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Nominal Arguments and Language Variation
Inbunden, 2020
1880 kr
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Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners. Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt definite …
Nominal Arguments and Language Variation
Häftad, 2020
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Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners. Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt definite …
Beyond Functional Sequence
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 10
Av Ur Shlonsky
Inbunden, 2015
2517 kr
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Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The approach arranges a language's morpho-syntactic features in a rigid universal hierarchy, and its …
Beyond Functional Sequence
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 10
Häftad, 2015
1193 kr
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Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The approach arranges a language's morpho-syntactic features in a rigid universal hierarchy, and its …
The Cartography of Chinese Syntax
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11
Inbunden, 2015
2517 kr
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This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional …
The Cartography of Chinese Syntax
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11
Häftad, 2015
902 kr
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This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional …
Argument Licensing and Agreement
Inbunden, 2015
2517 kr
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The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a system of …
Argument Licensing and Agreement
Häftad, 2015
827 kr
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The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a system of …
Deconstructing Ergativity
Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features
Inbunden, 2016
2517 kr
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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of …
Deconstructing Ergativity
Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features
Häftad, 2016
940 kr
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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of …
Rethinking Parameters
Inbunden, 2016
2328 kr
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Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has …
Rethinking Parameters
Av Luis Eguren, Luis Eguren m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
769 kr
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Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has …
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America
Inbunden, 2016
2705 kr
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Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this perspective. The works presented here …
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America
Av Mary A. Kato, Francisco Ordonez
Häftad, 2016
727 kr
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Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this perspective. The works presented here …
Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar
Av K.A. Jayaseelan, R. Amritavalli
Inbunden, 2017
2517 kr
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This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word order to more particular …
The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects
Inbunden, 2019
2260 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena. Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to …
The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena. Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to …
Questions of Syntax
Inbunden, 2019
1998 kr
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There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to …
Questions of Syntax
Häftad, 2019
771 kr
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There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to …
Exploring Nanosyntax
Av BAUNAZ, Lena Baunaz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1945 kr
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Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within Principles and Parameters framework. Deploying a radical implementation of the cartographic "one feature - one head" maxim, the …
Exploring Nanosyntax
Av Lena Baunaz, Liliane Haegeman m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1167 kr
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Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within Principles and Parameters framework. Deploying a radical implementation of the cartographic "one feature - one head" maxim, the …
Locality and Logophoricity
A Theory of Exempt Anaphora
Häftad, 2020
1364 kr
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Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal expressions in various languages can tell us about the structure of the human language faculty. The exploration of this question in the past fifty years has led to the development of a general theory of referential …
Locality and Logophoricity
A Theory of Exempt Anaphora
Inbunden, 2020
2324 kr
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Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal expressions in various languages can tell us about the structure of the human language faculty. The exploration of this question in the past fifty years has led to the development of a general theory of referential …
The Linker in the Khoisan Languages
Inbunden, 2019
2375 kr
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The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction, the second object of a causative, instruments, subject matter arguments, and adverbs. This volume collects together Chris Collins's published work …
The Linker in the Khoisan Languages
Häftad, 2019
859 kr
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The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction, the second object of a causative, instruments, subject matter arguments, and adverbs. This volume collects together Chris Collins's published work …
Variation in P
Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases
Inbunden, 2020
2564 kr
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Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal …
Variation in P
Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases
Av Jacopo Garzonio, Silvia Rossi
Häftad, 2020
1186 kr
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Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal …
The Role of Inflection in Scandinavian Syntax
Häftad, 1996
1770 kr
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The authors present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax, based mainly on a detailed comparison of the syntactic and inflectional properties of the Scandinavian languages.
Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation
Häftad, 1994
1391 kr
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This work represents the first full-scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters--the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the "Saturation Condition." He explains the …
Negation and Clausal Structure
A Comparative Study of Romance Languages
Av Zanuttini
Häftad, 1997
1205 kr
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Every language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence. This ability may be expressed in different ways. Zanuttini's goal is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the variations exhibited by one language family, the Romance languages, …
