Working Papers in Linguistics
Author : Ohio State University. Dept. of Linguistics
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Linguistics
ISBN :
Between Grammar and Lexicon
Author : Ellen Contini-Morava
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236890
Book Description
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, calling into question the strict dichotomy between the two that is sometimes assumed.
Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Linguistics
ISBN :
Book Description
Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory
Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283346
Book Description
Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures assumed to underlie utterances in natural languages, in two respects. One area is the question of whether to expand the representations accepted in Functional Grammar (FG) in order to capture interpersonal functions, i.e., communication between speaker and hearer in a particular situation and context, to include, for example, aspect, tense, modality and illocutionary force. The second area concerns whether current underlying representation in FG is sufficiently abstract to be the format for the deepest level of human conceptual knowledge storage, as discussed by Simon Dik in a number of recent articles.
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Linguistics
ISBN :
Book Description
The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Author : Carmen Dagostino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110712814
Book Description
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Author : Robert D. van Valin, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139445375
Book Description
Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena, including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Author : Bob de Jonge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286876
Book Description
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research exemplifies how such a validation should be conducted by determining which forms underlie the analyses and extracting those observations that are considered to be objective. The volume consists of two parts: a section on synchronic and diachronic grammatical problems and a section on Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB), the Columbia School version of phonology, applied to evolutionary, developmental and clinical issues and the phonotactics of the selected lexicon of a literary text. It provides a wealth of useful empirical data and in-depth and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative analyses of a broad range of languages from diverse families: French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.
Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527569691
Book Description
This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Author : Elena Even-Simkin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027271763
Book Description
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and inductive methodology employed in this study are further supported by additional first language acquisition data, experimental studies and historical evidence. The data culled from multiple linguistic anthologies, dictionaries and thesauri have shown that although the IVA process comprises a relatively small number of nominal and verbal forms in Modern English, IVA, originally, was a prevalent and productive process in Old English, Indo-European and other language families. The results of this empirical study present and introduce a novel classification based on the regular and systematic iconic-phonological and semantic nature of all these diverse IVA processes both nominal and verbal that has been maintained throughout the history of English.
