Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure
Author: Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1135500207

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This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure
Author: Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1135500274

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This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

Structure Preserved

Structure Preserved
Author: C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027255474

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"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.

The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement

The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Author: Johannes Mursell
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027259739

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In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.

Markedness in Grammar

Markedness in Grammar
Author: Talmy Givón
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1990
Genre: Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN:

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Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information

Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information
Author: Uwe Junghanns
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110178241

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This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.

Elements of Structural Syntax

Elements of Structural Syntax
Author: Lucien Tesnière
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269998

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This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages, many of which he was proficient in, Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating. Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.

An Introduction to Syntax

An Introduction to Syntax
Author: Edith A. Moravcsik
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-06-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082648946X

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Presents the basic goals and tools of syntactic analysis. This book's framework is theory-neutral, presenting a scientific introduction to the field and to synchronic description. It examines variation and change, syntactic typology, language acquisition, and possible explanations from structural, evolutionary and functional perspectives.