Usage Based And Typological Approaches To Linguistic Units

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono,Ritva Laury,Ryoko Suzuki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259837

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Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units by Tsuyoshi Ono,Ritva Laury,Ryoko Suzuki Pdf

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and interactional linguistics. This volume contributes to and extends this discussion by examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range of genetically and typologically unrelated languages, English, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, engaging with fundamental theoretical issues. The chapters show that categories originally created for the description of Indo-European languages have limited usefulness if our goal is to understand the nature of human language in general. The authors thus question the status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest instead that an emergent and interactional view of both structure and function offers a better fit with the data from the languages examined. Originally published as special issue 43:2 (2019) of Studies in Language.

Author : András Kertész,Edith Moravcsik,Csilla Rákosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110540253

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Current Approaches to Syntax by András Kertész,Edith Moravcsik,Csilla Rákosi Pdf

Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261519

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The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages by Tsuyoshi Ono,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for ‘NP’ has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants’ evolving social agendas.

Author : Ritva Laury,Marja Etelämäki,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789522229007

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Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction by Ritva Laury,Marja Etelämäki,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen Pdf

This volume concerns the ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in a range of contexts in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism. The volume includes an introduction which, besides presenting the content of the articles, discusses terminological fundamentals such as the understanding of the terms “clause”, “action” and “linkage” and “combining” in different grammatical traditions and the ways they are conceived of here, as well as open questions collectively formulated by the contributors in planning for the volume concerning the recognition, emergence and distance of linkage, and the ways these questions are addressed in the contributions to the volume. Topics treated in the articles include combining physical actions and verbal announcements in everyday conversation, linking of verbal and nonverbal actions as well as verbal linkages between nonverbal actions by dance teachers building pedagogical activity. Other topics concern the mediation of questions through informal translating in multilingual conversation in order to organize participation, and the ways in which student requests for clarification and confirmation create learning occasions in a foreign language classroom. Still other articles concern the on-line emergence of alternative questions with the Finnish particle vai 'or', delayed completions of unfinished turns, the transforming of requests and offers into joint ventures, and the ways in which direct quotations are created in written journalism from the original talk in the spoken interview. Most of the papers employ Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics as a theoretical framework. The languages used as data are Finnish, English, Estonian, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish.

Author : Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 9027215790

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Usage-based Approaches to Language Change by Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden Pdf

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has been recognized in this framework, but never received central attention. This book aims to fill this gap by discussing various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective.

Author : Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107085756

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Frequency in Language by Dagmar Divjak Pdf

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Author : Thomas Brunner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110521801

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Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes by Thomas Brunner Pdf

The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.

Author : Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul,Elena Tribushinina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505423

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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching by Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul,Elena Tribushinina Pdf

Although usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both first and second language acquisition, to monolingual and bilingual development, and to naturalistic and instructed settings, it is not common to consider these different kinds of acquisition in tandem. The present volume takes an integrative approach and shows that usage-based theories provide a much needed unified framework for the study of first, second and foreign language acquisition, in monolingual and bilingual contexts. The contributions target the acquisition of a wide range of linguistic phenomena and critically assess the applicability and explanatory power of the usage-based paradigm. The book also systematically examines a range of cognitive and linguistic factors involved in the process of language development and relates relevant findings to language teaching. Finally, this volume contributes to the assessment and refinement of empirical methods currently employed in usage-based acquisition research. This book is of interest to scholars of language acquisition, language pedagogy, developmental psychology, as well as Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar.

Author : Jian Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819927647

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A Constructional Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality by Jian Hu Pdf

Author : Alexander Haselow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238211

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Typological Changes in the Lexicon by Alexander Haselow Pdf

This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.

Author : Jörg Roche, Moiken Jessen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643916488

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Applied Cognitive Linguistics for Language Teachers by Jörg Roche, Moiken Jessen Pdf

The book offers an easy to read introduction on how cognitive linguistics treats and analyses language and how it differs from other approaches to linguistics. Readers are invited to follow an inspiring approach to linguistics adressing many of the most pressing issues and challenges in language teaching and learning. Many examples from a large variety of languages illustrate the theoretical underpinnings and make theory come to life.

Author : Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206695

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A Typology of Purpose Clauses by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode Pdf

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- 1. Aims and scope of the book -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 3. The grammar of purpose -- 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences -- Summary: the developmental trajectories of purpose clauses -- Conclusion and outlook -- References

Author : Alice Caffarel,J. R. Martin,Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115593

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Language Typology by Alice Caffarel,J. R. Martin,Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen Pdf

This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages. The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.

Author : Kees Hengeveld,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199278107

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Functional Discourse Grammar by Kees Hengeveld,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.

Author : Susan M. Gass,Jennifer Behney,Luke Plonsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351723138

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Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass,Jennifer Behney,Luke Plonsky Pdf

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. In order to reflect current developments, new sections and expanded discussions have been added. The fifth edition of Second Language Acquisition retains the features that students found useful in previous editions. This edition provides pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology. This clearly written, comprehensive, and current textbook, by Susan Gass, Jennifer Behney, and Luke Plonsky, is the ideal textbook for an introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and/or language education programs. This textbook is supported with a Companion Website containing instructor and student resources including PowerPoint slides, exercises, stroop tests, flashcards, audio and video links: https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138743427/