The Syntactic Phenomena Of English Volume 2

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226556263

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The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Volume 2 by James D. McCawley Pdf

This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special knowledge of syntax is presupposed, and the number and variety of exercises after each chapter have been increased. And now available from the author! Answers to Selected Exercises. Instructors using James D. McCawley's The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Second Edition may request a complimentary copy of Answers to Selected Exercises in The Syntactic Phenomena of English by writing on their department's letterhead to the author, James D. McCawley, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. [Note: This material is available only from the author and is not available from the University of Chicago Press.]

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226556255

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The Syntactic Phenomena of English by James D. McCawley Pdf

This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special knowledge of syntax is presupposed, and the number and variety of exercises after each chapter have been increased. And now available from the author! Answers to Selected Exercises. Instructors using James D. McCawley's The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Second Edition may request a complimentary copy of Answers to Selected Exercises in The Syntactic Phenomena of English by writing on their department's letterhead to the author, James D. McCawley, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. [Note: This material is available only from the author and is not available from the University of Chicago Press.]

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226556271

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The Syntactic Phenomena of English by James D. McCawley Pdf

Comprises a thorough treatment of the syntactic structures of English, beginning with an overview to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. Updates from the 1988 edition include sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226556246

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The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Volume 1 by James D. McCawley Pdf

This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special knowledge of syntax is presupposed, and the number and variety of exercises after each chapter have been increased. And now available from the author! Answers to Selected Exercises. Instructors using James D. McCawley's The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Second Edition may request a complimentary copy of Answers to Selected Exercises in The Syntactic Phenomena of English by writing on their department's letterhead to the author, James D. McCawley, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. [Note: This material is available only from the author and is not available from the University of Chicago Press.]

Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110363708

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Syntax - Theory and Analysis by Tibor Kiss Pdf

The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analysis, also dealing with the methodology employed, and the rules of argumentation required to achieve such analyses for a wide range of phenomena.

Author : Steve Kleinedler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351114059

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Is English Changing? by Steve Kleinedler Pdf

Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a lively and concise introduction to language change, refuting commonly held misconceptions about language evolution as we understand it. Showing that English, like all living languages, has historically changed and continues to change, this book: analyzes developments in the lexicon, the way words are spoken or written, and the way in which speakers and writers use words; offers a basic overview of the major subfields of linguistics, including phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, all viewed through the prism of language change; discusses change over time with examples from Old English, Middle English, and Modern English; reinforces important concepts with examples from other languages, including Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; clearly defines key terms and includes advice on rules, usage, and style, as well as ample annotated further reading and activities throughout. Aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book is essential reading for those studying this topic for the first time.

Author : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317728832

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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust,Margarita Su¤er,John Whitman,(Vol.2)Barbara Lust,Gabriella Hermon Pdf

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.

Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139467292

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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions by Timothy Shopen Pdf

This unique three-volume 2007 survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each new concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition. Volume II covers co-ordination, complementation, noun phrase structure, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, discourse structure, and sentences as combinations of clauses.

Author : Rudy Loock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288455

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Appositive Relative Clauses in English by Rudy Loock Pdf

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view, independently of DRCs, in order to provide a positive definition of the structure. After a presentation of the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of ARCs, a taxonomy of their functions in discourse is established for both written and spoken English based on the results of a corpus-based investigation. Constraints are then defined within an information-packaging approach to syntactic structures to show why speakers choose ARCs over other competing allostructures, i.e. syntactic structures that fulfil similar discourse functions (e.g. nominal appositives, independent clauses, adverbials, noun premodifiers, topicalization). The end result is a deeper understanding of the richness of ARCs in their natural contexts of use.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,Chris Wilder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227430

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Possessors, Predicates, and Movement in the Determiner Phrase by Artemis Alexiadou,Chris Wilder Pdf

This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of 'Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the ongoing debate over older and more recent approaches to the syntax of DPs in particular in the wake of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1995) and Kayne's antisymmetry hypothesis (Kayne 1994). The relative theoretical coherence among the contributions permits detailed comparison of specific syntactic proposals, providing a solid basis for further debate. Several of the papers address the syntactic questions in parallel with related semantic or morphological issues. The value of this collection to the study of Universal Grammar is also underlined by its comparative bias. Analyses of Germanic, Romance and Balkan languages figure prominently, and a number of new empirical generalizations within and between languages are discussed.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : André Lemaire
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004276185

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Congress Volume Basel 2001 by André Lemaire Pdf

This volume publishes the papers given by invitation at the 17th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, which was held in Basel from 5-10 August 2001. It presents a state of the art of the current exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, taking into account the latest research in general linguistics and semitic philology, as well as textual criticism (Massora Magna, Septuagint, Qumran manuscripts), ethno-sociology and archaeology. Feminist biblical studies are duly represented as well as the last research on literary criticism on the Pentateuch, especially in its relation to other ancient Near Eastern texts (Neo-assyrian and Aramaic inscriptions). Finally, two contributions throw light on the problem of religious interpretation of the Bible (Resurrection of the Dead and Biblical Theology).

Author : Thad A. Polk,Colleen M. Seifert
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262661160

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Cognitive Modeling by Thad A. Polk,Colleen M. Seifert Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the computational modeling of human cognition.

Author : Osamu Sawada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198714224

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Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers by Osamu Sawada Pdf

This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the interface between semantics and pragmatics. In natural language, scalar expressions such as comparatives, intensifiers, and minimizers are used for measuring an object or event at a semantic level. However, cross-linguistically scalar modifiers can often be used to express a range of subjective feelings or discourse pragmatic information at the level of conventional implicature (CI). For example, in English more than anything can signal the degree of importance of the given utterance, and in Japanese the minimizer chotto 'a bit' can weaken the degree of imposition of the speech act. In this book, Osamu Sawada draws on data from Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the dual-use phenomenon of scalar modifiers: he claims that although semantic scalar meanings and CI scalar meanings are logically different, the relationship between the two makes it crucial to examine them both together. The volume provides a new perspective on the semantic-pragmatics interface, and will be of interest to researchers and students of Japanese linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and theoretical linguistics more generally.

Author : Tibor Kiss,Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393163

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Syntax - Theory and Analysis by Tibor Kiss,Artemis Alexiadou Pdf

This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.