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| Author | : Liliane Haegeman |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
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| Author | : Liliane Haegeman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2012-10-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199858780 |
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
| Author | : Liliane Haegeman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2012-11-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199858772 |
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
| Author | : Lobke Aelbrecht |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2012-06-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027273650 |
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
| Author | : Lobke Aelbrecht |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027255733 |
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
| Author | : Victor Junnan Pan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-01-15 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1351655949 |
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational components are hierarchically ordered according to the "Subjectivity Scale Constraint" functioning at syntax-discourse interface. Three questions will be essentially addressed: What is the order? How to determine such an order? Why such an order? This research not only gives a thorough examination of the peripheral elements in Chinese but also improves the general understanding of the ordering issue in the left-periphery crosslinguistically. This book is aimed at scholars interested in Chinese syntax or generative syntax.
| Author | : Valéria Molnár |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2019-08-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501504487 |
This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.
| Author | : Sam Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 485 |
| Release | : 2020-05-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198840179 |
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoproven�al, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
| Author | : Roland Pfau |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2016-03-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501503014 |
Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although previous studies have provided important insights into a wide range of phenomena of sign languages, there are still many aspects of sign languages that have not yet been investigated thoroughly. The structure of subordinated clauses is a case in point. The study of these complex syntactic structures in the visual-gestural modality adds to our understanding of linguistic variation in the domain of subordination. Moreover, it offers new empirical and theoretical evidence concerning possible structures and functions of subordination in natural languages. And last but not least, it answers the question to what extent the corresponding morphosyntactic and prosodic strategies depend on the modality of articulation and perception. This volume represents the first collection of papers by leading experts in the field investigating topics that go beyond the analysis of simple clauses. It thus contributes in innovative ways to recent debates about syntax, prosody, semantics, discourse structure, and information structure and their complex interrelation.
| Author | : Javier Fernández-Sánchez |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2020-02-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261695 |
In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under identity with an antecedent clause. Although Romance RD is a fertile area of research, the consequences of the biclausal analysis remain unexplored in these languages. This monograph intends to fill this gap. Adopting this approach not only solves some issues that have always been at the core of dislocation structures in general; it also allows us to uncover novel sets of data and to provide straightforward explanations for well-known generalizations. Further, it brings RD along with a set of phenomena which are structurally very similar, like afterthoughts or split questions, which have been independently argued to display a bisentential structure. Under alternative, monoclausal approaches to RD, the striking similarities between these phenomena must be rendered anecdotal.
