Download or read book Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb written by Johannes Hein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides the first cross-linguistic study of repair strategies in verbal fronting, verb doubling and do-support, addressing both typological properties and theoretical aspects. First, it brings together data hitherto scattered across the empirical and theoretical literature and adds newly collected data from two African languages. For each of the 47 languages, the properties of verbal fronting are documented in detail. Based on this sample, the empirical part establishes two novel typological generalizations regarding the interaction between the size of the fronted category and the type of repair strategy used. The first of these identifies a systematic typological gap: No language that allows both verb and verb phrase fronting has do-support with the former and verb doubling with the latter. In the theoretical part, it is shown that previous theories of verb doubling/do-support are unable to account for both generalizations. A new approach within the Copy Theory of the Minimalist Framework is developed, that rests on the interaction of head movement, copy deletion, and the properties of different movement types. The book thus provides the first comprehensive empirical and theoretical overview of repair patterns in verbal fronting.
Download or read book Parameters of Predicate Fronting written by Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents. While such predicate fronting (where "fronting" may or may not involve movement) is a widespread phenomenon, it is also subject to intricate and largely unexplained variation. In Parameters of Predicate Fronting, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott bring together leaders in the field of comparative syntax to explore the empirical manifestations and theoretical modelling of predicate fronting across languages. There exists by now a rich literature on predicate fronting, but few attempts have been made at synthesizing the resulting empirical observations and theoretical implementations. While individual phenomena have been described in some detail, we are currently far from a complete understanding of the uniformity and variation underlying the wider cross-linguistic picture. This volume takes steps towards this goal by showcasing the state of the art in research on predicate fronting and the parameters governing its realization in a range of diverse languages. Covering topics like prosody, VP-fronting, and predicate doubling across a wide arrange of languages, including English, German, Malagasy, Niuean, Ch'ol, Asante, Twi, Limbum, Krachi, Hebrew, and multiple sign languages, this collection enriches our understanding of the predicate fronting phenomenon.
Download or read book Verb second as a reconstruction phenomenon written by Constantin Freitag and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.
Download or read book The Unity of Movement written by Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes the question regarding to what extent movement theories can be unified. Specifically, I address issues surrounding the debate of the distinction between head movement and phrasal movement over the past few decades. The distinction presupposes that structural complexity of the moving element is correlated with its movement properties. The goal of this book is to show that this is an unwarranted assumption. Based on a number of case studies on verb displacement phenomena in Cantonese, I attempt a unified theory of movement by abandoning the head/phrase distinction in movement theories. These case studies converge on the conclusion that the phrase structure status of syntactic constituents bears a minimal role in theorizing displacement phenomena in natural language. This volume represents a minimalist pursuit of a unified theory of movement.
Download or read book The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non Creole Languages written by Enoch Oladé Aboh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, São Tomé and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles. And by exploring the syntax of reiteration alongside its morphology, the authors are led to challenge the 'iconic' theory of 'reduplication' proposed in several other studies of similar phenomena. This volume will be relevant for creole studies, but also for readers more generally interested in language universals and the architecture of grammars.
Download or read book Spracherwerb und Grammatik written by Monika Rothweiler and published by Linguistische Berichte Sonderhefte. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ich m6chte Anne Vainikka und Harald Clahsen fUr Diskussion und Kritik und Giinther Grewendorf fUr die Anregung zu diesem Sonderheft danken. Ein besonderes DankeschOn gilt den Autoren, die es ermOglicht haben, daB innerhalb von zwOlf Monaten aus der Idee zu diesem Band eine Druckfassung entstehen konnte. Monika Rothweiler 7 Vorwort Der vorliegende Band tragt Arbeiten zum Grammatikerwerb, speziell zu Syntax und Morphologie, zusammen. Neben der Darstellung von empirischen Ergebnissen geht es den Autoren vor allem urn theoretische Fragestellungen und Voraussagen zum Grammatikerwerb, urn die Angemessenheit von Erwerbs-und Grammatiktheorien und urn die Interpretation von Daten auf dem Hintergrund dieser Theorien. In den letzten zehn Jahren wurden die mit der Government and Binding (GB) Theorie von Chomsky in die Diskussion geriickten Begriffe Universalgrammatik, Prinzipien und Parameter fOr die Untersuchungen zum Grammatikerwerb immer zentraler. Auch wenn die zur Zeit verfiigbaren theoretischen Ansatze oft nicht explizit genug sind, urn die em pirischen Daten befriedigend zu erkUiren, so bieten doch Grammatiktheorien, die wie GB einen ErkUirungsanspruch haben, aber auch Erwerbstheorien wie der funktionale Ansatz von BateslMacWhinney oder der kognitive Ansatz von Slobin einen Hintergrund fOr die Interpretation von Erwerbsdaten, die uber reine Deskription hinausgeht.
Download or read book UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary of Standardized Technical Terms in Linguistics English Tamil written by K. Rangan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gaps and Dummies written by Hans Bennis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case. This view is supported by the fact that the alleged dummy subjects Dutch, i.e. er and het, show a variety of properties, which can only be explained if they are not analyzed as dummy subjects. Further confirmation is derived from the fact that Dutch, subjectless sentences are found in precisely those circumstances in which neither -theory nor Case theory requires a subject to be present. Chapter 1 presents a theory of empty categories. This theory enables us to explain the distribution of gaps, and makes precise and correct predictions with respect to the occurrence of parasitic gaps. The non-dummy status of het, discussed in chapter 2, is supported by the fact that it can be the antecedent of PRO, reflexives, and parasitic gaps, and by an asymmetry in wh-movement from sentential complements. The analysis of het leads to a discussion of a variety of constructions, including constructions with raising, ergative, and psychological verbs. The adverbial pronoun er displays several distinct syntactic functions. In chapter 3 it is argued that none of these different functions justifies an analysis of er as a dummy subject. In chapter 4 some of the consequences of the theory introduced in the preceding chapters are investigated. These include a discussion of the status of the subject position in languages such as English, Italian, French, and Spanish, the structure of Old English, and the status of dummy pronouns in German and English.
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Download or read book English Grammar For Dummies written by Geraldine Woods and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar." Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom." Why does grammar make everyone so nervous? Probably because English teachers, for decades – no, for centuries – have been making a big deal out of grammar in classrooms, diagramming sentences and drilling the parts of speech, clauses, and verbals into students until they beg for mercy. Happily, you don't have to learn all those technical terms of English grammar – and you certainly don't have to diagram sentences – in order to speak and write correct English. So rest assured – English Grammar For Dummies will probably never make your English teacher's top-ten list of must-read books, because you won't have to diagram a single sentence. What you will discover are fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I" and "me," "had gone" and "went," and "who" and "whom." With English Grammar For Dummies, you won't have to memorize a long list of meaningless rules (well, maybe a couple in the punctuation chapter!), because when you understand the reason for a particular word choice, you'll pick the correct word automatically. English Grammar For Dummies covers many other topics as well, such as the following: Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs – oh my! Preposition propositions and pronoun pronouncements Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law Avoiding those double negative vibes How to spice up really boring sentences (like this one) Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar Just think how improving your speaking and writing skills will help you in everyday situations, such as writing a paper for school, giving a presentation to your company's big wigs, or communicating effectively with your family. You will not only gain the confidence in knowing you're speaking or writing well, but you'll also make a good impression on those around you!
Download or read book Theoretical Implications of Complementation in Romanian written by Virginia Motapanyane and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Guide to English Grammar written by John Eastwood and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Guide to English Grammar is a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in modern standard English. It is designed for learners at intermediate and advanced levels and for teachers, and is equally suitable for quick reference to details or for the more leisured study of grammatical topics. The emphasis is on meaning in the choice of grammatical pattern, and on the use of patterns in texts and in conversations.
Download or read book Navajo Verb Prefix Phonology written by James M. Kari and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1976 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Descriptive Grammar of English A written by Declerck, R. and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Approaches to Grammaticalization Focus on types of grammatical markers written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
