Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque

Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque
Author: Urtzi Etxeberria
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027255709

This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute attention to properties and paradigms previously overlooked, and the analyses of them in the light of recent advances in syntactic theory make this book a valuable tool for syntacticians, semanticists and morphologists. This work fills a gap in the theoretical study of Basque, and the richness of data presented makes it interesting for any researcher from whatever particular theoretical persuasion. This volume is especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students of comparative grammar, typology, and theoretical linguistics.

Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque

Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque
Author: Urtzi Etxeberria
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027274541

This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute attention to properties and paradigms previously overlooked, and the analyses of them in the light of recent advances in syntactic theory make this book a valuable tool for syntacticians, semanticists and morphologists. This work fills a gap in the theoretical study of Basque, and the richness of data presented makes it interesting for any researcher from whatever particular theoretical persuasion. This volume is especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students of comparative grammar, typology, and theoretical linguistics.

Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque

Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Author: Beatriz Fernández
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-09-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266425

This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery, and including an incursion into determiners, the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with empirically detailed descriptions. Working from a micro-parametric perspective, the contributions to the volume address in depth some of the exuberant variation attested in the different dialects and subdialects of Basque. At the same time, although the contributions focus mainly on Basque data, cross-linguistic evidence is also presented and discussed. After all, the goal pursued in this book is to attempt to explain variation in Basque as a particular instantiation of variation in human language at large. The volume presents and analyzes a wide range of empirical phenomena, many typologically marked among European languages, and will therefore be a welcome resource to linguists looking for detailed description and/or theoretical discussion.

Partitive Cases and Related Categories

Partitive Cases and Related Categories
Author: Silvia Luraghi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311039457X

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.

Proper Names versus Common Nouns

Proper Names versus Common Nouns
Author: Javier Caro Reina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110672626

Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages
Author: Kasper Boye
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110416611

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language

Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language
Author: Edward Keenan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 973
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9400726813

Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike.

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case

Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Author: Petra Sleeman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110732297

Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a broader perspective. The aim of the PARTE project, from which this volume stems, is precisely to bring together linguists of different theoretical approaches using different methodologies to address this notion in its many facets. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case in European languages, their emergence and spread in diachrony, their acquisition by L2 speakers, and their syntax and interpretation. The volume is the first to provide such an encompassing insight into the notion of partitivity.

A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord

A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord
Author: Marco Benincasa
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 382339133X

The book focusses on the grammatical feature definiteness in German, visible in the inflection of adjectives (ein schön-es Kind vs. das schön-e Kind). It argues for an analysis of this effect that draws a connection to the visible categories of number and gender on nouns and related words rather than an abstract property. This conclusion rests on the conflation of the established grammatical categories into a single one, number-gender, which explains a vast body of grammatical phenomena in German and principles of language in general.

Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization

Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
Author: Anastasia Giannakidou
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009-01-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191562017

This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It reflects the intense reconsideration of the nature of quantification, and of fundamental aspects of the syntax and semantics of quantifier phrases. Leading international scholars explore novel and challenging ideas at the interfaces between syntax and morphology, syntax and semantics, morphology and the lexicon. They examine core issues in the field, such as kind reference, number marking, partitivity, context dependence and the way presuppositions are built into the meanings of quantifiers. They also consider how in this context definiteness and the definite determiner D play a central role, and the way in which D is also instrumental in nominalizations. With nominalization, the lexical semantic contribution of verbs and their arguments becomes central, and within the perspective of this book the question is asked whether syntactic nominalizations share with noun phrases the same external layer, namely the functional projection DP. If so, what exactly is the contribution of D in this case, and how much of the lexical correspondence between nouns and verbs is preserved? This book presents the latest thinking on cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic approaches in three of the most vibrant and productive research areas in linguistics. It paves the way towards a more comprehensive understanding of how quantification, definiteness, and nominalizations are encoded in the grammar.