Verb First

Author : Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,Sheila Ann Dooley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294753

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Verb First by Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,Sheila Ann Dooley Pdf

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.

Author : Olga Tribulato
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110415865

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Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds by Olga Tribulato Pdf

This book provides a study of the diachronic development of compounds with a verbal first constituent in Ancient Greek. Based on an unprecedentedly comprehensive corpus of such compounds, it offers detailed treatments of their origins, structure and place within the Greek compound system, as well as in-depth and up-to-date introductions to Greek compounds and to linguistic research on compounding.

Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521374965

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First Verbs by Michael Tomasello Pdf

During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development.

Author : Thomas Kerchever Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600096244

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Henry's first Latin book. [With] Key by Thomas Kerchever Arnold Pdf

Author : Letitia R. Naigles,Erika Hoff,Donna Vea
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781444333572

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Flexibility in Early Verb Use by Letitia R. Naigles,Erika Hoff,Donna Vea Pdf

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this flexibility—and when they are truly productive language users—are central issues among accounts of language acquisition. The current study tests competing hypotheses of the achievement of flexibility and some kinds of productivity against data on children’s first uses of their first-acquired verbs. Eight mothers recorded their children's first 10 uses of 34 early-acquired verbs, if those verbs were produced within the window of the study. The children were between 16 and 20 months when the study began (depending on when the children started to produce verbs), were followed for between 3 and 12 months, and produced between 13 and 31 of the target verbs. These diary records provided the basis for a description of the pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic properties of early verb use. The data revealed that within this early, initial period of verb use, children use their verbs both to command and describe, they use their verbs in reference to a variety of appropriate actions enacted by a variety of actors and with a variety of affected objects, and they use their verbs in a variety of syntactic structures. All 8 children displayed semantic and grammatical flexibility before 24 months of age. These findings are more consistent with a model of the language learning child as an avid generalizer than as a conservative language user. Children’s early verb use suggests abilities and inclinations to abstract from experience that may indeed begin in infancy.

Author : Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199660216

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The Romance Verb by Martin Maiden Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive comparative-historical survey of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb that persist through time but have long ceased to be conditioned by any phonological or functional determinant. It explores the status of these patterns and their persistence, self-replication, and reinforcement over time.

Author : Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198030294

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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by Andrew Carnie,Eithne Guilfoyle Pdf

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

Author : Ernest Lagarde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : French language
ISBN : UIUC:30112068152765

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A French Verb Book by Ernest Lagarde Pdf

Author : Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135726744

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The Serial Verb Construction Parameter by Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart Pdf

An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.

Author : Volker Unterladstetter
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102167

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Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia by Volker Unterladstetter Pdf

Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages rather than looking at crosslinguistic patterns. This book provides the first in-depth account into the areal characteristics of multi-verb constructions (MVCs) in Eastern Indonesia. By collating published data as well as corpus data from 32 Austronesian and Papuan languages, the study traces commonalities as well as differences in MVC use across the area. Analysis takes place on two levels: first, the morpho-syntactic behaviour of MVCs is taken into account. As this plane of analysis arguably does not provide any meaningful insights into why MVCs are construed and used the way they are, a semantic account of MVCs is presented. One of the main hypotheses advanced in this book is that the crucial driving force behind multi-verb construals is semantic interaction between the verbs, leading to four principal techniques of event formation: merging, staging, modification, and free juxtaposition. The study aims at showing that while all four techniques are, to varying degrees, in use in Eastern Indonesian languages, the morpho-syntactic output does not necessarily mirror these underlying differences in event conception. Applying insights from Davidsonian event semantics as well as from predicate decomposition, the book provides a model of event interaction that helps to explain differences in MVC behaviour such as issues in constituent order or operator assignment.

Author : Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198844303

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Rethinking Verb Second by Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe Pdf

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : Richard Prior
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071491341

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Practice Makes Perfect: Latin Verb Tenses by Richard Prior Pdf

An ideal workbook or quick reference, suitable for beginning and intermediate learners A volume in the popular Practice Makes Perfect series

Author : Andrew Carnie,Sheila Ann Dooley,Heidi Harley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227977

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Verb First by Andrew Carnie,Sheila Ann Dooley,Heidi Harley Pdf

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.

Author : Constantin Freitag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725117

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Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon by Constantin Freitag Pdf

This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.

Author : David Lightfoot,Norbert Hornstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521456614

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Verb Movement by David Lightfoot,Norbert Hornstein Pdf

Work on the movement of phrase categories, mostly Noun Phrases, has been a central element of syntactic theorizing almost since the earliest work on generative grammar. Work on the movement of lexical elements, heads, has been much less central until recent years. Verb movement is now, however, the center of current research in syntax. Parallel to the theoretical interest has been the attention focused on the description of verb-second languages and on the movement operations that place the verb in its "second" position. This volume represents the latest work from many of the leading researchers in an important field, and draws on analyses from a wide range of languages. It will have a significant impact on its field.