Long-distance Reflexives in Norwegian
Author | : Tania E. Strahan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tania E. Strahan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tania Elizabeth Strahan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Norwegian language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Cole |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2000-10-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1849508747 |
This new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examining the role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics/discourse in the use of long-distance reflexives in a variety of languages. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.
Author | : Jan Koster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991-09-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521400008 |
A collection of original articles on the nature of anaphoric systems in a wide variety of genetically and structurally different languages.
Author | : Lars Hellan |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-02-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110849135 |
Author | : Jan Sjåvik |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810872137 |
One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population to the Black Death in 1349, ended up in a union with Denmark that lasted until 1814, and then became united with Sweden, gaining complete independence only as recently as 1905. Over the centuries the Norwegians eked out a meager living from stony fields and treacherous seas while suffering through hunger, darkness, and cold, however, its recent productive use of such natural resources as hydroelectric power, natural gas, and oil has made the Norwegians some of the richest people in the world. The A to Z of Norway supplies a wealth of information that illuminates Norway's remarkable history, society, and culture. This is done through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, appendixes, and over 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering events and individuals of historical, political, social, and cultural significance. Both past and present political parties are discussed, major economic sectors are described, and basic economic facts are provided. Several entries describe the history and attractions of major Norwegian cities, and Norway's role in the international community is detailed as well providing a full portrait of this vibrant country.
Author | : Jan Sjåvik |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810864088 |
The Historical Dictionary of Norway supplies a wealth of information that illuminates Norway's remarkable history, society, and culture. This is done through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, appendixes, and over 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering events and individuals of historical, political, social, and cultural significance. Both past and present political parties are discussed, major economic sectors are described, and basic economic facts are provided. Several entries describe the history and attractions of major Norwegian cities, and Norway's role in the international community is detailed as well providing a full portrait of this vibrant country.
Author | : Margaret Thomas |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1993-10-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027281769 |
This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive pronouns by native speakers of Japanese and of Spanish. The second experiment examines the interpretation of the Japanese reflexive zibun by native speakers of English and of Chinese. Three hypotheses are evaluated: (a) that UG is unavailable, and that processing strategies or other non-linguistic principles guide second language acquisition; (b) that UG is available only in the form in which it is instantiated in the learner's native language; (c) that UG is fully available, including the ability to re-set parameters to UG-sanctioned values not instantiated in the learner's native language. The results show that learners observe constraints defined by Manzini and Wexler's parameterized version of Principle A of the binding theory and support the proposal that adult learners have access to universal grammar. A final chapter reviews the experimental data in the light of recent accounts of cross-linguistic variation in the grammar of anaphors which reject parameterization of the binding principles in favor of a “movement to INFL” analysis.
Author | : Idan Landau |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262542854 |
A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control. Control in adjuncts involves a complex interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, which so far has resisted systematic analysis. In this book, Idan Landau offers the first comprehensive account of adjunct control. Extending the framework developed in his earlier book, A Two-Tiered Theory of Control, Landau analyzes ten different types of adjuncts and shows that they fall into two categories: those displaying strict obligatory control (OC) and those alternating between OC and nonobligatory control (NOC). He explains how and why adjuncts shift between OC and NOC, unifying their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties. Landau shows that the split between the two types of adjuncts reflects a fundamental distinction in the semantic type of the adjunct: property (OC) or proposition (NOC), a distinction independently detectable by the adjunct's tolerance to a lexical subject. After presenting a fully compositional account of controlled adjuncts, Landau tests and confirms the specific configurational predictions for each type of adjunct. He describes the interplay between OC and NOC in terms of general principles of competition--both within the grammar and outside of it, in the pragmatics and in the processing module--shedding new light on classical puzzles in the acquisition of adjunct control by children. Along the way, he addresses a range of empirical phenomena, including implicit arguments, event control, logophoricity, and topicality.
Author | : Martin Haspelmath |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2005-07-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191531243 |
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.