Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations

Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations
Author: William Croft
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1991-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226120902

Analiza: Metodología sintáctica y gramática universal; Bases de las "marcas" lingúísticas para las categorías sintácticas; Hacia una definición externa de las categorias sintácticas; Roles temáticos, semántica verbal y estructura causal; Marcas de casos y orden causal de participantes; Formas verbales y conceptualización de los sucesos.

A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories

A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories
Author: John Mathieson Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1997-04-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521580234

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification SH again in rather traditional vein SH to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences.

Syntactic Categories

Syntactic Categories
Author: Gisa Rauh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2010-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191613754

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains their place in different theories of language. It sets out and clarifies the conflicting definitions of competing frameworks which frequently make it hard or impossible to compare grammars. Gisa Rauh describes the history and nature of traditional and contemporary accounts and definitions of grammatical categories. She explains their properties and use in generative, cognitive, and functional theories, and considers their function in language typology. She distinguishes between the cognitive functions of categories that relate to traditional parts of speech and serve to structure a language's lexicon; and those which determine the syntactic behaviour of the linguistic items they specify. Professor Rauh illustrates her account with a wide range of examples. Her clear and balanced exposition will be welcomed by students and scholars in all branches of linguistics as well as by those in related subjects such as computational science and the philosophy of language.

Grammatical Relations

Grammatical Relations
Author: Franz Müller-Gotama
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110137378

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The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories

The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories
Author: Robert Borsley
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1999-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1849500096

To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.

Objects and Other Subjects

Objects and Other Subjects
Author: William D. Davies
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781402000652

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Radical Construction Grammar

Radical Construction Grammar
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.

Grammatical Relations in Change

Grammatical Relations in Change
Author: Jan Terje Faarlund
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027230584

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages dealt with include Old English, Mainland Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and other Germanic languages, Latin, French and other Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and Popolocan. This book provides an opportunity to compare different theoretical approaches to similar phenomena in different languages and language families.

A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories

A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories
Author: Joseph E. Emonds
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311080851X

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.