The Legacy of Zellig Harris

The Legacy of Zellig Harris
Author: Bruce E. Nevin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027247360

The contributions to this volume relect the influence that Zellig Harris has had in syntax, semantics, mathematical linguistics, discourse analysis, informatics, philosophy, phonology and poetics.

Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics

Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics
Author: Julie Auger
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588115980

This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and Jose Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second language acquisition (Spanish & English), Spanish intonation, phonology, syntax, and semantics, Italian semantics, Romanian morphology and syntax, Catalan phonology and morphology, and Galician phonology (two papers). The volume is rounded out by three explicitly comparative studies, one on proto-Romance phonology, one on microvariation in Romance syntax, and a third addressing syntactic microvariation among varieties of French and French-based creoles. Frameworks represented include Optimality Theory, Minimalism, and Construction Grammar.

Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics

Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Karen Van Hoek
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1999-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289492

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis. The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of discourse particles in Dutch, and the function of prosody as a marker of text structure in spoken narratives. The papers illustrate the potential of the emerging cognitive linguistic paradigm to provide fresh, revealing insights in the study of discourse.

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning
Author: Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 473
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027236542

The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions.As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.

Romance Linguistics 2009

Romance Linguistics 2009
Author: Sonia Colina
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027248338

"The thirty-ninth annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) was held for the first time at the University of Arizona 27-29 March 2009. The by-now traditional parasession was on devoted to Variation and Change in Romance

Romance Linguistics 2008

Romance Linguistics 2008
Author: Karlos Arregi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027248311

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Saami Linguistics

Saami Linguistics
Author: Ida Toivonen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027248039

The papers in this volume describe and analyze an array of intriguing linguistic phenomena as they occur in the Saami languages, ranging from etymological nativization of loanwords to the formation of deadjectival and denominal verbs. Saami displays a number of characteristics that are unusual from a cross-linguistic perspective, including partial agreement on verbs, a three-way quantity distinction in consonants and spectacular consonant gradation. The eight papers presented here approach these and other issues from diverse theoretical perspectives in morphology, phonology, and syntax. The volume includes an extensive research bibliography which will be helpful for anyone interested in Saami linguistics.

Voicing in Dutch

Voicing in Dutch
Author: Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027248015

This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the phonetic facts (Is final neutralization complete or incomplete? Are the assimilation rules phonetic or phonological?) and the most adequate phonological analyses (Is [voice] a binary feature? What constraints are necessary? What is the best way of implementing the role of morphology?). This volume summarises and adds fuel to these debates on several fronts, by providing an overview of analyses so far (rule-based as well as constraint-based) and proposing a new one, by drawing attention to new facts, such as exceptions to final devoicing in certain dialects and the behaviour of loanwords, and by re-examining the phonetic state of affairs and the behaviour of voiced, voiceless and partially devoiced segments in psycholinguistic experiments.

Historical Linguistics 2003

Historical Linguistics 2003
Author: Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588115867

This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with previous volumes, the papers selected cover a wide range of subjects besides the core areas of historical linguistics, and this time include studies on ethnolinguistics, grammaticalisation, language contact, sociolinguistics, and typology. The individual languages treated include Brazilian Portuguese, Chukchi, Korean, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Kok-Paponk, Latin, Newar, Old Norse, Romanian, Seneca, Spanish, and Swedish. The volume reflects the state of the art both empirical and theoretical - in Historical Linguistics today, and shows the discipline to be as flourishing and capable of new advances as ever.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005
Author: Sergio Baauw
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291837

The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages, where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective, giving space to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current volume features a selection of 18 articles (out of 28) that were presented during the 19th meeting at Utrecht University, December 8-10, 2005. Included in this volume are four papers that were presented by invited speakers: Belletti, Delais-Roussarie & Rialland, Notley & Van der Linden & Hulk, and Ordóñez; these reflect both issues discussed in the general session as well as themes of the workshop on acquisition. A number of reknown Romance linguists (Saltarelli, di Sciullo, Zubizarreta) also contributed to the volume. In general, contributions bear on a variety of topics in the field of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and include the perspective from acquisition.