Author : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198712391
This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still understood. It explores fundamental questions about the workings of grammar and provides detailed case studies of inter- and intralinguistic variation.
Author : Montse Batllori
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199272123
In this outstanding collection of new work the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change. The editors open the volume with an extensive and accessible introduction to the ideas and techniques deployed in the book and the phenomena and issues on which they are brought to bear. Seventeen chapters follow, divided into two parts, the first concerned with grammaticalization and the second with parametric variation. These show what theapplication of contemporary theories of syntax and language variation can reveal about syntactic change and variation and the processes of parametric change which lie behind them. They also demonstrate the value of testing and constructing synchronic theories on the basis of historical data. The analysesrange over many languages and language families, including Germanic, Romance, Greek, and Chinese.This book will interest scholars and students of grammatical change and theory at graduate level and above.
Author : Eric Fuss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227966
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment of the hypothesis that certain apparently synchronic generalizations are actually the result of the mechanisms of language change, (2) an inquiry into how diachronic data can be used to evaluate and shape formal analyses of particular synchronic phenomena. Reviving the interest in diachronic explanations for synchronic data, the contributions provide novel and original diachronic accounts of phenomena that up to now have escaped a deeper synchronic explanation, including the nature of EPP features, gaps in the distribution of complementizer agreement, and counterexamples to the generalization that rich verbal inflection correlates with verb movement.
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1911
Category : American literature
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Page : 662 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Stationery trade
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Author : Robert K. Barnhart
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson Company
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Contains over 30,000 entries with word derivations, spelling, pronunciation, and meanings. Also traces how the meanings have developed over time.
Author : Kerstin Schwabe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110952157
The papers of the volume mirror the ongoing debate on approaches towards two related topics: conjunction and ellipsis. The major issues are the syntactic relationship between the conjuncts, the syntactic category of the conjunction words, the size of the conjuncts, the syntactic and semantic status of the null elements, and semantic and information structural restrictions. A wide range of facts from various languages are explored in relation to phrasal coordination, Gapping, Pseudogapping, VP-ellipsis, and Sluicing.
Author : Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Christina Tortora
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267685
This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest to scholars in Romance and in general linguistics.
