Grammar, syntax and morphology Books
Edinburgh University Press Rethinking Morphology
Book SynopsisPresents a new way of thinking about morphological structure based on psycholinguistic principles
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The English Subjunctive
Book SynopsisLocating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses in the Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English periods.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The History of the Present English Subjunctive
Book SynopsisLocating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Morphological Perspectives
Book SynopsisMorphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.
£103.50
Edinburgh University Press Morphological Perspectives
Book SynopsisMorphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation
Book SynopsisDrawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation
Book SynopsisDrawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and
Book SynopsisDrawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.
£85.50
£119.70
Maney Publishing Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax: The
Book SynopsisThis book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming frequent in French. It addresses questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Research Context and Questions 2. Theoretical Issues 3. Methodological Issues 4. Variation and Change in Contemporary French 5. Diachronic Perspectives 6. Explorations of Education 7. Discussion, Conclusions, and Further Questions
£75.00
De Gruyter Parametric Syntax: Case Studies in Semitic and Romance Languages
Book SynopsisThe 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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
£85.00
De Gruyter A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories
£85.00
£85.00
De Gruyter Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology
Book SynopsisTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.Table of ContentsToward a history of linguistic typology, E.F. Konrad Koerner; Language typology and linguistic reconstruction, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze; Typological and areal issues in reconstruction, Lyle Campbell; Diminutive plural infixation and the 'West Franconian' problem, Carl Chapman; Long syllabic consonants in Indo-European, Piotr Gasiorowski; Typology evaluation of linguistic reconstruction, Jadtanka Gvozdanovic; The typological shift to configurational syntax in European languages; Sound and typological shift - initial mutation in Celtic, Raymond Hickey. (Part contents).
£138.98
De Gruyter Mediating between Concepts and Grammar
Book SynopsisResearchers with backgrounds in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psychology have contributed to the interdisciplinary discussion of the interface between conceptual representations and linguistic structures. This book fills a critical gap in cognitive science. The study implements the objective of determining the impact that adjoining non-linguistic cognitive systems have on linguistic encoding, the mapping between representations, and the requirements of language processing. In this setting event conceptualization and verbalization is treated as one central phenomenon from the different interdisciplinary viewpoints. Theoretical analyses are confronted with psycholinguistic findings about the processing of event representations. Further empirical issues like the influence of visual perception on speech become apparent since we are primarily concerned with the overall architecture of the language processing system as an integral part of the cognitive endowment. Here, the lexicon is recognized as a mediator between linguistic and non-linguistic, semantic and syntactic components. The volume constitutes a major contribution to knowledge in the field and will be of value to an interdisciplinary audience.Table of ContentsHeike Tappe and Holden Härtl: Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures 1 Mediating between non-linguistic and linguistic structures: Femke van der Meulen: Coordination of eye gaze and speech in sentence production Philip Cummins, Boris Gutbrod, and Rüdiger Weingarten: Time patterns in visual perception and written phrase production Kathy van Nice and Rainer Dietrich: Animacy effects in language production: From mental model to formulator Markus Guhe: Incremental preverbal messages Gerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch: Word order scrambling as a consequence of incremental sentence production Andreas Späth: The linearization of arguments DPs and its semantic reflection Heike Wiese: Semantics as a gateway to language 2 Mediating between event conceptualization and verbalization: Elke van der Meer, Reinhard Beyer, Herbert Hagendorf, Dirk Strauch, and Matthias Kolbe: Temporal relations between event concepts Ralf Nüse: Segmenting event sequences for speaking Maria Mercedes Piñango: Events: Processing and neurological properties Johannes Dölling: Aspectual (re-)interpretation: Structural representation and processing Markus Egg and Kristina Striegnitz: Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view 3 The mediating function of the lexicon: Veronika Ehrich: The thematic interpretation of plural nominalizations Andrea Schalley: Competing principles in the lexicon Ladina Tschander: Concepts of motion and their linguistic encoding Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner: Too abstract for agents? The syntax and semantics of agentivity in abstracts of English research articles
£116.02
De Gruyter Die Übersetzungstechnik des Bremer Evangelistars: Eine syntaktisch-stilistische Analyse unter Einbeziehung von Vergleichsübersetzungen des 14. bis frühen 16. Jahrhunderts
Book SynopsisThe history of German literature is to a large extent also a history of the translation and editing of Biblical texts. The study presents the translation technique of a medieval evangelist and provides insight into the methodical diversity of Bible translation in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.
£206.15
De Gruyter Italian Clitics: An Empirical Study
Book SynopsisAfter reviewing, from a grammaticalization perspective, the main stages in the evolution of Italian object clitic pronouns, the book discusses the distinctive morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of Italian clitics. In particular, the book offers an original study of the most common examples of so-called verbi procomplementari, verbs which are characterized by the incorporation of clitics that no longer function as pronouns, and which are widely used in present-day Italian. Their emergence involves both grammaticalization of the clitic pronoun into an obligatory element, and lexicalization of the verb+clitic sequence. This study is essentially descriptive and maximally data-driven. The discussion of grammaticalization and lexicalization is reduced to the essentials and aims primarily at defining how these terms, which have received different and at times divergent interpretations, are employed in the book. The book is accessible to a wide and varied readership, which includes Italian and Romance linguists of functional and formal orientation, Italian language scholars, grammaticalization scholars interested in new case studies, as well as students of language change and variation.
£138.98
De Gruyter Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the
Book SynopsisThis handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
£286.02
De Gruyter Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the
Book SynopsisThis handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
£302.85
de Gruyter Manuel Des Langues Créoles À Base Française
£200.00
£23.39
De Gruyter Norm und Variation
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£77.35
de Gruyter English Grammar for Literature Students
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£30.40
de Gruyter Determiner Sharing in German
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£999.99
De Gruyter Studies in Old Irish Clause Subordination
£96.30
de Gruyter The Many Faces of English Ing
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£17.58
de Gruyter Syllable Stress and Sign
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£21.85
Walter de Gruyter Grundlagen der generativen Syntax
£26.96
Peter Lang AG Anglicisms and Corpus Linguistics: Corpus-Aided
Book SynopsisThe study of anglicisms and of the complex network of related categories has deeply evolved in the first two decades of the twenty-first century and it is quite likely that it will keep evolving in decades to come. Much more attention is being paid to the way in which the large collection of English morphological and lexical items is modified and reinvented within the receptor languages. Throughout the nine chapters of this book, the latest developments in anglicisms in languages like French, Danish, German, Czech, Italian, Finnish and Spanish are explored. To do so, a corpus methodology has been used in each chapter, which will contribute to a better understanding of this challenging phenomenon on European languages from an innovative perspective. Table of Contents On a daily basis … a comparative study of phraseological borrowing Comme disent les Anglais/Américains: Identifying and Analyzing Anglicisms in Corpora by Means of Metalinguistic Comments Grammatical and social structures of English-sourced swear words in Finnish discourse Anglicisms: Criteria, Categories & Corpora – Aims and means in the compilation of the Danish GLAD contribution Recyclable Loans: Idiosyncrasy, Rule-Governedness and Gradience in Contact-Induced Lexical Creativity Hey, it’s what all the Cool Kids Are Talking about, Okay? Exploring Collocations of Anglicisms in Spoken German Pseudo-Anglicisms in Czech. Between Borrowing and Neology New Anglicisms in Italian Corpora: A Comparison between CORIS and Italian Web 2016 A dictionary- and corpus-based proposal for compiling a collection of indirect Anglicisms in Spanish (with a sample of some of the latest semantic loans and calques)
£47.22
Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH Die chinesische Sprache: Fakten und Mythen.
Book SynopsisDie chinesische Schrift galt lange Zeit als ideographisch â man glaubte, dass jedes Schriftzeichen eine Idee oder Vorstellung unmittelbar wiedergab. Gerade deshalb erschien sie vielen Gelehrten und Wissenschaftlern als Vorbild fÃr ein universales Schriftsystem. Diesen âžMythos der Ideographie und andere hartnÃckige Mythen zu bekÃmpfen, war das Anliegen des amerikanischen Linguisten und Sinologen John DeFrancis (1911â2009). Sein Buch The Chinese Language â Fact and Fantasy, das jetzt erstmals in deutscher Ãœbersetzung vorgelegt wird, erschien 1984. Es gilt noch immer als die beste EinfÃhrung eines Sprachwissenschaftlers in die chinesische Sprache und Schrift.Das Werk wendet sich an Chinawissenschaftler, Lehrer und Studenten der chinesischen Sprache gleichermaßen. Auch allgemein interessierte Leser finden leicht Zugang zur Materie: John DeFrancis ist es in seinem Buch gelungen, das Wissen darÃber, wie die chinesische Schrift tatsÃchlich âžfunktioniert, unterhaltsam und interessant zu vermitteln, ohne dass man Vorkenntnisse in Linguistik mitbringen muss. Außerdem gibt DeFrancis einen historischen Ãœberblick Ãber Versuche, die chinesische Schrift zu reformieren, z.B. durch Vereinfachung von Schriftzeichen oder durch EinfÃhrung verschiedener alphabetischer Transkriptionssysteme. âžDas Buch, zuweilen humorvoll und geradezu spannend zu lesen, ist im sprachlichen Duktus bewusst offen gehalten fur alle mÃglichen Leser, Laien wie Experten. Zwanzig Jahre nach seiner ErstverÃffentlichung wird es einen postmodern geschulten Linguisten zumindest wissenschaftsgeschichtlich interessieren. Dem nicht-linguistischen Sinologen sowie allen anderen, die sich mehr wÃnschen als bloß oberflÃchliche Einblicke in die Besonderheit und Problematik der chinesischen Sprache und Schrift, deren kulturelle und politische Bedeutung, sei dieses Buch wÃrmstens empfohlen.Gudula Linck in Internationales Asienforum Aus dem Inhalt: I. Die chinesische Sprache. 1. Zur Definition von Chinesisch und Sprache. 2. Grundlegende Fakten zum gesprochenen Chinesisch. 3. Idiolekte, Dialekte, Regiolekte und Sprachen. II. Die chinesische Schrift. 4. Was Namen besagen. 5. Piktographe - und dann? 6. Wie geben chinesische Schriftzeichen Laute wieder? 7. Wie vermitteln chinesische Schriftzeichen Bedeutung? III. Entmythologisierung der chinesischen Schriftzeichen. 8. Der Mythos der Ideographie. 9. Der Mythos der UniversalitÃt .10. Der Mythos der Nachahmbarkeit. 11. Der Mythos der Einsilbigkeit. 12. Der Mythos der Unentbehrlichkeit. 13. Der Erfolgsmythos. IV. Die chinesische Sprachreform. 14. Die Sprachreform. 15. Die Schriftreform. V. Anhang: Glossar; Bibliographie; Nachbemerkung zur deutschen Ausgabe; Index.
£49.60
V&r Academic Konstruktionen Kontexte Gattungen
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£51.00
The University of Chicago Press Dynamics of Meaning Anaphora Presupposition and
Book SynopsisThis text illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing the understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface.
£57.00
The University of Chicago Press Animal Ecology
Book SynopsisThis textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions. At each stage, Cowper introduces a theoretical apparatus that is no more complex than is required to deal with the phenomenon under consideration.Table of Contents1 The Theory in Context 2 Categories and Phrase Structure 3 Thematic Relations and Theta Roles 4 Predicting Phrase Structure 5 NP-Movement 6 Government and Case 7 WH-Movement 8 Move Alpha and the Theory of Movement 9 The Empty Category Principle 10 Interpretation of Nominals 11 Clauses and Categories 12 A Unified Approach to Locality Constraints References Index
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Singers Needle An Undisciplined History of
Book SynopsisDrawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition and computer science, this book proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. It argues that the constructions carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: The Interaction between Verbs and Constructions 3: Relations among Constructions 4: On Linking 5: Partial Productivity 6: The English Ditransitive Construction 7: The English Caused-Motion Construction 8: The English Resultative Construction 9: The Way Construction 10: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Elements of Hebrew by an Inductive Method Midway
Book SynopsisFirst published privately in 1885 and reissued in 1959, this grammar text employs the inductive method of Hebrew instruction developed by William Rainey Harper and practiced by him at the University of Chicago. This inductive method in the teaching of grammar is educationally sound, and in employing it in this text some eighty years ago, the author was certainly far ahead of his time.William Chomsky, Jewish BooklandA treatment of much that is essential in Hebrew grammar. . . .useful tools to the divinity student and instructor in biblical Hebrew.David Weinstein, Jewish Education
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The PhonologySyntax Connection
Book SynopsisThis work deals with the insolvency both of companies and of individuals. Its publication coincides with the coming into force of the radical amendments to insolvency law contained within the Enterprise Bill 2002. The book should be suitable for those studying insolvency at undergraduate or postgraduate level, and for those studying for professional examinations and practising in the area.
£110.20
The University of Chicago Press The Philosophy of Grammar
Book SynopsisThis study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia University in 1909-10, called An Introduction to English Grammar. It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages through both direct observation of living speech and written and printed documents. [The Philosophy of Grammar and Analytic Syntax] set forth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar prior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the last thirty years.--Arne Juul and Hans F. Nielsen, in Otto Jespersen: Facets of His Life and Work Besides being one of the most perceptive observers and original thinkers that the field of linguistics has ever known, Jespersen was also one of its most entertaining writers, and reading The Philosophy of Grammar is fun. Read it, enjoy it.--James D. McCawley, from the Introduction Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure of language, was the Chair of the English Department at the University of Copenhagen. Among his many works are A Modern English Grammar and Analytic Syntax, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Syntactic Development
Book SynopsisA broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development, providing coverage of both theoretical and empirical issues. Covering a wide range of perspectives, this text constructs a picture of how children acquire the syntax of English.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: The Study of Language Acquisition 2: One-Word Utterances 3: Early Multiword Utterances 4: Word Order and Case 5: Subject Drop 6: Embedded Clauses 7: Wh Questions 8: Inversion 9: Relative Clauses and Clefts 10: Passives 11: Constraints on Coreference 12: The Learnability Problem 13: UG-Based Theories of the Acquisition Device 14: Alternatives to UG 15: Theories of Development 16: Concluding Remarks Notes Glossary References Index
£114.00
The University of Chicago Press Tacit Racism
Book SynopsisA broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development, providing coverage of both theoretical and empirical issues. Covering a wide range of perspectives, this text constructs a picture of how children acquire the syntax of English.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Studies in Relational Grammar 1
Book SynopsisIn this long-awaited bookthe first in a three-volume workDavid M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. The basic ideas of relational grammar can be simply stated. First, grammatical relations such as 'subject of,' 'direct object of,' and 'indirect object of,' are needed to characterize the class of grammatical constructions in the clausal syntax of natural languages, to formulate universals of grammar, and to construct adequate and insightful grammars of individual languages. Second, the range of linguistic variation in word order and case patterns makes it impossible to define grammatical relations in terms of phrase structure configurations or case. Rather, grammatical relations must be taken as primitive notions of linguistic theory. The papers collected here take up the first of these ideas. They lay out the basic theoretical constructs
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press HeadDriven Phrase Structure Grammar Studies in
Book SynopsisThis book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing. This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of understood subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 Agreement 3 Complement Structures 4 Unbound Dependency Constructions 5 Relative Clauses 6 Binding Theory 7 Complement Control 8 Aspects of Interpretation
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The University of Chicago Press Grammatical Competence Parsing Performance Paper
Book SynopsisHow does a parser, a device that imposes an analysis on a string of symbols so that they can be interpreted, work? More specifically, how does the parser in the human cognitive mechanism operate? Using a wide range of empirical data concerning human natural language processing, Bradley Pritchett demonstrates that parsing performance depends on grammatical competence, not, as many have thought, on perception, computation, or semantics. Pritchett critiques the major performance-based parsing models to argue that the principles of grammar drive the parser; the parser, furthermore, is the apparatus that tries to enforce the conditions of the grammar at every point in the processing of a sentence. In comparing garden path phenomena, those instances when the parser fails on the first reading of a sentence and must reanalyze it, with occasions when the parser successfully functions the first time around, Pritchett makes a convincing case for a grammar-derived parsing theory.
£34.20
Yale University Press Deutsche Wiederholungsgrammatik A MorphoSyntactic
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive review of grammatical structures and usage for intermediate to advanced students of German. This book was written primarily for use in a course dedicated to a rigorous review of German grammar, but it can also be used by students in conversation, culture, and literature courses.
£56.95
WW Norton & Co 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Book SynopsisA guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great
£13.29
University of California Press Nuuchahnulth Nootka Morphosyntax 134 UC
Book SynopsisThis volume describes aspects of word- and sentence-formation in Nuuchahnulth (formerly known as Nootka), a language spoken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Aspects included are polysynthetic word formation, word classes, and clause structure.
£28.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Semantic Syntax
Book SynopsisThis text features the theory of grammar called semantic. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected with semantic analyses, is a direct continuation of generative semantics. It presents a family of generative rule systems for English, French, Dutch and German.Trade Review"In Semantic Syntax Pieter Seuren elegantly and solidly accomplishes what the generative semantics movement had set out to do in the seventies: the generation of surface structure from a semantic base. The relevance for realistic modelling of language production cannot be overestimated. The semantics has a thorough cognitive foundation in the speaker's developing discourse domain. The syntax displays an impressive coverage of speakers' basic syntactic patterns in a range of languages, including recalcitrant German. And the theory is computationally entirely transparent." Willem J. M. Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics "This book covers a vast array of constructions which are at the forefront of the current theoretical discussions.Denis Bochard, Universite du Quebec a Montreal "Semantic Syntax constitutes an important contribution to grammatical formalism and syntactic theory." Comptes RendusTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction. 2. Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules. 3. The English Auxiliary and Complementation System. 4. The French Auxiliary and Complementation System. 5. The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System. 6. The German Auxiliary and Complementation System. 7. Any Other Business. List of French Words. List of Dutch Words. List of German Words. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English
Book SynopsisBetween the ages of one-and-a-half and two years children start to form elementary phrases and clauses. This stage of their linguistic development provides the first clear evidence that they have begun to develop a grammar of the language being acquired. It is therefore of paramount importance for any attempt to construct a theory of language acquisition. Drawing data from a corpus of more that 100,000 spontaneous utterances, Andrew Radford demonstrates that the fundamental characteristic of children''s earliest structures is that they are essentially lexical and thematic in nature. They show evidence of the acqusition of lexical but not functional categories, and of thematic but not nonthematic constituents. This hypothesis provides a unified account of a wide range of phenomena in early child English including children''s nonmastery of determiners, possessives, pronouns, missing arguments, expletives, case, binding, tense, agreement, auxiliaries, infinitives, complementisers, andTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Aims and Approaches. 2. Categorization in Early Child English. 3. Lexical Category Systems in Early Child English. 4. Absence of a Determiner System in Early Child English. 5. Absence of a Complementizer System in Early Child English. 6. Absence of an Inflection System in Early Child English. 7. Absence of a Case System in Early Child English. 8. The Grammar of Missing Arguments in Early Child English. 9. The Overall Structure of Early Child Grammars of English. 10. Explanations and Implications. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Typological Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisGives an account of a field of fast increasing importance in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. The aim of this book is to establish a universally valid framework for the objective description of linguistic function.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It provides the reader with a good account of recent work on quantitative discourse approaches to language universals and typology, with plenty of exemplification, in a way that shows the reader not only how one can do this kind of work but why it is interesting and revealing to do so. No other book comes even close to this one in its scope." Bernard Comrie, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAnalyzing NP types; tense and aspect; voice alterations; word order variation; other topics of quantitatve research; conclusion.
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