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Approaches to Complex Predicates

Author : Léa Nash
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004307095
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Complex Predicates written by Léa Nash and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex predicates can be loosely defined as a sequence of items that behave as a single predicate, projecting a single argument structure within a clause. Each of the members of the predicate contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head. The present volume presents a collection of theoretical linguistic results on the study of complex predicates in different perspectives and with a variety of approaches. Important empirical and theoretical issues cutting across various subfields of linguistics are being addressed in this book, such as: • Syntactic and semantic modeling of complex predicate formation: compositionality, argument structure, event structure. • Differences between syntactic and morphological processes of lexeme formation. • Typological and diachronic issues in complex predicate formation. • Neo-Davidsonian analyses of abstract predicate decomposition and its morphological correlates. Contributors are: Ane Berro, Denis Creissels, Hannah Gibson, Adele Goldberg, Lutz Marten, Annie Montaut, Léa Nash, Pooja Paul, Pollet Samvelian, Peter Svenonius, and Susanne Wurmbrand.

Complex Predicates

Author : Alex Alsina i Keith
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575860466
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Complex Predicates written by Alex Alsina i Keith and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1997 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of approaches to the question of the range and nature of complex predicates.

Thematic Relations

Author : Wendy Wilkins
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373217
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Thematic Relations written by Wendy Wilkins and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these roles come to be associated with noun phrases. This book presents the interaction of components of the language faculty and other aspects of cognition. Organized into 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the semantic relations involved in verb-argument structure. This text then examines the predicate-argument representations, which have come to figure prominently in all current generative theories of syntax. Other chapters consider the generalizations about thematic relations that are most insightfully captured at the level of syntax of at the level of semantics. This book discusses as well the importance of thematic roles to the grammar. The final chapter deals with the central role of thematic roles in language comprehension. This book is a valuable resource for linguists, syntacticians, and semanticists with an active involvement in research on natural language.

The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Author : Miriam Butt
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9781881526582
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu by : Miriam Butt

Download or read book The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu written by Miriam Butt and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax-semantics mismatch. An examination of the syntactic properties of this complex predicate shows that it is formed by the combination of two semantic heads, but that this combination is not mirrored in the syntax in terms of any kind of syntactic or lexical incorporation.

Argument Structure and Complex Predicates

Author : Sara Thomas Rosen
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Argument Structure and Complex Predicates written by Sara Thomas Rosen and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complex Predicates

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575863856
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Complex Predicates written by Stefan Müller and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Müller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.

Complex Predicates in South Asian Languages

Author : Manindra K. Verma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Complex Predicates in South Asian Languages written by Manindra K. Verma and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex Predicates Have Been A Readily Identifiable Feature Of South Asian Languages. This Study Is The First Attempt Of Its Kind To Bring Together The Data And Descriptive Facts From Various South Asian Languages With A View To Providing A Comparative Picture As Well As An Overall Theoretical Perspective.

A Grammar of Nungon

Author : Hannah Sarvasy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340106
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Nungon by : Hannah Sarvasy

Download or read book A Grammar of Nungon written by Hannah Sarvasy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.

Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse

Author : Wendan Li
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360883
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse by : Wendan Li

Download or read book Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse written by Wendan Li and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition and other languages in discourse analysis.

The Raising of Predicates

Author : Andrea Moro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521562333
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Raising of Predicates written by Andrea Moro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position which is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena.

Complex Predicates in Japanese

Author : Chiharu Uda Kikuta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429685459
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Complex Predicates in Japanese written by Chiharu Uda Kikuta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses complex predicate constructions in Japanese in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The book presents the theoretical framework as a basis of the following analyses and discusses thematic roles, reflexive binding and case marking. Attention is also given to passive, benefactive and causative constructions.

A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling

Author : Simin Karimi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199793
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling by : Simin Karimi

Download or read book A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling written by Simin Karimi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar. Three interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first is to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the motivation for their possible rearrangements, and the grammatical results of those reorderings. In this respect, a broad range of major syntactic phenomena, including object shift, Case, Extended Projection Principle (EPP), binding, and scope interpretation of quantifiers, interrogative phrases, adverbial phrases, and negative elements are examined. This monograph is the first major theoretical work ever published on Persian, and therefore fills the existing gap by providing insight into the syntactic structure of this language. The second goal is to connect these insights to similar linguistic properties in languages in which scrambling occurs (e.g. German, Dutch, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, and Korean), and to provide a deeper understanding of this group of genetically diverse, but typologically related languages. The final and principal goal is to situate the results of this work within the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). The investigations in this study indicate that scrambling is not an optional rule, and that certain principles of MP, such as the Minimal Link Condition, are only seemingly violated in these languages. Furthermore, it is shown that careful analysis of scrambling with respect to binding and scope relations, and a reanalysis of the properties of A and A' movements, cast some doubts on the relevance of a typology of movement in natural language.

Barayin Morphosyntax

Author : Joseph Lovestrand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198851154
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Barayin Morphosyntax written by Joseph Lovestrand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verb phrases, and serial verb constructions. The version of LFG adopted here includes two recent innovations: the first is minimal c-structure, which results in simpler phrase structure representations; the second is the assumption that glue semantics accounts for argument selection, rejecting the need for a level of a-structure or for Completeness and Coherence in f-structure. Argument sharing in serial verb constructions can thus be modeled in a connected s-structure. This method of modeling semantic composition in complex predicates is extended to directional and associated motion complex predicates in Choctaw and Wambaya, removing the need to appeal to a special mechanism to unite semantic forms in such constructions.

Approaches to Language Typology

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198238669
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (386 download)

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Book Synopsis Approaches to Language Typology by : Masayoshi Shibatani

Download or read book Approaches to Language Typology written by Masayoshi Shibatani and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language typology is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. This text offers accounts of the theoretical foundations and findings of leading scholars in this field.

The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics

Author : Anousha Sedighi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191056413
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics by : Anousha Sedighi

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics written by Anousha Sedighi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research. Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split into six thematic parts. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume begins by placing Persian in its historical and typological context in Part I. Chapters in Part II examine topics relating to phonetics and phonology, while Part III looks at approaches to and features of Persian syntax. The fourth part of the volume explores morphology and lexicography, as well as the work of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Part V, language and people, covers topics such as language contact and teaching Persian as a foreign language, while the final part examines psycho- neuro-, and computational linguistics. The volume will be an essential resource for all scholars with an interest in Persian language and linguistics.

Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language

Author : Kaori Kabata
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500686
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language by : Kaori Kabata

Download or read book Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language written by Kaori Kabata and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and original volume brings together studies that apply cognitive and functional linguistics to the study of the L2 acquisition of Japanese. With each article grounded on the usage-based model and/or conceptual notions such as foregrounding and subjectivity, the volume sheds light on how cognitive and functional linguistics can help us understand aspects of Japanese acquisition that have been neglected by traditionalists.

Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax

Author : Erhard Hinrichs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0585492220
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax by : Erhard Hinrichs

Download or read book Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax written by Erhard Hinrichs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers research in complex predicates within a variety of languages, such as German, Dutch, Italian, French, Korean and Urdu. This work focuses on diverse aspects of complex predicate phenomena, including order variation, constituency relations, interactions with other construction types, argument relations, and the syntax morphology interface.