The Role Of Semantic Pragmatic And Discourse Factors In The Development Of Case
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Author |
: Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2009-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027289926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027289921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case by : Jóhanna Barðdal
The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.
Author |
: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 514 |
Release |
: 2008-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027290335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027290334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface by : Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari’ (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.
Author |
: Heiko Narrog |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2009-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027289759 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027289751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modality in Japanese by : Heiko Narrog
Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been an indispensable part of formal syntactic theories, functional theories have more recently discovered for themselves a ‘layered structure of the clause’. A major focus of the current discussion on semanto-syntactic clause structure is the hierarchical ordering of grammatical categories such as tense, aspect and modality. However, there are very few empirical studies yet to provide systematic evidence for presumably universal hierarchical structures. This book presents a systematic corpus-based study of the semantic and morphosyntactic interaction of modality with tense, aspect, negation, and modal markers embedded in subordinate clauses. The results are critically compared with extant theories of hierarchies of grammatical categories, including those in Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, and the Cartography of Syntactic Structures. Also provided is an extensive description of the expression of modality and related categories in Modern Japanese.
Author |
: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2009-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027289612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027289611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coding Participant Marking by : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of northeastern Africa, which also use converbs and light verb plus coverb constructions. Although the categorial distinction between nouns and verbs is generally clear in African languages, a number of them nevertheless provide intricate analytical challenges in this respect. Whereas some languages are strongly head marking at the clausal level, others manifest an interesting mixture of alternative strategies for the coding of participants. The analysis of information packaging, and related issues such as split ergativity, Differential Object Marking, and discourse-configurational properties also play a role in several contributions. The collection contains not only innovative analyses for the respective language families these languages belong to, but also material relevant for the current debate in theoretical linguistics concerning lexical specification as against construction-based approaches towards argument structure.
Author |
: Andreas Dufter |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027205797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027205795 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Focus and Background in Romance Languages by : Andreas Dufter
Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages, that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.
Author |
: Paolo Poccetti |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 878 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110431933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110431939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latinitatis rationes by : Paolo Poccetti
This volume assembles 50 contributions presented at the XVII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: phonetics, syntax, etymology and semantics, pragmatics and textual analysis. It is a useful resource for the study of comparative and general linguistics, not only for linguists but also for scholars of classical philology.
Author |
: Soren Wichmann |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004281523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004281525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quantifying Language Dynamics by : Soren Wichmann
Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundamental questions such as: how to identify and account for areal distributions, when language contact leads to grammatical simplification, whether patterns of morphological borrowing can be predicted, how to deal with contact within phylogenetic models, and what new techniques are most effective for classification of the world’s languages. The book is relevant for students and scholars in general linguistics, typology, and historical and comparative linguistics.
Author |
: Peter Arkadiev |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2020-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198861287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198861281 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Complexities of Morphology by : Peter Arkadiev
This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and diachronic perspectives. The analyses are based on rich empirical data from a wide range of languages, as well as experimental data from artificial language learning.
Author |
: Deborah L Arteaga |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 2012-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400747685 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400747683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Research on Old French: The State of the Art by : Deborah L Arteaga
The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis. Many of the chapters are corpus-based, reflecting a new trend in the field, as more electronic corpora become available. The chapters contribute to our understanding of both the synchronic state and diachronic evolution, not only of Old French, but of language in general. Its breadth is extensive in that contributors pursue research on a wide variety of topics in Old French focusing on the various subsystems of language. All examples are carefully glossed and the relevant characteristics of Old French are clearly explained, which makes it uniquely accessible to non-specialists and linguists at all levels of training.
Author |
: Beatriz Fernandez |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199937363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199937362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Variation in Datives by : Beatriz Fernandez
Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects of internal variation in dative marking, such as agreement and case alternations, distribution of adpositional structures and dative case-marking, the different structural positions of dative arguments and their semantic contribution, and patterns of syncretism in the clitic and/or agreement system. Interest in these topics has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Variation in Datives makes a significant contribution to our understanding of language variation, as it adds the micro-comparative perspective to the general discussion and includes 10 new articles on a wide range of European languages, including Greek, Basque, Icelandic, and Serbo-Croatian. Variation in Datives will appeal to scholars and advanced students of syntax, linguistic variation, and especially syntactic micro-variation.