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Author : Hubert Haider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110846071
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
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:
Author : Hubert Haider
Publisher : Foris Publications USA
ISBN 13 : 9789067651349
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages written by Hubert Haider and published by Foris Publications USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federica Cognola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255849
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Syntactic Variation and Verb Second written by Federica Cognola and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Máocheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing mechanism and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Máocheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Máocheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.
Author : Sten Vikner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359259
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages written by Sten Vikner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.
Author : Constantin Freitag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725010
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon written by Constantin Freitag and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.
Author : Katrin Axel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291985
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
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.
Author : Horst Lohnstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501508148
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Verb Second written by Horst Lohnstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages. New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the inflectional component. The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon. Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover, information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system are investigated.
Author : Miriam Butt
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9781881526490
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages written by Miriam Butt and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia.
Author : Rebecca Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198844301
Total Pages : 979 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Verb Second written by Rebecca Woods and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317899008
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics written by Charles Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526820
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Verb Second in Medieval Romance written by Sam Wolfe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian, in order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Second languages. Sam Wolfe argues that V-to-C movement is a point of continuity across all the medieval varieties - unlike in the modern Romance languages - but that there are rich patterns of synchronic and diachronic variation in the medieval period that have not previously been observed and investigated. These include differences in the syntax-pragmatics mapping, the locus of verb movement, the behaviour of clitic pronouns, the syntax of subject positions, matrix/embedded asymmetries, and the null argument properties of the languages in question. The book outlines a detailed formal cartographic analysis of both the attested synchronic patterns and the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the modern Romance languages.
Author : Perugia Adriana Belletti Associate Professor of Linguistics Universita per Stanieri
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198024886
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Parameters and Functional Heads : Essays in Comparative Syntax written by Perugia Adriana Belletti Associate Professor of Linguistics Universita per Stanieri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-03-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.
Author : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195087941
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Parameters and Functional Heads written by Adriana Belletti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.
Author : Toril Swan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110889935
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Modality in Germanic Languages written by Toril Swan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Anna Cichosz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266239
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations written by Anna Cichosz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem of the apparent incomparability of OE and OHG textual records and to identify the areas of OE and OHG syntax potentially influenced by the Latin source texts. This is especially important from the point of view of OE research, where Latin is rarely considered to be a significant variable. The book’s profile and content is of direct interest to historical linguists working on OE and/or OHG (and Old Germanic languages in general), but it can also greatly benefit several other groups of researchers: scholars applying corpus methods to the study of dead languages, historical linguists generally, linguists researching element order as well as specialists in translation studies.
Author : Dawn Bates
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9780937073797
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 10th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by Dawn Bates and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1992 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-one papers from the 1991 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included. The papers deal with diverse topics ranging from the traditional linguistic fields of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to the rapidly developing areas of cognitive and discourse linguistics.
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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805813500
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Binding, dependencies, and learnability written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
