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Syntactic Geolectal Variation

Author : Alba Cerrudo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259879
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Geolectal Variation by : Alba Cerrudo

Download or read book Syntactic Geolectal Variation written by Alba Cerrudo and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between dialectology (which makes use of atlases, corpora, databases, questionnaires, interviews, etc.) and formal syntactic studies has traditionally been weak (or even nonexistent), which is precisely the gap the contributions in this book aim at filling in. From a broader perspective, this collection is meant as a contribution to the subfield of linguistic variation and to the more general field of Romance linguistics, with special interest in Spanish and in other Iberian languages. The volume is meant for both researchers and students interested in linguistic variation or dialectology and, specifically, in syntactic variation in Iberian languages.

Introduction to the Study of Language

Author : Berthold Delbrüeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789027208712
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to the Study of Language by : Berthold Delbrüeck

Download or read book Introduction to the Study of Language written by Berthold Delbrüeck and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Trends in Analyzing Syntactic Variation

Author : Ludovic De Cuypere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789027228185
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (281 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Trends in Analyzing Syntactic Variation by : Ludovic De Cuypere

Download or read book Current Trends in Analyzing Syntactic Variation written by Ludovic De Cuypere and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syntactic Variation and Verb Second

Author : Federica Cognola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255849
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Variation and Verb Second by : Federica Cognola

Download or read book Syntactic Variation and Verb Second written by Federica Cognola and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Máocheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing mechanism and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Máocheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Máocheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.

Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation

Author : James R. Black
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236437
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation by : James R. Black

Download or read book Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation written by James R. Black and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kayne's introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of syntactic variation. The 11 articles in this collection demonstrate the use of this tool in analyzing microparametric variation, principally with reference to Chomsky's Minimalist program, in a variety of languages. Topics include se/si constructions, hypothetical infinitives and adverbial quantifiers in French and other Romance languages; that-trace variation, Scandinavian possessive constructions, reflexives and subject-verb agreement in Icelandic & Faroese, and verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects; anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut; negative particle questions in Chinese; imperative inversion in Belfast English; and the second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of Bolton.

The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics

Author : Manuel Diaz-Campos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119839823
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics by : Manuel Diaz-Campos

Download or read book The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics written by Manuel Diaz-Campos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive, authoritative, and interdisciplinary view of usage-based theory in linguistics. Contributions by an international team of established and emerging scholars discuss the application of used-based approaches in phonology, morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, language variation and change, language development, cognitive linguistics, and other subfields of linguistics. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this groundbreaking work of scholarship addresses all major theoretical and methodological aspects of usage-based linguistics while offering diverse perspectives and key insights into theory, history, and methodology. Throughout the text, in-depth essays explore up-to-date methodologies, emerging approaches, new technologies, and cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics in many languages and subdisciplines. Topics include used-based approaches to subfields such as anthropological linguistics, computational linguistics, statistical analysis, and corpus linguistics. Covering the conceptual foundations, historical development, and future directions of usage-based theory, The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics is a must-have reference work for advanced students and scholars in anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpora analysis, and other subfields of linguistics.

Syntax and Variation

Author : Leonie Elise Alexandra Cornips
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781588116406
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax and Variation by : Leonie Elise Alexandra Cornips

Download or read book Syntax and Variation written by Leonie Elise Alexandra Cornips and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As such, it offers novel approaches to three key areas of current linguistic debate, viz. (1) Methodological practices, (2) Theoretical applications and (3) Modularity."--BOOK JACKET.

Third Factors in Language Variation and Change

Author : Elly Van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108924468
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Third Factors in Language Variation and Change by : Elly Van Gelderen

Download or read book Third Factors in Language Variation and Change written by Elly Van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal search, labelling, determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical process, and that third factor principles must combine with linguistic information to fully account for the cyclical development of 'optimal' language structures. Third Factor Principles also account for language variation around that-trace phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and Verb-second. By linking insights from recent theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change, this book provides a unique perspective, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students in syntactic theory and historical linguistics.

Syntactic Change

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435515
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Change by : Ian Roberts

Download or read book Syntactic Change written by Ian Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of grammaticalization - the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created - has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal theory of syntax. Using Chomsky's Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, Roberts and Roussou show how this approach gives rise to a number of important conceptual and theoretical issues concerning the nature of functional categories and the form of parameters, as well as the relation of both of these to language change. Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages, they construct a general account of grammaticalization with implications for linguistic theory and language acquisition.

Mechanisms of Syntactic Change

Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477301054
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Book Synopsis Mechanisms of Syntactic Change by : Charles N. Li

Download or read book Mechanisms of Syntactic Change written by Charles N. Li and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families.

Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation

Author : Ermenegildo Bidese
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726631X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation by : Ermenegildo Bidese

Download or read book Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation written by Ermenegildo Bidese and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs within the same system. Nevertheless, the triggers for language variation can be different and located at various levels of the language faculty. The novelty of the volume lies in exploring different loci of language variation by including wide-ranging empirical perspectives that cover different levels of analysis (syntax, phonology and prosody) and deal with different kinds of data, mostly from Romance and Germanic languages, from dialects, idiolects, language acquisition, language attrition and creolization, analyzed from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. The volume is divided in three parts. The first part is dedicated to synchronic variation in phonology and syntax; the second part deals with diachronic variation and language change, and the third part investigates the role of contact, attrition and acquisition in giving rise to language change and language variation in bilingual settings. This volume is a useful tool for linguistics of diverse theoretical persuasions working on theoretical and comparative linguistics and to anyone interested in language variation, language change, dialectology, language acquisition and typology.

Syntactic Variation in English Quantified Noun Phrases with All, Whole, Both and Half

Author : Maria Estling Vannestål
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Variation in English Quantified Noun Phrases with All, Whole, Both and Half written by Maria Estling Vannestål and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation

Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027234825
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation by : Terttu Nevalainen

Download or read book The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation written by Terttu Nevalainen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the 'life cycle' of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide into three sections, each highlighting different stages in the dynamics of English across time and space. They show, first, how increase in variability can be initiated by processes that give rise to new patterns of discourse, which can ultimately crystallize into new grammatical elements. The next phase is the spread of linguistic features and patterns of discourse, both new and well established, through the social and regional varieties of English. The final phase in this ebb and flow of linguistic variability consists of processes promoting some variable features over others across registers and regional and social varieties, thus resulting in reduced variation and increased linguistic homogeneity.

Linguistic Variation

Author : David Sankoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Variation written by David Sankoff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in Language Variation

Author : Ralph W. Fasold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878402090
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Language Variation by : Ralph W. Fasold

Download or read book Studies in Language Variation written by Ralph W. Fasold and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many linguists have moved beyond the study of language isolated from its use and have examined the interaction of linguistic rules with the pragmatics of language in context. At the same time, many scholars have taken a sociological approach to the structure of conversation and other communicative events. A number of anthropologists are adding language variation to their traditional interest in language in relation to cultural phenomena. Linguists who work in semantics, syntax, and phonology have also expanded their interests to include language variation.From the Preface

Syntactic Islands

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521138787
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Islands written by Cedric Boeckx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist?

The Limits of Syntactic Variation

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255156
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Limits of Syntactic Variation by : Theresa Biberauer

Download or read book The Limits of Syntactic Variation written by Theresa Biberauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the past half century s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a multi-perspective critique of the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic variation, evaluating the merits and shortcomings of the pre-Minimalist phase of this enterprise and considering and illustrating the possibilities opened up by recent empirical and theoretical advances. Contributions focus on four central topics: firstly, the question of the locus of variation, whether the attested variation may plausibly be understood in parametric terms and, if so, what form such parameters might take; secondly, the fate of one of the most prominent early parameters, the Null Subject Parameter; thirdly, the matter of parametric clusters more generally; and finally, acquisition issues.