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Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon
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Book Synopsis Scalar Verb Classes : Scalarity, Thematic Roles, and Arguments in the Estonian Aspectual Lexicon by : Anne Tamm
Download or read book Scalar Verb Classes : Scalarity, Thematic Roles, and Arguments in the Estonian Aspectual Lexicon written by Anne Tamm and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses help to understand the aspectual structure of Estonian. In Estonian, transitive verbs fall into aspectual classes based on the type of case-marking of objects and adjuncts. The book relates the morphosyntactic frames of verbs to properties typically associated with adjectives and nouns: scalarity and boundedness. Verbs are divided according to how their aspect is composed. Some verbs lexicalize a scale, which can be bounded either lexically or compositionally. Aspectual composition involves the unification of features. Compositionally derived structures differ according to which of the aspectually relevant dimensions are bounded.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by : Mary Dalrymple
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.
Book Synopsis Atypical predicate-argument relations by : Thierry Ruchot
Download or read book Atypical predicate-argument relations written by Thierry Ruchot and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or lamaholot, an Austronesian language.
Book Synopsis Partitive Cases and Related Categories by : Silvia Luraghi
Download or read book Partitive Cases and Related Categories written by Silvia Luraghi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.
Book Synopsis Negation in Uralic Languages by : Matti Miestamo
Download or read book Negation in Uralic Languages written by Matti Miestamo and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.
Book Synopsis Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union by : Diana Forker
Download or read book Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union written by Diana Forker and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages by : Aet Lees
Download or read book Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages written by Aet Lees and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This corpus study presents a comparative analysis of the case of objects of various verb forms, and also subjects in existential clauses in five Finnic languages. Differences between present languages and historical changes in each language are discussed.
Book Synopsis Linguistic Variation Issues: Case and Agreement in Northern Russian Participial Constructions by : Civardi, Antonio
Download or read book Linguistic Variation Issues: Case and Agreement in Northern Russian Participial Constructions written by Civardi, Antonio and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological stance adopted by the author focuses on singling out all the relevant patterns of variation and on pursuing a unified explanation for them. The key to the solution of the puzzle is the idea that the participial affix -n-/-t- and the agreement inflections are not just pieces of morphology inserted post-syntactically, but true heads that enter the computation and are able to manipulate the argumental roles of the verb and to check the EPP. The author’s proposal is properly framed in the context of current debate on interlanguage variation.
Book Synopsis «Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 by : Natali, Ilaria
Download or read book «Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 written by Natali, Ilaria and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
Book Synopsis New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish by : Dal Pozzo, Lena
Download or read book New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish written by Dal Pozzo, Lena and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.
Book Synopsis Storia, identità e canoni letterari by : Ioana Both
Download or read book Storia, identità e canoni letterari written by Ioana Both and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the interventions of the post-doctoral fellows and PhD students of the University of Cluj Napoca, the University of Bucharest and the University of Florence (Mediterranean Cultures; Doctoral School of Comparative Languages, Literatures and Cultures, specialisation in Language, Literature, Philology: Intercultural Perspectives) presented in occasion of the seminar Storia, identit e canoni letterari ("History, identity and literary canons", Florence, 22-23 November 2011). The contributions are centred on the idea of canon, as a cultural construct founding modern national identities. Another trace is the literary and cultural hybridisations between different geographies. For the Romanian context, the contributions pay particular attention to the movements of the avant-garde of the early 1900s. Some contributions account for the most problematic aspects of the contemporary world using interdisciplinary approaches.
Book Synopsis Degree Gradation of Verbs by : Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer
Download or read book Degree Gradation of Verbs written by Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like 'The boy loves his mother very much' and 'The boy has grown a lot' reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.
Book Synopsis The Structure of Stative Verbs by : Antonia Rothmayr
Download or read book The Structure of Stative Verbs written by Antonia Rothmayr and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity; verbs that allow for a stative reading only; and verbs that seem to have an intermediate status (verbs of position and verbs of internal causation). The study concludes that there is a discrete boundary between stative and eventive verbs, excluding any intermediate status. Stativity arises because the aspectual operators DO and BECOME are absent in the lexical-semantic structure. Eventivity arises if one of these is present. A minimalist view on argument realization and event structure completes the book: Theta features on the arguments are checked against the aspectual heads within the verb phrase.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Tundra Nenets by : Irina Nikolaeva
Download or read book A Grammar of Tundra Nenets written by Irina Nikolaeva and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community. Its purpose is to provide a thorough documentation of all of the major grammatical phenomena in the language. The grammar particularly emphasizes the description of syntax, because this has traditionally been a very neglected area of Nenets studies. Many syntactic aspects have not received a systematic treatment in the existing literature or have not been addressed at all. Since the existing works are not easily available, incomplete, or idiosyncratically presented, Tundra Nenets syntax has played little or no role in the considerations of modern linguists, whether more descriptively or theoretically inclined. The book is largely descriptive: it is not intended to address theoretical questions per se and the description is not meant to be formulated within a particular framework. However, it identifies and discusses issues which are of broad typological and theoretical interest. The description is richly exemplified. Most of the cited examples are the result of fieldwork conducted by the in various locations. They are sentences produced by native speakers either spontaneously or elicited in response to questions posed in Russian. Other examples are excerpts from original texts.
Book Synopsis Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context by : Fabienne Baider
Download or read book Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context written by Fabienne Baider and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning. Seldom treated means of expressing emotions (such as interjections, conditionals, scalarity, allocentric constructions), the social and professional impact of emotions and the latest developments in the interface of speech recognition / emotions are some of the key contributions to this volume. The cross-cultural perspective contrasts new couples of languages (among which Australian aboriginal languages, Cypriot Greek, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian) and addresses sociolinguistic, pragmatic and discursive issues. Most of the papers attempt interesting theoretical articulations that aim at a better understanding of the linguistic and sociolinguistic nature of emotions. This book will be highly relevant for students and researchers interested in emotions, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as prosody and philosophy of language.
Book Synopsis Situating Sustainability by : C. Parker Krieg
Download or read book Situating Sustainability written by C. Parker Krieg and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education. This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of research and action. These contributors are joined by artists whose public-facing work provides a mobile platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and socio-ecological infrastructures. Situating Sustainability calls for a truly transdisciplinary research that is guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local actors informed by histories of place. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, the volume introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 22 by : Uli Sauerland
Download or read book Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 22 written by Uli Sauerland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sinn und Bedeutung conferences are one of the leading international venues for research in formal semantics. The conference "Sinn und Bedeutung 22" took place in Potsdam and Berlin in September 2019. Volume 1 contains 29 papers that were presented at the conference. Table of contents: Márta Abrusán, Nicholas Asher and Tim Van de Cruys, "Content vs. function words: The view from distributional semantics," p. 1-21 Dorothy Ahn, "Korean classifier-less number constructions," p. 23-38 Sascha Alexeyenko, "Quantification in event semantics: Generalized quantifiers vs. sub-events," p. 39-53 Pranav Anand and Natasha Korotkova, "Acquaintance content and obviation," p. 55-72 Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani, "No explanation for the historical present: Temporal sequencing and discourse," p. 73-90 Curt Anderson and Sebastian Löbner, "Roles and the compositional semantics of role-denoting relational adjectives," p. 91-108 Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska and Max Prüller, "Focus constraints on ellipsis --- An unalternatives account," p. 109-126 Corien Bary, Daniel Altshuler, Kristen Syrett and Peter De Swart, "Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports," p. 127-142 Itai Bassi and Ezer Rasin, "Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation," p. 143-159 Andrea Beltrama, "Subjective assertions are weak: Exploring the illocutionary profile of perspective-dependent predicates," p. 160-173 Andrea Beltrama, Erlinde Meertens and Maribel Romero, "Decomposing cornering effects: an experimental study," p. 175-190 Anton Benz, Carla Bombi and Nicole Gotzner, "Scalar diversity and negative strengthening," p. 191-203 Anton Benz, Nicole Gotzner and Lisa Raithel, "Embedded implicature in a new interactive paradigm," p. 205-221 M. Ryan Bochnak and Martina Martinovic, "Modal height and modal flavor: The case of Wolof di," p. 223-240 David Boylan, "Miners and modals," p. 241-258 Saskia Brockmann, Sara McConnell, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, "Children's comprehension of pronouns and definites," p. 259-276 Sebastian Bücking, "Painting cows from a type-logical perspective," p. 277-294 Nattanun Chanchaochai, "On acquiring a complex personal reference system: Experimental results from Thai children with autism," p. 295-312 WooJin Chung, "Context updates in head-final languages: Linear order or hierarchy?," p. 313-329 Ava Creemers, Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz, "Interpreting presuppositions in the scope of quantifiers: Every vs. at least one," p. 331-348 Virginia Dawson, "A new kind of epistemic indefinite," p. 349-366 Michael Deigan, "Counterfactual donkeys don't get high," p. 367-384 Maria Esipova, "Focus on what's not at issue: Gestures, presuppositions, appositives under contrastive focus," p. 385-402 Danny Fox, "Partition by exhaustification: Comments on Dayal 1996," p. 403-434 Yosef Grodzinsky, Galit Agmon, Kedem Snir, Isabelle Deschamps and Yonatan Loewenstein, "The processing cost of Downward Entailingness: the representation and verification of comparative constructions," p. 435-451 Andreas Haida, Luka Crnic and Yosef Grodzinsky, "Linguistic barriers to logical reasoning: a new perspective on Aristotelian syllogisms," p. 453-468 Stefan Hinterwimmer and Cornelia Ebert, "A comparison of fei and aber," p. 469-486 Sunwoo Jeong, "QUD effects on epistemic containment principle: An experimental study," p. 487-504 Elsi Kaiser, Justin Nichols and Catherine Wang, "Experimenting with imposters: What modulates choice of person agreement in pronouns?," p. 505-521
