Contemporary Linguistic Parameters
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Author |
: Antonio Fabregas |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2015-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472525901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472525906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Linguistic Parameters by : Antonio Fabregas
Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be :lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.
Author |
: Susan C. Herring |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 2000-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027237026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027237026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Textual Parameters in Older Languages by : Susan C. Herring
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid generalizations; recognizing the influence of textual parameters, conversely, raises a myriad of issues for the practice and theory of historical linguistics. The 12 essays in this collection apply this approach in analyses of anaphora, non-finite verbal forms, particles, punctuation, word order and other phenomena in a wide range of languages including Ancient Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin, Heian Japanese, Medieval Greek, Old French, Old Russian, Middle English, and Modern Danish. An in-depth introduction by the editors lays out the goals of the textual parameters approach, and considers the methodological and theoretical consequences of the evidence presented in the book as a whole.
Author |
: Charlotte Galves |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2012-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191634093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191634093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change by : Charlotte Galves
This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax. In a series of close examinations of languages from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans, leading scholars present new work on Afro-Asiatic, Latin and Romance, Germanic, Albanian, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, and Japanese. The book revolves around the linked themes of parametric theory and the dynamics of language change. The former is a key element in the search for explanatory adequacy in historical syntax: if the notion of imperfect learning, for example, explains a large element of grammatical change, it is vital to understand how parameters are set in language acquisition and how they might have been set differently in previous generations. The authors test particular hypotheses against data from different times and places with the aim of understanding the relationship between language variation and the dynamics of change. Is it possible, for example, to reconcile the unidirectionality of change predominantly expressed in the phenomenon of "grammaticalization", with the multidirectionality predicted by generativist approaches? In terms of the richness of the data it examines, the broad range of languages it discusses, and the use it makes of linguistic theory this is an outstanding book, not least in the contribution it makes to the understanding of language change.
Author |
: Susan C. Herring |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2001-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027299604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027299609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Textual Parameters in Older Languages by : Susan C. Herring
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid generalizations; recognizing the influence of textual parameters, conversely, raises a myriad of issues for the practice and theory of historical linguistics. The 12 essays in this collection apply this approach in analyses of anaphora, non-finite verbal forms, particles, punctuation, word order and other phenomena in a wide range of languages including Ancient Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin, Heian Japanese, Medieval Greek, Old French, Old Russian, Middle English, and Modern Danish. An in-depth introduction by the editors lays out the goals of the textual parameters approach, and considers the methodological and theoretical consequences of the evidence presented in the book as a whole.
Author |
: Andrea Ender |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 2012-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110275681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110275686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Methods in Contemporary Linguistics by : Andrea Ender
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative nature, the volume is a valuable source for students and researchers of a broad range of linguistic interests.
Author |
: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027255655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027255652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar by : Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic), sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics.
Author |
: Ralph Ludwig |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107041356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110704135X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact by : Ralph Ludwig
This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.
Author |
: Theresa Biberauer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521886956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521886953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Parametric Variation by : Theresa Biberauer
Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.
Author |
: Ian G. Roberts |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 673 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199573776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199573778 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar by : Ian G. Roberts
This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. Part II focuses on linguistic theory, looking at topics such as explanatory adequacy and how phonology and semantics fit into Universal Grammar. Parts III and IV look respectively at the insights derived from UG-inspired research on language acquisition, and at comparative syntax and language typology, while part V considers the evidence for Universal Grammar in phenomena such as creoles, language pathology, and sign language. The book will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.
Author |
: Ans van Kemenade |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1997-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521586437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521586436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change by : Ans van Kemenade
Even today, many passengers, including the most frequent flyers, associate air travel with a feeling of fear and concern. Basing itself on the premise that people are often afraid of the unknown, author Jorge Ontiveros, a professional of Aena and the author of several publications on this sector, explains all the elements involved in air travel in his new work. It explains airports, their staff, security processes, ground workers and airline employees - a combination of professionals and technology that has made this means of transport by far the safest of all. Safety that is the main objective of all those who take part in this activity, and which Jorge Ontiveros, with descriptive and didactic language, tries to transmit, so that your next trip is much more pleasurable and pleasant. Publication index: I. Discover air travel From the age of pioneers till today Commercial aviation in Spain If this is your first time II. Flying, trick or magic? Why does an aeroplane fly? How does an aeroplane fly? III. The aeroplane: design, manufacture and maintenance Manufacturing reliable planes From manufacture to line flying We take care of your plane; we take care of you IV. Air routes and air traffic control Where do aeroplanes fly? Air traffic control V. At the airport The airport The best protection is invisible Come on, hurry up! A bird in the hand is worth... VI. On the plane Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board! Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking Entering the runway for take-off In case of an emergency landing VII. Meteorology It ́s raining, it ́s pouring. The old man is snoring... ... He bumped his head and went to bed... ... And couldn ́t get up in the morning! Thunder and lightning! Fasten your seatbelt; we are encountering ana rea of turbulence... VIII. Travelling by plane or by car, which is safer? Risk and safety; travelling by plane or by car? Car safety ldquo;I am scared of planes, I am scared of boats too..." IX. Flying healthily Breathing at 10.000 metres I can ́t feel my legs! Jet lag, what is and how to alleviate it I am expecting, can I fly? When I fly I get earache X. Clarifying doubts I have a Young child; will travelling by plane be complicated? Would it be complicated to fly with reduced mobility? Everything you always wanted to know And just before we finish...some advice relating to