Predicate Nominals
| Author | : Johanna Nichols |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780520096264 |
Predicate Nominals
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Describing Morphosyntax
| Author | : Thomas E. Payne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 1997-10-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521588058 |
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
Structuring Sense: Volume 1: In Name Only
| Author | : Hagit Borer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2005-01-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199263899 |
'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules.
Intransitive Predication
| Author | : Leon Stassen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 792 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199258932 |
Basing his analysis on a wide sample of languages, Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages - 'cognitive space' - the topography of which is the same for all languages.
Studies in the Nominal Sentence in Egyptian and Coptic
| Author | : John B. Callender |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1984-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780520096752 |
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
| Author | : Rajendra Singh |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2008-12-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110211505 |
South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have three major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages
| Author | : Marlyse Baptista |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2007-11-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027291829 |
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean, Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation, language change and linguistic theory in general.
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
| Author | : Charles N. Li |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2014-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1477301054 |
Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families.
Weak Referentiality
| Author | : Ana Aguilar-Guevara |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2014-12-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027269386 |
This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow scope, incorporation, predication, and case marking, and that in a range of languages (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, German, Papiamentu, Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque, Dutch, English, French) involving scrambling, modification, possession, and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.
Point of View and Grammar
| Author | : Joanne Scheibman |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9789027226211 |
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.
