Word Order and Syntactic Features in the Scandinavian Languages and English
Author | : Anders Holmberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anders Holmberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : L. Hellan |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9400945728 |
The present collection of papers grew out of a Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax and Theory of Grammar, held in Trondheim in 1982. Five of the contributions - those by Maling, Herslund, Cooper, Platzack and Thniinsson - are developments of papers read at this workshop, and all of the contributions reflect (and have partly inspired) the strong momentum which this area of research has gained over the last few years. It is our hope that the collection will be useful for those who want to familiarize themselves with this research, as well as for those actively engaged in it. We are grateful to the authors for their collaboration in getting the volume together, and to Frank Heny and the Reidel staff (Martin Scrivener, editor, in particular) for their help, encouragement and patience through the various phases of the production of this book. Very many thanks also to our anonymous referees, and to Elisabet Engdahl for help and advice. KIRST! KOCH CHRISTENSEN LARS HELLAN vii LARS HELLAN AND KIRSTI KOCH CHRISTENSEN INTRODUCTION O. INTRODUCTION A natural theoretical perspective for a language-family-oriented anthology like the present one is that of COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. This is not to say that the papers of this volume are all focused on comparative issues (in fact, most of them are not), but rather that the language family from which most of the data are drawn lends itself naturally to comparative studies.
Author | : Höskuldur Thräinsson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001-11-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781402002946 |
O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).
Author | : Marit Westergaard |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027289344 |
Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. Thus, within a split-CP model of clause structure, a number of micro-cues are formulated, taking into account the specific context for V2 vs. non-V2 (clause type, subcategory of the elements involved, etc.). The micro-cues are produced in children’s I-language grammars on exposure to the relevant input. Focusing on a dialect of Norwegian, the book shows that children generally produce target-consistent V2 and non-V2 from early on, indicating that they are sensitive to the micro-cues. This includes contexts where word order is dependent on information structure. The children’s occasional non-target-consistent behavior is accounted for by economy principles.
Author | : Christopher Laenzlinger |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027227411 |
La discussion porte (I) sur la projection des structures syntagmatiques, (II) sur la composition structurale de la phase, (III) sur la légitimation des constituants dans la phrase.
Author | : John S. Bowers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107096758 |
This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
Author | : E. Engels |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-05-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1137431644 |
This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.
Author | : E. Haeberli |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401006040 |
This book investigates various aspects of the distribution of nominal arguments, and in particular the cross-linguistic variation that can be found among the Germanic languages in this domain of the syntax. The empirical topics discussed include variable vs. fixed argument order, the distribution of subjects with respect to adjuncts, expletive constructions, and oblique subjecthood. These are analyzed within a theoretical framework which is based on the Minimalist Program.