Lexicon And Grammar
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Sana Camara |
Publisher | : Nalrc Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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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.
Author | : Matías Guzmán Naranjo |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961101868 |
The organization of the lexicon, and especially the relations between groups of lexemes is a strongly debated topic in linguistics. Some authors have insisted on the lack of any structure of the lexicon. In this vein, Di Sciullo & Williams (1987: 3) claim that “[t]he lexicon is like a prison – it contains only the lawless, and the only thing that its inmates have in commonis lawlessness”. In the alternative view, the lexicon is assumed to have a rich structure that captures all regularities and partial regularities that exist between lexical entries.Two very different schools of linguistics have insisted on the organization of the lexicon. On the one hand, for theories like HPSG (Pollard & Sag 1994), but also some versions of construction grammar (Fillmore & Kay 1995), the lexicon is assumed to have a very rich structure which captures common grammatical properties between its members. In this approach, a type hierarchy organizes the lexicon according to common properties between items. For example, Koenig (1999: 4, among others), working from an HPSG perspective, claims that the lexicon “provides a unified model for partial regularties, medium-size generalizations, and truly productive processes”. On the other hand, from the perspective of usage-based linguistics, several authors have drawn attention to the fact that lexemes which share morphological or syntactic properties, tend to be organized in clusters of surface (phonological or semantic) similarity (Bybee & Slobin 1982; Skousen 1989; Eddington 1996). This approach, often called analogical, has developed highly accurate computational and non-computational models that can predict the classes to which lexemes belong. Like the organization of lexemes in type hierarchies, analogical relations between items help speakers to make sense of intricate systems, and reduce apparent complexity (Köpcke & Zubin 1984). Despite this core commonality, and despite the fact that most linguists seem to agree that analogy plays an important role in language, there has been remarkably little work on bringing together these two approaches. Formal grammar traditions have been very successful in capturing grammatical behaviour, but, in the process, have downplayed the role analogy plays in linguistics (Anderson 2015). In this work, I aim to change this state of affairs. First, by providing an explicit formalization of how analogy interacts with grammar, and second, by showing that analogical effects and relations closely mirror the structures in the lexicon. I will show that both formal grammar approaches, and usage-based analogical models, capture mutually compatible relations in the lexicon.