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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 …
On Definiteness
A Study with Special Reference to English and Finnish
Av Andrew Chesterman, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
636 kr
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This 1991 book proposes a theory of definiteness in language. It argues that definiteness should be viewed as a cover-term comprising three basic oppositions within the areas of familiarity (locatability), quantity (inclusiveness) and generality (extensivity). Further, the oppositions are not …
Quantity Adjustment
Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English
Av Nikolaus Ritt, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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This is a unified account of all quantity changes affecting English stressed vowels during the early Middle English period. Dr Ritt discusses homorganic lengthening, open syllable lengthening, trisyllabic shortening, and shortening before consonant clusters. The study is based on a statistical …
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 …
Phonological Representations
Their Names, Forms and Powers
Av John Coleman, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
905 kr
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Rewriting rules, derivations and underlying representations is an enduring characteristic of generative phonology. In this book, John Coleman argues that this is unnecessary. The expressive resources of context-free Unification grammars are sufficient to characterize phonological structures and …
Lexical Strata in English
Morphological Causes, Phonological Effects
Av Heinz J. Giegerich, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
1022 kr
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In Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the morphological processes of the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he uncovers and spells out in detail the principles of 'lexical morphology and …
Negative and Positive Polarity
A Binding Approach
Av Ljiliana Progovac, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2005
687 kr
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In this book, Ljiljana Progovac presents cross-linguistic data on negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, and proposes a unified analysis for various languages, including English and Serbian/Croatian. She argues that Negative Polarity Items (NPIs), such as 'anyone' and …
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 …
Conditions on Phonological Government
Av Monik Charette, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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This 1991 book was the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation of the main aspects of this theory, the process of vowel-zero alternations is addressed and analysed together with the idea that phonological processes are determined by …
Syntax and Parsing
Av Paul Gorrell, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar. Paul Gorrell …
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 …
Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope
Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages for linguistic theory is widely acknowledged. In this book, Keren Rice offers a rich typological survey of morpheme ordering in Athapaskan verbs, with …
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 …
Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
The Case of Haitian Creole
Av Claire Lefebvre, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the …
Form and Meaning in Word Formation
A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication
Av Rudolf P. Botha, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding new light on the scope and content of various fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation. Surprisingly, Rudolf Botha concludes that the …
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 …
Restrictiveness in Case Theory
Av Henry Smith, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, the book draws out pervasive patterns in the relationship between morphosyntax ('linking') and grammatical function. The theory proposed consists of three …
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 …
Early Syntactic Development
A Cross-Linguistic Study with Special Reference to Finnish
Av Melissa Bowerman, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 1973
574 kr
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First published in 1973, this important work was the first systematic attempt to apply theoretical and methodological tools developed in America to the acquisition of a language other than English. Dr Bowerman presents and analyses data from a longitudinal investigation of the early syntactic …
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 …
