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Book Synopsis The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German by : Christopher D. Sapp
Download or read book The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German written by Christopher D. Sapp and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders, but also the linguistic factors that influence them. On that empirical basis, the analysis adopted is the classic verb-final approach, with alternative orders derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Verb Raising in these historical and modern varieties is subject to morphological, prosodic, and sociolinguistic restrictions, suggesting that the orders in question are not driven by narrow syntax but by their effects at the interface with phonology. This study will be of interest to students and scholars studying the diachronic syntax of German, West Germanic dialect syntax, and the relationship between prosody and word order.
Book Synopsis Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German by : Agnes Jäger
Download or read book Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German written by Agnes Jäger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.
Book Synopsis Syntax Over Time by : Theresa Biberauer
Download or read book Syntax Over Time written by Theresa Biberauer and published by Oxford Studies in Diachronic a. This book was released on 2015 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to linguists working on syntactic variation and change.
Book Synopsis Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish by : Ida Larsson
Download or read book Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish written by Ida Larsson and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of reasons. This is when Swedish is established as a national standard language. New genres emerge, and the written language becomes more generally available to all speakers. We also sometimes find diverging developments in the different North Germanic languages, and some of the much-discussed differences between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are established during this period. In addition, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the traditional dialects undergo more dramatic changes than ever. Yet, the Late Modern Swedish period has previously received fairly little attention in the syntactic literature. This volume aims to remedy this, with studies that cover several different grammatical domains, including case and verbal syntax, word order and agreement, and grammaticalization in the nominal domain. The study by Cecilia Falk investigates the possibility of promoting an indirect object to subject in a passive, that emerges during the period. A chapter by Fredrik Valdeson studies change in the use of ditransitive verbs, from a constructional perspective. Three chapters are concerned with word order change. The study by Ida Larsson and Björn Lundquist investigates the development of a strict word order in particle constructions. Adrian Sangfelt studies the possibility of having adverbials (and other constituents) between the separate verbal heads in complex VPs in the final stages of the shift from OV to VO order. Erik M. Petzell investigates embedded verb placement and agreement morphology in the Viskadalian dialect, which on the surface seems to contradict the Rich Agreement Hypothesis. Mikael Kalm discusses the emergence of different kinds of adverbial infinitival clauses in the standard written language compared to Övdalian. Finally, the study by Lars-Olof Delsing is concerned with a case of grammaticalization in the nominal domain, specifically the development of the gradable adjectives mycket ‘much’ and lite ‘little’ into quantifiers.
Book Synopsis Measuring Grammatical Complexity by : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Download or read book Measuring Grammatical Complexity written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The volume differs from others devoted to the question of complexity in language in that the authors all approach the problem from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycholinguistics, or neurolinguistics. Chapters investigate a number of key issues in grammatical complexity, taking phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic considerations into account. These include what is often called the 'trade-off problem', namely whether complexity in one grammatical component is necessarily balanced by simplicity in another; and the question of interpretive complexity, that is, whether and how one might measure the difficulty for the hearer in assigning meaning to an utterance and how such complexity might be factored in to an overall complexity assessment. Measuring Grammatical Complexity brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field, and will be of interest to linguists of all theoretical stripes from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those working in the areas of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics.
Book Synopsis The Linguistic Typology of Templates by : Jeff Good
Download or read book The Linguistic Typology of Templates written by Jeff Good and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study of linguistic templatic constructions in morphology and syntax employs cutting-edge computational methods to study templates typologically.
Book Synopsis Language Change, Variation, and Universals by : Peter W. Culicover
Download or read book Language Change, Variation, and Universals written by Peter W. Culicover and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all: why do we not all speak the same language? Moreover, while there is considerable variation, in some ways grammars do show consistent patterns: why are languages similar in those respects, and why are those particular patterns preferred? Peter Culicover proposes that the solution to these puzzles is a constructional one. Grammars consist of constructions that carry out the function of expressing universal conceptual structure. While there are in principle many different ways of accomplishing this task, languages are under press to reduce constructional complexity. The result is that there is constructional change in the direction of less complexity, and grammatical patterns emerge that more efficiently reflect conceptual universals. The volume is divided into three parts: the first establishes the theoretical foundations; the second explores variation in argument structure, grammatical functions, and A-bar constructions, drawing on data from a variety of languages including English and Plains Cree; and the third examines constructional change, focusing primarily on Germanic. The study ends with observations and speculations on parameter theory, analogy, the origins of typological patterns, and Greenbergian 'universals'.
Book Synopsis Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change by : Sonia Cyrino
Download or read book Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change written by Sonia Cyrino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars examine languages ranging from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans. They consider the insights parametric theory offers to understanding the dynamics of language change and test new hypotheses against an extensive array of data. In both the broad range of languages it discusses and its use of linguistic theory this is an outstanding book.
Book Synopsis Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik by : Guus Kroonen
Download or read book Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik written by Guus Kroonen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies on Old High German Syntax by : Katrin Axel
Download or read book Studies on Old High German Syntax written by Katrin Axel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old High German? Was there already obligatory XP-movement to the left periphery in declarative root clauses? What deviations from the linear verb-second restriction are attested and what do such phenomena reveal about the structure of the left sentence periphery? Did verb placement play the same role in sentence typing as in the modern verb-second languages? A further major topic is null subjects: It is claimed that Old High German was a partial pro-drop language. All these issues are addressed from a comparative-diachronic perspective by integrating research on other Old Germanic languages, in particular on Old English and Gothic. This book is of interest to all those working in the fields of comparative Germanic syntax and historical linguistics.
Book Synopsis Co- and subordination in German and other languages by : Augustin Speyer
Download or read book Co- and subordination in German and other languages written by Augustin Speyer and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragen der Koordination und der Subordination stehen seit langer Zeit im Fokus sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Während in den 70er und auch noch in den 80er Jahren die Analyse der als kanonisch zu bezeichnenden Fälle im Vordergrund stand, drängten sich in den letzten 30 Jahren vor allem Grenzfälle wie weil-V2-Sätze, abhängige V2-Sätze, selbständige und weiterführende VL-Sätze etc. in das Zentrum des Interesses. Die Beiträge zum vorliegenden Band bauen auf den Erkenntnissen dieser Arbeiten auf, ergänzen sie aber systematisch um eine breit angelegte Diskussion typologischer, diachroner und erwerbstheoretischer Aspekte. Ein weiteres zentrales Anliegen der Arbeiten besteht darin,die theoretischen Konzepte zur Modellierung relevanter Strukturbedeutungen (z.B. V2) zu präzisieren. Linguistic research has focussed on issues related to coordination and subordination for a long time. Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s, the main concern was the analysis of canonical clause structure, the interest shifted towards non-canonical phenomena such as weil-verb-second-clauses, dependent verb-second-clauses, independent and continuative verb-final clauses etc. The contributions to this issue build on findings of these studies, at the same time systematically adding a broad discussion of typological, diachronic and acquisition-related aspects. A further central concern of the studies is to make precise theoretical concepts of modelling the semantics of relevant structural configurations, such as verb-second.
Book Synopsis Discourse Pragmatics and Subordinate Clause Word Order in German by : Ronald William Dunbar
Download or read book Discourse Pragmatics and Subordinate Clause Word Order in German written by Ronald William Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canon and Canon Transgression in Medieval German Literature by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Canon and Canon Transgression in Medieval German Literature written by Albrecht Classen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clause Subordination and Verb Placement in the Old High German Isidor Translation by : Orrin W. Robinson
Download or read book Clause Subordination and Verb Placement in the Old High German Isidor Translation written by Orrin W. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical German Syntax by : William Burley Lockwood
Download or read book Historical German Syntax written by William Burley Lockwood and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the German Language by : John T. Waterman
Download or read book A History of the German Language written by John T. Waterman and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible, well-balanced history of the German language available! No comparable work is available in English or German that gives readers an adequate foundation in the methods, goals, and results of historical-comparative linguistics as they apply to the German language and its historical antecedents. Waterman’s monograph excels through its clear presentation of materials, the extensive use of charts and maps, and a well-organized bibliography. A wealth of examples documents a surprisingly broad review of German language issues.
Book Synopsis Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages by : Hubert Haider
Download or read book Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages written by Hubert Haider and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
