Ucl Working Papers In Linguistics

Author : A. Alexiadou,G.C. Horrocks,Melita Stavrou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401591775

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Studies in Greek Syntax by A. Alexiadou,G.C. Horrocks,Melita Stavrou Pdf

This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the field of Greek syntax has grown both in range and depth. The topics investigated include the phrase structure of clauses and nominal phrases, clitics in standard Greek and in dialects, the licensing of negative polarity items, the nature of sentential operators, control, argument structure and compounds. The studies highlight the importance of Greek for the development of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000117257786

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UCL Working Papers in Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosa E. Vega Moreno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292131

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Creativity and Convention by Rosa E. Vega Moreno Pdf

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and convention in figurative interpretation, showing how features ‘emerge’ during metaphor comprehension and how literal meaning contributes to idiom comprehension. The central claim is that the mind is rather selective when processing information, and that in the pragmatic interpretation of both literal and figurative utterances, this selectivity often results in the creation of new (‘ad hoc’) concepts or the standardization of pragmatic routines. With this approach, the comprehension of metaphors and idioms requires no special pragmatic principles or procedures not required for the interpretation of ordinary literal utterances, but follows from an automatic tendency towards selective processing which is itself a by-product of Sperber and Wilson’s Cognitive Principle of Relevance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000025453832

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Working Papers in Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402030088

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Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Année 2000 by Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse Pdf

Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.

Author : Manuel Padilla Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266484

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Relevance Theory by Manuel Padilla Cruz Pdf

How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.

Author : Kensei Sugayama,Richard A. Hudson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847142733

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Word Grammar by Kensei Sugayama,Richard A. Hudson Pdf

This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word dependency is therefore a key concept in Word Grammar, and the syntax and semantics of a sentence is built upon this foundation. Contributors to this volume are primarily Word Grammar grammarians from across the world. All the chapters here manifest theoretical potentialities of Word Grammar, exploring how powerful Word Grammar is to offer analysis for linguistic phenomena in various languages. The chapters come from varying perspectives and include work on a number of languages, including English, German, Japanese, Swahili, Turkish and Ancient Greek. Phenomena studied include verbal inflection, case agreement, extraction, construction and code-mixing. This collection will be of interest to academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.

Author : Benoît Leclercq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009273190

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Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use by Benoît Leclercq Pdf

Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191664809

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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis by Bernd Heine,Heiko Narrog Pdf

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

Author : C. Iten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230503236

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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance by C. Iten Pdf

The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .

Author : Annabel Cormack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135671372

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Definitions by Annabel Cormack Pdf

The answer to the question "How can we understand and use a definition?" provides new constraints on natural language and on the internal language in which meaning is mentally represented. Most syntax takes the sentence as the basic unit for well-formedness, but definitions force us to focus on words and phrases, and hence to focus on compositional syntax in parallel with compositional semantics. This study examines both dictionary definitions and definitions from textbooks, from the points of view of their syntax, semantics, and use for learning word meaning. The tools used throughout are Principles and Parameters syntax, Relevance theoretic pragmatics, Model theoretic semantics, and the formal theory of definitions. The analyses argue that because phrases can be understood in isolation, some standard syntactic analyses must be modified. 'NP movement' has to be reanalysed as transmission of theta roles. These ideas are then applied to a variety of adjectives which take propositional complements. The final chapter argues that for definitions to be understood, the syntax of the Language of Thought must be close to that of Natural Language in specifiable way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000124373691

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MIT Working Papers in Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Janse,Hella Olbertz,Sijmen Tol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402017162

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Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999 by Mark Janse,Hella Olbertz,Sijmen Tol Pdf

Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.

Author : Wiebke Brockhaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110966060

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Final Devoicing in the Phonology of German by Wiebke Brockhaus Pdf

This book deals with the phonological event of final devoicing in a theoretical framework based on principles and parameters rather than rules. It refers to data coming almost exclusively from German (native and non-native items). The first chapter presents the 'raw facts', providing an outline of the sort of alternations and distributional restrictions on voicing to be accounted for. Previous treatments of final devoicing in German are discussed and evaluated in the second chapter. Chapters 3 and 4 provide an analysis of final devoicing in German couched in the framework of Government Phonology (GP), a phonological theory operating with principles and parameters. Some of the central tenets of GP are introduced at the beginning of chapter 3, and additional concepts of the theory are explained as they become relevant to the discussion of final devoicing. The author argues that final devoicing should be interpreted as a phonological weakening process involving the withdrawal of autosegmental licensing from the laryngeal element L (which represents voicing in obstruents). This occurs in phonologically 'weak' environments, where, due to clearly definable prosodic conditions, only reduced autosegmental licensing potential is available. This analysis, developed with reference to the prestige variety of German (Hochlautung), is then extended to Northern Standard German, and the phonological differences between the two dialects are identified. In the final chapter, the author investigates whether final devoicing results in phonological neutralisation, as is often assumed in the literature. She observes that the GP account developed in chapters 3 and 4 is incompatible with this traditional view. This is desirable, since, among other things, the conflict between earlier phonological analyses and experimental studies of final devoicing can now be resolved.

Author : Judit Kiss-Gulyás
Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9630581744

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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Hungarian Learners of English by Judit Kiss-Gulyás Pdf

"The present work uses the standard version of principles and parameters theory of Universal Grammar to address second language acquisition issues. It is assumed that comparative analysis of Hungarian and English based on the model enables the researcher to formulate precise and testable questions and the empirical research provides reliable answers." "The investigated area is the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by L1 Hungarian learners of L2 English. This area of grammar causes problems: most of these are proficiency-determined, but there are some which are observable even at fairly advanced levels. In the given framework it is postulated that some properties of parameters set differently for the L1 can be reset to the new language, whereas other properties seem to resist re-setting and remain non-native-like in the interlanguage of even near-native L2 English speakers of L1 Hungarian." "The book may interest pure and applied linguists, psycholinguists as well as practising teachers as it attempts to offer a possible answer to the often made observation: there are parts of L2 grammar which are relatively easy to acquire despite the language differences, yet there are several features that remain faulty or misunderstood despite teacher and learner effort."--BOOK JACKET.