Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory – serie
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Language at Large
Essays on Syntax and Semantics
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon
Inbunden, 2011
4323 kr
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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 …
Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb
Meaning and Use
Inbunden, 2011
2173 kr
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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 …
Deriving Nominals
A Syntactic Account of Malagasy Nominalizations
Inbunden, 2012
2553 kr
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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 …
Dynamics of Morphological Productivity
The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian
Inbunden, 2013
3828 kr
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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 …
Click Consonants
Av Bonny Sands
Inbunden, 2020
2700 kr
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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, …
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars
Inbunden, 2014
2257 kr
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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 …
Vocatives
How Syntax meets with Pragmatics
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives phrases and on the mechanism through which a vocative phrase connects with the clause. Vocatives are nouns that encode conversational pragmatic features at their left periphery. …
Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
Av B. Richard Page, Michael T. Putnam
Inbunden, 2015
2472 kr
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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 …
Functional Structure in Morphology and the Case of Nonfinite Verbs
Theoretical Issues and the Description of the Danish Verb System
Inbunden, 2016
3246 kr
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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 …
Perspectives on Morphological Organization
Data and Analyses
Av Ferenc Kiefer, James Blevins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1972 kr
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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 …
Semantic Syntax
Second Revised Edition
Häftad, 2017
942 kr
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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, …
Morphology of Asia Minor Greek
Selected Topics
Av Angela Ralli
Inbunden, 2019
2235 kr
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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 …
Towards a Theory of Denominals
A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning
Inbunden, 2019
2082 kr
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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 …
Passives Cross-Linguistically
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
Inbunden, 2021
2928 kr
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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 …
Decline of the French Passé Simple
Inbunden, 2022
2603 kr
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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 …
Syntax on the Edge
A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure
Inbunden, 2023
2387 kr
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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 …
Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area
Asyndetic Constructions
Av Anja Behnke
Inbunden, 2023
2004 kr
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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 …
Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions
A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
Inbunden, 2024
1761 kr
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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 …
Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors
Inbunden, 2025
2183 kr
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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 …
Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek
Aspect, Modality and Typology
Av Ezra la Roi
Inbunden, 2025
2348 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 …
Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations
Inbunden, 2026
2110 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 …
