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Analyzing Syntax
Author: Paul Kroeger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-08
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521016544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach is a comprehensive and accessible 2004 textbook on syntactic analysis, designed for students of linguistics at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Working within the 'Lexical Functional Grammar' (LFG) approach, it provides students with a framework for analyzing and describing grammatical structure, using extensive examples from both European and non-European languages. Topics covered include: tests for constituency, passivization and other relation-changing processes, reflexive pronouns, the control relation, Topic and Focus, relative clauses and Wh-questions, causative constructions, serial verbs, 'quirky case', and ergativity. As well as building on what linguists have learned about language in general, particular attention is paid to the unique features of individual languages. While its primary focus is on syntactic structure, the book also deals with aspects of meaning, function and word-structure that are directly relevant to syntax. Clearly organised into topics, this textbook is ideal for one-semester courses in syntax and grammatical analysis.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-07-15
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9027299234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. The editors provide a thorough introduction of these proposals, their background and motivations, arguments for and against. There are detailed studies in the syntax and the semantics of relative clauses constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Hindi, (Old) English, Old High German, (dialects of) Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, and Japanese. The book should be of interest to any linguist working within generative syntax.
Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A‘-Dependencies
Author: Martin Salzmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1614512205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph investigates A’-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The study focuses on relative clauses and shows that an important part of the relativization system in these languages, long relativization, involves a hitherto ignored construction termed resumptive prolepsis. This construction is characterized by base-generation of the operator in the matrix middle-field and a resumptive pronoun in the position of the variable. It is shown that it involves short A’-movement in the matrix clause, empty operator movement in the complement clause and an ellipsis operation that links the two operators. While the link is directly visible in German and Dutch, Swiss German provides a more abstract version of resumptive prolepsis. Through a detailed examination of reconstruction effects and the properties of resumption in these constructions, the book provides new evidence for the role of ellipsis in A’-movement and for a base-generation analysis of resumption. More generally, it makes an important contribution to the modeling of long-distance dependencies and the study of A'-syntax.
Consequences of Antisymmetry
Author: Valentina Bianchi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-11-21
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 3110803372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
On Relativization and Clefting
Author: Chiara Branchini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-12-12
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1501500007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9789027227539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne's (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. The editors provide a thorough introduction of these proposals, their background and motivations, arguments for and against. There are detailed studies in the syntax and the semantics of relative clauses constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Hindi, (Old) English, Old High German, (dialects of) Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, and Japanese. The book should be of interest to any linguist working within generative syntax.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1108479707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.
Correlatives Cross-linguistically
Author: Anikó Klára Lipták
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9027208182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on "correlative relative constructions." Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit, Serbo-Croatian and Tibetan, in comparison to correlativization in Hindi. The articles zoom in on three areas of interest: firstly, the similarities and differences between correlatives and other wh- and relative constructions; secondly, the derivation of correlative constructions and the position correlative clauses occupy in the host clause and thirdly, the matching effects that characterize the pairings between relative phrases and demonstrative phrases. The studies presented here will appeal to researchers and students with an interest in syntax in general and relativization strategies in particular.
Studies in the Syntax of Relative and Comparative Causes
Author: Avery D. Andrews III
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1315461153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title, first published in 1985, is an investigation of certain aspects of the syntax of relative and comparative clauses. The author provides a typological survey of relative clauses in the languages of the world which serves both to convey a general impression of what relative clauses are like in the languages of the world, and to establish certain phenomena that are of theoretical import. The author also examines comparative clauses, and integrates the material given with that presented for relatives. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
