1. Participles : a typological study [2019]
- Shagal, Ksenia, author.
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
- Description
- Book — xix, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.
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2. On understanding grammar [2018]
- Givón, Talmy, 1936- author.
- Revised edition. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
- Description
- Book — xxi, 298 pages ; 25 cm
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In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge...a book about understanding done with deep understanding - of language and its place in Nature and in the nature of humankind... The book is rich in insights, even for those who have been with linguistics for a long time. And beginners could be thankful for having it as a starting point, from which so many past mistakes have been shed". Thoroughly revised, corrected and updated, On Understanding Grammar remains, as its author intended it in 1979, a book about trying to make sense of human language and of doing linguistics. Language is considered here from multiple perspectives, intersecting with cognition and communication, typology and universals, grammaticalization, development and evolution. Within such a broad cross-disciplinary context, grammar is viewed as an automated, structured language-processing device, assembled through evolution, diachrony and use. Cross-language diversity is not arbitrary, but rather is tightly constrained and adaptively motivated, with the balance between universality and diversity mediated through development, be it evolutionary or diachronic. The book's take on language harkens back to the works of illustrious antecedents such as F. Bopp, W. von Humbold, H. Paul, A. Meillet, O. Jespersen and G. Zipf, offering a coherent alternative to the methodological and theoretical strictures of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.
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3. The Oxford handbook of universal grammar [2017]
- First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — xxii, 648 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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- PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND
- PART II: LINGUISTIC THEORY
- PART III: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
- PART IV: COMPARATIVE SYNTAX
- PART V: WIDER ISSUES.
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4. The philosophy of universal grammar [2014]
- Hinzen, Wolfram, author.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
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- 1. The Project of a Science of Language
- 2. Before There was Grammar
- 3. The Content of Grammar
- 4. Deriving the Formal Ontology of Language
- 5. Cross-linguistic Variation
- 6. The Rationality of Case
- 7. Language and Speciation
- 8. Biolinguistic Variation
- 9. Thought, Language, and Reality.
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5. The philosophy of universal grammar [2013]
- Hinzen, Wolfram, author.
- First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — xx, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Summary
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- 1. The Project of a Science of Language
- 2. Before There was Grammar
- 3. The Content of Grammar
- 4. Deriving the Formal Ontology of Language
- 5. Cross-linguistic Variation
- 6. The Rationality of Case
- 7. Language and Speciation
- 8. Biolinguistic Variation
- 9. Thought, Language, and Reality.
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- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, c2011.
- Description
- Book — 424 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Description
- Book — xvii, 435 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Section I: The Structural Properties of Sentences Interfacing with Meaning and the Lexicon
- 1. Cycle Interaction of Event Structure and A' Locality
- 2. Determiners and Movement
- 3. Post-verbal Nominatives: an Unaccusativity Diagnostic Under Scrutiny
- 4. Unaccusativity in Vietnamese and Structural Consequences of Inadvertent Causes
- 5. Building Resultatives in Icelandic
- 6. Categorization and the Interface Levels
- 7. Non-topical Wa-phrases in Japanese
- Section II: The Morphological Properties of Words Interfacing with Syntax and Phonology
- 8. Word-internal Modification Without the Syntax-Morphology Interface
- 9. Affixation and the Mirror Principle
- 10. Phases and Navajo Verbal Morphology
- 11. The Syntax and Prosody of Turkish "Pre-stressing" Suffixes
- Section III: Sound Interfacing with Structure
- 12. Restrictions on Subject Extraction: A PF Interface Account
- 13. An Experimental Approach to Intervension of Wh-phrases: Prosody and Syntax Interface
- 14. Acoustic, Articulatory, and Phonological Perspectives on Allophonic Variation of /r/ in Dutch
- 15. Second Occurrence Focus and the Acoustics of Prominence
- 16. Loan Adaptation of laryngeal Features
- Section IV: Experimental Work on Interface Issues
- 17. Scope Ambiguity in Child Language: Old And New Problems
- 18. Interaction of Syntax and Discourse Pragmatics in Closely Related Languages: How native Swedes, Native Germans, and Swedish-Speaking Learners of German Start Their Sentences
- 19. Processing (In)alienable Possessions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
- 20. Picturing the Syntax/Semantics Interface: On-line Interpretation of Pronouns and Relfexives in Picture NPs.
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- Rezac, Milan.
- Dordrecht [The Netherlands] ; New York : Springer, c2011.
- Description
- Book — xvii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Acknowledgments.-Conventions and glosses.-Preface.-1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs.-1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Modular architectures.1.3 Phi-features across modules.1.4 Repairs at the interface.-2 Phi-features in realizational morphology.2.1 Modularity, morphology, and phi-features.2.2 Opaque cliticization and agreement. 2.3 Gaps and synthetic-analytic alternations.2.4 The limits of a modular signature.-3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax.3.1 Person hierarchies and PH-interactions.3.2 PH-interactions in Ojibwa and Mapudungun. 3.3 Theories of PH-interactions.3.4 PH-interactions and repairs in Tanoan.3.5 The limits of syntactic PH-interactions.-4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French.4.1 Introduction.4.2 French clitics.4.3 The PCC repair and the Cliticization Requirement.4.4 The syntactic character of the repair.4.4.1 Introduction.4.4.2 Floating quantifiers.4.4.3 Condition B.4.4.4 Right dislocation.4.4.5 Phi-agreement.4.4.6 Overview.4.5 Applicative datives.4.5.1 Introduction.4.5.2 Possessive, dessus, and benefactive datives.4.5.3 Causee datives.4.5.4 Connaitre-class causee datives.4.5.5 Experiencer datives.4.5.6 Overview.4.6 Irreparable problems.4.6.1 Introduction.4.6.2 Multiple dative clitics.4.6.3 Arbitrary clitic cluster gaps.4.6.4 Mediopassive se + dative clitic.4.6.5 Datives in DPs and APs.4.6.6 Coordination and modification.4.6.7 Datives in causatives.4.6.8 The weak PCC.4.6.9 Overview.4.7 The PCC, the repairs, and the nature of datives.4.8 Appendix A: Exceptional Case Marking.4.9 Appendix B: Datives in PCC contexts.-5 Repairs and uninterpretable features.5.1 Introduction.5.2 The Person Case Constraint.5.2.1 The Agree/Case approach.5.2.2 Intervention.5.2.3 Agreement, Case, Licensing.5.2.4 Datives.5.2.5 Overview.5.3 The repairs of the Person Case Constraint.5.3.1 The character of the repairs.5.3.2 The choice of mechanisms.5.3.3 Global mechanisms.5.4 The Minimalist Program: uninterpretability, interfaces, and repairs.5.4.1 Uninterpretable features: phi, Case, and Agree.5.4.2 The interface algorithm iEC.5.4.3 Phase theory.5.5 Dependent Case as last-resort.5.6 Unaccusative repairs: Transitivization.5.6.1 Introduction.5.6.2 Basque.5.6.3 Chinook.5.6.4 Finnish.5.6.5 Overview.5.7 Transitive repairs: Strengthening the PP.5.8 Transitive repairs: Strengthening the DP.5.9 Conclusion: The scope and limits of iECi(r)i i(r)i'i(r)i i Aspects of iEC.5.9.2 Person and Case licensing.5.9.3 Licensing, Full Interpretation, and iEC.-6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation.6.1 Phi-alphabets.6.2 Syntactic and intepretive phi-mismatches.6.3 French on.6.4 Person in syntax.6.5 Person in interpretation.6.6.- Conclusion.-Name and Subject index.
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9. Constituent structure [2010]
- Carnie, Andrew, 1969-
- 2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Description
- Book — xx, 302 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- PART 1: PRELIMINARIES
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Constituent Structure
- 3. Basic Properties of Trees: Dominance and Precedence
- 4. Second Order Relations: C-command and Government
- PART 2: PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS AND X-BAR THEORY
- 5. Capturing Constituent Structure: Phrase Structure Grammars
- 6. Extended Phrase Structure Grammars
- 7. X-bar Theory
- PART 3: CONTROVERSIES
- 8. Towards Set-Theoretic Constituency Representations
- 9. Dependency and Constituency
- 10. Multidominated, Multidimensional, and Multiplanar Structures
- 11. Phrasal Categories and Cartography
- References
- Index.
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- PART 1: PRELIMINARIES
- PART 2: PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS AND X-BAR THEORY
- PART 3: CONTROVERSIES.
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Description
- Book — xi, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 1. Introduction
- PART 1: KEY NOTIONS
- 2. Features: essential notions
- 3. Feature hierarchies and contrast in phonology
- 4. Towards a typology of grammatical features
- PART II: PERSPECTIVES FROM SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION AND THEORY
- 5. Features in categorization, or a new look at an old problem
- 6. The definiteness feature at the syntax-semantics interface
- 7. Features in periphrastic constructions
- 8. A Minimalist theory of feature structure
- PART III: FORMAL PERSPECTIVES
- 9. Features and computational semantics
- 10. Feature geometry and predictions of locality
- 11. Inessential features and expressive power of descriptive metalanguages.
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11. Constituent structure [2008]
- Carnie, Andrew, 1969-
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Description
- Book — xviii, 292 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to Lexical Functional Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Minimalism. It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars, extended phrase structure grammars, X-bar theory, and set theoretic bare phrase structure. In doing so it provides a clear, thorough, and rigorous axiomatic description of the structural properties of constituent trees. Andrew Carnie considers the central controversies on constituent structure. Is it, for example, a primitive notion or should it be derived from relational or semantic form? Do sentences have a single constituency or multiple constituencies? Does constituency operate on single or multiple dimensions? And what exactly is the categorial content of constituent structure representations? He identifies points of commonality as well as important theoretical differences among the various approaches to constituency, and critically examines the strengths and limitations of competing frameworks. This is an ideal introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It is also a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions in departments of linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, and related fields.
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- Hudson, Richard A.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Description
- Book — xii, 275 p. : ill.
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Morphology
- 3. Syntax
- 4. Gerunds
- 5. Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics
- References
- Index.
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13. Language networks : the new word grammar [2007]
- Hudson, Richard A.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Description
- Book — xii, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Morphology
- 3. Syntax
- 4. Gerunds
- 5. Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics
- References
- Index.
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- 英法德珍談互譯 = Anecdotes in English, French, and German
- [Beijing : Beijing zhong xian tuo fang ke ji fa zhan you xian gong si, 2007] [北京 : 北京中献拓方科技发展有限公司, 2007]
- Description
- Book — [2], 66 p. ; 14 x 21 cm.
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- Reinhart, Tanya.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
- Description
- Book — x, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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In this monograph Tanya Reinhart discusses strategies enabling the interface of different cognitive systems, which she identifies as the systems of concepts, inference, context, and sound. Her point of departure is Noam Chomsky's hypothesis that language is optimally designed -- namely, that in many cases, the bare minimum needed for constructing syntactic derivations is sufficient for the full needs of the interface. Deviations from this principle are viewed as imperfections. The book covers in depth four areas of the interface: quantifier scope, focus, anaphora resolution, and implicatures. The first question in each area is what makes the computational system (CS, syntax) legible to the other systems at the interface -- how much of the information needed for the interface is coded already in the CS, and how it is coded. Next Reinhart argues that in each of these areas there are certain aspects of meaning and use that cannot be coded in the CS formal language, on both conceptual and empirical grounds. This residue is governed by interface strategies that can be viewed as repair of imperfections. They require constructing and comparing a reference set of alternative derivations to determine whether a repair operation is indeed the only way to meet the interface requirements. Evidence that reference-set computation applies in these four areas comes from language acquisition. The required computation poses a severe load on working memory. While adults can cope with this load, children, whose working memory is less developed, fail in tasks requiring this computation.
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- Sinclair, John, 1933-2007
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.
- Description
- Book — xxi, 185 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Summary
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- 1. Dedication
- 2. Acknowledgements
- 3. Preamble
- 4. Introduction
- 5. Section A: Preliminaries
- 6. Setting the scene
- 7. Background
- 8. Data description
- 9. Section B: Analysis
- 10. System of analysis
- 11. Provisional Unit Boundaries
- 12. Types of chunks
- 13. Types of organisational elements
- 14. Types of increments to shared experience
- 15. Synthesis
- 16. Section C: Theory and follow-up
- 17. The example texts analysed
- 18. Theoretical synopsis
- 19. Looking ahead
- 20. Appendix
- 21. Bibliography
- 22. Index of names
- 23. Index of subjects.
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17. Grammatical relations [2005]
- Farrell, Patrick, 1953-
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Description
- Book — x, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grammatical Relations Across Languages
- 3. Relational Grammar
- 4. Role and Reference Grammar
- 5. Transformational Grammar
- References
- Index.
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Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.
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18. Grammatical relations [electronic resource] [2005]
- Farrell, Patrick, 1953-
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Description
- Book — x, 234 p. : ill.
- Summary
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grammatical Relations Across Languages
- 3. Relational Grammar
- 4. Role and Reference Grammar
- 5. Transformational Grammar
- References
- Index.
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Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.
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- Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005.
- Description
- Book — 716 p.
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Henk van Riemsdijk has long been known as one of Europe's most important linguists. His seminal ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Europe and beyond. The importance of these contributions is matched only by his talent for organizing the field. As the initiator, co-founder, and chair of the GLOW society, he made the society the leading platform of European generative linguistics. He has also been editor of the series Studies in Generative Grammar since its foundation. As a teacher and supervisor, he has inspired generations of students in the Netherlands and abroad. On the occasion of his relocation from the Netherlands to Italy, his friends, students and colleagues celebrate Henk van Riemsdijk's work with this collection of essays on numerous topics of current theoretical interest.
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- Nunes, Jairo.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
- Description
- Book — xiv, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization computations coupled with economy conditions regarding deletion. He proposes a version of the copy theory of movement according to which movement must be construed as a description of the interaction of the independent operations Copy, Merge, Form Chain, and Chain Reduction. Empirical evidence to support this claim includes instances of "sideward movement" between subtrees in a derivation. According to this analysis, the linearization of chains in the phonological component constrains sideward movement so that it is possible to account for standard properties of multiple gap constructions, including parasitic gap and ATB constructions, without construction-specific operations or principles that are not independently motivated. Theoretical linguists will find Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement of great interest both theoretically and empirically. The version of the copy theory of movement proposed by Nunes will stir debate and shape future research in the field.
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