Download or read book Auxiliary Selection Revisited written by Rolf Kailuweit and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.

Download or read book The Spanish Historical Novel 1870 1970 written by Madeleine de Gogorza Fletcher and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Languages of Europe written by Bernd Heine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe." "The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Historical Development of Auxiliaries written by Martin Harris and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS 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.

Download or read book Auxiliation written by Tania Kuteva and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing the nature of grammaticalisation on the basis of an in-depth study of the process of auxiliation, this book brings together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalisation theory and insights from the latest psychological studies.

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Download or read book Auxiliary Selection in Spanish written by Malte Rosemeyer and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces written by Ruth M. Kempson and published by Center for the Study of Langua. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: the dynamics of lexical interfaces / Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Christine Howes: I Applying the framework : SiSwati Clefts: The Meeting Ground of Context and Contrast / Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten and Nhlanhla Thwala -- The prosody of Bemba relative clauses / Nancy C. Kula & Lutz Marten -- Future Constructions in Medieval Spanish / Miriam Bouzouita -- Towards A Dynamic Typology of Passives / Yicheng Wu -- Word-order variation in Korean / Jieun Kiaer -- Local Ambiguity, Search Strategies and Parsing in DS / Yo Sato -- II New departures: Conditionals in Dynamic Syntax / Eleni Gregoromichelaki -- Towards an account of the English Auxiliary System / Ronnie Cann -- A Dynamic Account of Clitic Climbing: A first sketch / Stergios Chatzikyriakidis -- The bei construction in Chinese: a dynamic approach / Ronnie Cann and Yicheng Wu.

Download or read book Split Intransitivity in Italian written by Delia Bentley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Split intransitivity has received a great deal of attention in theoretical linguistics since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis by David Perlmutter (1978). This book provides an in-depth investigation of split intransitivity as it occurs in Italian. The principal proposal is that the manifestations of split intransitivity in Italian, whilst being variously constrained by well-formedness conditions on the encoding of information structure, primarily derive from the tension between accusative (syntactic) and active (semantic) alignment. In contrast to approaches which consider the selection of the perfective operator to be the primary diagnostic of unaccusative or unergative syntax, this study identifies two morphosemantic domains in intransitive constructions on the basis of the analysis of a cluster of related phenomena (including agreement, argument suppression, ne -cliticization, past-participle behaviour, the morphosyntax of experiencer predicates and word order, as well as the selection of the perfective operator). Analysing the degree to which semantic, syntactic and discourse factors interact in determining each manifestation of split intransitivity, this work captures successfully the mismatches in the scope of the various diagnostics. Drawing upon insights provided by Role and Reference Grammar, and relying on corpus-based evidence and crossdialectal comparison, this study makes new empirical and theoretical contributions to the debate on split intransitivity. The book is accessible to linguists of all theoretical persuasions and will make stimulating reading for researchers and scholars in Italian and Romance linguistics, typology and theoretical linguistics.

Download or read book Grammatical Change written by Dianne Jonas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. International scholars report on the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change, including grammaticalization, variation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment.

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Download or read book Historical Linguistics 2001 written by Barry J. Blake and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.

Download or read book The Flame Is Green written by R. A. Lafferty and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us say that we have a green thing growing forever. Everything that is done is done by it. And on it we also have the red parasite crunching forever; and everything that is undone by that. It is required of each man that he rule over himself in justice, and that he rule over the world in justice. This has gone on forever, though it is hard to trace through garbled history. And it must still is hard to trace through garbled history. And it must still go on forever. For all your own life and for the life of all your children, you will carry on the green battle.

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Download or read book One Million Dead written by José María Gironella and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second volume of a proposed trilogy about the Spanish Civil War and some of the religious aspects of the war. Although this can stand as a self-contained work, it reintroduces the Alvart family and other characters from the first volume.

Download or read book A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Annotated written by James De Mille and published by Problematic Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problematic Press edition of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder features the following unique additions: * A Foreword by David Reynolds introduces the author and the novel. * Annotated end notes by David Reynolds reflect on interesting elements of the text and reference scholarly works. DESCRIPTION While playing a silly game, four bored yachtsmen find a mysterious copper cylinder bobbing along the sea. They soon discover the briny cylinder contains a massive script, a journal of sorts, detailing the adventures of Adam More, a sailor lost at sea. Examining the script reveals More's incredible story of drifting across the ocean, sailing to lost lands, encountering giant beasts, and meeting truly peculiar people. This is a satirical tale that is sure to entertain!