Word Order Universals
Author | : John A Hawkins |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483296601 |
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Author | : John A Hawkins |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483296601 |
Word Order Universals
Author | : Bernard Comrie |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226114330 |
Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Morten H. Christiansen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190294116 |
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word order. Nonetheless, languages do share certain regularities in how they are structured and used. The exact nature and extent of these "language universals" has been the focus of much research and is one of the central explanatory goals in the language sciences. During the past 50 years, there has been tremendous progress, a few major conceptual revolutions, and even the emergence of entirely new fields. The wealth of findings and theories offered by the various language-science disciplines has made it more important than ever to work toward an integrated understanding of the nature of human language universals. This book is the first to examine language universals from a cross-disciplinary perspective. It provides new insights into long standing questions such as: What exactly defines the human capacity for language? Are there universal properties of human languages and, if so, what are they? Can all language universals be explained in the same way, or do some universals require different kinds of explanations from others? Language Universals is unique in starting with the assumption that the best way to approach these and related questions is through a dialogue between a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, computer science and biology.
Author | : Sergio Scalise |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2008-10-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1402088256 |
This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that make up the volume deal with both theoretical and empirical issues, and range over various domains, covering not only morphology and syntax, which were the major focus of Greenberg’s seminal work, but also phonology and semantics, as well as diachrony and second language acquisition. Diverse perspectives illustrate and discuss a huge number of phenomena from a wide variety of languages, not only exploring the way research on universals - tersects with different subareas of linguistics, but also contributing to the ongoing debate between functional and formal approaches to explaining the universals of language. This stimulating reading for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics shows how different, but not irreconcilable, modes of explanation can complement each other, both offering fresh insights into the investigation of unity and diversity in languages, and pointing to exciting areas for future research. • A fresh and up-to-date survey of the present state of research on Universals of Language in an international context, with original contributions from leading specialists in the eld. • First-hand accounts of substantive ndings and theoretical observations in diff- ent subareas of linguistics. • Huge number of linguistic phenomena and data from diffferent languages a- lyzed and discussed in detail.
Author | : William E. Rutherford |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027228698 |
This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertilization between research in grammatical theory and in second language acquisition. Topics dealt with in a number of the papers include word order, markedness, core grammar, accessability hierarchies, and simplified registers. The range of universals discussed embraces phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Universals are also considered with reference to ontology, psychological reality, and evaluation metrics.
Author | : Timothy Shopen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1985-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521318990 |
The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780804709682 |
Author | : Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Internet in education |
ISBN | : 383096689X |
Author | : Petra M. Vogel |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110806126 |
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author | : Michelle Sheehan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 026203669X |
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.