Theory Of Markedness In Generative Grammar

Author : Edwin L. Battistella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
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Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195355925

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The Logic of Markedness by Edwin L. Battistella Pdf

Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "play" for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "played" or "player" is marked. This opposition, referred to as markedness, is one of the concepts which both Chomskyan generative grammar and Jakobsonian structuralism appear to share, yet which each tradition has treated differently. Battistella studies the historical development of the concept of markedness in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson, its importation into generative linguistics, and its subsequent development within Chomsky's "principles and parameters" framework. He traces how structuralist and generative linguistics have drawn on and expanded the notion of markedness, both as a means of characterizing linguistic constructs and as a theory of the innate language faculty.

Author : Andrea Calabrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197600

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Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology by Andrea Calabrese Pdf

This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model. In developing this theory, the book offers new solutions to many long-standing problems involving syllabic and segmental phonology with analyses of natural language data, both well-known and relatively unknown. The book also includes a new treatment of Palatalization and Affrication processes, a novel theory of feature visibility as an alternative to feature underspecification and an extensive critique of Optimality Theory.

Author : Adriana Belletti,Luciana Brandi,Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : UOM:39015010399577

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Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar by Adriana Belletti,Luciana Brandi,Luigi Rizzi Pdf

Author : Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112327760

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A case study In syntactic markedness by Henk van Riemsdijk Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Edwin L. Battistella,Dean School of Arts and Letters and Professor of English Edwin L Battistella
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791403696

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Markedness by Edwin L. Battistella,Dean School of Arts and Letters and Professor of English Edwin L Battistella Pdf

Battistella traces the development of markedness theory as a central part of structuralist theories of language. He outlines the concepts of marked and unmarked from Prague School structuralism to present day applications in linguistic theory and cultural analysis, using the reference point of English grammar and sound structure. The author focuses on the fundamental asymmetry between terms of linguistic relationships, in which one term is more broadly defined and hence dominant (the unmarked term) while the other is more narrowly defined (the marked term). In addition to examining language-particular markedness relations evident in the structure and history of English, Battistella raises questions concerning universal asymmetries as well. He discusses the status of markedness as a unifying concept of linguistic structure and as a principle of language change.

Author : Janet Dean Fodor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106001520664

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Semantics by Janet Dean Fodor Pdf

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226577198

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Grammatical Theory by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for every linguist, philosopher, or psychologist who is skeptical of generative grammar and wants to learn more about it. Newmeyer's formidable scholarship raises the level of debate on transformational generative grammar. He stresses the central importance of an autonomous formal grammar, discusses the limitations of "discourse-based" approaches to syntax, cites support for generativist theory in recent research, and clarifies misunderstood concepts associated with generative grammar.

Author : Harald Clahsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281722

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Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition by Harald Clahsen Pdf

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the acquisition of syntax and syntactic theory, specifically on Chomskyan Generative Grammar.

Author : Frank Heny
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262081172

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Binding and Filtering by Frank Heny Pdf

The essays collected in this book result from recent work in trace theory, the starting point being Chomsky's proposals to permit syntax to over-generate profusely and then to provide most of the significant reduction in the form of a system of filters and constraints on logical form. They all address various aspects and implications of his article, On Binding, which is reprinted here. Equally important, the essays demonstrate the applicability of Chomsky's proposals to a number of different languages. Heny writes that "editorial work on the volume brought me to a realization of the far-reaching implications of the approach to linguistic analysis underlying Chomsky's On Binding. It constitutes a radical break with his previous work, of a very exciting and promising kind." Heny's Introduction goes on to describe the shift in Chomsky's position over the last ten years in lucid and straightforward fashion, identifying the striking new properties of this framework and making the collection generally more accessible to a wider audience. Contents:Introduction; On Binding, Noam Chomsky; Finiteness and Boundedness in Turkish, Lelan George and Jaklin Kornfilt; Nominative Marking in Italian Infinitives and the Nominative Island Constraint, Luigi Rizzi; Empty Subjects, Case and Agreement and the Grammar of Dutch, Eric J. Reuland; Binding, Quantifiers, Clitics and Control, Richard S. Kayne; Government and Relativisation in Celtic, Stephen Harlow; Germanic Word Order and the Format of Surface Filters, Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen; Ouechua Word Structure, Pieter Muysken; Index. Frank Heny is Professor of Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, and Head of the Institute of General Linguistics at the University of Groningen, Holland. Distributed in North America for Croom Helm Publishers Ltd.

Author : Henk C. van Riemsdijk,Edwin Williams
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011363614

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Introduction to the Theory of Grammar by Henk C. van Riemsdijk,Edwin Williams Pdf

Introduction to the Theory of Grammar makes available to teachers and students of syntax a comprehensive critical review of the main results of present day grammatical theory and shows how they were achieved.

Author : Edna Andrews
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822382881

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Markedness Theory by Edna Andrews Pdf

Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews shows how markedness theory enables a linguist to precisely define the systemically given oppositions and hierarchies represented by linguistic categories. In addition, she redefines the relationship between Jakobsonian markedness theory and Peircean interpretants. Though primarily theoretical, the argument is illustrated with discussions about learning a second language, the relationship of linguistics to mathematics (particularly set theory, algebra, topology, and statistics) in their mutual pursuit of invariance, and issues involving grammatical gender and their implications in several languages.

Author : Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887775

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Generative Grammar by Geoffrey Horrocks Pdf

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.

Author : John Thayer Jensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235671

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Morphology by John Thayer Jensen Pdf

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more recent development of lexicalist phonology and morphology in the works of Paul Kiparsky and others. Other approaches are recognized, but the use of one unified, consistent theory pushed to its limit makes for a better student text. Each chapter includes a list of terms, of further reading, and a number of exercises. The volume is completed by an index.

Author : Frits Stuurman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111729558

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Phrase structure theory in generative grammar by Frits Stuurman Pdf

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Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : UCSC:32106005013294

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Linguistic Theory in America by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf