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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Exploring the Interface Between Individual
Book SynopsisThe last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional options that can be employed in teaching grammar structures (e.g., deduction and induction, different types of corrective feedback, input-based vs. output-based practice). However, the contribution of such pedagogical intervention and the resulting knowledge of target language grammar are mediated by a number of factors related to a specific context, the properties of the features being taught and, most importantly, individual learner profiles. Nonetheless, research into the moderating role of individual difference variables has been scant, limited to only several factors, and seldom taking into account complex interactions between variables. The book seeks to fill this evident gap by investigating the mediating effect of selected cognitive and affective factors on explicit and implicit (or highly automatized) knowledge of the English passive voice. In doing so, the study sheds the so-much-needed light on the predictors of second language grammar knowledge but also, to some extent, on the usefulness of instructional techniques used to develop it.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Explicit and implicit knowledge of grammar.- 3. Individual differences as factors mediating the knowledge of grammar.- 4 . Design of the research project.- 5. Findings of the research project.- 6. Conclusions and implications.
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De Gruyter En Torno a la Delimitación de Determinadas
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De Gruyter Nonfinite Inquiries: Materials for a Comparative
Book Synopsis This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis, the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.
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De Gruyter Methoden Zur Erforschung Grammatischer Strukturen
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De Gruyter Subordination and Insubordination in
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de Gruyter Multimodale Konstruktionen Im Alltagskonsumkosmos
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de Gruyter Makrokonstruktionen
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de Gruyter Subject Properties in Early Modern Germanic
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De Gruyter Adjunct Islands in English
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Nähe, Distanz und Anonymität - Untersuchungen zum sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv: am Beispiel der Presse-, Politik- und Rechtssprache
Book SynopsisUntersuchungsgegenstand sind die Grammatik, die Modal-, Temporal- und Aspekt-Semantik, die Pragmatik und die Funktion der beiden modalpassivischen Konstruktionen sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv im Deutschen am Beispiel von drei für den Gebrauch dieser beiden Konstruktionen einschlägigen Domänen, nämlich der Presse-, Politik- und Rechtssprache. Von ihrer syntaktisch-semantischen und textlinguistischen Grundausrichtung schlägt die korpusbasierte Arbeit den Bogen zur variationslinguistischen Pragmatik, linguistischen Sprachgebrauchsanalyse und Sprachgebrauchskritik. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv als Ausdrucksformen der Modalität und des Aspekts.- Sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv in der Pressesprache.- Sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv in der politischen Sprache am Beispiel von Regierungserklärungen aus dem Zeitraum von 1949 bis 2005.- Sein-Modalpassiv und Gerundiv in der Rechtssprache am Beispiel der Straßenverkehrsordnung (StVO).- Zusammenfassung.- Quellenverzeichnis.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic From Syntax to Text: The Janus Face of Functional
Book SynopsisThe volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuse Duskova focuses on the two facets of functional sentence perspective: syntactic structures as carriers of informational structure functions and the connection of functional sentence perspective within the level of text. Functional sentence perspective is investigated as a potential factor of syntactic divergence between English and Czech, and the role of functional sentence perspective is examined with respect to theme development, text build-up, and style. Other topics include the hierarchical relationship between syntax and functional sentence perspective and general and specific questions of word order, with major attention paid to the role of semantics.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Czech National Corpus’ massive language database, the authors analyze a range of linguistic categories to discover the differences and similarities between Czech and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as well as the high number of languages examined, this book presents general and individual typological features of the four Romance languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted in the field of comparative linguistics.Table of Contents1. Expressions of potential participation, iterativity, causation, ingressivity and adverbial subordination in the light of parallel corpora Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Olga Nadvornikova, Pavel Štichauer 1.1 Investigation project and its history 1.2 Objectives and scope of the present monograph 1.3 Organisation of the monograph 1.4 Terminological remarks 1.4.1 Romance languages under scrutiny and use of the term Romance 1.4.2 Use of the terms counterpart and respondent 2. Corpus design & corpus-based contrastive research methodology Olga Nadvornikova 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Corpus-based contrastive research methodology 2.2 Corpora used in this study 3. Morphologically complex words in romance and their Czech respondents Pavel Štichauer, Jan Hricsina, Jiri Jancik, Jaroslava Jindrova, Zuzana Krinkova, Daniel Petrik 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Word-formation: complex vs simple words 3.2 Romance and Czech: common and different word-formation patterns 3.3 The typology of Czech respondents 3.3.1 Typology of Czech respondents of the adjectives with the suffix -bile/-ble/-vel 3.3.2 Typology of Czech respondents for verbs with the prefix re-/ri- 3.4 The modal suffix -ble/-bile/-vel 3.4.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.4.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.4.3 Discussion of various examples 3.5 The iterative prefix re-/ri- 3.5.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.5.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.5.3 Discussion of various examples 3.6 Concluding remarks 4. Causative constructions in romance and their Czech respondents Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Petra Laufkova, Pavel Štichauer 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Definition of causativity and its forms of expression 4.2 Causativity in Romance languages 4.2.1 Analytic type 4.2.2 Synthetic type 4.2.3 Characteristics of the Romance construction hacer/fare/faire/fazer + infinitive 4.3 Causativity in Czech 4.3.1 Word-formatting causativity 4.3.1.1 Verbs derived from another verb 4.3.1.2 Verbs derived from an adjective 4.3.1.3 No change in the lexical basis, expressing causativity through a prefix roz- 4.3.2 Semantic causativity 4.3.2.1 Suppletive types 4.3.2.2 Causative interpretation resulting from syntax 4.3.3 Analytic causativity 4.3.3.1 Causative verbs followed by a subordinate clause 4.3.3.2 Causative verbs followed by a nominal syntagma 4.3.3.3 (Semi-)causative verbs followed by an infinitive 4.4 Our typology of Czech respondents 4.5 Methodology 4.6 Causative constructions in Romance – formal comparison 4.7 Analysis of Czech respondents 4.7.1 Primary Czech respondents 4.7.1.1 Type 3 – shodit type (hacer caer / far cadere / faire tomber / fazer cair) 4.7.1.2 Type 8 – what makes you think that > proc myslite? (‘why do you think that?’) 4.7.1.3 Type 4 – dat vypit type 4.7.2 Secondary Czech respondents 4.7.2.1 Type 5 – dohnat k slzam type 4.7.2.2 Type 9 – other translation 4.7.2.3 Type 7 – zpusobit, že tal type 4.7.2.4 Type 1 – rozplakat type 4.7.2.5 Type 2 – posadit type and type 6 – zpusobit tani type 4.7.2.6 Type 10 – no translation 4.8 Conclusions
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De Gruyter That’s That
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian
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The Chinese University Press Cantonese Colloquial Expressions
Book SynopsisThis book of Cantonese idioms is a pragmatic reference guide to everyday Cantonese conversation in Hong Kong. It will help learners understand speakers' intended meanings, since people do not always use the literal meaning of words or phrases in communication with others. Instead people often use metaphors and figurative language to express themselves. It is important to note that the metaphorical use of language is pervasive in all aspects of human discourse, including casual conversation as well as poetry. It provides coverage of over 1,800 entries of the most commonly-used Cantonese colloquial expressions. Entries are clearly grouped under ten different categories, with an index for ease of reference. The user-friendly Yale Romanization system is adopted, with a brief pronunciation guide.
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Arco Libros, S.L. Abec espaol
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Arco Libros Gramtica espaola Segn un nuevco plan 1824 Coleccin Bibliotheca philologica
Book SynopsisLa Spansk Sprogloere efter en ny plan, de Rasmus Kristian Rask, fue publicada en Copenhague en 1824. Hasta la fecha, ha permanecido prácticamente en el anonimato, entre otras razones, por estar escrita en danés. Arco Libros publica la Gramática española según un nuevo plan por primera vez en español. La edición y el estudio preliminar son de Josefa Dorta. Consta, además de la traducción del texto original, de un breve ''Prólogo'' y un amplio ''Estudio Preliminar'' en el que, aparte de abordar diversos aspectos de la obra, la investigadora trata de situarla en los intereses lingüísticos del autor y en relación a las obras gramaticales de la época. La edición se complementa con un exhaustivo índice de materias.
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Clarendon Press Optimality Theory Phonology Syntax and Acquisition Oxford Linguistics
Book SynopsisOptimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians.Table of ContentsPART IA: PHONOLOGY - PROSODIC REPRESENTATIONS ; PART IB: PHONOLOGY - SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY ; PART II: SYNTAX ; PART III: THE ACQUISITION OF SYNTAX AND PHONOLOGY
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Oxford University Press, USA Adjective Classes A CrossLinguistic Typology Explorations in Linguistic Typology 1 Explorations in Language and Space C
Book SynopsisThis book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.Trade Review...makes a major contribution to the general study of parts of speech across languages... The editors of this book have provided a much-needed analytical framework for typologizing the key distinctions in how the adjective manifests itself as a part of speech. * Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University *Table of Contents1. Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective ; 2. Inflected and Uninflected Adjective in Japanese ; 3. The Two Adjective Classes in Manange ; 4. The Adjective Class in Tariana ; 5. Adjectives in Mam ; 6. Adjectives in Papantla Totonac ; 7. The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara ; 8. The Russian Adjective: A Pervasive yet Elusive Category ; 9. The Adjective Class in Korean ; 10. Is There an Adjective Class in Wolof? ; 11. Adjectives in North-East Ambae ; 12. Adjectives in Semelai ; 13. Adjectives in Qiang ; 14. Adjectives in Lao ; 15. Adjective Classes: What Can we Conclude? ; References ; Author Index ; Language and Language Family Index ; Subject Index
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Oxford University Press Logic in Grammar
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized scalar implicature and seeks to identify the common core of the polarity system by examining many of its manifestations as well as the choices that determine its diversity. To do so he reassesses the relations between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and in the process makes startling insights into the relation of syntax to logic. Rudolf Carnap''s classic, The Logical Syntax of Language, defines syntax as a lexicon and a set of formation rules and logic as a set of inference rules. Modern generative linguistics maintains a similar modular approach: a combinatorial apparatus is said to generate structures over which semantic and pragmatic relations, such as presupposition and implicature, are defined. This book argues by contrast that many Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Spontaneous Logicality of Language ; 2. Scalar Implicatures at the Interface Between Pragmatics and Syntax ; 3. Even Negative Polarity Items and Only Negative Polarity Items ; 4. Presuppositionality, Strength, and Concord in Polarity Systems ; 5. Existential Free Choice ; 6. Universal Free Choice ; 7. Intervention ; 8. Where We Stand ; References
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Morphology
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter.Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization.Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselveTrade Review"The revisions are really excellent. They keep the wealth of typological examples in the first edition, while incorporating a deep and clear discussion of recent advances in the theory of productivity and change. This updated training for students will certainly raise the level of the field."Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Professor of Linguistics, Northwestern University, USATable of ContentsPreface to the second editionPreface to the first editionAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Basic concepts3. Rules4. Lexicon5. Inflection and derivation6. Productivity7. Morphological trees8. Inflectional paradigms9. Words and phrases10. Morphophonology11. Morphology and valence12. Frequency effects in morphologyKey to comprehension exercisesReferencesGlossary of technical termsLanguage indexSubject index
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