Animacy in Morphosyntactic Variation
Author | : Brittany Dael McLaughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Brittany Dael McLaughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Ekaitz Santazilia |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2022-11-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900451306X |
How relevant is the distinction between living and non-living entities in the grammar of languages? This first typological comprehensive study of animacy will immerse you into the realm of this category, its theoretical implications and pervasive effects on inflectional morphology.
Author | : Günter Rohdenburg |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110900017 |
What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the book / the book's main thesis, take hostage a group of 15 holiday makers / take a group of 15 holidaymakers hostage, conceding that the argument is convincing / conceding the argument to be convincing? This is the central issue explored in this volume, which contains a unique selection of innovative in-depth empirical studies written in a broadly functional framework. The factors investigated include the following: phonological influences (such as the principle of rhythmic alternation and optimal syllable structure), frequency, pervasive semantic and pragmatic aspects (including iconicity, markedness, grammaticalization and typological tendencies), information structure, processing complexity and horror aequi (the avoidance of identity effects).
Author | : Kersti Börjars |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255822 |
The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of possessive markers under a variety of theoretical frameworks. The distribution of phrases expressing possession is explored in a range of languages (including English, Swedish, Urdu and West Flemish), with rigorous exploitation of corpus data and careful statistical analysis. Descriptions and analyses represent the state of the art in research into possessive constructions. Particular attention is paid to the English possessive 's, both synchronically and diachronically. This volume is essential for scholars interested in theoretical and corpus-based linguistics, morphosyntactic constructions, and the expression of possession.
Author | : Simeon Floyd |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2018-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027265542 |
Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.
Author | : Maria Polinsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1107047641 |
A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.
Author | : Hannah Gibson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2024-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3985540918 |
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics. The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages. The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.
Author | : Anna Tristram |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351537849 |
Collective nouns such asmajorite or foulehave long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French. Through an analysis of data from a variety of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews, gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic and external factors which affect this type of agreement are examined, shedding new light on their interaction in this context. Broader questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France, are also addressed.
Author | : Benedikt Szmrecsanyi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2023-09-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108865399 |
Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detailed state-of-the-art analyses, and discusses the findings within the context of current theoretical models of grammatical variation in World Englishes.
Author | : Anna Tristram |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351537857 |
Collective nouns such asmajorite or foulehave long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French. Through an analysis of data from a variety of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews, gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic and external factors which affect this type of agreement are examined, shedding new light on their interaction in this context. Broader questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France, are also addressed.