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Oxford University Press, USA The Event Structure of Perception Verbs
Book SynopsisThis book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition. Perception verbs - such as look, see, taste, hear, feel, sound, and listen - present unresolved problems for theories of lexical semantics. This book examines the relations between their semantics and syntactic behaviour, the different kinds of polysemy they exhibit, and the role of evidentiality in verbs like seem and sound. In unravelling their complexity Nikolas Gisborne looks closely at their meanings, modality, semantic relatedness, and irregularity. He frames his exposition in Word Grammar, and draws extensively on work in cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. After an opening chapter explaining the nature of the issues, Dr Gisborne presents a concise introduction to Word Grammar. He then considers the implications of his approach for a general theory of event sTrade ReviewThe fact that Gisborne commits himself to English does not undermine the book's usefulness to other languages. It will be a valuable reference work for linguists interested in areas of lexical semantics including causation, argument-linking, and polysemy. It is clearly written and well argued... This book is rich in argumentation and presents interesting data that provides more comprehensive understanding of English perception verbs. * SIL Electronic Book Reviews *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Word Grammar ; 3. Causation and Relations Between Events: An Introduction to Word Grammar Semantics ; 4. Network Structure and the Polysemy of SEE ; 5. Perception Verbs and the Semantics of Content ; 6. Non-finite Complementation ; 7. SOUND-class Verbs ; 8. Conclusion ; References
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Oxford University Press, USA Diagnosing Syntax Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 46
Book SynopsisDrawing 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?Table of ContentsPART I: HEAD MOVEMENT; PART II: PHRASAL MOVEMENT; PART III: AGREEMENT; PART IV: ANAPHORA; PART V: ELLIPSIS
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Oxford University Press (UK) Possession and Ownership
Book SynopsisPossession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly divided into three categories - ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations. As Professor Aikhenvald shows in her extensive opening essay, the same possessive noun or pronoun phrase is used in English and in many other Indo-European languages to express possession of all three kinds - as in Ann and her husband Henry live in the castle Henry''s father built with his own hands - but that this is by no means the case in all languages. In some, for example, the grammar expresses the inalienability of consanguineal kinship and sometimes also of sacred or treasured objects. Furthermore the degree to which possession and ownership Trade ReviewThis volume, the result of cooperation among eminent linguists and anthropologists, is a significant intellectual achievement. * Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Project Muse *Table of Contents1. Possession and Ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective ; 2. Ownership, part-whole and Other Possessive-associated Relations in Nelemwa ; 3. Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head Language ; 4. Possession and Ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik Area, Papua New Guinea ; 5. Possession in Martuthunira ; 6. Possession in Nanti ; 7. Possession and Association in Galo Language and Culture ; 8. Possessive Constructions in Chinese ; 9. Possession in Hone ; 10. Possession in Lipke ; 11. Possession in Wandala ; 12. Spirits of the Forest, the Wind, and New Wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession ; 13. Being and Belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea ; 14. Possession and Also Ownership - vignettes
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
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Oxford University Press Essentials of Cognitive Grammar
Book SynopsisTailored to students, this abridged version of Cognitive Grammar positions Langacker's authoritative work as an accessible, attractive cornerstone of cognitive linguistics as the field continues to evolve.Trade ReviewAn attractive and successful introduction to the fundamentals of Cognitive Grammar. * Linguist List *Table of ContentsPart I MEANING AND SYMBOLIZATION ; 1. Orientation ; 2. Conceptual Semantics ; 3. Construal ; Part II A SYMBOLIC ACCOUNT OF GRAMMAR ; 4. Grammatical Classes ; 5. Major Subclasses ; 6. Constructions: General Characterization ; 7. Constructions: Descriptive Factors ; 8. Rules and Restrictions
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Oxford University Press Old Chinese
Book SynopsisThis book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing. Old Chinese is the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE) and the ancestor of later varieties of Chinese, including all modern Chinese dialects. William Baxter and Laurent Sagart''s new reconstruction of Old Chinese moves beyond earlier reconstructions by taking into account important new evidence that has recently become available: better documentation of Chinese dialects that preserve archaic features, such as the Min and Waxiang dialects; better documentation of languages with very early loanwords from Chinese, such as the Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai and Vietnamese languages; and a flood of Chinese manuscripts from the first millennium BCE, excavated or discovered in the last several decades. Baxter and Sagart also incorporate recent advances in our understanding of the derivational processesTrade ReviewOverall, it is true to the thoughtful research and scholarly imagination its authors have invested, over a period of four decades, in working out their deeply felt vision of Proto-Chinese morphology. * David Prager Branner, Independent researcher, Études chinoises *Table of Contents1 Introduction ; 1.1 What is Old Chinese? ; 1.2 Methodology ; 1.3 Plan of the book ; 2 The evidence for Old Chinese ; 2.1 Middle Chinese ; 2.2 Old Chinese rhyme evidence ; 2.3 Evidence from the Chinese script ; 2.4 Modern Chinese dialects ; 2.5 Early Chinese loanwords in other languages ; 2.6 Traditional Chinese texts explicitly discussing language ; 2.7 Tibeto-Burman ; 3 An overview of the reconstruction ; 3.1 Onsets: main hypotheses ; 3.2 Rhymes ; 3.3 Root structure, word structure, and affixation ; 3.4 The nature of the pre-Qin script ; 4 Onsets ; 4.1 The evolution of Old Chinese initial consonants: major processes ; 4.2 Applying the comparative method within Chinese ; 4.3 Singleton onsets ; 4.4 Tightly attached onsets ; 4.5 Onsets with loosely attached preinitials ; 4.6 Onsets with complex preinitials ; 5 Old Chinese rhymes ; 5.1 Overview: vowels, codas, postcodas ; 5.2 The six-vowel system ; 5.3 Rhyme development: main processes ; 5.4 Rhymes with back codas (*-O, *-k, and *-?) ; 5.5 Rhymes with acute codas (*-j, *-t, *-n, and *-r) ; 5.6 Rhymes with the codas *-w and *-wk ; 5.7 Rhymes with labial codas (*-p and *-m) ; 6 Conclusion ; 6.1 What kind of language was Old Chinese? ; 6.2 Dialect differences in Old Chinese ; 6.3 Known issues ; 6.4 General directions for future researc ; 6.5 Old Chinese in broad comparative context ; Appendix of reconstructed forms ; References
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theories of Syntax Concepts and Case Studies
Book SynopsisKoenraad Kuiper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has been a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and held two Fulbright fellowships in the United States. He has either authored or edited fourteen books. Jacqui Nokes is a part-time lecturer and PhD Candidate at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.Trade Review"The air in New Zealand is amazingly clear and objects appear sharper and brighter than in the northern hemisphere. Kiwi clarity and sharpness have found their way into this excellent book by Koenraad Kuiper and Jacqui Nokes, the sort of explanatory and comparative account that is all too rare in theoretical syntax. In clear, smooth prose, with memorable examples and metaphors, they set out the workings of four formal models: Principles and Parameters, Minimalism, Lexical Functional Grammar and Systemic Grammar. For each model, they explain its goals and the reasons why particular analyses are or are not appropriate. They compare and contrast the models without parti pris and without polemics. They offer senior undergraduate students and beginning postgraduate students a general view of the field, and for readers who choose Minimalism, LFG or Systemic Grammar they supply a sound basic account of the model chosen. The book is a delight to read." Jim Miller, University of Edinburgh, UK "Theories of Syntax will be an excellent text for a course whose aim it is not to train syntactic 'mechanics', but rather to give non-beginner students a sound understanding of what it involves to approach syntactic phenomena from different views of what scientific work is about." Rudolf Botha, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Utrecht University, The Netherlands 'This book presents some fundamental concepts of syntax and then some key directions for their analysis in terms of major recent syntactic approaches such as Systemic Functional Linguistics, Principles and Parameters, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and the Minimalist Program. Clearly written, with review questions and further reading at the end of each chapter, this book will be useful to students and practitioners of syntax in providing the fundamental ideas of basic syntactic analysis, and the leading ideas of different theoretical approaches.' Peter Sells University of York, UK 'This book by two inspired linguists is the most delightful introduction to syntax I have seen in many years, a didactic and very well-informed masterpiece, a must in every elementary linguistics course. It is also the first book of its kind that I know of which aims at an even-handed survey of a variety of opposing syntactic theories on the market, stressing the similarities besides the dissimilarities. Useful not only for beginners but also for teachers and even those who act as protagonists in the field.' Pieter Seuren, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsPreface PART I: CONCEPTS OF SYNTAX 1. Studying Syntax 2. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Syntax 3. Seven Syntactic Phenomena PART II: THEORIES OF SYNTAX 4. Systemic Functional Grammar 5. The Principles and Parameters Framework 6. Lexical Functional Grammar 7. Minimalism 8. Syntax and its Theories References Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Syntactic Theory Macmillan Modern Linguistics
Book SynopsisGEOFFREY POOLE Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of various articles on phrase structure and conditions of movement.Trade Review'This is a highly recommendable book. It elegantly introduces generative grammar as an empirical science. Written in a clear and friendly tone, it is extremely readable and makes complicated linguistic theory accessible to students' - Ken Ramshoj Christensen, Aarhus University, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Phrase Structure and Constituency 2. X'-Theory and Functional Categories 3. Theory and Case Theory 4. Introduction to Binding Theory 5. Movement and Chains 6. Logical Form 7. Empty Categories and their Constraints 8. Towards the Minimalist Program: Clause Structure Revisited 9. Towards the Minimalist Program: Movement Revisited Notes Bibliography Index.
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MIT Press Ltd Voice and v
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MIT Press Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 50th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisThe fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark work in generative grammar that continues to be influential, with a new preface by the author. Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews changes and improvements in the formulation and implementation of basic ideas, and addresses some of the controversies that arose over the general framework.Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely from MIT, linguists developed an approach to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverged in many respects from conventional modern linguistics. Although the new approach was connected to the traditional study of lang
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Penguin Random House LLC Argument Structure Volume 18 Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 18
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Yale University Press The Hausa Language
Book SynopsisThis volume is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. It is organized alphabetically, and the grammar covers such expected topics as tonology, noun plurals, and verbal tense/aspect as well as often neglected topics like verbal idioms.Trade Review"There simply is not has never been a Hausa grammar that comes close to matching this work. Anyone involved with Hausa teaching or linguistics should have a copy handy." Patrick Bennett, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Cambridge University Press English Corpus Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press Grammar A Students Guide
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Cambridge University Press English Corpus Linguistics
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin Sexual Vocabulary
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Grammar and Style For Examination Candidates and Others
Book SynopsisMichael Dummett was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, UK.
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AuthorHouse Grammatically Correct Functionally Illiterate
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AuthorHouse Saying It Right A Language Aid For Adults
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Springer Agreement and AntiAgreement A Syntax of Luiseo 17 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Parameters in Old French Syntax Infinitival Complements Infinitival Complements 18 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Parameters in Old French Syntax Infinitival Complements Infinitival Complements 18 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese 19 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability 20 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability 20 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Phrase Structure in Natural Language 21 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Phrase Structure in Natural Language 21 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar 22 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian The Minimal Chain Principle 12 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian The Minimal Chain Principle 12 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Warlpiri MorphoSyntax A Lexicalist Approach 23 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Syntactic Variables Resumptive Pronouns and A Binding in Palauan 24 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Japanese Syntax and Semantics Collected Papers 27 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Springer Purpose Clauses Syntax Thematics and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions 47 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Springer Island Constraints Theory Acquisition and Processing 15 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Springer Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words
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Springer The Language of Propositions and Events Issues in the Syntax and the Semantics of Nominalization 51 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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