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On the Rise of Grammatical Categories
The Rise of Functional Categories
Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9027227292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language. This book contains arguments that even though Universal Grammar makes functional categories available, the language learner must decide whether or not to incorporate them in his or her grammar. For instance, it is shown that English has one (not two as often assumed) functional category between the complementizer and the Negation, but that languages such as Dutch, Swedish, German and Old and Middle English have none. The title of the book can be seen in terms of the direction current research is taking; it can also be seen in terms of the changes that have taken place in English.
English Grammatical Categories
Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1970-12-02
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780521076340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1970, this book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar. It asks when the application of Latin grammar to English was made; how far it was made knowingly; whether anyone protested that English needed a a grammar of its own. The two hundred and seventy-two English grammars known up to 1800 are studied. Dr Michael shows that the old grammatical tradition is much less unanimous and authoritative than is often supposed, and describes a previously unknown movement to reform English grammar and make it more suited to English, which was expressed in about forty grammars during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book also provides much evidence about the relation between logic and language, especially in making definitions, and about methods of teaching during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Rise of Functional Categories
Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993-10-28
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9027282420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language. This book contains arguments that even though Universal Grammar makes functional categories available, the language learner must decide whether or not to incorporate them in his or her grammar. For instance, it is shown that English has one (not two as often assumed) functional category between the complementizer and the Negation, but that languages such as Dutch, Swedish, German and Old and Middle English have none. The title of the book can be seen in terms of the direction current research is taking; it can also be seen in terms of the changes that have taken place in English.
Classification of Grammatical Categories
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: linguistic Research
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Rise of Discourse Markers
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108833853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.
The Rise and Fall of Languages
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-12-11
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780521626545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.
The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts
Author: Els Elffers-van Ketel
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789051832655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Author: Brian Joseph
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 904
ISBN-13: 0470756330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field
