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Author : Kjartan G. Ottósson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Icelandic Middle Voice written by Kjartan G. Ottósson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Kemmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229074
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Middle Voice written by Suzanne Kemmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term middle voice has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms relative elaboration of events, that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another. In this area, most analyses deal with one language and/or are limited to Indo-European languages. This work deals with a subset of middle-marking languages that was chosen so as to observe the highest possible number of different middle systems showing significant independent diachronic development.
Author : Joseph Benjamin Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Passive Voice in Old Icelandic written by Joseph Benjamin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefán Einarsson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Icelandic written by Stefán Einarsson and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Dawson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Middle Voice in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 6 written by Benjamin Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Markus Steinbach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227713
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Middle Voice written by Markus Steinbach and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enables the author to offer a unified analysis of the middle, the anticausative and the reflexive interpretations. Furthermore, the crucial distinction between structural and oblique case forms is discussed and it is illustrated how specific properties of middle constructions such as adverbial modification or subject responsibility can be related to the generic interpretation of middle constructions.
Author : Suzanne Kemmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Middle Voice written by Suzanne Kemmer and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131755082X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Icelandic written by Daisy L. Neijmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icelandic: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of Icelandic. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Icelandic in short, readable sections. Each grammar point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from everyday life, clarifying the grammatical structure in use while providing insight into Icelandic culture. Icelandic: An Essential Grammar is the ideal reference grammar for all learners of Icelandic, whether class-based or independent, looking to progress beyond beginner level.
Author : Joan Maling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373233
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Modern Icelandic Syntax written by Joan Maling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of Icelandic syntax contains new analyses of word order and long-distance reflexivization, detailed studies of case-marking, and the first systematic description of the -st middles. It presents a complete picture of modern Icelandic syntax as seen in the tradition of generative grammar, striking a good balance between theory and description.
Author : Jim Wood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319091387
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure written by Jim Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs, interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.
Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110394235
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1 written by Tibor Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.
Author : Antonio Fábregas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110670917
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian written by Antonio Fábregas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic variation related to these two constructions in Mainland Scandinavian. At an empirical level, we provide a detailed discussion of the morphosyntax and semantics of the two main types of passives in both languages, lexical (s-) and periphrasitic (bli-) passives. At a theoretical level, we propose an architecture of the language faculty where exponents play a central role. Exponents are selected to identify the structures generated by the grammar and provide a platform that make these units interpretable by the sensori-motor and conceptual-intentional interfaces. Exponents this play an essential role in determining the well-formedness of linguistic structures. We demonstrate how different syntactic structures identified and lexicalized by exponents in these two languages are capable of capturing the microvariation observed in the voice systems of these two languages in a straightforward way. The amount of linguistic information (i.e., aspect and mood) identified by each exponent in each language determines the types of complements and specifiers that can be integrated into and lexicalized by a given exponent. Although our approach shares certain affinities with other neo-constructionist approaches, a novel proposal we advance in this book is that exponents are housed in an intermediate level of structure that exists between the narrow syntax and its external interfaces. This exponency-level (Ʃ-structure) allows for a more parsimonious theoretical analysis that does not sacrifice descriptive adequacy.
Author : Peter Herbeck
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3875489624
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Semantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality written by Peter Herbeck and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Herbeck, Bernhard Pöll & Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Foreword Hubert Haider: On expletive, semantically void, and absent subjects Janayna Carvalho: Incorporated subjects in Existential Impersonal Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese Thórhallur Eythórsson, Anton Karl Ingason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonals Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Joan Maling: From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Impersonal interpretations of Medieval Romance se - tracing initial contexts Eduardo Amaral & Wiltrud Mihatsch: Incipient impersonal pronouns in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese based on pessoa, pessoal and povo
Author : Ekkehard Konig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317799585
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Germanic Languages written by Ekkehard Konig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
Author : Anna Giacalone Ramat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027279071
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by Anna Giacalone Ramat and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.
Author : Þórhallur Eyþórsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027233776
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory written by Þórhallur Eyþórsson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is 'internal factors in grammatical change.' The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of 'Grammaticalization Theory'. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and more controversially internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change 'by itself.' A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.
Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415207065
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Colloquial Icelandic written by Daisy L. Neijmann and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2x60-minute CDs featuring dialogues from the accompanying book. Designed to help improve pronunciation and listening skills.
