The Polysynthesis Parameter

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199762323

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The Polysynthesis Parameter by Mark C. Baker Pdf

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather, it is a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships that is parallel to but distinct from the system used in languages like English. Having repercussions for many areas of syntax and related aspects of morphology and semantics, this argument results in a comprehensive picture of the grammar of polysynthetic languages. Baker draws on examples from Mohawk and certain languages of the American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Australia, and Siberia.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780195093087

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The Polysynthesis Parameter by Mark C. Baker Pdf

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather, it is a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships that is parallel to but distinct from the system used in languages like English. Having repercussions for many areas of syntax and related aspects of morphology and semantics, this argument results in a comprehensive picture of the grammar of polysynthetic languages. Baker draws on examples from Mohawk and certain languages of the American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Australia, and Siberia.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 6610534977

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The Polysynthesis Parameter by Mark C. Baker Pdf

Baker argues that polysynthetic languages - in which verbs are built up of many parts and where one verb can act as a whole sentence - are more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather they adopt a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships, parallel to but distinct from the system used for English.

Author : Julie Brittain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135727307

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The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb by Julie Brittain Pdf

The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program.

Author : Luis Eguren,Olga Fernandez-Soriano,Amaya Mendikoetxea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190461751

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Rethinking Parameters by Luis Eguren,Olga Fernandez-Soriano,Amaya Mendikoetxea Pdf

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a representative sample of current generative research on the status, origin and size of parameters. Often taking diverging views, the papers in the volume address some or all of the main debated topics in parametric syntax: i.e. are parameters provided by UG, or do they constitute emergent properties arising from points of underspecification?; in which component(s) of the language faculty are parameters to be found?; do clustering effects actually hold across languages?; do macroparameters exist alongside microparameters?; are there parameter hierarchies?; which is the origin and role of parameters in the process of language acquisition? The volume is organized into two parts. Part I ("The nature of variation and parameters") brings together studies whose main goal is to discuss general issues related to parameters (or variation more generally). Part II ("Parameters in the analysis of language variation: case studies") includes a number of works that deal with the empirical basis and proper formulation of well-known particular parameters: the Null Subject Parameter, the NP/DP Parameter, the Compounding Parameter, the Wh-Parameter and the Analyticity Parameter.

Author : Luis Eguren,Olga Fernandez-Soriano,Amaya Mendikoetxea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190613808

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Rethinking Parameters by Luis Eguren,Olga Fernandez-Soriano,Amaya Mendikoetxea Pdf

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a representative sample of current generative research on the status, origin and size of parameters. Often taking diverging views, the papers in the volume address some or all of the main debated topics in parametric syntax: i.e. are parameters provided by UG, or do they constitute emergent properties arising from points of underspecification?; in which component(s) of the language faculty are parameters to be found?; do clustering effects actually hold across languages?; do macroparameters exist alongside microparameters?; are there parameter hierarchies?; which is the origin and role of parameters in the process of language acquisition? The volume is organized into two parts. Part I ("The nature of variation and parameters") brings together studies whose main goal is to discuss general issues related to parameters (or variation more generally). Part II ("Parameters in the analysis of language variation: case studies") includes a number of works that deal with the empirical basis and proper formulation of well-known particular parameters: the Null Subject Parameter, the NP/DP Parameter, the Compounding Parameter, the Wh-Parameter and the Analyticity Parameter.

Author : Peter Ackema,Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191515910

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Arguments and Agreement by Peter Ackema,Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman Pdf

This book brings together new work by leading syntactic theorists from the USA and Europe on a central aspect of syntactic and morphological theory: it explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. The authors examine the differences and parallels between nonconfigurational, pronominal- agreement languages; configurational languages which allow pronoun drop (for example, "Is coming" for "He is coming"); languages that allow pronoun drop in particular constructions only; and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. The book considers whether the morphological properties of agreement play a role in determining which of these types a language belongs to and how far languages differ with respect to the argumental status of their agreement and syntactic determiner phrases. The authors explore these and related issues and problems in the context of a wide range of languages. Their book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, linguistic typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

Author : Mark C Baker
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786724567

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The Atoms Of Language by Mark C Baker Pdf

Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

Author : Daniel Siddiqi,Michael Barrie,Carrie Gillon,Jason Haugen,Eric Mathieu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351810272

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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages by Daniel Siddiqi,Michael Barrie,Carrie Gillon,Jason Haugen,Eric Mathieu Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255150

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The Limits of Syntactic Variation by Theresa Biberauer Pdf

Against the background of the past half century s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a multi-perspective critique of the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic variation, evaluating the merits and shortcomings of the pre-Minimalist phase of this enterprise and considering and illustrating the possibilities opened up by recent empirical and theoretical advances. Contributions focus on four central topics: firstly, the question of the locus of variation, whether the attested variation may plausibly be understood in parametric terms and, if so, what form such parameters might take; secondly, the fate of one of the most prominent early parameters, the Null Subject Parameter; thirdly, the matter of parametric clusters more generally; and finally, acquisition issues.

Author : Michael Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191506192

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The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis by Michael Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans Pdf

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.

Author : Marc-Antoine Mahieu,Nicole Tersis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289377

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Variations on Polysynthesis by Marc-Antoine Mahieu,Nicole Tersis Pdf

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the Eskaleut languages typologically in general linguistic terms, particularly with regard to polysynthesis. The degree of variation from more to less polysynthesis is evaluated within Eskaleut (Inuit-Yupik vs. Aleut), even in previously insufficiently explored domains such as pragmatics and use in context – including language contact and learning situations – and over typologically related language families such as Athabascan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Iroquoian, Uralic, and Wakashan.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015053048305

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The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar by Mark C. Baker Pdf

A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works.

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521886956

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Parametric Variation by Theresa Biberauer Pdf

Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSD:31822036971273

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Southwest Journal of Linguistics by Anonim Pdf