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Grammatical Man

Author : Jeremy Campbell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Man written by Jeremy Campbell and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as physics made sense out of the mysteries of earth, air, fire, and water, it can be said that the science of information enriches and unifies an amazing diversity of modern sciences, from physics and mathematics to biology and linguistics. Because symbols, messages, and codes are the stuff not only of computers and telecommunications, but also of living organisms and the forms of human knowledge, information, and thus information theory, is universal. This is the first book to tell the story of information theory, how it arose with the development of radar during World War II, and how it evolved. This thought-provoking book describes how the laws and discoveries of information theory support controversial revisions to Darwinian evolution, begin to unravel the mysteries of language, memory and dreams, and stimulate provocative ideas in psychology, philosophy, art, music, computers, and even the structure of society. The insights of information theory make us look at our world in an entirely new and different way--but perhaps its most fascinating and unexpected surprise is the suggestion that order and complexity may be as natural as disorder and disorganization.--From publisher description.

English Grammatical Categories

Author : Ian Michael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521143264
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book English Grammatical Categories written by Ian Michael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.

Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition)

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104026
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition) by : Stefan Müller

Download or read book Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition) written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.

An Inductive Grammar of the English Language

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book An Inductive Grammar of the English Language written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exposition of the Grammatical Structure of the English Language

Author : John Mulligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Exposition of the Grammatical Structure of the English Language written by John Mulligan and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Reference Grammar of Dutch

Author : Carol Fehringer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645218
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Dutch written by Carol Fehringer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and user-friendly grammar for English-speaking students of Dutch at beginner/intermediate level.

English Grammar including the Principles of Grammatical Analysis

Author : C. Mason
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368827790
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar including the Principles of Grammatical Analysis written by C. Mason and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

A Working Grammar of the English Language

Author : James Champlin Fernald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Working Grammar of the English Language written by James Champlin Fernald and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

Author : James Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind written by James Mill and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Measuring Grammatical Complexity

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191508446
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Grammatical Complexity written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The volume differs from others devoted to the question of complexity in language in that the authors all approach the problem from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycholinguistics, or neurolinguistics. Chapters investigate a number of key issues in grammatical complexity, taking phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic considerations into account. These include what is often called the 'trade-off problem', namely whether complexity in one grammatical component is necessarily balanced by simplicity in another; and the question of interpretive complexity, that is, whether and how one might measure the difficulty for the hearer in assigning meaning to an utterance and how such complexity might be factored in to an overall complexity assessment. Measuring Grammatical Complexity brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field, and will be of interest to linguists of all theoretical stripes from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those working in the areas of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics.

Grammatical Instructor, Or, Common School Grammar

Author : Oliver Beale Peirce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Instructor, Or, Common School Grammar written by Oliver Beale Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grammatical Relations

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229317
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only be described properly by a basket of neither necessary nor sufficient properties thus within a framework akin to Rosch's theory of Prototype. Some GR properties are functional (reference, topicality, accessibility); others involve overt coding (word-order, case marking, verb agreement). Others yet are more abstract, involving control of grammatical processes (rule-governed behavior). Building on Keenan's pioneering work, this volume concentrates on the structural aspects of GRs within a functionalist framework. Following a theoretical introduction, the papers in the volume deal primarily with recalcitrant typological issues: The dissociation between overt coding properties of GRs and their behavior-and-control properties; GRs in serial verb constructions; GRs in ergative languages; The impact of clause union and grammaticalization on GRs.

Grammatical theory

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical theory written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic the- orizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Gram- mar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective the- ory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothe- sis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are dis- cussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. “With this critical yet fair reflection on various grammatical theories, Müller fills what has been a major gap in the literature.” Karen Lehmann, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “Stefan Müller’ s recent introductory textbook, “Grammatiktheorie”, is an astonishingly comprehensive and insightful survey of the present state of syntactic theory for beginning students.” Wolfgang Sternefeld und Frank Richter, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “This is the kind of work that has been sought after for a while. [...] The impartial and objective discussion offered by the author is particularly refreshing.” Werner Abraham, Germanistik, 2012

A Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference

Author : Paul Danove
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567031160
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference written by Paul Danove and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study continues the adaptation of the method of Case Frame analysis for the investigation of the Greek text of the New Testament. Case Frame analysis distinguishes the words of a language into two categories, predicators [words that require completion by other words for their correct grammatical use] and non-predicators [words that do not require such completion], and provides rigorous procedures for describing the syntactic, semantic, and lexical requirements that predicators impose on the words that complete their meaning. The inclusion of semantic function and feature descriptions in Case Frame analysis permits the development of a new genre of lexicon that specifies not only syntactic and lexical information (as do traditional dictionaries) but detailed semantic information. The resulting Case Frame lexicon entries are both more compact and more nuanced than traditional lexicon entries. Danove conducts an exhaustive Case Frame analysis of the ditransitive verbs of transference in the New Testament. He uses this analysis to develop a set of descriptive guidelines for interpreting and translating the various usages of ditransitive verbs of transference and applies these rules in exegetical studies of the text of the New Testament to generate a Case Frame lexicon of the verbs of transference in the New Testament. This study will distinguish the requirements of the 127 New Testament verbs of transference according to four syntactic functions, twelve semantic functions, and 22 lexical realizations. This will permit a rigorous investigation of all occurrences of verbal complements with the same syntactic, semantic, and lexical attributes. The study also will consider the influence of one semantic feature [an inherent quality of words that has implications for their lexical realization] and of the ‘intrusion' of four grammatical constructions [inherent structuring templates of grammar that govern syntactic, semantic, and lexical attributes and modify meaning] on each category of complements with the same syntactic, semantic and lexical description. This will produce a rigorous description of meaning that becomes the basis for Danove's contributions to the linguistic study of biblical Greek and to the exegesis of biblical texts.

A Grammar of Emai

Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766280
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar is the first ever description of West Africa’s Edoid language Emai. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results over the last three decades. Treated are morphology, syntax and argument structure after an introductory phonology and orthographic overview highlighting grammatical and lexical tone. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrase structure as well as clause shape in discourse and clause combination. Noun inflection and derivation are detailed as is verb inflection in the context of tense, aspect and modality. Noun phrase character encompasses remnant noun classes, nominal modification types and pronoun forms followed by conjunction. Verb phrase features include complex predicates, both verbs in series and verb plus postverbal particle, functionally distinct copulas, double objects, and sentence complement types constrained by matrix verb. Also analyzed are preverbal and postverbal adverbials relative to information question types. Multi-clause constructions are profiled as to coding varieties across dependent clauses as well as precedence relations. A concluding chapter presents a sample narrative in orthographic form, interlinear gloss and English free translation.

Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521095105
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics written by John Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical linguistics. It presupposes no previous knowledge and terms are defined as they are introduced; but it gives a rigorous and technical treatment of a wide range of topics, and brings the reader to an advanced level of understanding. Since its first publication in 1968 Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics has been one of the classic introductions to the discipline. In a field which is often seen as rapidly moving, it will continue to be used by students seeking an overview of the central areas of linguistics - phonetics and phonology, grammar and semantics - and to be of great value to anyone interested in the ways in which theory can help to explain the key problems of human language.

Grammatical Relations

Author : Franz Müller-Gotama
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110887339
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Franz Müller-Gotama and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.