Thematic Relations
Author | : Wendy K. Wilkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wendy K. Wilkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dorothea Kallfass |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3638768139 |
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin, course: Ergativity: A Comparative Perspective, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Thematic roles are a linguistic phenomenon describing the more specific relations between a predicate and its respective arguments. This is especially important in the field of language acquisition, or, more generally stated, for the process of understanding. A discussion of thematic roles is closely linked to one of the most complex questions ever: what is meaning? Thematic roles are a linguistic approach to this question which is characterized by its comparative simplicity. Still, it is a complex theory. It ist acknowledged that if you know the grammar of a language you really know this language. Since grammar takes a closer look at units of speech such as sentences, and smaller chunks of sentences, one has to come up with some strategies for interpreting these chunks and the sort of relation they have with each other in order to know grammar. Theta theory is one of these strategies, focusing on "who does what to whom in a clause". In short: a predicate is able to assign certain thematic roles to its respective arguments - we say that predicates have a thematic structure. The part of grammar whicht regulates the assignment of these roles is called theta theory. As an issue of linguistic interest, thematic roles have gained importance during the last two decades. Theta theory as part of the Government and Binding Theory will be discussed in the following chapters. First, the theory has to be localized in the field of grammar. Then, there follows a brief introduction to Noam Chomsky's current theory of principles and parameters. After these introductory sections the main issues will be addressed, for example the grammatical relevance of thematic roles, and also the question as to which extent theta marking is gram
Author | : Mário A. Perini |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2019-10-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3030285383 |
This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It analyzes the relation between grammatically defined roles such as agent and patient (semantic roles), and elaborate thematic relations (ETRs) actually accessible to language users. It shows that many phenomena previously analyzed as grammatical can be described in a more simple and convenient way by postulating direct connection between syntactic complements and cognitive relations present in the schema evoked by the verb. The volume focuses on a topic which has been the object of much discussion in the recent literature, namely the definition and delimitation of semantic roles, proposing new solutions to some important theoretical and practical problems in the description of the lexicogrammatical structure of languages, and in particular of verb valency. It shows that in many cases a direct relation can be established between morphosyntactic units and functions, on one hand, and ETRs, on the other, without the intermediation of grammatically defined semantic roles. This makes it possible to analyze thematic relations that have been traditionally problematic, such as the patient, in a linguistically simple and cognitively well-motivated way. Thematic Relations – A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface will be a useful resource for practicing linguists working on the analysis of natural languages, in particular on verb valency; verb subcategorization and thematic structure; semantic (thematic) roles, their definition and syntactic coding; the relation between grammatical structure and cognitive schemata (frames); and the structure of the lexicon.
Author | : Iggy M. Roca |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110872617 |
Author | : William D. Davies |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401009910 |
The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.
Author | : Nikolas Gisborne |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004375295 |
In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that treats language structure as part of the wider cognitive network.
Author | : Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027277516 |
This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section contains an introduction to the theory which is the most thorough statement of it since FSUG, summarizing the features of Role and Reference Grammar established there and developing new theoretical components and analyses of syntactic phenomena not discussed in the earlier work. Throughout the discussion features of RRG are compared and contrasted with comparable features of other syntactic theories. The remainder of the volume is devoted to detailed analyses of specific problems, e.g. control, case marking, in a wide variety of languages, e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Nootka, Mparntwe Arrernte and Turkish. Thus the works presented here illustrate well the strong cross-linguistic approach to syntactic theory and description in Role and Reference Grammar.
Author | : Robin Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Generative grammar |
ISBN | : 9781138698093 |
A note on 'worth' -- Summary -- 3 Thematic domains and bounding -- Thematic domains -- Subject and adjuncts -- Barriers and transparency -- Extensions to transparency -- Summary -- 4 Control and non-overt operators -- Approaches to control -- A theory of non-overt operators -- Non-overt operators and control -- LF representations and the interpretation of arbitrary control -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index
Author | : Antonio Sanfilippo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
Grammatical relations have always constituted a primary focus of attention in the study of language. Within the last three decades, the topicality of this trend has increasingly been determined by the quest for a universal characterization of the language faculty which has shaped the goals and directives of most current works in theoretical linguistics. Although the realization patterns and syntactic functionality of grammatical relations are subject to cross-linguistic variation, studies in comparative grammar have provided suggestive evidence that the range of variation found can often be contained within the limits fixed by a discrete set of parameters. The investigation of these parameters has broached the possibility of a universal specification of the nature of grammatical relations. This thesis proposes that such a specification should be achieved by establishing regularities in the syntax-semantics interface within a constraint-based approach to linguistic analysis that integrates a precise computational interpretation. In keeping with this objective, a unification-based categorial grammar framework is developed which incorporates the semantic insights of a Neo-Davidsonian approach to verb semantics and predicate-argument combination, where thematic roles are defined as clusters of entailments of verb meanings. This framework is extended with an integrated approach to argument selection and selection change. Properties of the resulting system are demonstrated with respect to a variety of natural language phenomena concerning grammatical function changing, unaccusativity and clitic dislocation.
Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027225672 |
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language. Focus is placed exclusively on English data, providing an empirical explication of the structure of the language.