Category: Grammar

By Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Tova Rapoport

ISBN-10: 0199280444

ISBN-13: 9780199280445

ISBN-10: 1429470933

ISBN-13: 9781429470933

This choice of new paintings specializes in matters on the lexicon-syntax interface. It offers cutting edge analyses of theoretical problems with aspectual interpretation in quite a few languages. The authors deal with questions comparable to to what volume can version in verbal which means, and thematic details will be made up our minds within the syntax, and the way the translation of varied syntactic structures is derived, as soon as lexical details is minimized. A subset of the articles develops theories that take as their start line the lexical-syntactic framework of the overdue Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, admired between that is their very own bankruptcy.

By Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière, Freek Van de Velde

ISBN-10: 9027242534

ISBN-13: 9789027242532

Contemporary years observed a transforming into curiosity within the examine of subjectivity, because the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, outlined by means of Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's recognition to the hearer/reader", nonetheless, has to this point obtained little specific consciousness in its personal correct, not to mention systematic definition and operationalization. Intersubjectivity and doubtless comparable notions similar to interpersonal which means, appraisal, stance and metadiscourse, usually seem in cognitive-functional debts, in addition to historic and extra utilized methods. those domain names supply (partly) conflicting makes use of of 'intersubjectivity', range within the total scope of the concept that and the phenomena it may possibly cover.This e-book brings jointly contributions from various various ways, with the purpose of disentangling the present net of intertwined notions of intersubjectivity. instead of concentrating on the doubtless conflicting perspectives, the quantity aspires to unravel the various conceptual puzzle by means of cross-fertilization among different perspectives, and spark dialogue on tips on how to operationalize 'intersubjectivity' in linguistic learn. initially released in English textual content building 5:1 (2012).

By Henry M. Hoenigswald (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9401025312

ISBN-13: 9789401025317

ISBN-10: 9401025339

ISBN-13: 9789401025331

These separate yet comparable essays owe their life to a mixed crisis for the workings of textual content feedback and historic linguistics and for the heritage of scholarship in those fields. On past events i've got advised yes perspectives at the improvement of the so-called comparative technique. Few issues are extra worthwhile than to carry implicit preconceptions of the earlier and current out into the open, as I aimed to do then and as I target to do now. This time present culture is handled as a physique - with out, i'm hoping, being heavily distorting - and one small element of its operating assumptions is tested. My thank you visit the colleagues and scholars with whom i've got had fruitful dialogue, yet particularly to Zellig S. Harris, and to Henry Hiz who expended even more than simply his very good editorial care on those efforts. I in basic terms wish that i've got realized as a lot from him as he has patiently attempted to educate me. Lloyd W. Daly has kindly learn components of an past model and has contri­ buted worthwhile suggestions.

By Lisa A. Reed

ISBN-10: 1614510423

ISBN-13: 9781614510420

Generative thought has lengthy sought to trap the syntax of keep an eye on, wondering even if the supplement clause includes a syntactically projected thematic topic, no matter if such a controversy undergoes displacement and, if that is so, the place and why, and what position semantics could play. This ebook keeps during this culture, significantly analyzing paradigms erroneously assumed to desire seasoned analyses over stream and implicit argument debts. It deals novel information amenable to research in simple terms inside a professional procedure - yet one extensively diverse from its predecessors in shape and interpretation.

By Peter Ackema

ISBN-10: 9027227470

ISBN-13: 9789027227478

Of specific curiosity to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax goals to give a contribution to the dialogue at the query even if there exists a separate morphological module within the grammar, specified from the opposite modules, with specified specialize in the relationship of morphology with syntax. The view that's defended is that morphological operations don't happen in syntax, yet that they're ruled by way of an analogous rules that govern syntax. There are morphological different types exact from syntactic different types, which seem of their personal area, lower than the 0 X-bar point, so during this experience there's a morphological module. in spite of the fact that, this module isn't really special from the syntactic one, within the experience that an analogous ideas observe both to the morphological and the syntactic area. particular issues of dialogue contain Noun Incorporation, earlier participle buildings in Germanic (passives, perfects, and auxiliary choice) and Lexical Integrity results.

By Christopher Laenzlinger

ISBN-10: 155619904X

ISBN-13: 9781556199042

ISBN-10: 9027227411

ISBN-13: 9789027227416

Addresses the query of observe order version in Romance languages - in particular French - and in Germanic languages - specially German. The theoretical framework followed is the "Principles & Parameters thought of Transformational Generative Grammar". The empirical contribution of this e-book is to regard 3 linguistically detailed phenomena - adverbs, pronouns and clause constitution - in typologically special periods of languages. the 2 major theoretical recommendations explored are: a version of Checking thought containing ideas and parameters; and a brand new notion of word constitution inside of X-Theory.

By John P. Broderick

ISBN-10: 0690000677

ISBN-13: 9780690000672

Publication via Broderick, John P.

By Eva Engels

ISBN-10: 9027255644

ISBN-13: 9789027255648

ISBN-10: 902728184X

ISBN-13: 9789027281845

Adverb positions fluctuate inside of a unmarried language in addition to throughout diversified languages. according to the examine of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph exhibits that the distribution of adverbs is encouraged via different factors at exact degrees of linguistic illustration – comprising semantics, syntax, phonology and data constitution –, which have interaction in identifying adverb positions. the result of the research are formulated in the theoretical framework of Optimality thought, which captures the complicated interplay of those elements by means of hierarchically ranked constraints, deriving cross-linguistic edition of adverb positions through changes within the language-specific constraint hierarchies. The ebook is split into elements: whereas half I examines adverb positions as a rule, half II investigates lower than which conditions an adverb might connect to a phonetically empty constituent within the languages lower than dialogue. The publication appeals to a linguistic viewers drawn to Germanic and Romance languages in addition to in theoretical syntax commonly.

By Florencia Franceschina

ISBN-10: 902725298X

ISBN-13: 9789027252982

ISBN-10: 9027293988

ISBN-13: 9789027293985

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical research into the mechanisms and reasons of profitable and unsuccessful grownup moment language acquisition.Couched inside of a generative framework, the examine explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they gather their moment language might give a contribution to the L2 wisdom that they could finally reach. The empirical examine makes a speciality of a bunch of very complicated L2 audio system, and during a chain of exams goals to find what underpins their close to mastery of grammatical gender and different grammatical properties.The e-book explores an account of continual selective divergence in response to the concept that baby and grownup inexperienced persons are essentially comparable, other than that during adults the L1 performs the function of a pretty inflexible filter out of the linguistic enter. The impossibility of representing the hot objective language except by utilizing the development blocks of the formerly proven L1 is argued to be the most it's because close to yet now not completely local like language representations are shaped and develop into tested in grownup L2 novices.

By Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven †

ISBN-10: 902723647X

ISBN-13: 9789027236470

The amount brings jointly a variety of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held within the collage of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994.
Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the lawsuits of that have been edited via Traugott et al. (1986), the world of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of matters and features with insights drawn from the broader framework of normal approaches of conceptualisation. One significant query is consequently what conceptual different types fall less than conditionality or how some distance the idea of conditionality may be extended.
The quantity represents the up to date study on such a lot features of conditionality a few of which come with the connection among conditionality, hypotheticality and counterfactuality, polarity, historic views, concessives, the purchase of conditionals.