Unexpressed Subjects in English

Unexpressed Subjects in English
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 155
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ISBN-10 : 9781793604620
ISBN-13 : 1793604622
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Synopsis Unexpressed Subjects in English by : Amy M. Lindstrom

Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse challenges previous assumptions of what is grammatically possible in English through an examination of contexts in which speakers omit subjects, demonstrating how language structure is influenced by communicative needs. Through corpus-based analysis of both interactive conversations and monologic narratives, Amy M. Lindstrom reveals how the discourse/pragmatic factors of accessibility and chronological ordering, the prosodic effect of linking, and the mechanical effect of priming intersect to provide a rigorous account of subject (un)expression in spoken American English. Higher degrees of linking, cohesion, and connection lead to more unexpressed subjects. Lindstrom also analyzes frequent constructions with unexpressed subjects vis-à-vis paths of grammaticalization. The author presents a measurement of discourse connectedness that shows how the intersection of prosody and pragmatics illustrates the powerful effect of spontaneous discourse in shaping grammar. This study adds to our understanding of language and cognition by contributing to our knowledge of the conceptualization, categorization, and representation of experience and memory.

Handbook of Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9789027260413
ISBN-13 : 9027260419
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of Pragmatics by : Jan-Ola Östman

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: benjamins.com/online/hop/

Bilingualism in the Community

Bilingualism in the Community
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781108415828
ISBN-13 : 1108415822
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Bilingualism in the Community by : Rena Torres Cacoullos

Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

The Germanic Languages

The Germanic Languages
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 648
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ISBN-10 : 9781317799580
ISBN-13 : 1317799585
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Germanic Languages by : Ekkehard Konig

Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Referential Null Subjects in Early English

Referential Null Subjects in Early English
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780192535764
ISBN-13 : 0192535765
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Referential Null Subjects in Early English by : Kristian A. Rusten

This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than 500 early English texts, spanning nearly 850 years. On the basis of this substantial data, Kristian A. Rusten re-evaluates previous conflicting claims concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. He explores the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language, and provides an empirical examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed in the theoretical literature. The predictions of two important pragmatic accounts of null arguments are also tested. Throughout, the book builds its arguments primarily by means of powerful statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The volume is the most comprehensive examination of null subjects in the history of English to date, and will be of interest to syntacticians, historical linguists, and those working in English and Germanic linguistics more widely.

Linguistic Variation

Linguistic Variation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 379
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ISBN-10 : 9781317688174
ISBN-13 : 1317688171
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Linguistic Variation by : Rena Torres Cacoullos

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes. It introduces readers to variation theory, while also providing an overview of current debates on the linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural factors involved in linguistic patterning. With its coverage of a diverse range of language varieties and linguistic problems, this book offers new quantitative analyses of actual language production and processing from both top experts and emerging scholars, and presents students and practitioners with theoretical frameworks to meaningfully engage in accountable research practice.

Harmonization and Development of Resources and Tools for Italian Natural Language Processing within the PARLI Project

Harmonization and Development of Resources and Tools for Italian Natural Language Processing within the PARLI Project
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9783319142067
ISBN-13 : 3319142062
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Harmonization and Development of Resources and Tools for Italian Natural Language Processing within the PARLI Project by : Roberto Basili

The papers collected in this volume are selected as a sample of the progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP) performed within the Italian NLP community and especially attested by the PARLI project. PARLI (Portale per l’Accesso alle Risorse in Lingua Italiana) is a project partially funded by the Ministero Italiano per l’Università e la Ricerca (PRIN 2008) from 2008 to 2012 for monitoring and fostering the harmonic growth and coordination of the activities of Italian NLP. It was proposed by various teams of researchers working in Italian universities and research institutions. According to the spirit of the PARLI project, most of the resources and tools created within the project and here described are freely distributed and they did not terminate their life at the end of the project itself, hoping they could be a key factor in future development of computational linguistics.

Good English, Oral and Written ...

Good English, Oral and Written ...
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105049207090
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Good English, Oral and Written ... by : William Harris Elson

The Dating of Beowulf

The Dating of Beowulf
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781442657991
ISBN-13 : 1442657995
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dating of Beowulf by : Colin Chase

The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious past? If we cannot decide when, between the 5th and 11th centuries, the poem was composed, we cannot distinguish what elements in Beowulf belong properly to the history of material culture, to the history of myth and legend, to political history, or to the development of the English literary imagination. This book represents both individual and concerted attempts to deal with this important question, and presents one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English. The contributors raise so many doubts, turn up so much new and disturbing information, dismantle so many long-accepted scholarly constructs that Beowulf studies will never be the same: henceforth every discussion of the poem and its period will begin with reference to this volume.