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Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Author : Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova,Lars Hellan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283863

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Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova,Lars Hellan Pdf

This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the structure of the functional field, verb fronting, clitic placement, conjunctions, noun phrase structure, possessives, agreement, and aspectual phenomena.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016

Author : Denisa Lenertová,Roland Meyer,Radek Šimík,Luka Szucsich
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101276

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Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016 by Denisa Lenertová,Roland Meyer,Radek Šimík,Luka Szucsich Pdf

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 initiates a new series of collective volumes on formal Slavic linguistics. It presents a selection of high quality papers authored by young and senior linguists from around the world and contains both empirically oriented work, underpinned by up-to-date experimental methods, as well as more theoretically grounded contributions. The volume covers all major linguistic areas, including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and their mutual interfaces. The particular topics discussed include argument structure, word order, case, agreement, tense, aspect, clausal left periphery, or segmental phonology. The topical breadth and analytical depth of the contributions reflect the vitality of the field of formal Slavic linguistics and prove its relevance to the global linguistic endeavour. Early versions of the papers included in this volume were presented at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12 or at the satellite Workshop on Formal and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, which were held on December 7-10, 2016 in Berlin.

Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

Author : Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725933

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Clausal Complementation in South Slavic by Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser Pdf

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics

Author : Frederik Kortlandt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401200608

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Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics by Frederik Kortlandt Pdf

The larger part of the present volume is about Slavic historical linguistics while the second part is about more general issues and methodological aspects. The initial chapters contain a revision of the author’s Slavic Accentuation and a discussion of the Slovene evidence for the Late Proto-Slavic accentual system and of the Kiev Leaflets. These are complemented by an extensive review of Garde’s theory and an introductory article about the work of earlier authors for those who are unfamiliar with the subject. Then follows a discussion of changes in the vowel system, Bulgarian developments, final syllables in Slavic, early changes in the consonant system, and of Halle and Kiparsky’s review of Garde’s book. This results in a relative chronology of 70 stages from Proto-Indo-European to Slavic. The following chapters deal with the progressive palatalization, the accentuation of West and South Slavic languages, various aspects of the Old Slovene manuscripts, the chronology of nominal paradigms, and other issues under discussion in recent publications. The second part of the present volume contains a number of case studies exemplifying specific theoretical problems, most of them of a semantic nature. The synchronic studies deal with Russian and Japanese syntax and semantics, the diachronic studies with tonogenesis in different languages and with semantic reconstruction in Altaic and Chinese.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax

Author : Guglielmo Cinque,Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195136517

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax by Guglielmo Cinque,Richard S. Kayne Pdf

"Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in illuminating relations between cross-linguistic syntactic differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. Comparative studies have grown to the point where a reference work is needed to comprehensively explain the state of the field and makes its results more widely known, and this handbook fulfills that need. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains on linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Egor Tsedryk,Piotr Cegłowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501513848

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Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric by Gréte Dalmi,Egor Tsedryk,Piotr Cegłowski Pdf

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic

Author : Masha Belyavski-Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1286478519

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The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic by Masha Belyavski-Frank Pdf

This study examines the morphological and semantic development of the modal construction formed with either the imperfect of 'to want' (Croatian/Serbian) plus the infinitive, or with a modal particle from 'to want' (Macedonian) plus the imperfect of the main verb. The Balkan conditional is analyzed using material from diverse sources, including epic folk poetry, dialectal texts, and the standard literary language in the South Slavic languages, as well as in the Balkan non-Slavic languages of Greek, Albanian, Daco-Rumanian, Istro-Rumanian, and Arumanian. Specific syntactic and semantic contexts are analyzed, and the Balkan conditional is compared to other modal constructions in these languages. One of the characteristic analytic verbal forms shared by the languages of the Balkan league is the Balkan conditional or the so-called 'future-in-the-past'. In the majority of these languages, the Balkan conditional has the status of a grammatical category, whose invariant components are 'modality', specifically 'potentiality', and 'reference to past tense'. With such components, these expressions most frequently and naturally refer to actions which did not take place, i.e., the past, contrary-to-fact conditional.

Aspects of Slavic Linguistics

Author : Olav Mueller-Reichau,Marcel Guhl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110517873

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Aspects of Slavic Linguistics by Olav Mueller-Reichau,Marcel Guhl Pdf

The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing, teaching, and organization done in this Department strengthened the mode of research in formal description of Slavic languages, formed another center for this kind of linguistic research in the world, and brought about a remarkable amount of scientific output. The authors of this volume are former or present members of the Department of Slavic studies or academic friends. Based on the data from East, West, and South Slavic languages, the papers tackle issues of all grammatical subdisciplines in current models of description, compare parts of the grammars of Slavic languages, explain categories and phrases in Slavic languages that do not exist in present-day Indogermanic languages of Western Europe, and propose ways how to update the standard of lexicography in still less described Slavic languages. A study of language competence is dedicated to the actual requests on heritage speakers and shows how their abilities can be evaluated.

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Egor Tsedryk,Piotr Cegłowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501513916

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Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric by Gréte Dalmi,Egor Tsedryk,Piotr Cegłowski Pdf

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2017

Author : Franc Marušič,Petra Mišmaš ,Rok Žaucer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102532

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Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2017 by Franc Marušič,Petra Mišmaš ,Rok Žaucer Pdf

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2017 is a collection of fifteen articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12.5, which was held on December 7-9, 2017, at the University of Nova Gorica. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as control verbs, instrumental arguments, and perduratives in Russian, comparatives, negation, n-words, negative polarity items, and complementizer ellipsis in Czech, impersonal se-constructions and complementizer doubling in Slovenian, prosody and the morphology of multi-purpose suffixes in Serbo-Croatian, and indefinite numerals and the binding properties of dative arguments in Polish. Importantly, by exploring these phenomena in individual Slavic languages, the collection of articles in this volume makes a significant contribution to both Slavic linguistics and to linguistics in general.

Slavic Languages in Psycholinguistics

Author : Tanja Anstatt,Anja Gattnar,Christina Clasmeier
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379690

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Slavic Languages in Psycholinguistics by Tanja Anstatt,Anja Gattnar,Christina Clasmeier Pdf

Psycholinguistics explores the anchoring of language in cognition. The Slavic languages are an attractive topic for psycholinguistic studies since their structural characteristics offer great starting points for the development of research on speech processing. The research of these languages with experimental methods is, however, still in its infancy. This book provides an insight into the current research within this field. On one hand, central topic is the question of how Slavic languages can contribute to psycholinguistic findings. On the other hand, all chapters introduce their respective psycholinguistic method and discuss it according to its usefulness and transferability to the Slavic languages. The researched languages are mainly Russian and Czech, however, other languages (e.g., Polish, Belarusian or Bulgarian) are touched upon as well. Main topics are the characteristics of the mental lexicon, multilingualism, word recognition, and sentence comprehension. Furthermore, several contributions address the issue of verbal aspect and aktionsarten as well as other grammatical categories.

Balkan Syntax and Semantics

Author : Olga Mišeska Tomi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295392

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Balkan Syntax and Semantics by Olga Mišeska Tomi? Pdf

The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography. Friedman, on the example of the evidentials, argues for typologically informed areal explanation of the Balkan properties. The other contributions analyze specific phenomena: polidefinite DPs in Greek and Aromanian (Campos and Stavrou), Balkan constructions in which datives combine with impersonal clitics or non-active morphology (Rivero), Balkan optatives (Ammann and Auwera), imperative force in the Balkan languages (Isac and Jakab), clitic placement in Greek imperatives (Bošković), focused constituents in Romanian and Bulgarian (Hill), synthetic and analytic tenses in Romanian (D'Hulst, Coene and Avram), "purpose-like" modification in a number of Balkan languages (Bužarovska), Balkan modal existential “wh”-constructions (Grosu), child and adult strategies in interpreting empty subjects in Serbian/Croatian (Stojanović and Marelj), conditional sentences in Judeo-Spanish (Montoliu and Auwera).

The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond

Author : Lilia Schürcks,Anastasia Giannakidou,Urtzi Etxeberria
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512790

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The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond by Lilia Schürcks,Anastasia Giannakidou,Urtzi Etxeberria Pdf

The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.

Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Author : Matthew Curtis,Anastasia Smirnova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443811620

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Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics by Matthew Curtis,Anastasia Smirnova Pdf

Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics is a collection of papers dealing with a range of syntactic and semantic phenomena across a variety of Slavic languages. The papers included in this volume were presented at the Graduate Colloquia on Slavic Linguistics held at the Ohio State University, reflecting cutting-edge research in Slavic Linguistics by a new generation of scholars from top American and European universities. Topics include the word order of noun phrases with classifying adjectives, the correlation between morphosyntactic realization and semantic roles of the nouns, semantics and syntax of subordinate imperative constructions, clausal structure and semantic properties of impersonal constructions, temporal properties of embedded subjunctive clauses, and the semantics of yes/no questions. The authors present the analyses of the studied phenomena within a variety of formal syntactic and semantic frameworks, such as the Minimalist program, semantics of events, and temporal semantics. These studies consider syntactic and semantic issues in Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, and Lithuanian. In addition, some of the papers also offer diachronic analyses of the studied phenomena. Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics definitely will interest linguists engaged in the formal study of natural language syntax and semantics and to Slavicists generally.

Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Brygida Rudzka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235442

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Topics in Cognitive Linguistics by Brygida Rudzka Pdf

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.