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Lexicalising Clausal Syntax

Author : Tibor Laczkó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258988
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Lexicalising Clausal Syntax by : Tibor Laczkó

Download or read book Lexicalising Clausal Syntax written by Tibor Laczkó and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It analyses the most important phenomena in the preverbal domain of Hungarian finite declarative and wh-clauses: sentence structure, operators, verbal modifiers, negation and copula constructions. Based on the results of earlier generative linguistic research, it presents the fundamental empirical generalisations and offers a comparative critical assessment of the most salient analyses in a variety of generative linguistic models from its own perspective. It argues for a lexical approach to the relevant phenomena and develops the first comprehensive analysis in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It also reports the successful implementation of crucial aspects of this analysis in the computational linguistic platform of the theory, Xerox Linguistic Environment.

Syntax Over Time

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
ISBN 13 : 0199687927
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax Over Time by : Theresa Biberauer

Download or read book Syntax Over Time written by Theresa Biberauer and published by Oxford Studies in Diachronic a. This book was released on 2015 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to linguists working on syntactic variation and change.

Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure

Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521276597
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by : Timothy Shopen

Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Towards a Contextual Grammar of English

Author : Eugene Winter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000156125
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Contextual Grammar of English by : Eugene Winter

Download or read book Towards a Contextual Grammar of English written by Eugene Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Layers of Predication

Author : Caroline B. Heycock
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Layers of Predication written by Caroline B. Heycock and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Clauses

Author : Anna Cardinaletti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0585492204
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Small Clauses written by Anna Cardinaletti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These previously unpublished articles offer a cross-linguistic perspective on small clauses. They discuss subjects such as the different types of small clauses across languages and lexical items, the internal syntax of small clauses and their structure, and the general topic of the grammar of predication, ranging from a total questioning of the existence of small clauses to claims that they exist in every predication context. The editors' cross-linguistic approach addresses syntactic and lexical issues as well as the relationships between small clauses and language acquisition among children. It surveys the problems raised by small clauses in light of recent developments in the principles and parameter model. The data is drawn from Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish. The contributions share theoretical assumptions about small clauses. The cross-linguistic comparison offers the potential for defining variable and static elements of small clauses, as well as distinguishing ways that they resemble full clauses.

Objects and Other Subjects

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401009910
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Objects and Other Subjects written by William D. Davies and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811798
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface by : Robert D. Van Valin

Download or read book Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface written by Robert D. Van Valin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages.

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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Book Synopsis Edge-Based Clausal Syntax by : Paul M. Postal

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.

Clause Structure and Language Change

Author : Adrian Battye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195086333
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Clause Structure and Language Change written by Adrian Battye and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

Small Clauses in English

Author : Bas Aarts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110134872
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Small Clauses in English written by Bas Aarts and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English

Author : Dagmar Haumann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027233691
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English by : Dagmar Haumann

Download or read book Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English written by Dagmar Haumann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the hypothesis that the licensing of adverbs within and across the three layers of the clause is contingent on specifier-head agreement and that variation in the linear order of adverbs and other elements of the clause follows from the interplay of a small number of factors. The central claims made are: functional projections hosting adverbs are not confined to the inflectional and complementizer layer of the clause, but also play a central role in the shaping of the lexical layer; postverbal adverbs are realized within a semantically empty verbal projection and licensed under specifier head agreement by proxy; and adverbs that occur within the complementizer layer of the clause do so by either move or merge.

Small Clauses

Author : Anna Cardinaletti
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780126135282
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Small Clauses written by Anna Cardinaletti and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a cross-linguistic perspective on small clauses. This book discusses topics such as the different types of small clauses across languages and lexical items, the internal syntax of small clauses and their structure, and the general topic of the grammar of predication. It also addresses syntactic and lexical issues.

Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure

Author : Dominique Sportiche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134701292
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure written by Dominique Sportiche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.

The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104247
Total Pages : 2192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 2192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Purpose Clauses

Author : C. Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401134782
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Purpose Clauses written by C. Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose clauses appear to be adverbial, they frequently occupy a relatively low place on the scale of important things for syntactic theory to address itself to. In this book I assume the theoretical framework that has come to be known as 'Government-Binding' theory (GB), initiated in Chomsky (1981). The general fonn of the analyis of purpose clauses in GB dates roughly from Chomsky (1977). where several kinds of constructions akin to purpose clauses are identified. Within GB. this analysis is so widely accepted that it deserves to be considered the standard theory. This book, then. is about a few syntactically peripheral ell~ments that have enjoyed a relatively long-lived. virtually universally accepted. theoretical treatment What is perhaps an obvious question arises in this context. Why write a GB book about purpose clauses? This book. I hope, will supply an interesting answer. Simply put. purpose clause:;, and related constructions, have various properties that are not accounted for in the standard theory. In this book I propose an alternative analysis of purpose clauses, an analysis from which. I think. more of their properties follow more naturally.

Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative

Author : Eric Potsdam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135671028
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative written by Eric Potsdam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This work is an unrevised version of my 1996 University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. dissertation. The only changes that have been made are corrections of typographical errors, minor rewording, updating of references, and the inclusion of an index. I would like to thank Rosemary Plapp and Kristi Long for help with proofreading and preparation of the manuscript.