have subject-raising constructions, show a different syntactic behavior. Furthermore, the structural analysis of the interaction of Persian modals and negation shows that because of the scope interaction of negation and modals, the syntactic structure of modals with respect to negation mostly corresponds to the semantic interpretation of modals.

Author : Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402030355

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Aspectual Inquiries by Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova Pdf

The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies. However, communication and dissemination of results across these various subfields has often been indirect. This volume solves that problem. The different angles brought together here give us a comprehensive picture of the representation of aspect in the mind/brain of the speaker. The papers in this volume represent the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002 whose purpose was to foment active cross-disciplinary communication. A number of the papers examine the syntactic representation of lexical or situation aspect, while others focus on the syntactic interaction of lexical aspect with grammatical aspect, and of grammatical aspect and tense. Other papers examine the role of aspect in discourse representations, while a third group of papers reports on results of empirical studies on the acquisition of aspect in both first and second language acquisition, and patterns of loss of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect in language attrition. This volume is of interest to researchers and advanced graduate students in syntax, semantics, discourse representation and language acquisition, particularly those working on tense and aspect.

Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32435056720733

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Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Pdf

Author : Mineharu Nakayama
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501500589

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Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics by Mineharu Nakayama Pdf

The studies of the Japanese language and psycholinguistics have advanced quite significantly in the last half century thanks to the progress in the study of cognition and brain mechanisms, and because of technological developments in experimental techniques. This volume contains 18 chapters that discuss the process of Japanese language acquisition as a first/second language and the mechanism of Japanese language perception and production.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268075

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The Acquisition of the Present by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect hypothesis and the Verb-Island hypothesis Wang & Shirai) and the L1 acquisition of French from the perspective of the zero-tense hypothesis (Demirdache & Lungu). The remaining chapters tackle the L2 acquisition of English (Liszka, Al-Thubaiti, Vraciu), French (Ayoun, Saillard), Spanish (Gabriele et al.), Russian (Martelle) and Japanese (Shirai & Li) by learners of different L1s (French, English, Arabic, Chinese and Korean), testing various semantic and syntactic hypotheses. The last chapter presents a summary of the findings, and offers a few conclusions as well as broad directions for future research.

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228659

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Tense-aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies.The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including in addition to the traditional semantics also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Author : Stefanie Wulff
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441116444

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Rethinking Idiomaticity by Stefanie Wulff Pdf

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Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273611

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

Author : Yan-kit Ingrid Leung
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847691316

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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung Pdf

This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in L3 acquisition and who are at the same time working within the generative framework i.e. Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) approach to language acquisition. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.

Author : Prashant Pardeshi,Taro Kageyama
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514077

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Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics by Prashant Pardeshi,Taro Kageyama Pdf

The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions—Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics—and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field.

Author : Cristina Grisot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319967523

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Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective by Cristina Grisot Pdf

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

Author : Josep Quer,Carlo Cecchetto,Caterina Donati,Carlo Geraci,Meltem Kelepir,Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501516085

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SignGram Blueprint by Josep Quer,Carlo Cecchetto,Caterina Donati,Carlo Geraci,Meltem Kelepir,Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach Pdf

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability, and it appears scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. In general, comprehensive grammars are a rarity. The SignGram Blueprint is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systematic way, and with the highest scientific standards. The work builds on the existing knowledge in Descriptive Linguistics, but also on the insights from Theoretical Linguistics. It consists of two main parts running in parallel: the Checklist with all the grammatical features and phenomena the grammar writer can address, and the accompanying Manual with the relevant background information (definitions, methodological caveats, representative examples, tests, pointers to elicitation materials and bibliographical references). The areas covered are Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax and Meaning. The Manual is endowed with hyperlinks that connect information across the work and with a pop-up glossary. The SignGram Blueprint will be a landmark for the description of sign language grammars in terms of quality and quantity.

Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037541515

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Technical Note - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Pdf