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Lexical Categories
Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives
Av Mark C. Baker, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1005 kr
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For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the differences between verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories. Mark C. Baker claims that the various …
Typology and Universals
Av William Croft, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
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754 kr
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Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints on language and seek their exploration. In this essential textbook, William Croft presents a comprehensive introduction …
Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar
Av Guglielmo Cinque, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Guglielmo Cinque is one of the world's leading theoretical syntacticians, and is particularly known for his application of recent theory to the analysis of Italian. This volume brings together ten of Professor Cinque's essays, some of which are published here for the first time, and some of which …
The Lexical Field of Taste
A Semantic Study of Japanese Taste Terms
Av A. E. Backhouse, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
754 kr
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Dr Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the range of vocabulary available for the description of taste qualities, and their interrelationship in terms of meaning, Dr Backhouse presents a sensitive elucidation of the structure of …
Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation
Av Lesley Stirling, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
838 kr
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In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent, syntactically related clause. In central cases of logophoricity, a special pronoun form is used within a reported …
The Syntax of Negation
Av Liliane Haegeman, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
687 kr
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In this book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima and Lasnik, Haegeman demonstrates the parallelism between negative sentences and interrogative sentences, and gives a unified analysis in terms of a …
Principles of English Stress
Av Luigi Burzio, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
687 kr
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Luigi Burzio's Principles of English Stress challenges many of the assumptions that have underpinned the generative description of English stress and more generally 'standard' metrical theory. Central to Burzio's analysis is a novel typology of metrical constituents that includes ternary feet and …
The Acquisition of Aspect and Modality
The Case of Past Reference in Turkish
Av Ayhan Aksu-Koç, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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Ayhan Aksu-Koç's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense forms the basis for this original and important contribution to the current debate among psycholinguistics on the interrelationship between language and cognitive development. Turkish, in its grammar, makes a …
Possession
Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization
Av Bernd Heine, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived. The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the …
Conditionals and Prediction
Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions
Av Barbara Dancygier, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal parameters of the …
The Dynamics of Focus Structure
Av Nomi Erteschik-Shir, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
803 kr
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In this book, Nomi Erteschik-Shir develops a new theory of focus structure, integrating insights from syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics. She explores the role of focus structure in grammar, examining the interface between focus structure and syntax, the semantics of focus structure and …
Inflectional Morphology
A Theory of Paradigm Structure
Av Gregory T. Stump, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network of hypotheses constituting Paradigm Function Morphology, a theory of inflectional form whose central insight is that paradigms play an …
The Raising of Predicates
Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure
Av Andrea Moro, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1022 kr
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One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely …
The Dravidian Languages
Av Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1777 kr
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The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 …
Morphological Productivity
Av Laurie Bauer, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
955 kr
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Why are there more English words ending in -ness than ending in -ity? What is it about some endings that makes them more widely usable than others? Can we measure the differences in the facility with which the various affixes are used? Does the difference in facility reflect a difference in the way …
Slavic Prosody
Language Change and Phonological Theory
Av Christina Y. Bethin, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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In Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these developments to issues in phonological theory. First Professor Bethin argues that the syllable structure of Slavic changed before the …
The Syntax of Adjuncts
Av Thomas Ernst, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. Adjuncts' possible hierarchical positions …
Relevance Relations in Discourse
A Study with Special Reference to Sissala
Av Regina Blass, P. Austin m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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This book uses Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory to show that connectivity in discourse is a pragmatic rather than a semantic matter: it results from relevance relations between text and context rather than from relations linguistically encoded in the text. In two introductory chapters, Regina …
Tone Sandhi
Patterns across Chinese Dialects
Av Matthew Y. Chen, P. Austin m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
853 kr
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Matthew Chen's study, first published in 2000, offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones which undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in speech flow. The term tone sandhi refers …
A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories
Av John M. Anderson, P. Austin m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the …
Lexical Phonology and the History of English
Av April McMahon, P. Austin m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1005 kr
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This book has two main goals: the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alternative to current non-derivational models and the rehabilitation of historical evidence as a focus of phonological theory. Although Lexical Phonology includes several constraints such as the Derived …
Psycholinguistics
Av Michael Garman, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
1056 kr
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This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central area of this field, the language abilities of the linguistically mature, monolingual adult. It aims to be comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with both written and spoken …
Tense
Av Bernard Comrie, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
670 kr
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Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will …
The Romance Languages
Av Rebecca Posner, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
955 kr
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What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of …
Explanations in the Study of Child Language Development
Av Martin Atkinson, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1982
586 kr
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Dr Atkinson's work has grown out of a deep satisfaction with the state of theorising in child language development. Critical analysis of superficially attractive theories showed that they had no real explanatory power. Yet no coherent framework had been proposed for evaluating theorising in this …
The Generative Interpretation of Dialect
A Study of Modern Greek Phonology
Av Brian Newton, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
586 kr
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A description of the phonology of modern Greek dialects from the point of view of their historical development in so far as this may be reconstructed from their modern form. An introductory chapter explains the basis of the approach adopted, and makes the book readily intelligible to the students …
Phonological Rules and Dialect Variation
A Study of the Phonology of Lumasaaba
Av Gillian Brown, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
586 kr
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Dr Brown examines the functions of different types of rules in the phonological component of a generative grammar with examples especially from Lumasaaba, a Bantu language of eastern Uganda.
Historical Linguistics
Av Theodora Bynon, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
599 kr
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Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a …
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Av Jorge A. Suarez, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
683 kr
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At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a …
Second Language Acquisition
Av Wolfgang Klein, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
737 kr
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This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly …
