The Grammar Pragmatics Interface And The German Pre Field
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Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface
Author | : Robert D. Van Valin |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027205728 |
Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari' (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.
The Grammar of Identity
Author | : Volker Gast |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134160909 |
This original treatment of an extremely complex and interesting subject matter within Germanic languages and theoretical linguistics, investigates why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages around the world.
Towards a Derivational Syntax
Author | : Michael T. Putnam |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902725527X |
This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that beset the Survive-minimalist framework, including topics such as the lexicon-syntax relationship, coordinate symmetries, scope, ellipsis, code-switching, and probe-goal relations. Despite the diverse, broad range of topics discussed in this volume, the papers are connected by a renewed investigation of Frampton & Gutmann s (2002) vision of a crash-proof syntax. This volume provides new and interesting perspectives on theoretical issues that have challenged the Minimalist Program since its inception and will provide ample food for thought for syntacticians working in the Minimalist tradition and beyond."
Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German
Author | : Agnes Jäger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0198813546 |
This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.
Rethinking Verb Second
Author | : Rebecca Woods |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 979 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198844301 |
This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
The Architecture of Focus
Author | : Valéria Molnár |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110922010 |
This collection investigates the architecture of focus in linguistic theory from different theoretical perspectives. Research on focus and information structure in the last four decades has shown that the phenomenon of focus is highly complex, the theoretical approaches manifold, and the data highly sensitive. The main emphasis has been placed on the integration of the notion of focus in generative grammar. In recent years, however, the approaches to focus and information structure underwent a radical change in perspective. The theoretical concept of focus, its related terms and phenomena became the object of research. Along with it, the research questions shifted: instead of locating focus in the architecture of grammar, linguists investigate the architecture of focus itself. The central underlying idea of this collection is to document this change in perspective with the aim of isolating essential keystones and research areas in both the theoretical and empirical domain. The book is structured accordingly. Following the introduction, there are four main sections: The general section discusses the theoretical foundations of focus within grammar. The second section hosts papers which investigate the representation of focus and topic at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The third section discusses the phonological representation of focus and its relation to meaning. The papers of the final section investigate different types of focus constructions in a variety languages. The collection of papers on the architecture of focus, its interpretation and representation mirror the establishment of the focus research field.
Negation in Gapping
Author | : Sophie Repp |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199543607 |
The first in-depth investigation of gapping and negation shows accepted accounts do not explain differences across languages, and available readings of the negation. The author questions basic assumptions in the analysis of gapping and presents a new syntactic analysis with implications for the interpretation of scope, and the theory of ellipsis.
Language and Logos
Author | : Thomas Hanneforth |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3050062363 |
This volume contributes to a linguistic program characterized by the view that explanatory goals in syntax and semantics can be met only in models that are sufficiently formalized. The properties of these formalizations must be well understood, and they have to do justice to both the syntactic and semantic aspects of a construction. The contributions shed light on this view from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics (semantics, syntax), automata theory, and computational and mathematical linguistics.
The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures
Author | : Anita Steube |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2008-11-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110209306 |
The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man’s language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the tone language Hausa. The volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research. Within grammar, it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax-phonology interrelations and their interpretations, and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings.