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Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms

Author : Werner Frey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266948
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms by : Werner Frey

Download or read book Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms written by Werner Frey and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume contributes to a better understanding of the interfaces between these different levels. By providing syntactic, prosodic, semantic, psycholinguistic and corpus-based support, this book underpins the claim that there exist different sentential proform types in German and Dutch, that these proform types correlate with different verb classes, and that their associated related clauses are located in different syntactic positions. The present volume also looks at a Hungarian sentential proform construction, which is similar to the German(ic) structure, but, at the same time, is different in its licensing conditions.

Approaches to Hungarian

Author : Katalin É. Kiss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268851
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Approaches to Hungarian by : Katalin É. Kiss

Download or read book Approaches to Hungarian written by Katalin É. Kiss and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions, sluicing in relative clauses, generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item, the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hungarian, and cataphoric propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian and German. The papers in morphosyntax analyze morphological alienability splits and the manifestation of the Inverse Agreement Constraint in Hungarian. The studies in phonetics and phonology inquire into regressive voicing assimilation in Hungarian and Slovak, and explore the predictions of the Functional Load Hypothesis for stress-marking and the relationship between the phonetic and phonological properties of /a:/ in Hungarian. The volume will appeal not just to scholars working on Hungarian, but to a general audience of theoretical linguists.

On the nominal nature of propositional arguments

Author : Katrin Axel-Tober
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3967692892
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis On the nominal nature of propositional arguments by : Katrin Axel-Tober

Download or read book On the nominal nature of propositional arguments written by Katrin Axel-Tober and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die grammatische Kategorie eingebetteter Sätze zählt seit über 50 Jahren zu den zentralen Themen der theoretischen Syntax. Dabei dreht sich die Diskussion speziell um die Frage, ob manche oder vielleicht alle eingebetteten Sätze als Nominalphrasen zu behandeln sind, sei es, weil sie einen (stummen) nominalen Kopf haben (D oder N), oder sei es, weil der Satzeinleiter selbst als nominal zu betrachten ist. Die Beiträge des Sonderhefts nehmen diese Fragestellung erneut auf und explorieren sie unter verschiedenen, syntaktischen wie semantischen Aspekten im Lichte neuerer theoretischer Ansätze. Das Spektrum an Sprachen, die genauer untersucht oder argumentativ für die Zwecke der Analyse herangezogen werden, umfasst neben Deutsch – einschließlich dialektaler Varietäten wie Bairisch und Alemannisch – Englisch, Niederländisch (einschließlich der Brabanter Varietät), Alt- und Neugriechisch, Jula (Niger-Kongo), Schwedisch, Baskisch sowie eine Reihe anderer genetisch und typologisch unterschiedlicher Sprachen. Inhalt: – Katrin Axel-Tober, Lutz Gunkel, Jutta M. Hartmann & Anke Holler: Introduction Part I: Complementation as relativization – Carlos de Cuba: Relatively nouny? – Gisela Zifonun: Sind Komplementsätze nominal? Positionen der Grammatikschreibung Part II: Complement clauses and nominal structure – Richard Faure: (H)óti-clauses from DP to NPhood. The life of a Greek nouny clause – Kalle Müller: On noun-related complementizer clauses – Alassane Kiemtoré: A syntactic account of clausal complementation in Jula Part III: Semantic aspects – Vesela Simeonova: Definitely factive – Jürgen Pafel: (Argument) clauses and definite descriptions – Patrick Brandt: The real semantic value is propositional: German particle verbs and state change Part IV: Aspects based on dependent verb-second – Andreas Blümel & Nobu Goto: Reconsidering the syntax of correlates and propositional arguments – Frank Sode: On the conditional nature of V2-clauses in desire reports of German

A Life in Linguistics

Author : Gabriela Alboiu
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
ISBN 13 : 6061613555
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book A Life in Linguistics written by Gabriela Alboiu and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.

Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2023

Author : Janebová, Markéta
Publisher : Palacký University Olomouc
ISBN 13 : 8024465086
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (244 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2023 by : Janebová, Markéta

Download or read book Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2023 written by Janebová, Markéta and published by Palacký University Olomouc. This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume of OLINCO proceedings is a selected set of sixteen papers that grew from presentations at OLINCO 2023 - the international Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium held at Palacký University in June 2021. The papers collected here are unified by the topic of the colloquium: Language Use and Linguistic Structure, in that they all, in one way or the other, address the central questions of the study of human language. They all use standard scientific methodology and theory and solidly researched empirical evidence in favor of formalized structural representations of the language system.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018

Author : Andreas Blümel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540187
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018 by : Andreas Blümel

Download or read book Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018 written by Andreas Blümel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2018 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks presented at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 13) or at the parallel Workshop on the Semantics of Noun Phrases, which were held on December 5–7, 2018, at the University of Göttingen. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as situation relativization with adverbial clauses (causation, concession, counterfactuality, condition, and purpose), clause-embedding by means of a correlate, agreeing vs. transitive ‘need’ constructions, clitic doubling, affixation and aspect, evidentiality and mirativity, pragmatics coming with the particle li, uniqueness, definiteness, maximal interpretation (exhaustivity), kinds and subkinds, bare nominals, multiple determination, quantification, demonstratives, possessives, complex measure nouns, and the NP/DP parameter. The set of object languages comprises Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Torlak Serbian. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic linguistics. The original analyses prove that substantial progress has been made in major fields of research.

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited

Author : Joanna Blaszczak
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636366X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by : Joanna Blaszczak

Download or read book Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited written by Joanna Blaszczak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it’s time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” and “modality” truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid—and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance

Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192578057
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance by : Sam Wolfe

Download or read book Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance written by Sam Wolfe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer; inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery; and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.

Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Author : Marlies Kluck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614514836
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Parenthesis and Ellipsis by : Marlies Kluck

Download or read book Parenthesis and Ellipsis written by Marlies Kluck and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.

Architecture of Topic

Author : Valéria Molnár
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 150150438X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture of Topic by : Valéria Molnár

Download or read book Architecture of Topic written by Valéria Molnár and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.

Essays on Linguistic Realism

Author : Christina Behme
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263949
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays on Linguistic Realism by : Christina Behme

Download or read book Essays on Linguistic Realism written by Christina Behme and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of language, and language as such. The latter is conceived as part of the realm of abstract objects. The authors show how adopting Linguistic Realism overcomes entrenched problems with other frameworks and suggest that Linguistic Realism will best serve those interested in formal linguistics, the cognitive dimension of natural language, and linguistic philosophy. The essays offer different perspectives on Linguistic Realism, either supporting this paradigm or taking it as a starting point for developing modified conceptions of linguistics and for further tying linguistics to the kind of formal theories of sensory cognition that were pioneered in visual perception by David Marr—whose work is predicated on exactly the object/knowledge distinction made by Linguistic Realists.

Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy?

Author : Ulrike Freywald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540500
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? written by Ulrike Freywald and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most grammatical models, hierarchical structuring and dependencies are considered as central features of grammatical structures, an idea which is usually captured by the notion of “head” or “headedness”. While in most models, this notion is more or less taken for granted, there is still much disagreement as to the precise properties of grammatical heads and the theoretical implications that arise of these properties. Moreover, there are quite a few linguistic structures that pose considerable challenges to the notion of “headedness”.Linking to the seminal discussions led in Zwicky (1985) and Corbett, Fraser, & Mc-Glashan (1993), this volume intends to look more closely upon phenomena that are considered problematic for an analysis in terms of grammatical heads. The aim of this book is to approach the concept of “headedness” from its margins. Thus, central questions of the volume relate to the nature of heads and the distinction between headed and non-headed structures, to the process of gaining and losing head status, and to the thought-provoking question as to whether grammar theory could do without heads at all.The contributions in this volume provide new empirical findings bearing on phenomena that challenge the conception of grammatical heads and/or discuss the notion of head/headedness and its consequences for grammatical theory in a more abstract way. The collected papers view the topic from diverse theoretical perspectives (among others HPSG, Generative Syntax, Optimality Theory) and different empirical angles, covering typological and corpus-linguistic accounts, with a focus on data from German.

Of Trees and Birds

Author : Alexiadou, Artemis
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 3869564571
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Book Synopsis Of Trees and Birds by : Alexiadou, Artemis

Download or read book Of Trees and Birds written by Alexiadou, Artemis and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2019 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gisbert Fanselow’s work has been invaluable and inspiring to many researchers working on syntax, morphology, and information structure, both from a theoretical and from an experimental perspective. This volume comprises a collection of articles dedicated to Gisbert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, covering a range of topics from these areas and beyond. The contributions have in common that in a broad sense they have to do with language structures (and thus trees), and that in a more specific sense they have to do with birds. They thus cover two of Gisbert’s major interests in- and outside of the linguistic world (and perhaps even at the interface).

Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Author : Andreas Trotzke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501011
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces by : Andreas Trotzke

Download or read book Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces written by Andreas Trotzke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004

Author : Jenny Doetjes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293201
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004 by : Jenny Doetjes

Download or read book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004 written by Jenny Doetjes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance languages.

Propositional Content

Author : Peter Hanks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191507806
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Propositional Content by : Peter Hanks

Download or read book Propositional Content written by Peter Hanks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics

Author : P. H. Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199675120
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by : P. H. Matthews

Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics written by P. H. Matthews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative dictionary provides coverage across the field of linguistics, both the theoretical and the practical. In over 3,250 entries it clearly defines terms relating to phonetics, grammar, semantics, languages (spoken and written), dialects, and sociolinguistics.