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Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015014882149
Author : Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198747307
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCSC:32106001519971
Author : Bettelou Los,Pieter de Haan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264848
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.
Author : Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299208
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with “restructuring” phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Author : Susann Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255402
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Author : John A Hawkins
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483296609
Word Order Universals
Author : Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0804724180
The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.
Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCSC:32106008033059
Author : Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284716
The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.
Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235176
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.
Author : Joachim Sabel,Mamoru Saito
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197266
This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain. The articles that focus mainly on the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties. This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages. We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229052
For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.
Author : John Bowers,John S. Bowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107096752
This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
Author : Phil Williams
Publisher : English Lessons Brighton
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781913468019
Want to master the basics of English structure? Do you fully understand 'subject-verb-object'? Can you rearrange clauses confidently? This book explains all. A complete foundation in word order and sentence structure for the English language, Word Order in English Sentences is a full self-study guide that takes you from the basic rules through to flexible structures. As well as learning the standard building blocks of English, you'll find the answers to positioning adverbial phrases building complex sentences, with exercises to test understanding. The rules and patterns are all demonstrated through easy-to-follow explanations with clear, engaging examples. This concise grammar guide is a must-have for starting students and language enthusiasts alike. Phil Williams takes you beyond the basics to make advanced English accessible for everyone - try it today.