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Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110818450
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book English Aspectual Verbs written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199248583
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Verbs written by William Croft and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, this book encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension and presents a model of event structure that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.
Author : J. Forsyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521075149
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Aspect written by J. Forsyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - found in the Russian language.
Author : Daniele Franceschi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443885703
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Ingressive and Egressive Verbs in English written by Daniele Franceschi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fine-grained analysis of the most common ingressive and egressive verbs in present-day English in terms of the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive factors responsible for their various structural representations. It draws upon the fundamental assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, according to which grammar is symbolic and conceptually motivated, and focuses in particular on the ability of these predicates to be integrated into constructions as a result of metonymic and metaphoric processes, which impose a well-defined set of constraints. The book supports its analysis and findings with examples both taken from three of the major corpora of English, namely BNC, COCA and GloWbe, and retrieved through ad hoc Internet searches. Although the literature on English aspectual verbs is vast, there are no studies of the language-external factors responsible for their different configurations. As such, this book fills this gap by offering linguists and students of linguistics a detailed investigation of this topic. It will also be of value to scholars with a more general interest in the linguistic evidence of cognitive activity in meaning construction.
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax written by Marcel den Dikken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author : Pamela B. Faber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110800624
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Constructing a Lexicon of English Verbs written by Pamela B. Faber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an account of the English verbal lexicon which not only systematizes the meanings of lexemes within a hierarchical framework, but also demonstrates the principled connections between meaning and highlights the syntactic complementation patterns of verbs and the patterns of conceptualization in the human mind. Explains lexical patterning and its relationship with meaning, syntax, and cognition.
Author : James A. Hampton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319459775
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology written by James A. Hampton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stimulating much new research in cognitive science. Researchers in this interdisciplinary domain aim to explain how meanings of complex expressions are derived from simple lexical concepts and to show how these meanings connect to concept representations. Traditionally, much of the work on concept composition has been carried out within separate disciplines, where cognitive psychologists have concentrated on concept representations, and linguists and philosophers have focused on the meaning and use of logical operators. This volume demonstrates an important change in this situation, where convergence points between these three disciplines in cognitive science are emerging and are leading to new findings and theoretical insights. This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Author : Klaus Robering
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270627
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Events, Arguments, and Aspects written by Klaus Robering and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195381971
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect written by Robert I. Binnick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Author : Scott Thornbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521427207
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book About Language written by Scott Thornbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.
Author : Beth Levin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226475336
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book English Verb Classes and Alternations written by Beth Levin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes by examining verb behavior with respect to a wide range of syntactic alternations that reflect verb meaning. The first part of the book sets out alternate ways in which verbs can express their arguments. The second presents classes of verbs that share a kernel of meaning and explores in detail the behavior of each class, drawing on the alternations in the first part. Levin's discussion of each class and alternation includes lists of relevant verbs, illustrative examples, comments on noteworthy properties, and bibliographic references. The result is an original, systematic picture of the organization of the verb inventory. Easy to use, English Verb Classes and Alternations sets the stage for further explorations of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax. It will prove indispensable for theoretical and computational linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and teachers of English as a second language.
Author : H. J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402032301
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Aspect written by H. J. Verkuyl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research. The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.
Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110179490
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dialectology Meets Typology written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Felix K. Ameka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291381
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages written by Felix K. Ameka and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or potentiality of an event, hence with modality, rather than the purely temporal sequencing associated with tense. The primary grammatical contrasts are perfective versus imperfective. The main languages discussed are Akan, Dangme, Ewe, Ga and Tuwuli while Nzema-Ahanta, Likpe and Eastern Gbe are also mentioned. Knowledge about these languages has deepened considerably during the past decade or so and ideas about their structure have changed. The volume therefore presents novel analyses of grammatical forms like the so-called S-Aux-O-V-Other or “future” constructions, and provides empirical data for theorizing about aspect and modality. It should be of considerable interest to Africanist linguists, typologists, and creolists interested in substrate issues.
Author : Nicole Dehé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227805
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Particle Verbs in English written by Nicole Dehé and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131655273X
Total Pages : 1239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.
Author : Y. Tobin
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Aspect in the English Verb written by Y. Tobin and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to provide a broad view of the subject difficult to obtain exclusively from academic journals and monographs. Coverage of this series will extend to all main aspects of linguistic study, and will include work on major language families, on English and other important languages.
