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| Author | : Peter Ackema |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027227470 |
This text addresses issues in morphosyntax. It covers areas including: noun incorporation; the morphosyntax of periphrastic participal constructions; derivation of lexical integrity; and mismatches between morphosyntax and morphophonology.
| Author | : Thomas E. Payne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 1997-10-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521588058 |
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
| Author | : Danuta Gabryś-Barker |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2008-05-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1788920589 |
The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s’ ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.
| Author | : Michael S. Flier |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
| 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 | : Giuliano Bocci |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2024-06-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198889488 |
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms. The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
| Author | : Andreas Dufter |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1104 |
| Release | : 2017-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110393425 |
This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.
| Author | : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780792342632 |
Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.
| Author | : Claudia Claridge |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2019-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262470 |
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.
| Author | : Karen De Clercq |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2020-06-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 150151377X |
This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.
