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| Author | : Simin Karimi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2007-02-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027292922 |
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The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-related constructions. In addition, several papers offer syntax-based discussions of aspects of acquisition, pedagogy, and neurolinguistics, addressing issues related to case marking, negation, thematic relations, and more. Several papers report on new findings relevant to less commonly investigated languages, and all provide valuable observations related to natural language syntactic properties, many of which are universal in their implications. The authors challenge several aspects of recent syntactic theory, broaden the applicable scope of others, and introduce important and provocative analyses that bear on current issues in linguistics.
| Author | : Simin Karimi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027233653 |
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The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-related constructions. In addition, several papers offer syntax-based discussions of aspects of acquisition, pedagogy, and neurolinguistics, addressing issues related to case marking, negation, thematic relations, and more. Several papers report on new findings relevant to less commonly investigated languages, and all provide valuable observations related to natural language syntactic properties, many of which are universal in their implications. The authors challenge several aspects of recent syntactic theory, broaden the applicable scope of others, and introduce important and provocative analyses that bear on current issues in linguistics.
| Author | : Felicia Lee |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2006-03-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781402043000 |
Download Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
| Author | : Nigar Gülşat Aygen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Download Finiteness, Case and Clausal Architecture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Sabine Mohr |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027233523 |
Download Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Mainland Scandinavian languages and English, it is shown that crosslinguistic variation as regards, e.g., the distribution of the expletive in impersonal passives and the occurrence of a Definiteness Effect in Transitive Expletive Constructions is mainly due to the choice of different kinds of 'expletive' elements (each associated with different featural make-ups which force them to show up in different positions), namely true expletives, event arguments and quasi-arguments, whereas expletive pro is shown not to exist.
| Author | : Petra Sleeman |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2011-02-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027287295 |
Download The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.
| Author | : Andrew Radford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2010-02-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521157307 |
Download An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International Student Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.
| Author | : Gema Chocano |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2007-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027292639 |
Download Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less ‘liberal’ type of ‘Scrambling’ within topicalised VPs; the link between reordering possibilities and headfinalness; the asymmetry exhibited by monotransitive and ditransitive structures with respect to the interaction between ‘Scrambling’ and the unmarked word order, and, finally, certain anomalies in the reordering of the lower arguments of ditransitive predicates that assign inherent case.
| Author | : András Bárány |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961102759 |
Download Syntactic architecture and its consequences I Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions on the relation of syntax to other aspects of grammar and linguistics more generally, including studies on language acquisition, variation and change, and syntactic interfaces. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax ranging from the core verbal domain to higher, propositional domains.
| Author | : Josef Bayer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2007-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027292450 |
Download Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The contributions to the present volume combine theoretical reasoning in syntax and phonology with a comparative research agenda in which South Asian languages figure prominently. The topics range from issues of clause structure, serial verb constructions, cleft- and question formation, to the question of what the proper syntactic format of modification should be, issues of binding theory and raising, and issues of complementation, the clausal periphery and clausal typing. The collection of articles concludes with two chapters on Dravidian and comparative phonology and a chapter on the shaping of phonological awareness by different writing systems. The authors and the editors devote this piece of work to Professor K.A. Jayaseelan, one of present-day India’s most influential linguists.
