Phonology in the 1980’s

Phonology in the 1980’s
Author: Didier L. Goyvaerts
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 657
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270856

This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology.

Clitics

Clitics
Author: Joel Ashmore Nevis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027237484

This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay “What is a Clitic?” by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.

Prépositions et postpositions - approches typologiques et formelles

Prépositions et postpositions - approches typologiques et formelles
Author: TSENG Jesse
Publisher: Lavoisier
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 2746295180

Cet ouvrage réunit six études sur les prépositions et les postpositions à travers les langues. Ces formes posent des questions de type morphologique (s’agit-il de mots à part entière ou amalgamés ?), de type syntaxique (ont-ils leur propre régime ou sont-ils de simples marques de cas ?), et de type sémantique (sont-ils toujours polysémiques ? Peut-on parler de prépositions vides ?) Les prépositions et les postpositions « faibles », qui sont généralement les plus courtes et les plus fréquentes, sont analysées à l’aide de comparaisons de langues variées comme l’allemand, le coréen, l’espagnol ou le français. Prépositions et postpositions réunit des auteurs spécialistes de morphologie, de syntaxe et de sémantique.

The Bantu–Romance Connection

The Bantu–Romance Connection
Author: Cécile de Cat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2008-09-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027290679

This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal morphology and agreement, the structure of DPs, and word order/information structure, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the structure of the different languages investigated, and the implications this holds for syntactic theory more generally. All of the papers draw on data from both Bantu and Romance languages, providing a framework for much-needed further comparative research on the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints, and the implications this has for learnability/acquisition. The volume also provides an important precedent for incorporating insights from Bantu linguistic structure into mainstream of syntax research.

Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Clitics in the Languages of Europe
Author: Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110804018

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Challenging Clitics

Challenging Clitics
Author: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027271941

Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of clitics; the role of the PF in cliticisation; the morphophonological aspects of cliticisation; and historical change – to name but a few of the approaches presented. As such this collection presents cutting edge theoretical considerations as well as new data on clitics. Taken together, the contributions in this volume not only provide insight into the extremely complex nature of clitics, but also into derivations and structures in language that go beyond the study of clitics themselves.

The Syntax of Pronominal Clitics

The Syntax of Pronominal Clitics
Author: Hagit Borer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004373152

Preliminary Material /Hagit Borer --Introduction /Hagit Borer --Three Issues in the Theory of Clitics: Case, Doubled NPs, and Extraction /Osvaldo A. Jaeggli --Clitics in Yoruba /Douglas Pulleyblank --On Chain Formation /Luigi Rizzi --On the Derivation of en-Clitics /W. Neil Elliott --Cliticization from NPs in Czech and Comparable Phenomena in French and Italian /Jindřich Toman --Pronominal Clitic Clusters and Templates /J. Simpson and M. Withgott --Syntactic Cliticization and Lexical Cliticization: The Case of Hebrew Dative Clitics /Hagit Borer and Yosef Grodzinsky --The Interpretation and Acquisition of Italian Impersonal SI /Nina Hyams --On Italian SI /Maria Rita Manzini --On Some Properties of French Clitic Se /Eric Wehrli --Clitics in American Sign Language /Judy Anne Kegl --The Pronominal “Copula” as Agreement Clitic /Edit Doron --Subject Clitics and the NOM-Drop Parameter /Ken Safir --References /Hagit Borer --Index /Hagit Borer.

On Spoken French

On Spoken French
Author: William J. Ashby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027254893

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two real-time studies appearing for the first time in English translation. To help readers visualize just how radically different the morphosyntax, morphophonology, and semantics of Spoken French are from French-on-the-page, the editor has developed a glossing framework, designed to capture the systemic, radically-prefixal morphology of Spoken French and the variability of change-in-progress. The model, presented here and used to gloss the examples from the Tours corpus, is also suitable for corpus-tagging. The volume is organized into sections preceded by an Editor’s note and followed by suggestions for further reading, and closes with an appendix of French corpora. This scholarly edition was written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field.

Syntaxe théorique et formelle, Volume 1: Modélisation, unités, structures

Syntaxe théorique et formelle, Volume 1: Modélisation, unités, structures
Author: Sylvain Kahane
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2022-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3985540373

Conçu comme une introduction générale à la syntaxe, cet ouvrage présente les notions de base nécessaires à une étude de la combinaison des unités lexicales et grammaticales au sein d’un énoncé. Sans se placer dans un cadre préconçu, l’ouvrage étudie les différentes possibilités pour la représentation des structures syntaxiques, en fonction des principes généraux et des critères particuliers retenus. Élaboré avec l’objectif de fournir une base pour l’enseignement de la syntaxe à l’université, cet ouvrage souhaite montrer qu’on peut dégager de manière méthodique les propriétés des langues et mettre de l’ordre dans la forêt vierge que constitue chaque langue. Il est divisé en trois parties : comment élaborer le modèle d’une langue, comment déterminer les unités de base de la langue en fonction de leur sens, forme et combinatoire, comment définir et représenter les différents modes d’organisation des unités. Cette dernière partie présente une abondance de diagrammes syntaxiques de diverses natures. L’ouvrage est découpé en de petites sections, alternant le contenu principal avec des éclairages, des notes historiques, des élaborations plus formelles, des exemples linguistiques dans diverses langues, des propositions de lectures additionnelles et des exercices avec des éléments de correction. Kim Gerdes et Sylvain Kahane collaborent depuis 20 ans et ont publié ensemble plus de 40 articles. Ils se sont intéressés à différents aspects de la syntaxe des langues. Après avoir travaillé sur la modélisation formelle de l’ordre des mots en allemand et en français, ils ont commencé à partir de 2008 à développer des corpus annotés en syntaxe de dépendance pour le français parlé, s’intéressant à la fois aux problèmes théoriques de l’analyse en dépendance et aux questions plus particulièrement posées par les productions orales, notamment concernant les limites de la syntaxe. Conceived as a general introduction to syntax, this book presents the basic concepts necessary for a study of the combination of lexical and grammatical units within an utterance. The book does not impose a preconceived framework, but rather examines the various possibilities for the representation of syntactic structures, according to the general principles and specific criteria that have been adopted. The aim of this book is to provide a basis for teaching syntax at university, and to show that it is possible to identify the properties of languages in a methodical way and to put order in the jungle of each language. The book is divided into three parts: How to develop the model of a language? How to determine the basic units of a language according to their meaning, form, and combinatorial nature? How to define and represent the different ways in which the units are organized? This last part presents an abundance of syntactic diagrams of a wide range of types. The book is divided into small sections, alternating the main content with insights, historical notes, formal elaborations, linguistic examples in diverse languages, proposals for further reading, and exercises with answer keys. Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane have been collaborating for 20 years and have published together more than 40 articles. They have been interested in different aspects of the syntax of languages. After working on formal modeling of word order in German and French, they started in 2008 to develop annotated corpora in dependency syntax for spoken French, focusing both on theoretical problems of dependency analysis and on questions more specifically raised by oral productions, notably concerning the limits of syntax.