Author : Timothy Angus Stowell
Publisher : Brill
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :
Presenting a dynamic investigation into the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory, this book provides an insightful overview and introduction to lexical theory. It discusses the nature of argument and structure and debates the relation of argument nature to constituent structure and binding theory.
Author : Birgit Gerlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227720
As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.
Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521763290
Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.
Author : Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110859920
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author : Pritha Chandra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027270821
The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.
Author : Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110872994
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author : Ellen Contini-Morava
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236890
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.
Author : Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139443517
Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises. Topics covered include word order, constituency, case, agreement, tense, gender, pronoun systems, inflection, derivation, argument structure and grammatical relations, and a useful glossary provides a clear explanation of each term. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Analyzing Grammar is set to become a key text for all courses in grammatical analysis.
Author : Hella Olbertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230463
In functional grammar, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic building blocks around which the structure of a clause is built. This book examines 5 aspects of the role of the lexicon in functional grammar.
Author : David Singleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131783593X
The lexicon represents the building blocks of language: words and vocabulary. Most of us think of language in terms of words, and words are also integral to the way in which linguists approach language as an object of study. The lexicon and lexical issues must be taken in consideration in every domain of language study and, conversely, the lexicon cannot be viewed in isolation from other aspects of language. 'Language and the Lexicon' provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of lexicology, introducing the reader to the lexicon by exploring the lexical aspects of a range of different areas of language: syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, language variation, language change, language acquisition and language processing. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the book introduces the key concepts employing examples from a wide variety of languages in order to illustrate the points made. This book is ideally suited to those approaching lexicology for the first time. With its wide breadth of focus and diverse topics, it can equally serve as a first introduction to linguistics.
