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Author : Kajsa Djärv
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Swedish Copular Sentences written by Kajsa Djärv and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402057938
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Copular Sentences in Russian written by Asya Pereltsvaig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
Author : E. Engdahl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400953232
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Constituent Questions written by E. Engdahl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Line Mikkelsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294135
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Copular Clauses written by Line Mikkelsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses — one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit — but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.
Author : Elisabet Engdahl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish written by Elisabet Engdahl and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabet Engdahl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish written by Elisabet Engdahl and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ileana Comorovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061986
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Existence: Semantics and Syntax written by Ileana Comorovski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.
Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401006903
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Predicates and Their Subjects written by Susan Rothstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of `be' in predicative and identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of the verb `be'.
Author : Gunlög Josefsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027282323
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax written by Gunlög Josefsson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic approach to word structure of the Principles and Parameters framework is replaced by a rule free approach incorporating only Merge and Move as structure building devices. The author argues that stems have no word class features, which are provided inflectional affixes (including theme vowels etc.). Inflectional and derivational affixes differ only in the external syntactic requirement that inflectional affixes are associated with features that require checking in the functional domain. An important analysis of compounding is included, where binding elements are analyzed as a result of structural antisymmetry requirements a la Kayne (1994). Old chestnuts of morphological theory, such as the notion “head of a word” and the nature and structure of the lexicon, are succinctly discussed in the light of the theoretical proposals advanced here. On the empirical side, there are two lengthy chapters involving the semantic characterization of prefixes and suffixes in Swedish, explaining their distribution in terms of “types of Aktionsarten” imposed by the affix on its host.
Author : Anna Cardinaletti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0585492204
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Small Clauses written by Anna Cardinaletti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These previously unpublished articles offer a cross-linguistic perspective on small clauses. They discuss subjects such as the different types of small clauses across languages and lexical items, the internal syntax of small clauses and their structure, and the general topic of the grammar of predication, ranging from a total questioning of the existence of small clauses to claims that they exist in every predication context. The editors' cross-linguistic approach addresses syntactic and lexical issues as well as the relationships between small clauses and language acquisition among children. It surveys the problems raised by small clauses in light of recent developments in the principles and parameter model. The data is drawn from Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish. The contributions share theoretical assumptions about small clauses. The cross-linguistic comparison offers the potential for defining variable and static elements of small clauses, as well as distinguishing ways that they resemble full clauses.
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
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.
Author : Anna Bondaruk
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ISBN 13 : 9788377026410
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Copular clauses in English and Polish : structure, derivation and interpretation written by Anna Bondaruk and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katarina Lundin
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Small Clauses in Swedish written by Katarina Lundin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kersti Borjars
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631208712
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Feature Distribution in Swedish Noun Phrases written by Kersti Borjars and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in some detail two issues associated with Swedish noun phrases. Firstly, it considers the issue of the headedness of these phrases in the light of a general discussion of criteria for head status. Secondly, the status of the definite ending is discussed from a typological perspective. Based on the findings of this examination of the data, a theoretical account of Swedish noun phrases is provided in terms of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Author : Philip Holmes
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415082082
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Swedish written by Philip Holmes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide to the grammar of modern Swedish, which concentrates on the real pat terns of use in today's language. It is an ideal r eference source for the user and learner of Swedis h, irrespective of level.
Author : Gunlög Josefsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295522
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar written by Gunlög Josefsson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the language of adults talking to the children or in the presence of the children. The remaining chapters present overviews of previous research: on the acquisition of word formation rules, the noun phrase, and wh-questions. The introduction to this volume contains a concise overview of the basic features of Swedish grammar and a comprehensive overview of different Swedish child language corpora. The main body of research proceeds within a generative framework, but the text is designed to be accessible to researchers of different theoretical paradigms.
Author : Christer Platzack
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112420268
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Semantic Interpretation of Aspect and Aktionsarten written by Christer Platzack and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
