The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar
Author: Hella Olbertz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230463

In functional grammar, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic building blocks around which the structure of a clause is built. This book examines 5 aspects of the role of the lexicon in functional grammar.

Lexicon and Grammar

Lexicon and Grammar
Author: Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110872994

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Between Grammar and Lexicon

Between Grammar and Lexicon
Author: Ellen Contini-Morava
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027236890

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, calling into question the strict dichotomy between the two that is sometimes assumed.

Understanding English Grammar

Understanding English Grammar
Author: Thomas E. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521763290

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.

Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011-06-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027287023

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics.

Analyzing Grammar

Analyzing Grammar
Author: Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2005-05-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781139443517

Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises. Topics covered include word order, constituency, case, agreement, tense, gender, pronoun systems, inflection, derivation, argument structure and grammatical relations, and a useful glossary provides a clear explanation of each term. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Analyzing Grammar is set to become a key text for all courses in grammatical analysis.

A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic

A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004305041

Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.

Lexical-Functional Grammar

Lexical-Functional Grammar
Author: Kersti Börjars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107170567

A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Author: Tania Kouteva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107136245

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.