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It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English

Author : Gunther Kaltenböck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English by : Gunther Kaltenböck

Download or read book It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English written by Gunther Kaltenböck and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaltenbock (English and American studies, University of Vienna) investigates the syntactic and functional properties of it-extraposition and non-extraposition in both spoken and written contemporary British English. The study is based on a large-scale corpus analysis of data obtained from the British component of the International Corpus of English. The author examines the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic factors inhibiting or restricting the possibility of extraposition, and the functional factors influencing the choice between use of it-extraposition and non- extraposition. Distributed in the U.S. by Purdue U. Press. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027254311
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English by : Marcus Callies

Download or read book Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English written by Marcus Callies and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Extraposition from NP in English

Author : Edward Göbbel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501509853
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Extraposition from NP in English by : Edward Göbbel

Download or read book Extraposition from NP in English written by Edward Göbbel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of phonology on word order phenomena has become a central research agenda ever since the Minimalist Program emphasised the role of interface conditions on syntactic operations. This book is a detailed study of extraposition from NP, which has traditionally been the domain of syntactic investigation and information-structural studies. After an examination of syntactic accounts of PP and relative clause extraposition, which are largely found inadequate, it explores the possibility of phonological solutions by comparing the prosodic structure of canonical and extraposed word orders. Particular attention is payed to the informational status of extraposed constituents and the focus structure of the sentence. The book shows that extraposition optimises the prosodic structure of sentences and in some cases their rhythmic structure, while focus structure only plays a role in extraposition of defocused constituents. The book further argues that extraposition occurs at PF, while certain binding-theoretical consequences of extraposition can be resolved by LF movement. With its focus on the interface between syntax and phonology, the book will appeal to researchers working on either domain.

English Grammar

Author : Angela Downing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317610970
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis English Grammar by : Angela Downing

Download or read book English Grammar written by Angela Downing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, English Grammar is accessible, avoiding overly theoretical or technical explanations. Divided into 12 self-contained chapters based around language functions, each chapter is divided into units of class-length material. Key features include: Numerous authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, which exemplify the grammatical description. Clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient class preparation and student revision. Extensive exercises with a comprehensive answer key. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new texts, a more user-friendly layout, more American English examples and a companion website, providing extra tasks, a glossary and a teachers‘ guide. This is the essential coursebook and reference work for all native and non-native students of English grammar on English language and linguistics courses.

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490752
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From being the occupation of a marginal (and frequently marginalised) group of researchers, the linguistic analysis of machine-readable language corpora has moved to the mainstream of research on the English language. In this process an impressive body of results has accumulated which, over and above the intrinsic descriptive interest it holds for students of the English language, forces a major and systematic re-thinking of foundational issues in linguistic theory. Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory was accordingly chosen as the motto for the twentieth annual gathering of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern/ Medieval English, which was hosted by the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1999. The present volume, which presents selected papers from this conference, thus builds on previous successful work in the computer-aided description of English and at the same time represents an attempt at stock-taking and methodological reflection in a linguistic subdiscipline that has clearly come of age. Contributions cover all levels of linguistic description - from phonology/ prosody, through grammar and semantics to discourse-analytical issues such as genre or gender-specific linguistic usage. They are united by a desire to further the dialogue between the corpus-linguistic community and researchers working in other traditions. Thereby, the atmosphere ranges from undisguised skepticism (as expressed by Noam Chomsky in an interview which is part of the opening contribution by Bas Aarts) to empirically substantiated optimism (as, for example, in Bernadette Vine's significantly titled contribution Getting things done).

Rightward Movement

Author : Dorothee Beerman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781556199011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Rightward Movement written by Dorothee Beerman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of conditions on transformations. The upward boundedness of extraposition rules vs. the successive cyclic character of question word movement, for example, remains a vexing problem. An idea which has gained considerable prominence in the most recent syntactic work, in particular Noam Chomsky's 'Minimalist Program' and Richard Kayne's 'Antisymmetry' proposal, is that rightward movement simply does not exist. This means, in essence, that what looks like an element that has been moved rightward is either base-generated in its surface position, or it is actually moved leftward but all its surrounding materials have been moved leftward even further. Clearly, these radical proposals have generated a large number of new analyses of the relevant phenomena, and they have fostered considerable controversy about the viability and desirability of this type of approach. The present volume brings together a representative group of articles discussing a variety of aspects of (apparent) rightward movement processes, including considerations having to do with parsing, and representing the various opposing lines of thought on this matter. Empirically, they cover a wide array of constructions (extraposition, scrambling, quantifier-floating, etc.) and languages ( American Sign Language, Bengali, Dutch, French, Frisian, German, Hindi, Japanese, Marathi, etc.).

A Modern Course in English Syntax

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134958625
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Course in English Syntax written by Liliane Haegeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.

Subjects in English

Author : Peter Uhrig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311058980X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Subjects in English by : Peter Uhrig

Download or read book Subjects in English written by Peter Uhrig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be.

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

Author : Rodney Huddleston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848374
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Book Synopsis A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by : Rodney Huddleston

Download or read book A Student's Introduction to English Grammar written by Rodney Huddleston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken. This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics. It contains exercises, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education.

Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253620
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (536 download)

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Book Synopsis Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora by : Karin Aijmer

Download or read book Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora written by Karin Aijmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

The Factive-Reported Distinction in English

Author : Caroline Gentens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110669692
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Factive-Reported Distinction in English by : Caroline Gentens

Download or read book The Factive-Reported Distinction in English written by Caroline Gentens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a reconceptualization of the factive presupposition. It presents a cognitive-functional account based on three central features: the event structure of semantic classes of matrix predicates, the sources of modal stances in the complement clause, and the coercive potential of predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.

Specificational and Predicative Clauses

Author : Wout Van Praet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110771993
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Specificational and Predicative Clauses by : Wout Van Praet

Download or read book Specificational and Predicative Clauses written by Wout Van Praet and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative clauses, specificational clauses have sparked much debate. A key concern is how specificational clauses with indefinite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "A popular holiday go-to is Rome") compare to, and contrast with, other copular clauses, especially specificational clauses with definite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "The main can’t-miss in Italy is Rome") and predicative clauses with indefinite predicate nominative (e.g. "Rome is a great city"). This book addresses this concern by offering a functional-structural analysis of these three clause types in terms of their common characteristics and distinguishing features. The analysis of the clauses’ structure and meaning is substantiated by evidence from corpus research which probes into various aspects of their actual usage (e.g. information structure and prosody, discourse-embedding). In doing so, the book offers an empirical basis for testing existing assumptions about predicative and specificational clauses, while also providing new insights into the interaction between the grammar and discourse usage of copular clauses.

Discourse Syntax

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108609511
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Syntax written by Heidrun Dorgeloh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Syntax is the study of syntax that requires an understanding of the surrounding text and the overall discourse situation, including considerations of genre and modality. Using corpus data and insights from current research, this book is a comprehensive guide to this fast-developing field. It takes the reader 'beyond the sentence' to study grammatical phenomena, like word order variation, connectives, ellipsis, and complexity. It introduces core concepts of Discourse Syntax, integrating insights from corpus-based research and inviting the reader to reflect on research design decisions. Each chapter begins with a definition of learning outcomes, provides results from empirical articles, and enables readers to critically assess data visualization. Complete with helpful further reading recommendations as well as a range of exercises, it is geared towards intermediate to advanced students of English linguistics and it is also essential reading for anyone interested in this exciting, fast-moving discipline.

Eurogrammar

Author : R. J. C. Smits
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110882701
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Eurogrammar written by R. J. C. Smits and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Eurogrammar".

The Syntactic Phenomena of English

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226556277
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntactic Phenomena of English by : James D. McCawley

Download or read book The Syntactic Phenomena of English written by James D. McCawley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-25 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a thorough treatment of the syntactic structures of English, beginning with an overview to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. Updates from the 1988 edition include sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Adjective Complementation

Author : Ilka Mindt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223181
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Adjective Complementation written by Ilka Mindt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Outside the Clause

Author : Gunther Kaltenböck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266557
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Outside the Clause written by Gunther Kaltenböck and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements can, however, no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents, but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data, the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents, including discourse markers, free adjuncts, left dislocands, insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives, investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents, their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings, also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.