Parameters in the Grammar of Basque

Parameters in the Grammar of Basque
Author: Jon Ortiz de Urbina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110131055

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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Parameters in the grammar of Basque

Parameters in the grammar of Basque
Author: Jon Ortiz de Urbina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110876744

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.

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar
Author: Ian G. Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198804636

In this book, Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist programme. The book represents a significant new contribution to the formal study of cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation.

Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque

Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Author: Beatriz Fernández
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 310
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.

Of Grammar, Words, and Verses

Of Grammar, Words, and Verses
Author: Esther Torrego
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027208255

This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of empirical domains, the contributors of this volume examine the role of Economy in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with phonology and semantics, and their implications for processing. The evidence is taken from a great variety of languages, including Arabic dialects, Basque, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish. Two chapters on metrics complete honoring Carlos Piera s longstanding scholarship in linguistic theory within Spain and abroad."

A Grammar of Basque

A Grammar of Basque
Author: José Ignacio Hualde
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 976
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110895285

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Contemporary Linguistic Parameters

Contemporary Linguistic Parameters
Author: Antonio Fabregas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1472532716

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be :lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.

Basque and Romance

Basque and Romance
Author: Ane Berro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004395393

This is a collection of articles describing and analyzing several of the most important morphosyntactic features for which the formal comparison between Basque and its surrounding Romance languages is relevant, such as word order, inflection, case, argument structure and causatives. In the context of a language virtually all of whose speakers are bilingual in either Spanish or French, the theoretically informed in-depth description offered in this volume focuses on the fine grain of linguistic structures from languages typologically quite apart but coexisting and probably interacting in the minds of speakers. It therefore aims at shedding some light on the types of interactions between different systems and on the systems themselves.

The Minimalist Parameter

The Minimalist Parameter
Author: Galina M. Alexandrova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027236992

In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety of 'parallel' proposals is provided in the present volume. The articles derive from papers read at the "Challenges of Minimalism" session of the Open Linguistics Forum, held in Ottawa, in March 1997. This OLF meeting started as a graduate student initiative, but because of the topic chosen, attracted a wide and international audience. The twenty contributions are grouped in five sections: I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; III.Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena; V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations.

The Development of Grammar

The Development of Grammar
Author: Esther Rinke
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027219311

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change. The recurrent topic of the volume is the link between linguistic variation and the limitation of structural variability in the framework of a well-defined theory of language. In this respect, the volume opens up new perspectives for future research.