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Author | : Gillian Ramchand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2007-02-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199247455 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.
Author | : Uli Sauerland |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110207559 |
Download Interfaces + Recursion = Language? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Human language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena; different mutually-unintelligeable individual languages are numerous; and the descriptions of individual languages occupy thousands of pages. Recent work in linguistics, however, has tried to argue that despite all appearances to the contrary, the human biological capacity for language may be reducible to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies. The most radical version of this view has emerged from the Minimalist Program: The claim that language consists of only the ability to generate recursive structures by a computational mechanism. On this view, all other properties of language must result from the interaction at the interfaces of that mechanism and other mental systems not exclusively devoted to language. Since language could then be described as the simplest recursive system satisfying the requirements of the interfaces, one can speak of the Minimalist Equation: Interfaces + Recursion = Language. The question whether all the richness of language can be reduced to that minimalist equation has already inspired several fruitful lines of research that led to important new results. While a full assessment of the minimalist equation will require evidence from many different areas of inquiry, this volume focuses especially on the perspective of syntax and semantics. Within the minimalist architecture, this places our concern with the core computational mechanism and the (LF-)interface where recursive structures are fed to interpretation. Specific questions that the papers address are: What kind of recursive structures can the core generator form? How can we determine what the simplest recursive system is? How can properties of language that used to be ascribed to the recursive generator be reduced to interface properties? What effects do syntactic operations have on semantic interpretation? To what extent do models of semantic interpretation support the LF-interface conditions postulated by minimalist syntax?
Author | : Laura Domínguez |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271992 |
Download Understanding Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic phenomenon an ‘interface phenomenon’, and (2) what is the specific role that the interfaces play in explaining language loss and persistent problems in second language acquisition? Answers to these questions are provided by a theoretical examination of the role that economy and computational efficiency play in recent Minimalist models of the language faculty, as well as by evidence obtained in two empirical studies examining the acquisition and attrition of two interface phenomena: Spanish subject realization and word order variation. The result is a new definition of ‘interface phenomena’ which deemphasizes syntactic complexity and focuses on the effect of interface interpretive conditions on syntactic structure. This work also shows that representational deficits cannot be ruled out in the acquisition and attrition of interface structures.
Author | : Nicholas Catasso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789027210975 |
Download Language Change at the Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse - with a special focus on Germanic and Romance - and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic development of long-burning issues such as negation, word order, quantifiers, null subjects, aspectuality, the structure of the left periphery, and extraposition. The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains. The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general.
Author | : Andreas Späth |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110926008 |
Download Interfaces and Interface Conditions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include the preconditions of every level of the language system that are required for the transformation of linguistic information into conceptual representations. In accordance with Chomsky’s Minimalist language model, the language system is embedded into the performative systems where language is a part of the cognitive competence of human beings, i.e. system of articulation and perception (A/P) and the conceptual-intentional system (C/I). During the formation of linguistic structures, every performative system obtains well-formed representations as its input information. The articles of the volume show how interface conditions determine the linguistic representations on each level of the linguistic system. Interface conditions result in requirements for the ordering of linguistic elements. The syntactic transformation achieves a point, where the linguistic structure formation branches to two distinct representational levels. Both levels deliver instructions for the systems of performance A/P and C/I. Linearization takes place on the syntactic surface of a sentence. The linearization of linguistic elements is manifest at the derivational point of Spell-out and also on the level of the phonological form (PF). This means that on the one hand, linearization is relevant to the phonetic aspect of linguistic expressions, and on the other hand, the interpretation of linguistic utterances is based on hierarchical structures. On the level of Logical Form (LF) all operations apply which don’t have any influence on the linear order in overt syntax. In addition they affect the generation of hierarchical structures. The structure obtained on LF is the representational format of the semantic form of a sentence.
Author | : Jianhua Hu |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262683 |
Download Interfaces in Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, and scholars in Chinese Linguistics, this volume investigates the common structural properties that may be considered as possible candidates for UG. It addresses syntactic and semantic issues such as anaphora universals over non-isomorphic languages, the role that the forces of attraction and repulsion play in the grammar of natural languages, computational and semantic aspects of resumption, the dichotomy between inner and outer reflexive adverbials, system repairing strategies at interfaces, the v-copy construction in Chinese, the scope of disjunction, interactions between focus, negation and event quantification, null object constructions and VP-Ellipsis, child language acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality as well as second language acquisition of interface properties in Chinese double NP constructions. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of syntax, semantics, theoretical linguistics, and language acquisition, as well as scholars in Chinese linguistics.
Author | : Brad A. Myers |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1992-11-02 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1439865434 |
Download Languages for Developing User Interfaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book brings together a number of researchers and developers from industry and academia who report on their work. It is of interest to language designers and the creators of toolkits, UIMSs, and other user interface tools.
Author | : Raffaella Folli |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2010-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199567232 |
Download Interfaces in Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and exemplifies new experimental and analytic techniques for studying linguistic interfaces.
Author | : Lucía Contreras-García |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110711710 |
Download Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume explore the interface relations between different levels of linguistic representation in Functional Discourse Grammar as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and Keizer (2015). This theory analyses linguistic expressions at four linguistic levels: interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological. The articles address issues such as the possible correspondences and mismatches between those levels as well as the conditions which constrain the combinations of levels in well-formed expressions. Additionally, the theory is tested by examining various grammatical phenomena with a focus both on the English language and on typological adequacy: anaphora, raising, phonological reduction, noun incorporation, reflexives and reciprocals, serial verbs, the passive voice, time measurement constructions, coordination, nominal modification, and connectives. Overall, the volume provides both theoretical and descriptive insights which are of relevance to linguistics in general.
Author | : Yosuke Sato |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255385 |
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"Empirically rich, analytically sophisticated, and theoretically necessary. A major step forward in minimalist theorizing." --