The Syntax Of The Be Possessive

Author : Apollonius (Dyscolus)
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245045

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The Syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus by Apollonius (Dyscolus) Pdf

Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This volume contains an English translation of — mainly — Uhlig's 1910 edition of De Constructione Libri Quattor (Peri Suntaxeos), with commentary, an introduction, and an article on Apollonius Dyscolus and the Origins of Deep Structure.

Author : Takae Tsujioka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136722325

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The Syntax of Possession in Japanese by Takae Tsujioka Pdf

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the syntax of possession expressions in Japanese at the sentential level. It starts with a background of possessive syntax and illustrates how Japanese presents us with an interesting case study of possessive syntax

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1881526062

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The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Mary Dalrymple provides a theory of the syntax of anaphoric binding, couched in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Cross-linguistically, anaphoric elements vary a great deal. One finds long- and short-distance reflexives, sometimes within the same language; pronominals may require local noncoreference or coreference only with nonsubjects. Analyses of the syntax of anaphoric binding which have attempted to fit all languages into the mold of English are inadequate to account for the rich range of syntactic constraints that are attested. How, then, can the cross-linguistic regularities exhibited by anaphoric elements be captured, while at the same time accounting for the diversity that is found? Dalrymple shows that syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding can be expressed in terms of just three grammatical concepts: subject, predicate, and tense. These concepts define a set of complex constraints, combinations of which interact to predict the wide range of universally available syntactic conditions that anaphoric elements obey. Mary Dalrymple is a member of the research staff of the Natural Language Theory and Technology group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521635667

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An Introduction to Syntax by Robert D. Van Valin Pdf

The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax.

Author : Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255099

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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.

Author : Katalin É Kiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521669391

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The Syntax of Hungarian by Katalin É Kiss Pdf

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Author : Gisbert Fanselow
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282439

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The Parametrization of Universal Grammar by Gisbert Fanselow Pdf

In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization hypothesis.

Author : Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192695833

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Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt by Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel Pdf

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

Author : Marit Julien
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233519

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Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective by Marit Julien Pdf

This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is particularly well-suited for explorations into nominal syntax. Among the topics covered are the basic syntactic structure of nominal phrases, definiteness, adjective phrases, possessors, relative clauses, and nominal predicates. The model is however meant to be a tool for analysing the nominal phrases of any language. While the base-generated structure is taken to be universally uniform, the model allows for variation in the feature makeup of individual elements, in the phonological realisation of the features, and in the movements that may or may not apply. Hence, as shown in the final chapter, patterns found in languages outside of Scandinavian can also be accounted for within the model.

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 : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511806

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

"It is common for grammars to include an introductory chapter that offers a general introduction to the language under investigation as well as its users. We encourage the grammar writer to include this type of information for the sign language to be described. If a certain variant of the sign language is described, this should be made clear at the outset. The structure of this part is fairly flexible. As can be seen from the table of contents, we suggest including information about (i) the history of the sign language, (ii) characteristics of the Deaf community, (iii) the status of the sign language, and (iv) previous linguistic work on the sign language. The last section in particular will have an impact on the content of subsequent parts, as we encourage the grammar writer to include findings from previous studies in the grammatical description of the sign language. Clearly, alternative structures are possible. The overview of previous linguistic work, for instance, could be provided under the "History" header, and Deaf culture and/or Deaf education could be discussed under dedicated first-level headers - to give just two examples. Also, depending on the available information, sub-headers could be added. Note that we adopt the convention of writing Deaf with a capital D when it refers to issues related to a community that is characterized by the use of a sign language. In contrast, deaf with a small d refers to the medical condition of not being able to hear. It is up to the grammar writer to decide whether to stick to this convention in the grammar"--

Author : Anja Šarić
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110621037

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Nominalizations, Double Genitives and Possessives by Anja Šarić Pdf

The goal of this work is twofold. First, it aims to account for double genitive constructions in Serbian. Second, it aims to re-evaluate the DP hypothesis in light of their existence in Serbian. Based on evidence from the categorial status of possessives, argumenthood in the nominal domain, the morphosyntactic structure of nominalizations, and the assignment of the genitive case, it is argued that DP projection must be assumed in Serbian.

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkos,Piotr Ceglowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350062481

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Approaches to Predicative Possession by Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkos,Piotr Ceglowski Pdf

This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish, Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish, Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles & Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our understanding of predicative possession across languages, with findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language families. It is an equally useful source of information for theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of linguistics.

Author : Clement Martyn Doke
Publisher : London Longmans
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Zulu language
ISBN : UVA:X000321634

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Zulu Syntax and Idiom by Clement Martyn Doke Pdf

Author : Itamar Francez,Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198744580

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Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation by Itamar Francez,Andrew Koontz-Garboden Pdf

Explores why different languages have systematically different ways of saying the same thing. It focuses on adjectival predication and shows that systematic differences in the meaning of words expressing adjectival notions have systematic effects on the form of the sentences they appear in

Author : Birgit Gerlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227721

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Clitics Between Syntax and Lexicon by Birgit Gerlach Pdf

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.