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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008793674
Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1435570766
Author : Erich F. Woisetschlaeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039391748
Author : James W. Ney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110831849
No detailed description available for "Semantic Structures for the Syntax of Complements and Auxiliaries in English".
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199560288
A lively introduction to methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and revealing connections between language and culture. It shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful, and exciting.
Author : Paiman Hama Salih Sabir
Publisher : UPA
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780761866541
The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of English auxiliary verbs (which comprise the primary and the modals) as a problematic area for English foreign language learners. The study aims at investigating Kurd EFL learners’ ability in recognizing and producing the various forms and meanings of English auxiliary verbs, clarifying the problems that Kurd EFL learners encounter in learning the auxiliary verbs and identifies the sources behind them, and trying to put suitable suggestions to overcome these problems. Its use of error analysis methodology makes this study unique as there are no other studies within its field to deal with topic in such a systematic and analytical method.
Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027230928
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other categories, and the ways in which our knowledge of aspect acts as a primary semantic contributor to the creation of other basic verbal parameters such as tense and modality. This book aims to cross some of the categorial borders, using a collection of studies on the interfaces of English aspect with other grammatical domains. The studies in the book have been assembled in order to answer two central issues surrounding the nature of English aspect: the possibility of the historical co-existence of a perfective and imperfective grammatical distinction in English, and the derivation of modality as an inference arising out of specific conflicts and combinations of lexical and grammatical aspect. In answering these questions, a data-driven, rather than a theory-driven approach is favoured, and the general principles of Gricean pragmatics and grammaticalisation are applied to a wide range of empirical sources to propose alternative explanations to some long-established problems of English historical linguistics and semantics.
Author : Neal R. Norrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280947
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual reading, from one variant reading of a polysemous lexical item to another, from the idiomatic to its literal reading or to the literal reading(s) of one or more of its component lexical items. Semiotic theory provides a foundation by supplying principles defining motivated expression-content relations for signs generally. The author argues that regular semantic relational principles must dervive from such semiotic principles, to ensures the psychological reality and generality of the semantic principles.
Author : Paul Werth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315401805
First published in 1984, this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance — whose solutions have implications for linguistic theory in general. In particular, the form of grammatical statements, the relationship between various rules of grammar, the interaction between sentence in a sequence, and the inferences to be drawn from linguistic behaviour to linguistic knowledge. The author argues that many grammatical processes, inadequately handled by conventional sentence-grammars, require a text grammar in which the basic constitutive processes of information and deixis can be specified. They ago further to investigate the novel hypothesis that emphatic structure provides a crucial condition for the application of transformational rules, paying particular attention to the ‘movement-rules’ using mostly data culled from actual usage.
Author : James R. Hurford,Brendan Heasley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521289491
Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Author : Jim Feist
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266521
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures. The research reported in this book shows semantic structure to be in part hierarchic, fitting the syntax in which it is expressed, and partly a network, fitting the nature of the mind, from which it springs. It is complex enough to provide for the emotive and imaginative dimensions of language, and for shifts of standard meanings in context, and the “rules” that control them. Showing the full structure of English semantics requires attention to many currently topical issues, and since the underlying theory is fresh, there are fresh implications for them. The most important of those issues is information structure, which is given full treatment, showing its overall structure, and its relation to semantics and the whole grammar of English.
Author : Neal R. Norrick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110881974
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Corine Astesano,Mélanie Jucla
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135099541
This book brings together experts from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to explore how a multidisciplinary approach can impact on research into the neurocognition of language. International contributors present cutting-edge research from cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics and computer science, and discuss how this contributes to neuropsycholinguistics, a term coined by Jean-Luc Nespoulous, to whom this book is dedicated. Chapters illustrate how researchers with different methods and theoretical backgrounds can contribute to a unified vision of the study of language cognition. Reinterpreting neuropsycholinguistics through the lens of each research field, the book demonstrates important attempts to adopt a comprehensive view of speech and language pathology. Divided into three sections the book covers: linguistic mechanisms and the architecture of language the relationship between language and other cognitive processes the assessment of speech and language disabilities and compensatory mechanisms. Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition presents a unique contribution to cognitive science and language science, from linguistics to neuroscience. It will interest academics and scholars in the field, as well as medical researchers, psychologists, and speech and language therapists.
Author : Renaat Declerck
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 041515488X
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
Author : Ronald Carter,Michael Mccarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317869153
The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography; and a further chapter discusses recent advances in the field of lexis and discourse analysis. There is also a series of specially commissioned articles which investigate the structure and functions of the modern English lexicon in relation to its exploitation for classroom vocabulary teaching.
