Author : Kenneth J. Safir
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262693004
A theory of the syntactic restrictions on dependent identity interpretations in natural language.
Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521635660
The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax.
Author : Igor Aleksandrovic Mel'cuk
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780887064500
This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather than in terms of more familiar phrase-structure. The notions of dependency relations and dependency structure are introduced and substantiated, and the advantages of dependency representation are demonstrated by applying it to a number of popular linguistic problems, e.g. grammatical subject and ergative construction. A wide array of linguistic data is used - the well-known (Dyirbal), the less known (Lezgian), and the more recent (Alutor). Several "exotic" cases of Russian are discussed to show how dependency can be used to solve difficult technical problems. The book is not only formal and rigorous, but also strongly theory-oriented and data-based. Special attention is paid to linguistic terminology, specifically to its logical consistency. The dependency formalism is presented within the framework of a new semantics-oriented general linguistic theory, Meaning-Text theory.
Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311029477X
Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or predicate/argument structure. Relevant phenomena include long-distance movement, long-distance reflexivization, long-distance agreement, control, non-local deletion, long-distance case assignment, consecutio temporum, extended scope of negation, and semantic binding of pronouns. A recurring strategy pursued in many contemporary syntactic theories is to model cases of non-local dependencies in a strictly local way, by successively passing on the relevant information in small domains of syntactic structures. The present volume brings together eighteen articles that investigate non-local dependencies in movement, agreement, binding, scope, and deletion constructions from different theoretical backgrounds (among them versions of the Minimalist Program, HPSG, and Categorial Grammar), and based on evidence from a variety of typologically distinct languages. This way, advantages and disadvantages of local treatments of non-local dependencies become evident. Furthermore, it turns out that local analyses of non-local phenomena developed in different syntactic theories (spanning the derivational/declarative divide) often may not only share identical research questions but also rely on identical research strategies.
Author : Ken Safir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019803718X
In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric readings is not accidental, contrary to most current thinking, but rather should be derived from a principle, one that he proposes in the form of an algorithm. Secondly, he maintains that dependent identity relations are always possible where they are not prohibited by a constraint. Lastly, he proposes that there are no parameters of anaphora - that all anaphora-specific principles are universal, and that the patterns of anaphora across languages arise entirely from a restricted set of lexical properties. This comprehensive consideration of anaphora redirects current thinking on the subject.
Author : Jon Sprouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192518577
This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century. Syntactic theory is both a domain of study in its own right, and one component of an integrated theory of the cognitive neuroscience of language. It provides a theory of the mediation between sound and meaning, a theory of the representations constructed during sentence processing, and a theory of the end-state for language acquisition. Given the highly interactive nature of the theory of syntax, this volume defines "experimental syntax" in the broadest possible terms, exploring both formal experimental methods that have been part of the domain of syntax since its inception (i.e., acceptability judgment methods) and formal experimental methods that have arisen through the interaction of syntactic theory with the domains of acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax brings these methods together into a single experimental syntax volume for the first time, providing high-level reviews of major experimental work, offering guidance for researchers looking to incorporate these diverse methods into their own work, and inspiring new research that will push the boundaries of the theory of syntax. It will appeal to students and scholars from the advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields including syntax, acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics.
Author : Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Latin language
ISBN :
Author : Edwin Williams
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262731065
This important monograph summarizes, rethinks, and extends a decade of the author's work on therole assignments - the ways in which the roles implied by verbs of a given type play out in terms of position and other syntactic functions. The study of theta roles and the locality of theta-role assignment leads into many interesting areas of linguistic theory, such as scope, the ECP, X-bar theory, binding theory, and the weak crossover condition; Williams's reconstruction thus offers a systematic integration of a remarkably wide range of syntactic phenomena.Williams starts by outlining a theory of the clause,specifically, of the distribution of Nominative Case and Tense. He then develops a formalism for the notion of"external argument" that is used throughout the rest of the book. Subsequent chapters review the issues surrounding the syntactic expression of the subject-predicate relationship, extend the notion of external argument to include NP movement, and reanalyze the verb movement constructions as deriving from the calculus of theta roles rather than movement.The last chapter distinguishes referential dependence and coreference, showing that a general Leftness condition governs the former, while the binding theory restated in terms of theta relations governs the latter.Edwin Williams is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University.
Author : Indrajit Ray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319498061
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2016, held in Jaipur, India, in December 2016. The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers address the following topics: attacks and mitigation; authentication; authorization and information flow control; crypto systems and protocols; network security and intrusion detection; privacy; software security; and wireless, mobile and IoT security.
Author : Robert Mondi
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1624660932
The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely the concepts, terms, and constructions needed for the study of Greek and Latin. Recent classical language textbooks, while presuming little or no grammatical sophistication on the part of their students, often provide little more by way of remediation than definitions of grammatical terminology. A Student Handbook of Greek and English Grammar offers a student-friendly comparative exposition of English and ancient Greek grammatical principles that will prove a valuable supplement to a wide range of beginning Greek textbooks as well as a handy reference for those continuing on to upper-level courses.
