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The Grammar of Perspective

Author : Christopher Woods
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004148043
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Perspective written by Christopher Woods and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice. The latter is represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. As a system of grammatical voice, the conjugation prefixes provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of altering the perspective from which events may be viewed, giving speakers a series of options for better approximating in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human conceptualization and experience.

Perspectives on Grammar Writing

Author : Thomas Edward Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027222411
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Grammar Writing by : Thomas Edward Payne

Download or read book Perspectives on Grammar Writing written by Thomas Edward Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

The Grammar of Perspective

Author : Christopher Woods
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442083
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis The Grammar of Perspective by : Christopher Woods

Download or read book The Grammar of Perspective written by Christopher Woods and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice.

Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar

Author : Martin J. Endley
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617351709
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar by : Martin J. Endley

Download or read book Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar written by Martin J. Endley and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed book is best described as a linguistically oriented textbook taking the grammar of English as its subject matter. It is directed to professional teachers of English (ESL and EFL) and their students, as well as those currently training to become teachers of English. The book is also likely to be of interest to interpreters, translators and other English language professionals. It will explore selected aspects and problem areas of English from a broadly “functional” linguistic perspective. My experience as a teacher and teacher trainer has shown me that this perspective has the potential to inspire teachers and students with a genuine enthusiasm for the grammatical features of English and that it often enables them to “make sense” of the grammar in a way that all too often other approaches signally fail to do. An important focus of the book is on understanding grammar as a series of conventionalized patterns rather than a set of rules (which is how grammar has traditionally been presented). Moreover, unlike many other grammar books, this book emphasizes how the grammatical constructions under consideration are employed in various types of communicative situation, attention being given to the importance of discourse context in interpreting the target forms. In line with contemporary linguists generally, the approach adopted is descriptive rather than prescriptive. While the main focus is on English, I offer occasional comments on how the issue under discussion is expressed in languages other than English. Apart from the inherent interest which I hope such comparisons may have for the reader, I take the view that these can be helpful in casting further light on the grammar of English.

English Grammar

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 063118838X
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis English Grammar by : Liliane Haegeman

Download or read book English Grammar written by Liliane Haegeman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It shows how a restricted set of principles can account for a wide range of the phenomena of English syntax. While the main focus of the book is empirical, it introduces important theoretical concepts: theta theory, X-bar theory, case theory, locality, binding theory, economy, full interpretation, functional projections. In doing so it prepares the student for more advanced theoretical work. The authors integrate many recent insights into the nature of syntactic structure into their discussion. They present information in a gradual way: hypotheses developed in early chapters are reviewed and modified in subsequent ones. The authors also pay attention to the relation between structure and interpretation and to language variation, and particularly to register variation. They include a wide range of diverse exercises, giving the student an opportunity for creative individual work on English.

New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms

Author : Eli Hinkel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113564408X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms by : Eli Hinkel

Download or read book New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms written by Eli Hinkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction. Its purpose is to show from both theoretical and practical perspectives that grammar teaching can be made productive and useful in ESL and EFL classrooms. In this text: *First-rate scholars approach the teaching of grammar from multiple complementary perspectives, providing an original, comprehensive treatment of the topic. *Discourse analysis and research data are used to address such pedagogical areas as grammatical and lexical development in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. *The communicative perspective on ESL and EFL instruction that is presented provides ways for learners to enhance their production skills, whereas the meaning-based grammar instruction can supplement and strengthen current methodology with a communicative focus. This volume is intended as a foundational text for second language grammar pedagogy courses at the advanced undergraduate and master's levels.

English Grammar Pedagogy

Author : Barbara M. Birch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136879773
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar Pedagogy written by Barbara M. Birch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for ESL and ELT pedagogy courses around the world, this text describes English grammar from a World Englishes perspective. It is distinguished by its focus on the social setting for English as a global language, the latest thinking about grammatical theory, and new theories of how first and second languages are learned and taught. The fundamental premise is that teaching and learning grammar cannot be isolated from the local, regional, and global sociocultural contexts in which the teaching and learning take place. Part I presents different attitudes toward English as a global language and some challenges that learners of English share no matter where they are in the world. Part II is about the features of English that educated speakers consider the most likely and probable in Academic English. Part III describes the flexible and fluid features of English that might be susceptible to change or modification over time. Each chapter includes engaging Study, Discussion, and Essay Questions and Activities.

Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective

Author : Mirjam Fried
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027218223
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective by : Mirjam Fried

Download or read book Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective written by Mirjam Fried and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.

Radical Construction Grammar

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198299547
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Radical Construction Grammar by : William Croft

Download or read book Radical Construction Grammar written by William Croft and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729223X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by : Christopher S. Butler

Download or read book Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse written by Christopher S. Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Chimariko Grammar

Author : Carmen Jany
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945190
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Chimariko Grammar written by Carmen Jany and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.

The Language of Schooling

Author : Mary J. Schleppegrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113562092X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of Schooling by : Mary J. Schleppegrell

Download or read book The Language of Schooling written by Mary J. Schleppegrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on current sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic studies of language in school, but adds a new dimension--the framework of functional linguistic analysis. It will enable researchers and students of language in education to rec

Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527569691
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Download or read book Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface written by Robert D. Van Valin Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.

The Grammar of Inalienability

Author : Hilary Chappell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311082213X
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Inalienability written by Hilary Chappell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective

Author : Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250359
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective by : Michael D. Fortescue

Download or read book Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective written by Michael D. Fortescue and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is 'reference'. Some papers discuss ways in which previous accounts of reference need to be expanded and differentiated to provide a consistent picture of referential properties. The power of layered analysis to bring out fundamental similarities between languages of very different types is the theme of another group of papers, again with the referential properties of constituents playing a central role. By some contributors layered analysis is challenged, and the question is raised as to how it might fit into a dynamic and pragmatic picture of language. The book is rounded off by a comparison between layered structure in Functional Grammar and in Government and Binding Theory.

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Author : Jan Firbas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521373085
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication by : Jan Firbas

Download or read book Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication written by Jan Firbas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.

Language from a Cognitive Perspective

Author : Emily M. Bender
Publisher : CSLI Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575866109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)

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Book Synopsis Language from a Cognitive Perspective by : Emily M. Bender

Download or read book Language from a Cognitive Perspective written by Emily M. Bender and published by CSLI Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of papers on language processing, usage, and grammar, written in honor of Thomas Wasow to commemorate his career on the occasion of his 65th birthday."