A Semantic Analysis of Word Order
Author: Linda R. Waugh
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789004045729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Linda R. Waugh
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789004045729
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9004655379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Doris L. Payne
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 3110847280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author: Arie Verhagen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-11-18
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3110856166
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Author: A. M. Devine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-02-23
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0199720509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at best using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book begins by introducing the reader to the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then proceeds to present and analyze a representative selection of data in sufficient detail for the reader to develop both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this work aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general crosscategorial system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.
Author: Pamela A. Downing
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1995-06-01
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9027284946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
Author: Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9027235171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.
Author: Rosanna Sornicola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-12-21
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9027284717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.
Author: Roland Hinterhölzl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 3110205912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents empirical studies on the relation between word order and information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German, language change, information structure, discourse semantics, language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.
Author: Susann Fischer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9027255407
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