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The Limits of Syntactic Variation

Author : Theresa Biberauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290660
Total Pages : 531 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 2008-09-17 with total page 531 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.

Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change

Author : Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192568744
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change by : Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson

Download or read book Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change written by Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address a central theoretical issue in diachronic syntax: whether syntactic variation can always be attributed to differences in the features of items in the lexicon, as the Borer-Chomsky conjecture proposes. In answering this question, all the chapters develop analyses of syntactic change couched within a formalist framework in which rich hierarchical structures and abstract features of various kinds play an important role. The first three parts of the volume explore the different domains of the clause, namely the C-domain, the T-domain and the ?P/VP-domain respectively, while chapters in the final part are concerned with establishing methodology in diachronic syntax and modelling linguistic correspondences. The contributors draw on extensive data from a large number of languages and dialects, including several that have received little attention in the literature on diachronic syntax, such as Romeyka, a Greek variety spoken in Turkey, and Middle Low German, previously spoken in northern Germany. Other languages are explored from a fresh theoretical perspective, including Hungarian, Icelandic, and Austronesian languages. The volume sheds light not only on specific syntactic changes from a cross-linguistic perspective but also on broader issues in language change and linguistic theory.

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.

Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change

Author : Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198832583
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change by : Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson

Download or read book Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change written by Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters explore topics relating to all three domains of the clause as well as issues in methodology and modelling, drawing on data from a range of languages and dialects.

Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation

Author : Gert Webelhuth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361385
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation by : Gert Webelhuth

Download or read book Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation written by Gert Webelhuth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents the first full-scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters--the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the "Saturation Condition." He explains the principles behind this condition and demonstrates how it imposes strong constraints on what counts as a possible parameter in natural language. Webelhuth goes on to test this theory against empirical evidence from seven modern Germanic languages: German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.

Syntactic Variation and Genre

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110226480
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Variation and Genre by : Heidrun Dorgeloh

Download or read book Syntactic Variation and Genre written by Heidrun Dorgeloh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre. How do genres emerge and what is the role of syntax in constituting them? Why do certain constructions appear in certain types of text? The book takes the concept of genre as a reference-point for the description and analysis of morpho-syntactic variation and change. It includes both overviews of theoretical approaches to the concept of genre and text type in linguistics and studies of specific syntactic phenomena in English, German, and selected Romance languages. Contributions to the volume make use of insights from attempts for text classification and rhetorical views on genre and reach from quantitative, corpus-based methodology to qualitative, text-based analyses. The types of texts investigated cover spoken, highly interactive, and written forms of communication, including selected genres of computer-mediated communication. Corpus data come from both synchronic and diachronic linguistic corpora, such as LOB, Brown, FLOB, Frown, ARCHER, and ICE-Jamaica. This spectrum both in approaches and data is meant to provide a theoretical foundation as well as a realistic view of the inherent complexity of form-function relationships in syntax. At the same time, genre is treated as a category relevant beyond discourse studies, consisting of forms and conventions at all levels of linguistic analysis, including syntax. The book is therefore of interest to linguists and graduate students in the area of syntax, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, as well as to sociolinguists and corpus linguists working on register variation.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by : Marcel den Dikken

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax written by Marcel den Dikken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

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 Change in Later Middle English Negation

Author : Carolyn Jean O'Hearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Syntactic Variation and Change in Later Middle English Negation

Author : Carolyn O'Hearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Syntactic Variation and Change in Later Middle English Negation written by Carolyn O'Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

Syntactic Variation

Author : Roberta D'Alessandro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107404878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Variation by : Roberta D'Alessandro

Download or read book Syntactic Variation written by Roberta D'Alessandro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The book gives fresh attention to the dialects, arguing that they offer an unprecedented degree of variation (not found, for example, in Germanic languages). Analysing a host of data, the authors show how the dialects can be used as a test-bed for investigating and challenging received ideas about language structure and change. Coherent and wide-ranging, this is a vital resource for those working in syntactic theory, historical linguistics and Romance languages.

Syntactic variation

Author : Sven Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (873 download)

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SYNTACTIC VARIATION AS LINGUIS

Author : Doris Patricia Kaye
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361118894
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Book Synopsis SYNTACTIC VARIATION AS LINGUIS by : Doris Patricia Kaye

Download or read book SYNTACTIC VARIATION AS LINGUIS written by Doris Patricia Kaye and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Syntactic Variation as Linguistic Data: a Critical Analysis of a Study by Elliott, Legum and Thompson" by Doris Patricia, Kaye, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3194855 Subjects: Linguistic informants

The Final-Over-Final Condition

Author : Michelle Sheehan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262342022
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Final-Over-Final Condition written by Michelle Sheehan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.

Special Issue: Syntactic Variation and Change

Author : David Håkansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Special Issue: Syntactic Variation and Change written by David Håkansson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation

Author : Ermenegildo Bidese
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726631X
Total Pages : 386 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 386 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.