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Author | : Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1135500274 |
This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.
Author | : Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1135500207 |
This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.
Author | : Rodrigo Gutíerrez-Bravo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Spanish language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255474 |
"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.
Author | : Johannes Mursell |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027259739 |
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.
Author | : Talmy Givón |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Uwe Junghanns |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110178241 |
This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.
Author | : Howard Lasnik |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-02-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780262621335 |
with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars. From there the book moves to successive theoretical developments and revisions—both in general and in particular as they pertain to inflectional verbal morphology. After comparing Chomsky's economy-based account with his later minimalist approach, the book concludes with a hybrid theory of English verbal morphology that includes elements of both Syntactic Structures and A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory. Current Studies in Linguistics No. 33
Author | : Edith A. Moravcsik |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 082648946X |
Presents the basic goals and tools of syntactic analysis. This book's framework is theory-neutral, presenting a scientific introduction to the field and to synchronic description. It examines variation and change, syntactic typology, language acquisition, and possible explanations from structural, evolutionary and functional perspectives.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198299547 |
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.