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Converging Grammars

Author : Debra Ziegeler

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 49,92 MB

Release : 2015-07-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1614514097

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Book Description

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars



Converging Grammars

Author : Debra Ziegeler

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 38,48 MB

Release : 2015-07-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1501500635

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Book Description

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars



Events as Grammatical Objects

Author : Carol Tenny

Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 33,50 MB

Release : 2000-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9781575862064

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Research in lexical semantics, logical semantics, and syntax has demonstrated a growing recognition that the grammars of natural languages structure and refer to events in particular ways. This convergence on events as grammatical objects cross these disciplines is the motivation for this volume, which brings together researchers from the areas of lexical semantics, logical semantics, and syntax specifically to address the topic of event structure. Lexical semantics and logical semantics are two enterprises that use different tools and address different questions. This volume specifically focuses on topics relating to events in grammar, where the work of lexical semanticists, logical semanticists, and syntacticians intersect.



Dialect Change

Author : Peter Auer

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 15,27 MB

Release : 2005-06-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521806879

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Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a native of London, or a native of Bonn from a native of Cologne. This comprehensive study brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence and divergence. Drawing on examples from a wide range of European countries - as well as areas where European languages have been transplanted - they examine a range of issues relating to dialect contact and isolation, and show how sociolinguistic conditions differ hugely between and within European countries. Each specially commissioned chapter is based on original research, giving an overview of work on that particular area and presenting case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. Dialect Change will be welcomed by all those interested in sociolinguistics, dialectology, the relevance of language variation to formal linguistic theories, and European languages.



Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage

Author : Gerard J. Steen

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 15,75 MB

Release : 2007-11-14

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027291853

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Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of methods and techniques. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage aims to map the field of this development in theory and research from a methodological perspective. It raises the question when exactly evidence for metaphor in language and thought can be said to count as converging. It also goes into the various stages of producing such evidence (conceptualization, operationalization, data collection and analysis, and interpretation). The book offers systematic discussion of eight distinct areas of metaphor research that emerge as a result of approaching metaphor as part of grammar or usage, language or thought, and symbolic structure or cognitive process.





Constructions in Contact

Author : Hans C. Boas

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 43,18 MB

Release : 2018-12-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027263302

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The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages, the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.



Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering III

Author : Joao M Fernandes

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 508 pages

File Size : 32,3 MB

Release : 2011-01-03

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3642180221

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Book Description

This tutorial book presents revised and extended lecture notes for a selection of the contributions presented at the International Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE 2009), which was held in Braga, Portugal, in July 2009. The 16 articles comprise 7 long tutorials, 6 short tutorials and 3 participants contributions; they shed light on the generation and transformation of programs, data, models, metamodels, documentation, and entire software systems. The topics covered include software reverse and re-engineering, model driven engineering, automated software engineering, generic language technology, and software language engineering.



Logic and Grammar

Author : Sylvain Pogodalla

Publisher : Springer

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 29,82 MB

Release : 2011-06-14

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3642214908

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This book contains selected papers from the Colloquium in Honor of Alain Lecomte, held in Pauillac, France, in November 2007. The event was part of the ANR project "Prélude" (Towards Theoretical Pragmatics Based on Ludics and Continuation Theory), the proceedings of which were published in another FoLLI-LNAI volume (LNAI 6505) edited by Alain Lecomte and Samuel Tronçon. The selected papers of this Festschrift volume focus on the scientific areas in which Alain Lecomte has worked and to which he has contributed: formal linguistics, computational linguistics, logic, and cognition.



Constituency and convergence in the Americas

Author : Adam J.R. Tallman

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 820 pages

File Size : 28,36 MB

Release : 2024-08-05

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3961104379

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This volume brings together studies on morphosyntactic and phonological constituency from a host of languages across the Americas. The study expands on previous multivariate typological work on phonological domains by simultaneously coding the results of morphosyntactic constituency tests. The descriptions are geared towards developing a typology of constituency and linguistic levels in both morphosyntactic and phonological domains. The multivariate approach adopted in this volume deconstructs constituency tests and phonological domains into cross-linguistically comparable variables applying and extending autotypology method to the domain of constituent structure. Current methodologies for establishing constituents have been criticized for containing an in-built selection bias, where the results and interpretation of tests are chosen or sampled in such a fashion that specific analyses are prejudged to be correct or false in a non-rigorous fashion. The papers of this volume develop novel methodology for reporting and coding constituency variables for language description and comparison that seeks to reign in selection bias allowing theories concerning the relationship between morphosyntactic and phonological constituent structure to be more severely tested.