Category: Grammar

By Richard A. Geiger, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

ISBN-10: 3110127148

ISBN-13: 9783110127140

By Lydia Grebenyova

ISBN-10: 9027255784

ISBN-13: 9789027255785

A number of interrogatives, questions with a number of wh-phrases (e.g. Who obtained what?), have lengthy offered analytical demanding situations for linguistic concept. This monograph provides a brand new theoretical and experimental learn of this development. The theoretical findings challenge the interplay among superiority results, subject-auxiliary inversion, and the distribution of pair-list and single-pair readings cross-linguistically. the writer examines a number of interrogatives lower than sluicing (i.e. clausal ellipsis), featuring new arguments for the deletion research of sluicing. the writer additionally stories the result of a number of experimental stories on how childrens collect the language-specific houses of a number of interrogatives in English, Russian, and Malayalam. the implications recommend a correlation among the purchase of a number of interrogatives and the purchase of contrastive concentration, which has been independently stimulated within the syntactic literature. The monograph should be of curiosity to linguists considering syntax, semantics, and language acquisition, in addition to readers who're attracted to a entire concept of language in most cases.

By Stuart M. Shieber

ISBN-10: 0937073008

ISBN-13: 9780937073001

This publication surveys the $64000 idea of unification because it pertains to linguistic idea and, particularly, to sensible Unification Grammar, Definite-Clause Grammars, Lexical-Function Grammar, Generalized word Struture Grammar, and Head-Driven word constitution Grammar. The notes contain cautious and proper definitions, in addition to well-chosen examples of exact grammars, and a dialogue of the relationships of computational structures and linguistic theories which use principles from unification.

By John E Warriner

ISBN-10: 0030990351

ISBN-13: 9780030990359

By Cedric Boeckx

ISBN-10: 0521191467

ISBN-13: 9780521191463

The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or constitution from which a notice can't be moved - is vital to investigate and examine in syntactic concept. This e-book offers a finished evaluation of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they come up? Why do they exist? Cedric Boeckx discusses the professionals and cons of all of the significant generative bills of island results, and focuses the dialogue on even if islands are narrowly syntactic results, are as a result of interface elements or are 'merely' functionality results. because of the variety of island results, readers are given a special chance to familiarize themselves with all of the significant examine kinds and kinds of research in theoretical linguistics and feature the opportunity to mirror at the theoretical implications of concrete ordinary language examples, permitting them to strengthen their very own synthesis.

By Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.

ISBN-10: 0812097815

ISBN-13: 9780812097818

Combines guide in sentence constitution with exam of a laugh expressions, and offers tips about electronic mail conversation, modifying a college paper, and extra. Titles in Barron’s vast Painless sequence disguise a variety of matters, as they're taught at center college and highschool degrees. excellent for assisting universal center criteria, those books are written for college kids who locate the themes a bit of complicated, or simply desire a little additional support. every one of these books take a lighthearted, funny method of their matters, and supply enjoyable workouts together with puzzles, video games, and not easy “Brain Tickler” difficulties to unravel. Bonus on-line part: comprises extra video games to problem scholars, together with Beat the Clock, a line fit online game, and a be aware scramble.

By Carole Tiberius, Tanneke Schoonheim

ISBN-10: 1315857480

ISBN-13: 9781315857480

A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch is a useful instrument for all inexperienced persons of Dutch, supplying a listing of the 5,000 most often used phrases within the language. in line with a 290 million be aware corpus along with either written and spoken fabric from a variety of assets, this dictionary provides Dutch middle vocabulary in an in depth and obviously prepared demeanour: all the 5,000 entries comprises English equivalents and a pattern sentence exhibiting language in use.

Users can entry the pinnacle 5,000 phrases both throughout the major frequency directory or an alphabetical index. during the frequency directory there are thematically equipped lists that includes the head phrases from numerous key issues reminiscent of eating place, foodstuff and different parts of day-by-day and cultural lifestyles. phrases particular to Dutch in Belgium (Belgian Dutch) can also be included.

An attractive and effective source, A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch will let scholars of all degrees to get the main out in their study.

Prepared in organization with the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL, Institute for Dutch Lexicology).

A CD model is out there to buy individually. Designed to be used via corpus and computational linguists, it presents the complete textual content in a layout that researchers can technique and switch into compatible lists for his or her personal learn reasons.

By Kyle Johnson

ISBN-10: 0511394497

ISBN-13: 9780511394492

ISBN-10: 0521815088

ISBN-13: 9780521815086

Ellipsis happens whilst convinced parts of a sentence are usually not spoken - for instance 'Mary has learn extra books than invoice has [read books]' and 'Jack known as, yet i do not comprehend the place [he referred to as] from'. those structures curiosity linguists as the that means of the sentence can't be traced on to the phrases it comprises. This quantity brings jointly a workforce of prime syntacticians to suggest new and unique options to a couple key questions within the learn of ellipsis: What characterises ellipsis? less than what stipulations is it attainable? What sorts of meanings are allowed to move unstated? Drawing on a number of real structures, they research ellipsis within the context of more than a few syntactic phenomena reminiscent of binding, elevating, anaphora, circulation and scrambling. Making major growth in the direction of fixing a few vital difficulties in syntactic thought, this quantity can be of key curiosity to a person engaged on theoretical syntax, semantics and psycholinguistics.

By Carol Lord

ISBN-10: 9027229139

ISBN-13: 9789027229137

This paintings examines either ancient and comparative proof in documenting the sweep of diachronic swap within the context of serial verb structures. utilizing quite a lot of facts from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in that means and utilization bring about syntactic, morphological and lexical swap. the method through which verbs lose lexical semantic content material and advance case-marking services is defined; it truly is argued that the swap is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to hitch, alongside a grammaticalization continuum. This comparable grammaticalization method is proven to lead to the advance of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. robust parallels throughout languages are present in the meanings of the verbs that turn into “defective” and within the services they arrive to mark. The adjustments are documented intimately, with examples from a few languages illustrating the impact of the alterations on typology and notice order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and point, and the relevance of notions reminiscent of discourse subject, foreground and transitivity. With admire to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the writer has taken a comparatively nonpartisan procedure, and the dialogue is offered to scholars of language in addition to of curiosity to theoreticians.

By Cecilia E. Ford

ISBN-10: 0511554273

ISBN-13: 9780511554278

ISBN-10: 0521023750

ISBN-13: 9780521023757

ISBN-10: 0521418038

ISBN-13: 9780521418034

Cecilia E. Ford explores the query: what paintings do adverbial clauses do in conversational interplay? Her research of this predominating conjunction approach in English dialog is predicated at the assumption that grammars replicate recurrent styles of positioned language use, and basic website for language is in spontaneous speak. She considers the interactional in addition to the informational paintings of speak and exhibits how conversationalists use grammar to coordinate their joint language construction. The administration of the complexities of the sequential improvement of a talk, and the social roles of conversational contributors, were largely tested in the sociological procedure of dialog research. Dr Ford makes use of dialog research as a framework for the translation of interclausal family in her database of yankee English conversations. Her publication contributes to a growing to be physique of analysis on grammar in discourse, which has till lately remained principally all in favour of monologic instead of dialogic services of language.