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Copular Constructions in Lithuanian

Author : Rolandas Mikulskas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267421
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Copular Constructions in Lithuanian by : Rolandas Mikulskas

Download or read book Copular Constructions in Lithuanian written by Rolandas Mikulskas and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in the VARGReB series presents an in-depth investigation of Lithuanian copular constructions from the viewpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Apart from the fundamental problems of the ontology and taxonomy of copular sentences, the author also discusses a number of more specific questions on which the Lithuanian data, contrasted with those of English and other languages hitherto dealt with in the literature, can shed an interesting light, such as the nature and distinctive features of specificationals, the problem of subjecthood in this subtype of copular constructions, the aspectual semantics of copular sentences, etc. The attention given to the grammatical context of copular constructions and the multifarious relationships linking them to other construction types enhances the book’s relevance to the field of Lithuanian studies, whereas the dialogue and confrontation between the Cognitive perspective adopted by the author and the more formal approaches hitherto applied to the problem of copular sentences will add to its interest for the general reader.

Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic

Author : Axel Holvoet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270392
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic by : Axel Holvoet

Download or read book Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, ‘swarm’-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.

Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics

Author : Peter Arkadiev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110343959
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by : Peter Arkadiev

Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics written by Peter Arkadiev and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic

Author : Axel Holvoet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267952
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic by : Axel Holvoet

Download or read book Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian

Author : Judita Giparaite
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818046
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian by : Judita Giparaite

Download or read book The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian written by Judita Giparaite and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian is one of the first attempts to apply the methods of generative grammar to the analysis of a fragment of Lithuanian grammar, i.e., constructions with secondary predicates of the type V [NP1 NP2] and V [NP1 AP], the sub-strings [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] of which in generative works are usually called small clauses. The investigation is contrastive; the evidence of Lithuanian is compared with that of English. Whereas the syntactic study of secondary predicates in English has a certain tradition, traditional Lithuanian grammar does not have a single notion to what is known elsewhere as secondary predicates. In Lithuanian traditional grammar secondary predicates are usually referred to as a part of compound nominal predicates, predicative attributes, a part of complex objects and are not singled out as a distinct category but are given different, often contradictory treatments. Thus the research can be considered pioneering work as far as Lithuanian is concerned. It not only contributes to the theoretical discussion about the adequate way of dealing with secondary predicates in Government and Binding framework, but can also be considered instrumental in propagating modern methods of syntactic analysis in tradition-ridden Lithuanian grammar. The present work addresses an important problem whether the Lithuanian and English constructions under investigation express a subject-predicate relationship and form a constituent and can be described as having the syntactic function of a clause. For this purpose, the syntactic and semantic as well as clausal properties of the sequences [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] in the two languages under consideration are discussed. The clausal properties of the sub-strings [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] are investigated on the basis of the presence of agreement features, sentence negation, the resemblance to full clauses, theta-role assignment, word order, and applying sentence constituency tests.

Circum-Baltic Languages

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027297274
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Circum-Baltic Languages by : Östen Dahl

Download or read book Circum-Baltic Languages written by Östen Dahl and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

The Finnish Case System

Author : Minna Jaakola
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9518586462
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis The Finnish Case System by : Minna Jaakola

Download or read book The Finnish Case System written by Minna Jaakola and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Finnish language is perhaps best known for its rich case system. Depending on the definition of a case, Finnish has at least fourteen, possibly fifteen or even more cases. This volume is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Finnish case system, focusing primarily on its semantic functions. This collection of articles presents an up-to-date overview of the Finnish case system, analyses central subsystems within it, and offers data-based analyses of the functions of individual cases. The authors approach Finnish cases from different perspectives within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The volume also addresses more general topics, such as the notion of case, questions of polysemy, the traditional division of cases into grammatical and semantic, the relationship between inflection and derivation as well as the role of inflection in the structuring of the categories of adpositions and adverbs. The book will be of interest to linguists and students as well as to those readers who are not familiar with cognitive linguistics. The analyses presented here will be relevant to anyone investigating the essence of case and the emergence of linguistic meaning.

The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages

Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198804628
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages by : Martine Robbeets

Download or read book The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages written by Martine Robbeets and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.

The Expression of Predicative Possession

Author : Lidia Mazzitelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110412322
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Expression of Predicative Possession by : Lidia Mazzitelli

Download or read book The Expression of Predicative Possession written by Lidia Mazzitelli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession. The work is written within a typological frame: the Belarusian and Lithuanian constructions are analyzed in the light of the typology of the possessive predicative constructions proposed by Heine (1997).

Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change

Author : Juliane Besters-Dilger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110338459
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change by : Juliane Besters-Dilger

Download or read book Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change written by Juliane Besters-Dilger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre–existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

The Middle Voice in Baltic

Author : Axel Holvoet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261083
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Middle Voice in Baltic by : Axel Holvoet

Download or read book The Middle Voice in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.

Form and Function in Language Research

Author : Johannes Helmbrecht
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110216124
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Form and Function in Language Research by : Johannes Helmbrecht

Download or read book Form and Function in Language Research written by Johannes Helmbrecht and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on this assumption, the volume presents theoretical and empirical studies that explore the explanatory power of functional-typological linguistics for the investigation of the world's languages.

A Lithuanian Historical Syntax

Author : William R. Schmalstieg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Lithuanian Historical Syntax by : William R. Schmalstieg

Download or read book A Lithuanian Historical Syntax written by William R. Schmalstieg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modals in the Languages of Europe

Author : Björn Hansen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110219204
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Modals in the Languages of Europe by : Björn Hansen

Download or read book Modals in the Languages of Europe written by Björn Hansen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive survey of modals and modal constructions in the languages of Europe. It is a collaborative effort between scholars from Europe and the United States, stemming from a workshop on Modals in the Languages of Europe in Valencia. The aim of this book is to describe the properties of modals and modal constructions in the European area and to compare the systems in individual languages or language families from an areal and genetic perspective. For the sake of contrast, the book also looks at the expression of modality in some languages just outside of Europe. The book consists of fourteen chapters on modal systems in individual languages or language families, written by experts in the respective languages, and an introductory and concluding chapter, written by the editors. The book gives both a description of the modals in the individual languages and an account of the nature and status of modals in general. It provides the reader with a theoretical account of how modals and modal constructions are grammaticalized. This theoretical account is informed by the parameters of grammaticalization of Christian Lehmann. These parameters were chosen because they are language-independent, as opposed to more language specific criteria (for instance, the NICE-criteria for English). The parameters themselves are examined as well for their suitability as part of any theory of grammaticalization. The book thus gives readers access to a collection of data on modality that surpasses most works in this field and also provides a fresh perspective on issues of grammaticalization and language contact. It is therefore of interest to scholars of modality, language contact and areal linguistics, grammaticalization theory and typology.

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions

Author : Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882305
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions by : Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

Download or read book Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions written by Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings, most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. A range of lexicogrammatical aspects of verb constructions are explored throughout the book, including time reference; modality; voice; light verb constructions; non-finite complementation of lexical verbs; posture-verb constructions; semiperiphrastic constructions; and the construction and semantic composition of verbs of putting. All of the contributions consider English in comparison with at least one of the following languages: Czech, German, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. As such, this volume offers a truly multilingual perspective on verb constructions. The diversity of comparisons also highlights the multi-faceted nature of the verb phrase, which seems to have virtually limitless potential for exploration in the fields of tense, aspect, modality, lexical semantics, syntax, and phraseology.

Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events

Author : Brian Nolan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266123
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events by : Brian Nolan

Download or read book Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events written by Brian Nolan and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra from Australia’s Western Desert region, Japanese, Tepehua (Totonacan, Mexico), Cheyenne, Mexican Spanish, Boharic Coptic, and Persian. This volume examines the syntactic variation of complex events, complex predicates and multi-verb constructions within a single clause where the clause is view as representing a single event, studying their semantics and syntax within functional, cognitive and constructional frameworks, to arrive at a better understanding of their cross linguistic behaviour and how they resonate in syntax. These constructions manifest considerable variability in cross-linguistic comparisons of complex predicate formation. In European languages, for example, typically one of the verbs in a verb-verb construction highlights a phase of an underspecified event while the matrix verb specifies the actual event. In contrast, serial verbs require each verb to provide a sub-event dimension within a complex event that is viewed holistically as unitary in syntax. This book contributes to an understanding of complex events, complex predicates and multi-verb constructions across languages, their syntactic constructional patterns and argument realisation.

English Modality

Author : Juana I. Marín-Arrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110286327
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book English Modality written by Juana I. Marín-Arrese and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.