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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book Recherches Linguistiques À Montréal written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book McGill Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myrna Gopnik Professor of Linguistics McGill University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198027524
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars written by Myrna Gopnik Professor of Linguistics McGill University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned? This debate is still at the heart of linguistics, especially as it intersects with psychology and cognitive science. In collecting papers which discuss the evidence and arguments regarding this difficult question, The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars considers cases ranging from infants who are just beginning to learn the properties of a native language to language-impaired adults who will never learn one. These studies show that, while precursors of language exist in other creatures, the abilities necessary for constructing full-fledged grammars are part of the biological endowment of human beings. The essays that comprise this volume test the range and specificity of that endowment, while also contributing to our understanding of the intricate and complex relationship between language and biology.
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Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book MIT Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myrna Gopnik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195115341
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars written by Myrna Gopnik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an annual conference at Simon Fraser University, this volume collects together papers that discuss the evidence and arguments regarding the inheritability and innateness of grammar, and shows that whole precursors of language exist in other creatures. In the VANCOUVER STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE series.
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Total Pages : 1016 pages
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Download or read book University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198793553
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Niuean written by Diane Massam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case. Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262640442
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Language Form and Language Function written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided direct confrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goals is to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stresses the limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interest might have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.
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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen McLane
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book ERIC Documents on Foreign Language Teaching and Linguistics written by Kathleen McLane and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosina Lippi-Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235937
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics written by Rosina Lippi-Green and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are selected papers from the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable held in April of 1991 at Ann Arbor. Topics include the evolution of the gender system, the delineation of the relative clause in historical texts, and language as a political tool in the new Europe.
Author : Mark Baltin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756357
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory written by Mark Baltin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 2 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar. Contains 23 articles written by an international assembly of specialists in the field. The lucidly written articles grant accessibility to crucial areas of syntactic theory. Contrasting theories are represented. Contains an informative introduction and extensive bibliography which serves as a reference tool for both students and professional linguists.
Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600460
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Language, Logic, and Concepts written by Ray Jackendoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of essays inspired by the memory of the cognitive psychologist John Macnamara.
Author : David Lebeaux
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298459
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar written by David Lebeaux and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language acquisition. Challenging the conventional division between language acquisition and syntax, this influential work constructs a new understanding of phrase structure, bringing syntactic data to bear on phrase structure composition. Two new phrase structure composition operations are proposed, Adjoin-α, which adjoins adjuncts into the structure, and Project-α, which fuses open class and closed class structures. The author also introduces the novel concept of subgrammars, successively larger grammars that take the child from the initial state to the adult grammar. This work will be of interest to those in the areas of syntax, language acquisition, learnability, and cognitive science in general.
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Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mabel L. Rice
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134789254
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Toward A Genetics of Language written by Mabel L. Rice and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging. Although these advances are each highly relevant to the determination of what a child is innately prepared to bring to language acquisition, the contributing fields of endeavor have traditionally been relatively self-contained, with little cross communication. This volume was developed with the belief that there is considerable value to be gained in the creation of a shared platform for a dialogue across the disciplines. Leading experts in genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, language impairment, and brain imaging are brought together for the purpose of exploring the current evidence, theoretical issues, and research challenges in a way that bridges disciplinary boundaries and points toward future developments in the search for the genetic and environmental bases of language acquisition and impairments. This collection provides discussions and summaries of: *breakthrough findings of the genetic underpinnings of dyslexia; *theoretical and empirical developments in the specification of a phenotype of language acquisition and impairment; *evidence of familiarity and twin concordances of specific language impairment; and *new evidence from brain imaging. It concludes with a critical response from an advocate of rational empiricism.
Author : Rebecca Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582577
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Verb Second written by Rebecca Woods and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
