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The Syntax of Silence

Author : Jason Merchant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199243730
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Silence written by Jason Merchant and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning correspondence breaks down completely in the case of ellipsis, and yet various forms of ellipsis are pervasive in natural language:words and phrases which should be in the linguistic signal go missing. How this should be possible is the focus of Jason Merchant's investigation. He focuses on the form of ellipsis known as sluicing, a common feature of interrogative clauses, such as in 'Sally's out hunting - guess what!'; and'Someone called, but I can't tell you who'. It is the most frequently found cross-linguistic form of ellipsis. Dr Merchant studies the phenomenon across twenty-four languages, and attempts to explain it in linguistic and behavioural terms.

The Syntax of Silence

Author : Jason Merchant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Silence by : Jason Merchant

Download or read book The Syntax of Silence written by Jason Merchant and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sounds of Silence

Author : Jutta Hartmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0080466141
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sounds of Silence written by Jutta Hartmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a study of "empty elements" in language use.

Silently Structured Silent Argument

Author : Yuta Sakamoto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261229
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Silently Structured Silent Argument by : Yuta Sakamoto

Download or read book Silently Structured Silent Argument written by Yuta Sakamoto and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed regarding silence in natural languages is whether it involves syntactic structure or not. This book is concerned with a particular instance of silence in natural languages, what is called radical pro-drop, showing that it is silently structured on the basis of novel data from Japanese as well as Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, and Turkish. The discussion in this book also has consequences for the dichotomy between PF-deletion vs. LF-copying, shedding a new light on the proper analysis of several syntactic phenomena in Japanese, including wh-in-situ and control.

Silence as Language

Author : Michal Ephratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471676
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Silence as Language written by Michal Ephratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P

Author : Anna Asbury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290741
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P by : Anna Asbury

Download or read book Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P written by Anna Asbury and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.

The Edginess of Silence

Author : Tue Trinh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110634589
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Edginess of Silence by : Tue Trinh

Download or read book The Edginess of Silence written by Tue Trinh and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural language differs from artificial ones in having the "displacement property," allowing expressions to "move" from one position to another in the sentence. The mapping from syntax to phonology, therefore, must include rules specifying how objects created by movement are pronounced, or in technical jargon, how chains are linearized. One of these rules is Copy Deletion. The present study investigates the structural description of Copy Deletion. Specifically, it proposes a phrase geometric constraint on its application. The proposal is corroborated by empirical arguments based on distributional and interpretational facts concerning predicate clefts, NP-Splits, and head ordering patterns. The data are drawn from languages of different types and families including Chinese, English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish, and Vietnamese. The book, thus, contributes to our understanding of a crucial property of natural language and should be of relevance to readers who are interested in the cross-linguistic approach to Universal Grammar research.

Language and Silence

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074710
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and Silence by : George Steiner

Download or read book Language and Silence written by George Steiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

Movement and Silence

Author : Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Comparative
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Movement and Silence by : Richard S. Kayne

Download or read book Movement and Silence written by Richard S. Kayne and published by Oxford Studies in Comparative. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects recent articles by Richard Kayne which illustrate the power of the comparative approach & state his argument that syntax is generally more complex than it first appears.

The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish

Author : Julio Villa-García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269106
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish by : Julio Villa-García

Download or read book The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish written by Julio Villa-García and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one complementizer as a point of departure, the author delivers new insights into the syntactic positions and behavior of Spanish complementizer que along the left edge. These observations have far-reaching consequences to such fundamental linguistic concepts as the derivation of left dislocations, ellipsis, and locality of movement. Of great interest to syntax graduate students and researchers in general, this volume provides a stepping stone to cracking the code on several current syntactic questions, including the widely-contested position of preverbal subjects in null-subject languages like Spanish. In addition, it offers the linguist a bountiful toolbox for the cross-linguistic investigation of a number of left-peripheral and clausal phenomena.

The Syntax of Nonsententials

Author : Ljiljana Progovac
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233578
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Nonsententials by : Ljiljana Progovac

Download or read book The Syntax of Nonsententials written by Ljiljana Progovac and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.

On the Syntax of Missing Objects

Author : Marta Ruda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726483X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Syntax of Missing Objects by : Marta Ruda

Download or read book On the Syntax of Missing Objects written by Marta Ruda and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to provide a framework for deriving cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variation in the domain of object drop. Variation of this type is hypothesised to follow, first and foremost, from the association of heads in the extended nominal projection with phonemic features and from the system of interpretation of nominal expressions in a language. The book will be of interest to both theoretically- and descriptively-oriented researchers, since, even though its focus is theoretical, a detailed discussion of the empirical facts, including some novel findings drawn from corpus studies and grammaticality judgements, is also offered.

The Edginess of Silence

Author : Tue Trinh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110634589
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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The Syntax of Desire

Author : Elena Lombardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802090702
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Desire written by Elena Lombardi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval 'grammars:' theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine's theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante's poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis.

The Syntax Workbook

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119569281
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax Workbook written by Andrew Carnie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable companion to Andrew Carnie’s Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 4th Edition, full of practice questions and engaging exercises to promote student comprehension Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, is the leading textbook for undergraduate courses in the syntax, covering foundational topics such as universal grammar, parts of speech, constituency, trees, structural relations, binding theory, x-bar theory, and movement, as well as advanced subjects such as control theory, ellipsis, polysynthesis, incorporation, non-configurationality, and Merge. Written by Syntax author Andrew Carnie, The Syntax Workbook has been purposefully designed to support and complement the use of Syntax in the undergraduate classroom. The Syntax Workbook is the perfect companion to the author’s seminal textbook and contains updated practice material for every section of the text. This workbook: Includes exercises, practice questions, data analysis, and knowledge application questions for each section in Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition Features exercises and questions with full answers and explanations to assist students in learning to apply theory to practice Has been authored by leading figure in syntax Andrew Carnie to support classroom usage of Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition Works in concert with a student companion website, offering a robust selection of learning tools for the classroom Ideal for undergraduate courses in syntax, Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, and The Syntax Workbook, Second Edition, together offer a perfect combination of thorough coverage and valuable practice. The workbook can be purchased on its own or in a set with the textbook. Available as a set with Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 4th Edition

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995716223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Your Silence Will Not Protect You written by Audre Lorde and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

The Syntax of Sentential Stress

Author : Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191570206
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Sentential Stress written by Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations. Presented in a Chomskian multiple spell-out framework, the author develops the Sentential Stress Rule and provides a systematic way of accounting for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from Persian, English, German and Eastern Armenian. The author further proposes the Focus Stress Rule to handle the interaction between sentential structure and information structure. Sentential stress is thus determined through an interplay between two components, the default Sentential Stress Rule and the Focus Stress Rule. Syntactic phenomena are not, the author argues, triggered by phonology or prosodic motivations: the relationship between syntax and phonology is always from syntax to phonology. This important contribution to understanding processes at the syntax-phonology interface will interest syntacticians and phonologists at graduate level and above.