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Author | : Anneli Meurman-Solin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199938482 |
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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony.
Author | : Kristin Bech |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | : 9789027255969 |
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In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where both word order and prosody play a role in expressing contrast, and compare the analysis of the modern languages to our data of Old Spanish and Old Portuguese. Our findings indicate that very little has changed with regard to the expression of contrastivity through word order. Therefore, any word order.
Author | : Anneli Meurman-Solin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199860211 |
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The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics.
Author | : Kristin Bech |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027270465 |
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The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In addition to discussing changes in individual languages along the syntax–information structure axis, the volume also makes a point of comparing and contrasting different languages with respect to the interplay between syntax and information structure. Since the creation of increasingly sophisticated annotated corpora of historical texts is on the agenda in many research environments, methods and schemes for information structure annotation and analysis of historical texts from a theoretical and applied perspective are discussed.
Author | : Bettelou Los |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027258201 |
Download English Historical Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics (the latter made possible by the increasing quality and accessibility of digital tools), work on linguistic interfaces (between segmental phonology and prosody, and syntax and information structure) and work on mechanisms of language change (such as Yang’s Tolerance Principle, on the threshold for the productivity of linguistic rules in language acquisition). The volume will be of interest to those working on the historical phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics of English, language change, corpus linguistics, computational historical linguistics, and related sub-disciplines.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
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Author | : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190627883 |
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This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
Author | : Marcel den Dikken |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107354587 |
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Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author | : Olga Fischer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521768586 |
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An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.
Author | : Teresa Fanego |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027247315 |
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This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.