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Edge-Based Clausal Syntax

Author : Paul M. Postal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262295059
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Edge-Based Clausal Syntax written by Paul M. Postal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties. In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure. The different syntactic properties of these three kinds of objects are shown by how they behave in passives, middles, -able forms, tough movement, wh-movement, Heavy NP Shift, Ride Node Raising, re-prefixation, and many other tests. This proposal renders Postal's position sharply different from that of Chomsky, who defined a direct object structurally as [NP, VP], and with the traditional linguistics text's definition of the direct object as the DP sister of V. According to Postal's framework, sentence structures are complex graph structures built on nodes (vertices) and edges (arcs). The node that heads a particular edge represents a constituent that bears the grammatical relation named by the edge label to its tail node. This approach allows two DPs that have very different grammatical properties to occupy what looks like identical structural positions. The contrasting behaviors of direct objects, which at first seem anomalous—even grammatically chaotic—emerge in Postal's account as nonanomalous, as symptoms of hitherto ungrasped structural regularity.

Edge-based Clausal Syntax

Author : David Couzens Hoy
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262512756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Edge-based Clausal Syntax written by David Couzens Hoy and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties.

Syntax on the Edge

Author : Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004542310
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Syntax on the Edge written by Diego Gabriel Krivochen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams... Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.

Clause Structure

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017742
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Clause Structure written by Elly van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory. This accessible book synthesizes the most important research findings, examines a range of examples taken from data acquisition, typology and language change, and includes discussion questions, helpful suggestions for further reading and a useful glossary.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102554
Total Pages : 1632 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).

Dependency Linguistics

Author : Kim Gerdes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270163
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Dependency Linguistics by : Kim Gerdes

Download or read book Dependency Linguistics written by Kim Gerdes and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on Dependency Linguistics held in Barcelona. The contributions range from the discussion of definitional challenges of dependency at different levels of the linguistic model, its role beyond the classical grammatical description, and its annotation in dependency treebanks to concrete analyses of various cross-linguistic phenomena of syntax in its interplay with phonetics, morphology, and semantics, including phenomena for which classical simple phrase-structure based models have proven to be unsatisfactory. The volume will be thus of interest to both experts and newcomers to the field of dependency linguistics and its computational applications.

Modular Design of Grammar

Author : I Wayan Arka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192659294
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Modular Design of Grammar written by I Wayan Arka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that models the linguistic system as a set of discreet submodules that include, among others, constituent structure, functional structure, argument structure, semantic structure, and prosodic structure; each module has its own coherent properties and is related to other modules by correspondence functions. Following a detailed introduction, Part I examines the nature of linguistic structures, interfaces, and representations in LFG's architecture and ontology. Parts II and III are concerned with problems, analyses, and generalizations associated with linguistic phenomena of long-standing theoretical significance, including agreement, reciprocals, possessives, reflexives, raising, subjecthood, and relativization, demonstrating how these phenomena can be naturally accounted for within LFG's modular architecture. Part IV explores issues of the synchronic and diachronic dynamics of syntactic categories in grammar, such as unlike category coordination, fuzzy categorial edges, and consequences of decategorialization, providing explicit LFG solutions to such problems, including those resulting from language change in progress. The final part re-examines and refines the precise representations and interfaces of syntax with morphology, semantics, and pragmatics to account for challenging facts such as suspended affixation, prosody in multiple question word interrogatives and information structure, anaphoric dependencies, and idioms. The volume draws on data from a range of typologically diverse languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic, Kelabit, Polish, and Urdu, and will be of interest not only to those working in LFG and related frameworks, but to all those working on linguistic interfaces from a variety of theoretical standpoints.

Classical NEG Raising

Author : Chris Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027313
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Classical NEG Raising written by Chris Collins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Chris Collins and Pauk Postal consider examples such the one below on the interpretation where Nancy thinks that this course is not interesting: Nancy doesn't think this course is interesting. They argue such examples instantiate a kind of syntactic raising that they term Classical NEG Raising. This involves the raising of a NEG (negation) from the embedded clause to the matrix clause. Collins and Postal develop three main arguments to support their claim. First, they show that Classical NEG Raising obeys island constraints. Second, they document that a syntactic raising analysis predicts both the grammaticality and particular properties of what they term Horn clauses (named for Laurence Horn, who discovered them). Finally, they argue that the properties of certain parenthetical structures strongly support the syntactic character of Classical NEG Raising. Collins and Postal also offer a detailed analysis of the main argument in the literature against a syntactic raising analysis (which they call the Composed Quantifier Argument). They show that the facts appealed to in this argument not only fail to conflict with their approach but actually support a syntactic view. In the course of their argument, Collins and Postal touch on a variety of related topics, including the syntax of negative polarity items, the status of sequential negation, and the scope of negative quantifiers. Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. Paul M. Postal is the author of many books, including On Raising and Edge-Based Clausal Syntax (both published by the MIT Press) Collins and Postal are coauthors of Imposters: A Study of Pronominal Agreement (MIT Press). Book jacket.

Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook

Author : Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110429349
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook written by Andrej Malchukov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Author : Johanna Gerwin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110373580
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ditransitives in British English Dialects written by Johanna Gerwin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.

Anaphora and Language Design

Author : Eric Reuland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376776
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Anaphora and Language Design written by Eric Reuland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on anaphoric dependencies that derives the conditions on anaphora in natural language from the design properties of the language system. Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such as himself and herself) may or must depend on antecedents for their interpretation. These dependencies are subject to conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslinguistic variation. In this monograph, Eric Reuland presents a theory of how these anaphoric dependencies are represented in natural language in a way that does justice to the the variation one finds across languages. He explains the conditions on these dependencies in terms of elementary properties of the computational system of natural language. He shows that the encoding of anaphoric dependencies makes use of components of the language system that all reflect different cognitive capacities; thus the empirical research he reports on offers insights into the design of the language system. Reuland’s account reduces the conditions on binding to independent properties of the grammar, none of which is specific to binding. He offers a principled account of the roles of the lexicon, syntax, semantics, and the discourse component in the encoding of anaphoric dependencies; a window into the overall organization of the grammar and the roles of linguistic and extralinguistic factors; a new typology of anaphoric expressions; a view of crosslinguistic variation (examining facts in a range of languages, from English, Dutch, Frisian, German, and Scandinavian languages to Fijian, Georgian, and Malayalam) that shows unity in diversity.

Peripheries

Author : David Adger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402019106
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Peripheries written by David Adger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, - has a distinct comparative slant, - brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, - could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, - contains papers addressing: = the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, = the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, = the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.

An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions

Author : J. Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions written by J. Katz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Author : Volker Gast
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110280698
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by : Volker Gast

Download or read book Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective written by Volker Gast and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the “Third Syntax of the World’s Languages” conference, complemented with four additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field work.

Parasitic Gaps

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262262095
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Parasitic Gaps written by Peter W. Culicover and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-01-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three sections present new perspectives on the theory of parasitic gaps based on data taken from diverse languages. Contributors Michael Calcagno, Peter W. Culicover, Elisabet Engdahl, Robert Hukari, Andreas Kathol, Christopher Kennedy, Katalin É. Kiss, Robert Levine, Alan Munn, Jamal Ouhalla, Paul M. Postal, Christine Tellier

The clausal syntax of German Sign Language

Author : Fabian Bross
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 396110218X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The clausal syntax of German Sign Language written by Fabian Bross and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a hypothesis-based description of the clausal structure of German Sign Language (DGS). The structure of the book is based on the three clausal layers CP, IP/TP, and VoiceP. The main hypothesis is that scopal height is expressed iconically in sign languages: the higher the scope of an operator, the higher the articulator used for its expression. The book was written with two audiences in mind: On the one hand it addresses linguists interested in sign languages and on the other hand it addresses cartographers.

Clause Linkage in Cross-linguistic Perspective

Author : Volker Gast
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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