The Syntax Of Roots And The Roots Of Syntax

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,Hagit Borer,Florian Schäfer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643071

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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax by Artemis Alexiadou,Hagit Borer,Florian Schäfer Pdf

This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that interaction. Issues addressed in the book include the semantics and phonology of roots in isolation and in context; the categorial specification of roots; and the role of phases in word formation. Internationally recognized scholars approach these topics from a variety of theoretical backgrounds, drawing on data from languages including German, Hebrew, and Modern Greek. The book will be of interest to linguistics students and researchers of all theoretical persuasions from graduate level upwards.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,Hagit Borer,Florian Schäfer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199665266

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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax by Artemis Alexiadou,Hagit Borer,Florian Schäfer Pdf

This volume investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. Chapters adopt different theoretical approaches to examine the interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that interaction.

Author : Maya Arad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402032448

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Roots and Patterns by Maya Arad Pdf

In-depth investigation of Hebrew verb morphology in light of cutting edge theories of morphology and lexical semantics An original theory about the semantic content of roots An account of how roots function in word-formation A wide empirical basis containing a complete corpus of verb-creating roots in Hebrew

Author : Maya Arad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1402032439

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Roots and Patterns by Maya Arad Pdf

This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists. The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages.

Author : Leah Bauke,Andreas Blümel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501502132

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Labels and Roots by Leah Bauke,Andreas Blümel Pdf

This volume provides in-depth exploration of the issues of labeling and roots, with a balance of empirical and conceptual/theoretical analyses. The papers explore key questions that must ultimately be addressed in the development of generative theories: how do theories of labels and roots relate to syntax-internal computation, to semantics, to morphology, and to phonology?

Author : IRINA STOICA
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9786061612918

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THE SYNTAX AND THE SEMANTICS OF MANNER OF SPEAKING VERBS by IRINA STOICA Pdf

While this book primarily discusses manner of speaking verbs in English, data from other languages, such as Romanian, Italian, German and others, set the scene for a series of important questions from the point of view of crosslinguistic variation.

Author : John Beavers,Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198855781

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The Roots of Verbal Meaning by John Beavers,Andrew Koontz-Garboden Pdf

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, with semantic and grammatical properties determined not just by templates, but also by roots.

Author : Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106014255183

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A Transformational Approach to English Syntax by Joseph E. Emonds Pdf

Author : Jianxun Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813368460

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The Syntax of V-V Resultatives in Mandarin Chinese by Jianxun Liu Pdf

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. First, adopting the ‘inner vs. outer domain’ theory, it provides new analysis and evidence that these compounds are generated in syntax, not in lexicon. Second, this book argues that the two subclasses of V-V resultative constructions, object-oriented vs. subject-oriented V-V resultatives, actually have different structures. Their syntactic contrasts have not been observed in the literature before. Third, this book is new in determining the syntactic structure of the V-V resultative constructions through their adverbial modification properties. It demonstrates that the previous isomorphism analysis of the syntactic structure of Chinese V-V resultatives does not hold. Finally, this book provides a new analysis of the issue of the alternations of V-V resultatives. In contrast to previous analyses, which generally view the causative alternation as the idiosyncratic property of particular V-V compounds, this book provides a principled analysis. This book makes a substantial improvement of the current understanding of the issues in the syntax of Mandarin Chinese and gives new support to certain theories of the generative grammar from the perspective of Mandarin Chinese.

Author : Roberta D'Alessandro,Irene Franco,Ángel J. Gallego
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198767886

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The Verbal Domain by Roberta D'Alessandro,Irene Franco,Ángel J. Gallego Pdf

This volume features cutting-edge research from leading authorities on the nature and structure of the verbal domain and the complexity of the Verb Phrase (VP). The book is divided into three parts, representing the areas in which contemporary debate on the verbal domain is most active. The first part focuses on the V head, and includes four chapters discussing the setup of verbal roots, their syntax, and their interaction with other functional heads such as Voice and v. Chapters in the second part discuss the need to postulate a Voice head in the structure of a clause, and whether Voice is different from v. Voice was originally intended as the head hosting the external argument in its specifier, as well as transitivity. This section explores its relationship with syntactic voice, i.e. the alternation between actives and passives. Part three is dedicated to event structure, inner aspect, and Aktionsart. It tackles issues such as the one-to-one relation between argument structure and event structure, and whether there can be minimal structural units at the basis of the derivation of any sort of XP, including the VP.

Author : Asaf Bachrach,Isabelle Roy,Linnaea Stockall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270108

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Structuring the Argument by Asaf Bachrach,Isabelle Roy,Linnaea Stockall Pdf

While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This collection stems from an interest to find and explore practical, tangible points of intersection between theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists working on problems related to the representation and processing of verbs and their associated thematic structure. The book is organized around three core themes, (i) the basic building blocks of verbal representations and modes of construction of the verb-argument complex, (ii) non-canonical argument structure realization, with a particular focus on object-experiencer psych verbs, and (iii) the promises and challenges of neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigation into argument structure and the prospects for the future of interdisciplinary research on verb argument structure.

Author : Raffaella Folli,Christina Sevdali,Robert Truswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199683239

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Syntax and Its Limits by Raffaella Folli,Christina Sevdali,Robert Truswell Pdf

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses appear plausible. The volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces

Author : Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210304

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The Morphosyntax-phonology Connection by Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih Pdf

The contributions included in this volume arise from the Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface, which took place at Stanford University on 12-14 October 2012.

Author : Nomi Erteschik-Shir,Tova Rapoport
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191535697

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The Syntax of Aspect by Nomi Erteschik-Shir,Tova Rapoport Pdf

This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic information. Various theories are developed in this collection, including those that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of Hale and Keyser, prominent among which is the chapter by Hale and Keyser themselves. By examining different phenomena in a cross-linguistic perspective, this book develops insights into the general theoretical question of universal grammar and acquisition as well as into the specific nature of the lexicon-syntax interface. It is a major contribution to modern syntactic theory.

Author : Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290700

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The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives by Florian Schäfer Pdf

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.