A Situated Theory of Agreement
Author : Michael Barlow
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1
Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110377403
Book Description
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.
Syntax
Author : Joachim Jacobs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110142631
Book Description
No detailed description available for "SYNTAX (JACOBS U.A.) HSK 9.2".
Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe
Author : Frans Plank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110197073
Book Description
The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.
Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230829
Book Description
From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the determination of meaning in typological studies; a refined understanding of diachronic processes by including intentional, social, statistical, and level-determined phenomena; the reconsideration of categories such as sentence, evidential or adposition, and structures such as compounds or polysynthesis; the tension between formal simplicity and functional clarity; the inclusion of unusual systems in theoretical debates; and fresh approaches to Chinese classifiers, possession in Oceanic languages, and English aspect. This is a careful selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the Symposium was to confront fundamental issues in language structure and change with the rich variation of forms and functions observed across languages.
Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments
Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110213966
Book Description
This is the first volume dedicated to the study of formal features and the expression of arguments within Phase Theory, the latest model of syntactic theorizing within the Minimalist Program. The collection addresses the nature of formal features and their role in the syntactic computation as well as checking mechanisms and configurations. It also investigates theoretical issues underlying the nature of syntactic arguments and their licensing (argument structure at large) and specific grammatical operations involving arguments (abstract and morphological case, empty elements, passivization, negation, and aspect). The chapters presented in this volume provide case studies from several, typologically unrelated languages. Apart from novel analyses of new as well as well-known facts, the contributions also provide interesting aspects of and challenges for Phase Theory in general, by critically exploring a number of theoretical extensions, proposing new syntactic mechanisms, and sharpening our tools for linguistic analysis.
Diagnosing Syntax
Author : Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191624268
Book Description
Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research. It refers to the process of identifying a phenomenon, property, or condition on the basis of certain signs and by the use of various diagnostic procedures. This book is the first ever to consider the use of diagnostics in syntactic research and focuses on the five core domains of natural language syntax - ellipsis, agreement, anaphora, phrasal movement, and head movement. Each empirical domain is considered in turn from the perspectives of syntax, syntax at the interfaces, neuropsycholinguistics, and language diversity. Drawing on the expertise of 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, the book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax? It will interest linguists, including formalists, typologists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists.
Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Author : Thom Huebner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 1991-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027281807
Book Description
The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application, equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second, although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see “theorists” working within formal models of syntax, SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax, theories of phonology, variationist theories of sociolinguists, etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.
Features
Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107026237
Book Description
A unique examination of the features of language: how features vary between languages and also how they work.
Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language
Author : Milan Rezac
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9048196981
Book Description
This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.
