Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

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Del 2 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Language at Large
Essays on Syntax and Semantics
AvAlexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
4 323 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of causatives, the semantic basis for a typology, word-class-changing derivations, speech reports and semi-direct speech. The second part concentrates on documentation and analysis of previously undescribed languages, from South America and Indigenous Australia. The third part addresses a variety of issues in grammar and lexicography of English. This includes pronouns with transferred reference, comparative constructions, features of the noun phrase, and the discussion of 'twice'. The treatment of Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries is discussed in the final chapter.
Del 1 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb
Meaning and Use
AvRobert I. Binnick
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
2 395 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
In the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primarily in aspect. In the last two decades scholars have suspected that the past tenses endings may actually differ by marking evidentiality and inferentiality. The present study not only confirms this, but, using 350 glossed and analyzed examples drawn from a variety of sources, shows distinctions of degrees of remoteness as well, and details significant differences between the spoken and written languages.
Del 3 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Deriving Nominals
A Syntactic Account of Malagasy Nominalizations
AvDimitrios Ntelitheos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
2 498 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book provides a detailed study of nominalizing patterns in Malagasy (Austronesian) and discusses the broader theoretical issues that arise from these patterns. It explores new and original fieldwork data drawn from the largely unexplored domain of Malagasy deverbal nominals. Offering new insights to long-standing puzzles in the derivation of argument-structure, referential, and clausal nominals, the book promotes a single structure-building mechanism, which allows nominalizers to attach at different heights in the clausal spine to derive nominals with different morphosyntactic properties. In addition, it provides a novel analysis of participant nominalizations, showing that they are derived through the same mechanism that derives relative clauses, and thus setting the stage for new and exciting research directions.
Del 4 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Dynamics of Morphological Productivity
The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian
AvFrancesco Gardani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
3 707 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.
Del 15 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Click Consonants
AvBonny Sands
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 642 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to understand the linguistics of clicks. Contributions include cutting edge research on the phonetic and phonological characteristics of clicks, as well as on sound changes involving clicks, and clicks in perception, in L2 acquisition, and in apraxia of speech.Contributors are Wm. G. Bennett, Catherine T. Best, Hilde Gunnink, Dan Dediu, E.D. Elderkin, Anne-Maria Fehn, Sean Fulop, Florian Lionnet, Timothy K. Mathes, Kirk Miller, Scott Moisik, Michael Proctor, Bonny Sands, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) members (Adam Lammert, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth Narayanan, Yinghua Zhu), Mollie Steyn, Anita van der Merwe, Richard Wright.
Del 6 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars
AvTania Ivanova-Sullivan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 186 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan investigates comprehension and production of anaphoric dependencies with null and overt subject pronouns. She discusses the divergent behaviour of the heritage speakers of Russian by providing a closer look at their proficiency level, quantity of input and order of language acquisition. She explains the results with various degrees of successful application of pragmatic principles and efficiency in allocating cognitive resources. The contribution of the monograph lies in the discussion of theoretical and experimental issues related to anaphora resolution along with an investigation of all aspects of representation and processing of anaphoric pronouns by various kinds of bilinguals: heritage speakers, L2 learners and L1 attriters.
Del 8 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
AvB. Richard Page,Michael T. Putnam
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 394 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.
Del 9 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs
Theoretical Issues and the Description of the Danish Verb System
AvPeter Juul Nielsen
Inbunden, Danska, 2016
3 246 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In this book, Peter Juul Nielsen examines the foundations of morphological theory from a structural-functional perspective on language as a sign system. He offers a framework for the analysis of morpheme relations based on a thorough discussion of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structure, indexical relations, zero as meaningful absence and morphological relations across grammatical categories. It is argued that when paradigmatically related morphological structures have different syntactic functions, the semantics of the paradigmatic opposition consists in the specification of functional potential. The framework is applied in three detailed studies of Danish nonfinite verbs presenting new accounts of their morphological structure, semantic coding and paradigmatic organisation.
Del 10 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Perspectives on Morphological Organization
Data and Analyses
AvFerenc Kiefer,James Blevinsm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 972 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This volume contains a selection of recent theoretical studies, deriving from presentations at the 16th International Morphology Meeting (Budapest, 2014), on the organization of morphological paradigms, paradigm complexity, and the inflectional marking of morphosyntactic relations, as well as on the application of information theory to the analysis of morphological systems aiming to achieve a clearer understanding of the close relation between notions of ‘morphological information’ based on ‘uncertainty’ and ‘uncertainty reduction’ and the error-driven structure of discriminative learning models.
Del 11 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Semantic Syntax
Second Revised Edition
AvPieter Seuren
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
922 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.
Del 13 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Morphology of Asia Minor Greek
Selected Topics
AvAngela Ralli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 235 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This volume provides an unprecedented collection of data from Asia Minor Greek, namely from Cappadocian, Pharasiot, Silliot, Smyrniot, Aivaliot, Bithynian, Pontic, Propontis Tsakonian and the dialect of Adrianoupolis. It offers fresh and original reflections on the study of morphology, dialectology and language contact by examining issues regarding inflection, derivation and compounding, dealt with by Metin Bağrıaçık, Marianna Gkiouleka, Aslı Göksel, Mark Janse, Brian D. Joseph, Petros Karatsareas, Nikos Koutsoukos, Io Manolessou, Theodore Markopoulos, Dimitra Melissaropoulou, Nikos Pantelidis and Angela Ralli. An in-depth investigation of phenomena aims to increase our understanding of language change. They result either from a natural evolution of Asia Minor Greek, or from the interaction between the fusional Greek and the agglutinative Turkish or the semi-analytical Romance.
Del 14 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Towards a Theory of Denominals
A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning
AvAdina Camelia Bleotu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 082 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Towards a Theory of Denominals, Adina Camelia Bleotu takes a comparative look at denominal verbs in English and Romanian from various theoretical frameworks such as lexical decomposition, distributed morphology, nanosyntax and spanning. The book proposes a novel spanning analysis, arguing for its explanatory superiority to incorporation/conflation or nanosyntax in accounting for the formation and behaviour of denominals. It provides useful empirical insights, drawing from rich data from English discussed widely in the relevant literature, but also presenting novel data from Romanian not explored in detail before. Many interesting theoretical issues are also discussed, such as the (lack of) correlation between the (un)boundedness of the nominal root and the (a)telicity of the resulting verb, the verb/ satellite-framed distinction and others.
Del 17 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Passives Cross-Linguistically
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
AvKleanthes K. Grohmann
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 865 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The chapters collected in the volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provide analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The contributions are, in principle, all based on the background of generative grammatical theory. In addition to the theoretical contributions of the first part of this volume, all solidly built on rich empirical bases, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from a psycholinguistic perspective based on theoretical insights. The languages/language families covered in the contributions include South Asian languages (Odia/Indo-Aryan and Telugu/Dravidian, but also Kharia/Austro-Asiatic), Japanese, Arabic, English, German, Modern Greek, and several modern Romance varieties (Catalan, Romanian, and especially southern Italian dialects) as well as Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek.
Del 18 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Decline of the French Passé Simple
AvEmmanuelle Labeau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 603 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The disappearance of the French simple past has been hotly debated since the early 20th century. This volume offers an overview of its fortunes since French emerged as a language, provides a description of its distinctive features, and discusses the potential impact of its supposed demise on the whole French verb system. These assumptions are tested against a large corpus of contemporary texts. The study concludes that, despite the erosion of its meaning and its increasingly infrequent use, the simple past tense is still used by native speakers in various contexts, and no single substitute has yet emerged. Nevertheless, the simple past may be evolving into a stylistic marker, making it fertile ground for future cross-linguistic studies.
Del 21 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Syntax on the Edge
A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure
AvDiego Gabriel Krivochen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 336 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.
Del 23 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area
Asyndetic Constructions
AvAnja Behnke
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 004 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The nine contributions collected in this volume deal with clause linkage, focussing on asyndetic constructions that have been little researched in the area of the Ob-Yenisei region. The approaches are in-depth studies of particular languages and mostly based on original data collected in recent fieldworks or from corpora. Differences can be observed, among other things, in a more verbal or nominal use of converbs which take an important role in clause linkage strategies.
Del 24 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions
A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
AvKiyono Fujinaga-Gordon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 723 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefactive constructions correspond to different meanings. This book will explore the historic evolution of Japanese benefactive constructions and how children acquire these constructions.
Del 27 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors
AvPaul M. Postal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 099 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This work examines Noam Chomsky's widely accepted ontological assumptions, now referred to as “biolinguistics”—and demonstrates that they are internally inconsistent. Notably, it is shown that Chomsky himself has at least once admitted this flaw. Additionally, the volume challenges a fundamental assumption from Chomsky’s 1950s linguistic writings. This is the claim that the grammars of natural languages, particularly of English, must be constructive (proof-theoretic) devices, usually called generative grammars. It is shown that this persistent view cannot in principal account for a multitude of linguistic structures realized as perfectly natural sentences.Finally, the work scrutinizes Chomsky’s frequent assertion that “there is essentially only one language spoken on Earth,” revealing it to have no actual substance.The exposition of these flaws calls for a reassessment of fundamental aspects of generative linguistics.
Del 25 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek
Aspect, Modality and Typology
AvEzra la Roi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 254 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
We constantly refer to counterfactual events—things that didn’t happen but could have—through conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book breaks new ground by tracing, for the first time, the development of counterfactual systems across different constructions, texts, linguistic registers, and historical stages. Drawing on extensive corpus data from Indo-European languages and nearly three millennia of Greek, it offers the first unified account of counterfactual and avertive constructions as core expressions of non-realization. In doing so, it also proposes a revised model of the counterfactual life cycle—one that integrates semantic, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic dimensions—providing typologists with a powerful framework for exploring how counterfactual expressions evolve across languages.
Del 26 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations
AvZygmunt Frajzyngier
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 110 kr
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The theory proposed in this book enables linguists to explain how utterances are formed in individual languages and why languages differ in how they denote events and states that may appear physically identical.The formation of utterances is guided by the principle of functional transparency, which consists of three components:1.Transparency of the utterance’s role in discourse,2.Transparency of the functions selected from the set coded in the grammatical system of the given language,3.Transparency of the role of each constituent within the utterance.These principles of transparency are realized through various coding means, including lexical categories, inflectional and derivational morphology, linear orders, prosodic features, adpositions, subordinators, and complementizers.

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

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20 produkter

Del 2 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Language at Large
Essays on Syntax and Semantics
AvAlexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
4 323 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of causatives, the semantic basis for a typology, word-class-changing derivations, speech reports and semi-direct speech. The second part concentrates on documentation and analysis of previously undescribed languages, from South America and Indigenous Australia. The third part addresses a variety of issues in grammar and lexicography of English. This includes pronouns with transferred reference, comparative constructions, features of the noun phrase, and the discussion of 'twice'. The treatment of Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries is discussed in the final chapter.
Del 1 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb
Meaning and Use
AvRobert I. Binnick
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
2 395 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
In the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primarily in aspect. In the last two decades scholars have suspected that the past tenses endings may actually differ by marking evidentiality and inferentiality. The present study not only confirms this, but, using 350 glossed and analyzed examples drawn from a variety of sources, shows distinctions of degrees of remoteness as well, and details significant differences between the spoken and written languages.
Del 3 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Deriving Nominals
A Syntactic Account of Malagasy Nominalizations
AvDimitrios Ntelitheos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
2 498 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book provides a detailed study of nominalizing patterns in Malagasy (Austronesian) and discusses the broader theoretical issues that arise from these patterns. It explores new and original fieldwork data drawn from the largely unexplored domain of Malagasy deverbal nominals. Offering new insights to long-standing puzzles in the derivation of argument-structure, referential, and clausal nominals, the book promotes a single structure-building mechanism, which allows nominalizers to attach at different heights in the clausal spine to derive nominals with different morphosyntactic properties. In addition, it provides a novel analysis of participant nominalizations, showing that they are derived through the same mechanism that derives relative clauses, and thus setting the stage for new and exciting research directions.
Del 4 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Dynamics of Morphological Productivity
The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian
AvFrancesco Gardani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
3 707 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.
Del 15 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Click Consonants
AvBonny Sands
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
2 642 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to understand the linguistics of clicks. Contributions include cutting edge research on the phonetic and phonological characteristics of clicks, as well as on sound changes involving clicks, and clicks in perception, in L2 acquisition, and in apraxia of speech.Contributors are Wm. G. Bennett, Catherine T. Best, Hilde Gunnink, Dan Dediu, E.D. Elderkin, Anne-Maria Fehn, Sean Fulop, Florian Lionnet, Timothy K. Mathes, Kirk Miller, Scott Moisik, Michael Proctor, Bonny Sands, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) members (Adam Lammert, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth Narayanan, Yinghua Zhu), Mollie Steyn, Anita van der Merwe, Richard Wright.
Del 6 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars
AvTania Ivanova-Sullivan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 186 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan investigates comprehension and production of anaphoric dependencies with null and overt subject pronouns. She discusses the divergent behaviour of the heritage speakers of Russian by providing a closer look at their proficiency level, quantity of input and order of language acquisition. She explains the results with various degrees of successful application of pragmatic principles and efficiency in allocating cognitive resources. The contribution of the monograph lies in the discussion of theoretical and experimental issues related to anaphora resolution along with an investigation of all aspects of representation and processing of anaphoric pronouns by various kinds of bilinguals: heritage speakers, L2 learners and L1 attriters.
Del 8 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
AvB. Richard Page,Michael T. Putnam
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 394 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.
Del 9 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs
Theoretical Issues and the Description of the Danish Verb System
AvPeter Juul Nielsen
Inbunden, Danska, 2016
3 246 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In this book, Peter Juul Nielsen examines the foundations of morphological theory from a structural-functional perspective on language as a sign system. He offers a framework for the analysis of morpheme relations based on a thorough discussion of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structure, indexical relations, zero as meaningful absence and morphological relations across grammatical categories. It is argued that when paradigmatically related morphological structures have different syntactic functions, the semantics of the paradigmatic opposition consists in the specification of functional potential. The framework is applied in three detailed studies of Danish nonfinite verbs presenting new accounts of their morphological structure, semantic coding and paradigmatic organisation.
Del 10 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Perspectives on Morphological Organization
Data and Analyses
AvFerenc Kiefer,James Blevinsm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 972 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This volume contains a selection of recent theoretical studies, deriving from presentations at the 16th International Morphology Meeting (Budapest, 2014), on the organization of morphological paradigms, paradigm complexity, and the inflectional marking of morphosyntactic relations, as well as on the application of information theory to the analysis of morphological systems aiming to achieve a clearer understanding of the close relation between notions of ‘morphological information’ based on ‘uncertainty’ and ‘uncertainty reduction’ and the error-driven structure of discriminative learning models.
Del 11 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Semantic Syntax
Second Revised Edition
AvPieter Seuren
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
922 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.
Del 13 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Morphology of Asia Minor Greek
Selected Topics
AvAngela Ralli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 235 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This volume provides an unprecedented collection of data from Asia Minor Greek, namely from Cappadocian, Pharasiot, Silliot, Smyrniot, Aivaliot, Bithynian, Pontic, Propontis Tsakonian and the dialect of Adrianoupolis. It offers fresh and original reflections on the study of morphology, dialectology and language contact by examining issues regarding inflection, derivation and compounding, dealt with by Metin Bağrıaçık, Marianna Gkiouleka, Aslı Göksel, Mark Janse, Brian D. Joseph, Petros Karatsareas, Nikos Koutsoukos, Io Manolessou, Theodore Markopoulos, Dimitra Melissaropoulou, Nikos Pantelidis and Angela Ralli. An in-depth investigation of phenomena aims to increase our understanding of language change. They result either from a natural evolution of Asia Minor Greek, or from the interaction between the fusional Greek and the agglutinative Turkish or the semi-analytical Romance.
Del 14 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Towards a Theory of Denominals
A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning
AvAdina Camelia Bleotu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 082 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Towards a Theory of Denominals, Adina Camelia Bleotu takes a comparative look at denominal verbs in English and Romanian from various theoretical frameworks such as lexical decomposition, distributed morphology, nanosyntax and spanning. The book proposes a novel spanning analysis, arguing for its explanatory superiority to incorporation/conflation or nanosyntax in accounting for the formation and behaviour of denominals. It provides useful empirical insights, drawing from rich data from English discussed widely in the relevant literature, but also presenting novel data from Romanian not explored in detail before. Many interesting theoretical issues are also discussed, such as the (lack of) correlation between the (un)boundedness of the nominal root and the (a)telicity of the resulting verb, the verb/ satellite-framed distinction and others.
Del 17 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Passives Cross-Linguistically
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
AvKleanthes K. Grohmann
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 865 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The chapters collected in the volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provide analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The contributions are, in principle, all based on the background of generative grammatical theory. In addition to the theoretical contributions of the first part of this volume, all solidly built on rich empirical bases, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from a psycholinguistic perspective based on theoretical insights. The languages/language families covered in the contributions include South Asian languages (Odia/Indo-Aryan and Telugu/Dravidian, but also Kharia/Austro-Asiatic), Japanese, Arabic, English, German, Modern Greek, and several modern Romance varieties (Catalan, Romanian, and especially southern Italian dialects) as well as Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek.
Del 18 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Decline of the French Passé Simple
AvEmmanuelle Labeau
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 603 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The disappearance of the French simple past has been hotly debated since the early 20th century. This volume offers an overview of its fortunes since French emerged as a language, provides a description of its distinctive features, and discusses the potential impact of its supposed demise on the whole French verb system. These assumptions are tested against a large corpus of contemporary texts. The study concludes that, despite the erosion of its meaning and its increasingly infrequent use, the simple past tense is still used by native speakers in various contexts, and no single substitute has yet emerged. Nevertheless, the simple past may be evolving into a stylistic marker, making it fertile ground for future cross-linguistic studies.
Del 21 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Syntax on the Edge
A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure
AvDiego Gabriel Krivochen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 336 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.
Del 23 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area
Asyndetic Constructions
AvAnja Behnke
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 004 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The nine contributions collected in this volume deal with clause linkage, focussing on asyndetic constructions that have been little researched in the area of the Ob-Yenisei region. The approaches are in-depth studies of particular languages and mostly based on original data collected in recent fieldworks or from corpora. Differences can be observed, among other things, in a more verbal or nominal use of converbs which take an important role in clause linkage strategies.
Del 24 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions
A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
AvKiyono Fujinaga-Gordon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 723 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefactive constructions correspond to different meanings. This book will explore the historic evolution of Japanese benefactive constructions and how children acquire these constructions.
Del 27 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors
AvPaul M. Postal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 099 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This work examines Noam Chomsky's widely accepted ontological assumptions, now referred to as “biolinguistics”—and demonstrates that they are internally inconsistent. Notably, it is shown that Chomsky himself has at least once admitted this flaw. Additionally, the volume challenges a fundamental assumption from Chomsky’s 1950s linguistic writings. This is the claim that the grammars of natural languages, particularly of English, must be constructive (proof-theoretic) devices, usually called generative grammars. It is shown that this persistent view cannot in principal account for a multitude of linguistic structures realized as perfectly natural sentences.Finally, the work scrutinizes Chomsky’s frequent assertion that “there is essentially only one language spoken on Earth,” revealing it to have no actual substance.The exposition of these flaws calls for a reassessment of fundamental aspects of generative linguistics.
Del 25 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek
Aspect, Modality and Typology
AvEzra la Roi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 254 kr
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We constantly refer to counterfactual events—things that didn’t happen but could have—through conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book breaks new ground by tracing, for the first time, the development of counterfactual systems across different constructions, texts, linguistic registers, and historical stages. Drawing on extensive corpus data from Indo-European languages and nearly three millennia of Greek, it offers the first unified account of counterfactual and avertive constructions as core expressions of non-realization. In doing so, it also proposes a revised model of the counterfactual life cycle—one that integrates semantic, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic dimensions—providing typologists with a powerful framework for exploring how counterfactual expressions evolve across languages.
Del 26 - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations
AvZygmunt Frajzyngier
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 110 kr
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The theory proposed in this book enables linguists to explain how utterances are formed in individual languages and why languages differ in how they denote events and states that may appear physically identical.The formation of utterances is guided by the principle of functional transparency, which consists of three components:1.Transparency of the utterance’s role in discourse,2.Transparency of the functions selected from the set coded in the grammatical system of the given language,3.Transparency of the role of each constituent within the utterance.These principles of transparency are realized through various coding means, including lexical categories, inflectional and derivational morphology, linear orders, prosodic features, adpositions, subordinators, and complementizers.

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

Language at Large

Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb

Deriving Nominals

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Click Consonants

Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs

Perspectives on Morphological Organization

Semantic Syntax

Morphology of Asia Minor Greek

Towards a Theory of Denominals

Passives Cross-Linguistically

Decline of the French Passé Simple

Syntax on the Edge

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area

Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions

Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors

Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek

Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

Language at Large

Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb

Deriving Nominals

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Click Consonants

Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs

Perspectives on Morphological Organization

Semantic Syntax

Morphology of Asia Minor Greek

Towards a Theory of Denominals

Passives Cross-Linguistically

Decline of the French Passé Simple

Syntax on the Edge

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area

Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions

Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors

Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek

Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

Language at Large

Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb

Deriving Nominals

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Click Consonants

Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs

Perspectives on Morphological Organization

Semantic Syntax

Morphology of Asia Minor Greek

Towards a Theory of Denominals

Passives Cross-Linguistically

Decline of the French Passé Simple

Syntax on the Edge

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area

Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions

Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors

Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek

Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie

Language at Large

Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb

Deriving Nominals

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

Click Consonants

Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs

Perspectives on Morphological Organization

Semantic Syntax

Morphology of Asia Minor Greek

Towards a Theory of Denominals

Passives Cross-Linguistically

Decline of the French Passé Simple

Syntax on the Edge

Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area