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Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262014300
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Agreement and Head Movement written by Ian G. Roberts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax.
Author : Ronice Müller de Quadros
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507818
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Brazilian Sign Language Studies written by Ronice Müller de Quadros and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language linguists, and the community of Libras scholars have documented this language and built robust resources for linguistic research. This book provides a selection of studies by these scholars, representing work in a variety of areas from phonology to creative literature.
Author : Jon Franco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236933
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics written by Jon Franco and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective grammars. It is Mario Saltarelli that first offered a formal linguistic account of phonological and syntactic phenomena that occur in these two language groups. Thus, this compilation of articles in both Basque and Romance linguistics not only pays tribute to Saltarelli s work by acknowledging his formalization of this relational insight, but also comprises state of the art research on languages with strong geographical and historical kinship.Fifteen reviewed articles written by sixteen top scholars in the field provide fresh analyses of long standing challenging phenomena in Romance and Basque linguistics such as geminates, the evolution of Basque plosives, clitic doubling, clitic clustering, directionality of clitization, the role of agreement, focus, the interaction of voice and aspect, unaccusativity, semantic interpretation and syntactic structure of Determiner Phrases, obviation, control, and anaphoric and pronominal binding. This variety of topics however is unified by limiting the contributions to the four major formal areas of linguistics, and to one single framework, Generative Grammar, although in some of its many incarnations such as Minimalism, Optimality Theory, and Relational Grammar. All this, along with the number of languages covered by the authors (Aragonese, Basque, Catalan, French, Galician, Gascon, Italian and many of its dialects (Ligurian, Piedmontese, Tuscan...), Classical and Late Latin, Occitan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Romanian, Old and Modern Spanish among others), makes the book of great value to any linguist working in Romance or Basque linguistics.
Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533807
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Simpler Syntax written by Peter W. Culicover and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics written by and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising ten papers from this symposium, this volume deals with the syntax of Arabic, phonology and variation. The topics presented include: binding in Arabic; the analysis of negation and negative polarity items; pronoun doubling in codeswitching; and linguistic variation and language change.
Author : Barry W. Peterson
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195044997
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Control of Head Movement written by Barry W. Peterson and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributors from various scientific disciplines, this volume surveys key topics in the study of head motor control, stressing the structure and function of neck muscles and neural pathways. It covers psychophysical and clinical aspects of head movement, compensatory control of head position, and strategies for volitional and orienting behaviors. The book presents a comprehensive view of head movement as a unique and complex motor system.
Author : Peter W. Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3961102155
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Agree to Agree written by Peter W. Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon across natural languages. Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes agreement, it is either found in virtually every natural language that we know of, or it is at least found in a great many. Either way, it seems to be a core part of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the operation of Agree in Chomsky (2000), agreement phenomena and the mechanism that underlies agreement have garnered a lot of attention in the Minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between elements in syntax, including movement or not, have been accounted for using Agree. The mechanism of Agree thus provides a powerful tool to model dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ-feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further explore these topics and contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally reknown experts in the field of Agreement.
Author : Hadas Kotek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262351072
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Composing Questions written by Hadas Kotek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of wh-questions, offering a new solution to a central question in the study of interrogatives: given that overt wh-movement is cross-linguistically common, is syntactic movement a prerequisite for the interpretation of wh-phrases? Some linguists argue that all wh-phrases undergo movement to interrogative C, even if covertly; others propose mechanisms of in-situ interpretation that do not require any movement. Kotek moves beyond these positions to argue that wh-in-situ does move covertly, but not necessarily to C. Instead, she contends, wh-in-situ undergoes a short movement step akin to covert scrambling. This makes the LF behavior of English parallel to the overt behavior of German. Kotek presents a series of self-paced reading experiments, alongside judgment data from German, to substantiate the idea of covert scrambling. She introduces new diagnostics for the underlying structure of questions, using as a principal tool the distribution of intervention effects. This system allows her to offer the first unified account for a range of phenomena of interrogative syntax-semantics as pied-piping, superiority effects, the cross-linguistically varied syntax of questions, and intervention effects. Kotek develops a theory of interrogative syntax-semantics; studies the phenomena of intervention effects in wh-questions, proposing that the nature of intervention is crucially tied to the availability of wh-movement in a question; and shows that covert wh-movement should be modeled as a short scrambling operation rather than an unbounded, successive-cyclic, and potentially long-distance movement operation.
Author : Patrick Brandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614510792
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Repairs written by Patrick Brandt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between modules or levels by adapting derivations or representations to requirements that have to be met unconditionally. Compensating for derivational and interpretive defects, repairs determine core properties of natural language grammars and their interfaces.
Author : A. Kostic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137345861
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication written by A. Kostic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading nonverbal communication scholars from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the nonverbal literature with the aim to rethink current approaches to the subject.
Author : Virginia Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198736509
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian written by Virginia Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian, focussing on the combination of Balkan syntactic patterns and Romance morphology. It presents a new perspective on the manifestation of Balkan Sprachbund properties in the language, and on the nature of parametric differences in relation to other Romance languages.
Author : Stanford Linguistics Association
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9780937073643
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 9th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by Stanford Linguistics Association and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1991 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience. Aaron Halpern is a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford University.
Author : Anna Esposito
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540764429
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours written by Anna Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the COST Action 2102 International Workshop on Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in March 2007. The twenty six revised full papers presented together with one introductory paper comprise carefully reviewed and selected participants’ contributions and invited lectures given at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections.
Author : Carl Pollard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226674469
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar written by Carl Pollard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing. This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of "understood" subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents. The authors make clear how their approach compares with and improves upon approaches undertaken in other frameworks, including in particular the government-binding theory of Noam Chomsky.
Author : Shigeru Miyagawa
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262265974
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Why Agree? Why Move? written by Shigeru Miyagawa and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question with another, that of the occurrence of agreement systems. Using data from a wide range of languages, he argues that movement and agreement work in tandem to achieve a specific goal: to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. Without movement and agreement, he contends, human language would be merely a shadow of itself, with severe limitation on what can be expressed. Miyagawa investigates a variety of languages, including English, Japanese, Bantu languages, Romance languages, Finnish, and Chinese. He finds that every language manifests some kind of agreement, some in the form of the familiar person/number/gender system and others in the form of what Katalin É. Kiss calls “discourse configurational” features such as topic and focus. A key proposal of his argument is that the computational system in syntax deals with the wide range of agreement types uniformly—as if there were just one system—and an integral part of this computation turns out to be movement. Why Agree? Why Move? is unique in proposing a unified system for movement and agreement across language groups that are vastly diverse—Bantu languages, East Asian languages, Indo-European languages, and others.
Author : Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134608268
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition written by Luigi Rizzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented here have been highly influential in their field, while others are published for the first time.
Author : Dawn Bates
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9780937073797
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 10th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by Dawn Bates and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1992 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-one papers from the 1991 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included. The papers deal with diverse topics ranging from the traditional linguistic fields of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to the rapidly developing areas of cognitive and discourse linguistics.
