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Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270694
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs by : Artemis Alexiadou

Download or read book Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools that can be used to keep the different instantiations of the phenomenon apart and argues that a uniform account thereof is not desirable. On the basis of these tools, it advances the proposal that there are different types of multiple occurrences of determiners (and sub-types thereof), some are syntactic, while others are purely morphological. It then puts forth a theoretical proposal that regulates the presence of the different types of multiple determiners across languages. The book will be of interst to researchers and students working on the structure of DP, the syntax of modification and the typology of noun phrases. Languages discussed include Greek, Romanian, Scandinavian, English, dialects of German, Hebrew, Albanian, Chinese, French, and Slovenian.

Advances in the Syntax of DPs

Author : Anna Bondaruk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269696
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in the Syntax of DPs by : Anna Bondaruk

Download or read book Advances in the Syntax of DPs written by Anna Bondaruk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and external cartography of various types of simplex and complex DPs: the position of DPs within larger structures, agreement in phi-features and/or case between DPs and their predicates, as well as between sub-elements of DPs, and/or the assignment of case to DPs in specific configurations. The first four chapters of the book focus primarily on the external syntax of DPs, and the remaining chapters deal with their internal syntax.

The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar

Author : Min-Joo Kim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030058867
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar by : Min-Joo Kim

Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar written by Min-Joo Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. Adnominal adjectival expressions are apparently optional noun dependents but their syntax and semantics have been shown to provide an important window on the internal structure of DP. By carefully examining data from Korean, an understudied language, as well as from other unrelated languages, the book provides a broad perspective on the phenomenon of noun modification and its cross-linguistic variations. Furthermore, it offers not only a thorough syntactic analysis but also a formal semantic analysis of noun modifiers that extends beyond a single language. This book will be of great interest to researchers interested in theoretical syntax, its interfaces with semantics, pragmatics, linguistic typology, and language variation.

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.

Definiteness across languages

Author : Ana Aguilar-Guevara
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961101922
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Definiteness across languages by : Ana Aguilar-Guevara

Download or read book Definiteness across languages written by Ana Aguilar-Guevara and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen studies exploiting insights from formal semantics and syntax, typological and language specific studies, and, crucially, semantic fieldwork and cross-linguistic semantics, in order to address the expression and interpretation of definiteness in a diverse group of languages, most of them understudied. The papers presented in this volume aim to establish a dialogue between theory and data in order to answer the following questions: What formal strategies do natural languages employ to encode definiteness? What are the possible meanings associated to this notion across languages? Are there different types of definite reference? Which other functions (besides marking definite reference) are associated with definite descriptions? Each of the papers contained in this volume addresses at least one of these questions and, in doing so, they aim to enrich our understanding of definiteness.

The Meaning of Language

Author : Hans Götzsche
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527521060
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis The Meaning of Language by : Hans Götzsche

Download or read book The Meaning of Language written by Hans Götzsche and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Language illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics. The volume revolves around two main chapters authored by two internationally acknowledged Scandinavian scholars, Hans Basbøll and Stig Eliasson. Basbøll’s contribution is the most detailed and coherent English-language presentation of the pioneering Danish 18th century linguist Jens Pedersen Høysgaard and his work, and Eliasson explores the intricacy of the issue of whether morphology can be borrowed between languages and the mechanisms of actual borrowings. The other contributions illustrate which topics may be taken up by language scholars today, from metaphor, regional phonology, morphology and syntax, language learning, discourse analysis, intensifier semantics, and Indo-European, to the interface between language and logic. The approaches invoke a wide spectrum of theoretical models and assumptions.

Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350079197
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax by : Michalis Georgiafentis

Download or read book Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax written by Michalis Georgiafentis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14

Author : Lori Repetti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263892
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 by : Lori Repetti

Download or read book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 written by Lori Repetti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 8 Volume Set

Author : Martin Everaert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118358724
Total Pages : 5254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 8 Volume Set by : Martin Everaert

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 8 Volume Set written by Martin Everaert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 5254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable reference tool for students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition has been updated to incorporate the last 10 years of syntactic research and expanded to include a wider array of important case studies in the syntax of a broad array of languages. A revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reference tool for students and researchers in linguistics, now incorporating the last 10 years of syntactic research Contains over 120 chapters that explain, analyze, and contextualize important empirical studies within syntax over the last 50 years Charts the development and historiography of syntactic theory with coverage of the most important subdomains of syntax Brings together cutting-edge contributions from a global group of linguists under the editorship of two esteemed syntacticians Provides an essential and unparalleled collection of research within the field of syntax, available both online and across 8 print volumes This work is also available as an online resource at www.companiontosyntax.com

Aspect and Valency in Nominals

Author : Maria Bloch-Trojnar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505432
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspect and Valency in Nominals by : Maria Bloch-Trojnar

Download or read book Aspect and Valency in Nominals written by Maria Bloch-Trojnar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.

The Place of Case in Grammar

Author : Christina Sevdali
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192635417
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis The Place of Case in Grammar by : Christina Sevdali

Download or read book The Place of Case in Grammar written by Christina Sevdali and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. The crux of the debate lies in how the morphological expression of grammatical function should relate to formal syntax. In the generative tradition, this issue was addressed by the influential proposal that abstract syntactic Case should be dissociated from the morphological expression of case. The chapters in this book deal with a number of key issues in the ongoing debates that have emerged from this proposal. The first part discusses the modes that we need for structural case assignment, and how Case would relate to a theory of parameters. In the second part, contributors explore the division of labour between structural and inherent case, synchronically and diachronically, while the third part investigates individual cases and how they can illuminate case theory. The chapters discuss a wide range of phenomena, including differential object marking (DOM), global case splits, prepositional genitives and other prepositional phrases, nominative infinitival subjects, nominalizations of deponent verbs, and three-place predicates. They also draw on data from a variety of languages and language families, such as Hindi, Lithuanian, Kashmiri, Kinande, Greek, Hiberno-English, Romance, and Sahapatin.

Brazilian Sign Language Studies

Author : Ronice Müller de Quadros
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507818
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Brazilian Sign Language Studies by : Ronice Müller de Quadros

Download or read book Brazilian Sign Language Studies written by Ronice Müller de Quadros and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language linguists, and the community of Libras scholars have documented this language and built robust resources for linguistic research. This book provides a selection of studies by these scholars, representing work in a variety of areas from phonology to creative literature.

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives

Author : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508768
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives by : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

Download or read book Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives written by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea draw on data from around 40 languages to demonstrate the existence of two distinct semantic types of most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a cumulative type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most significant difference is between partitive and non-partitive configurations: certain majority quantifiers are specific to partitive constructions, while others are also allowed in non-partitives. The volume also explores complex expressions of the type the largest part and nominal quantifiers of the type the majority. The authors argue in favour of a quantificational analysis of most, in contrast to many recent studies, but adopt a bipartition-cum-superlative analysis for the largest part. The volume is a large-scale crosslinguistic investigation, offering typological insights as well as case studies from a range of languages, including German, Romanian, Hungarian, Hindi, and Syrian Arabic. The findings have implications for the study of number marking, partitivity, kind reference, (in)definiteness marking, and other crucial issues in linguistic theory.

Language Variation - European Perspectives VI

Author : Isabelle Buchstaller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265577
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Variation - European Perspectives VI by : Isabelle Buchstaller

Download or read book Language Variation - European Perspectives VI written by Isabelle Buchstaller and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues with smaller samples in the study of language variation”), Martin Haspelmath and Susanne Maria Michaelis (“Analytic and synthetic: Typological change in varieties of European languages”) and Jürgen Erich Schmidt (“Dynamics, variation and the brain“). In addition, the editors have selected 11 papers which exemplify the breadth of research on European languages. The contributions to this volume encompass languages as varied as Swedish, Greek, Galician, Dutch, German, Swedish, English (including English-lexified contact varieties), French, Spanish, Croatian, Luxembourgish and Romani. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives and particularly the combination of different methods attests to the scope of research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages.

Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

Author : Silvio Cruschina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263256
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces by : Silvio Cruschina

Download or read book Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces written by Silvio Cruschina and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect, the dialects of Italy are no exception, in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces, as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system – syntactic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic – do not necessarily operate in isolation but, rather, interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.

Syntactic architecture and its consequences II

Author : András Bárány
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102880
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic architecture and its consequences II by : András Bárány

Download or read book Syntactic architecture and its consequences II written by András Bárány and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions in comparative morphosyntax, including the modelling of syntactic categories, relative clauses, and demonstrative systems. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in morphosyntax and morphosyntactic variation.

Syntax over Time

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511749
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Syntax over Time written by Theresa Biberauer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the phonological component. In this volume, international scholars examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sámi. They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are the clausal and nominal templates ('cartography'), and to what extent is syntactic structure more generally subject to universal constraints? The book will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change, and especially those who believe that historical linguistics and linguistic theory can, and should, inform one another.