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Author : John A Hawkins
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483296601
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Word Order Universals written by John A Hawkins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word Order Universals
Author : Pamela Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902722921X
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order in Discourse written by Pamela Downing and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
Author : Phil Williams
Publisher : English Lessons Brighton
ISBN 13 : 1913468011
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Word Order in English Sentences written by Phil Williams and published by English Lessons Brighton. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to master the basics of English structure? Do you fully understand 'subject-verb-object'? Can you rearrange clauses confidently? This book explains all. A complete foundation in word order and sentence structure for the English language, Word Order in English Sentences is a full self-study guide that takes you from the basic rules through to flexible structures. As well as learning the standard building blocks of English, you'll find the answers to positioning adverbial phrases building complex sentences, with exercises to test understanding. The rules and patterns are all demonstrated through easy-to-follow explanations with clear, engaging examples. This concise grammar guide is a must-have for starting students and language enthusiasts alike. Phil Williams takes you beyond the basics to make advanced English accessible for everyone - try it today.
Author : Olga T. Yokoyama
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727889X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Word Order written by Olga T. Yokoyama and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocutor to another. The author then places these processes within a new framework of Communicational Competence, which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a noman's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a classical problem of Slavic linguistics, is subjected to a rigorous examination within this theoretical framework; Yokoyama demonstrates how this “free word order language” can only be described by taking into account such generally neglected factors as the speakers' subjectivity and attitude. Of particular interest to Slavists is a new generative theory of Russian intonation, which is consistently incorporated into the description of Russian word order.
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229058
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility written by Doris L. Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.
Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318990
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3 written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author : Shigeru Miyagawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415878594
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order written by Shigeru Miyagawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.
Author : Paolo Dainotti
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110384222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Word Order and Expressiveness in the Aeneid written by Paolo Dainotti and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-length book on Virgil’s style aims to clarify an important aspect of poetry; namely, the relationship between word order and expressiveness. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages of the Aeneid and other hexametric poetry that clearly shows a stylistically motivated use of the various figures, the author provides an effective tool for evaluating and fully appreciating the expressiveness of the word order.
Author : Mohammad A. Mohammad
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729965X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic written by Mohammad A. Mohammad and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most recent versions, namely Minimalism, as expounded in Chomsky (1995). In this volume, a detailed description is given of word order options in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Palestinian Arabic (PA). It is shown that, perhaps surprisingly, the two varieties allow almost the same range of word orders. The important question of whether Arabic has a VP is addressed: the author argues extensively that Arabic has a VP category. The evidence derives from examining superiority effects, ECP effects, binding, variable interpretations, etc. Also discussed is the content of [Spec, TP] in VSO sentences. It is argued that the position is occupied by an expletive pronoun. The author defends the Expletive Hypothesis which states that in VSO sentences the expletive may take part in checking some features of the verb. A typology of the expletive pronoun in Modern Standard Arabic, Palestinian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and Moroccan Arabic is provided. A particularly interesting problem involving pronominal co-reference is the following: if the subject is the antecedent of a pronominal clitic, word order is free; if a pronominal is cliticized onto the subject, then the antecedent must precede. An account that derives these restrictions without recourse to linear order is proposed.
Author : Marian C. Bean
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389203568
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English written by Marian C. Bean and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1983 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major focus of this book involves the testing of theories of word order change with data on change in Old English. The data are drawn from such sources as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and from the work of other scholars in Old English and historical linguistics. The book provides support for the ideas of earlier linguists such as Sapir, and will represent a major study for those working in Old English and historical linguistics. Contents: Introduction; Natural Word Order Types and Natural Word Order Change; Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic Word Order Patterns; Order of Major Elements in Main Clauses in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Word Order Patterns in Conjunct, Relative and Subordinate Clauses; Further Studies in Old English Word Order; Conclusions.^R
Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377277
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Word Order written by Jae Jung Song and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based theories. It is the first book to bring these theoretical approaches together in one place and is therefore a one-stop resource covering the current developments in word order research. It explains word order patterns in different languages and at different structural levels and critically evaluates (and where possible, compares) the theoretical assumptions and word order principles used in the different approaches. Also highlighted are issues and problems that require further investigation or remain unresolved. This book will be invaluable to those investigating word order, and researchers and students in syntax, linguistic theory and typology.
Author : Hiwa Asadpour
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311079036X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Word Order Variation written by Hiwa Asadpour and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’. Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its contact-induced origin by combining various languages from inside and outside this contact area: the Greek variety Romeyka, Indic Domari, Iranic Balochi Kurdish, Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian and Sogdian, Nilotic Maa, Semitic Arabic and Aramaic, Sibiran and Iran-Turkic. The contributors investigate word order variation of transitive, ditransitive, and copula structures as well as intransitives with Targets. Their analyses highlight the relevance of grammatical, discourse-pragmatic, and cognitive principles. The volume highlights the importance of Target structures for linguistic theory by offering new perspectives and will be of interest to typologists and linguists interested in word order variation and information structure.
Author : Eva Koktova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110803399
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Word-Order Based Grammar written by Eva Koktova and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 409 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 : Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729920X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order Change in Icelandic written by Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with “restructuring” phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Author : Ivan Shing Chung Kwong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567439909
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke written by Ivan Shing Chung Kwong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work studies the word order of the Gospel of Luke and some of its prominent messages with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories. The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, dependent, infinitival, participial and embedded clause). The result gives some unmarked (typical or common) word order patterns and some marked word order patterns of all Lukan clauses. The second part traces the foregrounded messages of the Gospel based on their related marked word order patterns incorporated with functional linguistic phenomena. The result highlights the messages of Jesus' disciples and his parents' failure in understanding him, Pilate's crime of handing over Jesus and Jesus' predictions of his future sufferings and Peter's future failure. JSNTS and Studies in New Testament Greek series
Author : Wenying Jiang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110216183
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language written by Wenying Jiang and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors. With this method, the book has the potential to empower CFL teachers all over the world to teach Chinese in an informed manner, and particularly to teach Chinese word order more effectively and efficiently." --Book Jacket.
Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027280487
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions written by Paul Kent Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.
