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Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 184950010X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. This book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.
Author : Joan Bresnan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111909920X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Lexical-Functional Syntax written by Joan Bresnan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity
Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726189X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar written by Luc Steels and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to conceive and implement operational parsing and production systems, which could be used as a basic component of a wide range of Artificial Intelligence applications, such as dialog systems, language tutoring applications, or translation assistants. The book focuses on a particular formalism, Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), that has emerged recently as a solid platform for writing and testing grammars from a constructional point of view. It introduces the basics of FCG and illustrates its use through a number of case studies all centering around the verb phrase. The case studies consider the verb phrase in different languages (Dutch, English, Spanish, Russian) and examine different challenging linguistic phenomena, ranging from word order flexibility, language change, and language acquisition, to the complex semantics of the verb phrase, particularly for aspect. The book is intended for those who want a first contact with FCG and see how different non-trivial analyses of language phenomena can be expressed. It is also an excellent first step for those who want to explore FCG to build language applications. Originally published as special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017).
Author : Kristin Melum Eide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259992
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Volume written by Kristin Melum Eide and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.
Author : John Jeffrey Lowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019879357X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Transitive Nouns and Adjectives written by John Jeffrey Lowe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and analysed from diachronic, typological, and theoretical perspectives.
Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104247
Total Pages : 2192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
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.
Author : Kersti Börjars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107170567
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Lexical-Functional Grammar written by Kersti Börjars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.
Author : John J. Lowe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191005053
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit written by John J. Lowe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. It is also a poetic text in which deliberate obscurity is the governing aesthetic and in which the rules of language are pushed to their limits in order to produce the ideal poetic expression. Many Vedic sentences are of controversial, disputed meaning, and Vedic scholarship is thus fraught with controversy. John J. Lowe applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how participles are used. The author uses his findings to recategorize the data, by defining certain stems and stem-types as outside the synchronic category of participle on the basis of their syntactic and semantic properties. He suggests alternative sources for these forms and considers the linguistic processes that transformed old participles into non-participial entities. In his conclusion he reassesses the category of participles within the verbal and nominal systems, looks at their prehistory in Proto-Indo-European, and describes their universal, typological characteristics. Among his conclusions are that tense-aspect-stem participles have the technical properties of adjectival verbs, not verbal adjectives, and that such participles are not fully dependent on corresponding finite verbal forms. That is, a perfect participle, for example, need not share all the semantic and functional features of the finite perfect forms built to the same stem. These and many other conclusions drawn either directly challenge or radically revise received opinion and recent work.
Author : Paola Monachesi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191534492
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Verbal Complex in Romance written by Paola Monachesi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author proceeds through a consideration of case studies, such as clitics and complex predicates (auxiliary and modal verbs) in Romance, grounding theoretical analysis in constant exemplification. She shows that a careful analysis of their properties can lead to a better understanding of the interaction of the various components of the grammar. The syntactic properties of clitics are considered in relation to their phonological and morphological characteristic. The properties of auxiliary verbs are analysed from the perspective of the interface between argument structure and syntactic structure. Modal verbs are examined at the interface between syntax and phonology. The analyses of clitics and auxiliaries throw interesting new light on the link between Romanian and Balkan/Slavic. This is a valuable contribution to the study of grammatical interfaces and to Romance verbal typology and comparative linguistics.
Author : Amanda Swenson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501510126
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Malayalam Verbs written by Amanda Swenson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, using Malayalam as a case study, provides an in-depth exploration of how inflectional suffixes should be separated from the verb and the implications this has for the syntax and semantics. Past work has proposed that Malayalam lacks a Tense Phrase and tense morphology, i.e. is ‘tenseless’. However, this book shows that Malayalam behaves differently from other tenseless languages and that it does have tense morphology. It also provides evidence that there is a Tense Phrase in the syntax. In addition, it examines what have been called the two 'imperfectives' and argues that one is a type of progressive, while the other is a pluractional marker and shows that Malayalam lacks perfect morphology and a Perfect Phrase in, minimally, Universal perfects. With respect to finiteness, among other things, it argues that Conjunctive Participles are best analyzed as a type of absolutive adjunct and that -athu ‘gerunds’ involve nominalization above the Tense Phrase-level. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in cross-linguistic variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality and/or the morphosyntax or morphosemantics of Dravidian languages.
Author : Susan Pintzuk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198250272
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Diachronic Syntax written by Susan Pintzuk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.
Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104026
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches (Fifth revised edition) written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.
Author : Tibor Laczkó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258988
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
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.
Author : Tanja Mortelmans
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042032707
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book In the Mood for Mood written by Tanja Mortelmans and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Modals and the present perfect /Kristin M. Eide -- Constraints on the meanings of modal auxiliaries in counterfactual clauses /An Verhulst and Renaat Declerck -- Non-root past modals /Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- The Italian modal dovere in the conditional: future reference, evidentiality and argumentation /Andrea Rocci -- The German evidential constructions and their origins: a corpus based analysis /Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova -- Adverbs at the interface of tense, aspect and modality: evidence from Turkish /Eser E. Taylan and Ayhan Aksu-Koç -- Epistemic modalities and evidentiality in Standard Spoken Tibetan /Zuzana Vokurkova -- Evidential extensions of aspecto-temporal forms in Japanese from a typological perspective /Toshiyuki Sadanobu and Andrej Malchukov -- Fake past and covert emotive modality /Sumiyo Nishiguchi.
Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199859
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Objects and Information Structure written by Mary Dalrymple and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
Author : 杨丰榕
Publisher : 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 : 7568927636
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)
Download or read book 句法映射理论：格的分配与语法功能的实现 written by 杨丰榕 and published by 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 格的分配与语法功能的实现。
