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Verbal Plurality and Distributivity
Author: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3110293501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-10-16
Total Pages: 990
ISBN-13: 0195136519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in illuminating relations between cross-linguistic syntactic differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. Comparative studies have grown to the point where a reference work is needed to comprehensively explain the state of the field and makes its results more widely known, and this handbook fulfills that need. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains on linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--
Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1
Author: Sebastian Kempgen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-10-28
Total Pages: 1195
ISBN-13: 3110214474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No detailed description available for "SLAVISCHE SPRACHEN (BERGER U.A.) HSK 32.1 E-BOOK".
Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Author: Jill de Villiers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-27
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9400716885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780199257652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.
The Theta System
Author: Martin Everaert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0199602522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains. Distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the theory in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.
Unaccusative Syntax in Russian
Author: Stephanie Annemarie Harves
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diagnosing Syntax
Author: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0199602492
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on the expertise of over 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, this book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax?
Freezing
Author: Jutta Hartmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1501504193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Displacement is a fundamental property of human language, and the restrictions on displacement have been a central concern in generative grammar ever since Ross' (1967) ground-breaking observations of island constraints. While island phenomena have been investigated in detail from various perspectives, a different domain, the domain of Freezing, originally defined in terms of non-base structures, has received far less attention. This volume brings together papers that address the questions of: What are the different concepts of Freezing? Which empirical domains can they explain? Is Freezing a core-syntactic restriction or does information structure, or processing play a role? The collection of papers provides insights into the empirical basis of the Freezing Principle in relation to other restrictions on extraction in order to contribute to a broader understanding of the nature of restrictions on displacement in language. The overall goal of the volume is a reconsideration of Freezing and other (sub-)extraction phenomena, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, by bringing together contributions from experts in the field to discuss and broaden our knowledge of the empirical range of Freezing phenomena as well as their explanation.
