Clause Structure And Language Change
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Clause Structure And Language Change
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Author : Adrian Battye
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-12
Clause Structure And Language Change written by Adrian Battye and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical, comparative, or historical syntax.
Clause Structure
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Author : Elly van Gelderen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Clause Structure written by Elly van Gelderen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory. This accessible book synthesizes the most important research findings, examines a range of examples taken from data acquisition, typology and language change, and includes discussion questions, helpful suggestions for further reading and a useful glossary.
Clause Structure And Language Change
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Author : Adrian Battye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Clause Structure And Language Change written by Adrian Battye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Information Structure And Language Change
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Author : Roland Hinterhölzl
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-05-05
Information Structure And Language Change written by Roland Hinterhölzl and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents empirical studies on the relation between word order and information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German, language change, information structure, discourse semantics, language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.
The Structure Of The Clause
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Author : Simon C. Dik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-06-23
The Structure Of The Clause written by Simon C. Dik and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does the natural language user (NLU) work? How do speakers and addressees succeed ...
The Theory Of Functional Grammar The Structure Of The Clause
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Author : Simon C. Dik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1997
The Theory Of Functional Grammar The Structure Of The Clause written by Simon C. Dik and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does the natural language user (NLU) work? How do speakers and addressees succeed ...
Usage Based Approaches To Language Change
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Author : Evie Coussé
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Usage Based Approaches To Language Change written by Evie Coussé and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.
Language Typology And Syntactic Description
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Author : Timothy Shopen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Language Typology And Syntactic Description written by Timothy Shopen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
The Clause In English
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Author : Peter Collins
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1999
The Clause In English written by Peter Collins and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of 'minor' or 'fringe' constructions, including 'deictic-presentationals'; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; 'isolated if-clauses', and 'exceptional clauses'. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between parenthetical elements and their 'hosts'; or traditional morphophonemic analyses as explanations for Ross's 'doubl-ing' constraint. While some authors question commonly made assumptions (for example those concerning the relationships of clauses to sentences and propositions; or those concerning the status of post-head dependents in the NP), others appeal to new frameworks (for instance 'emergence theory' is used as a source of inspiration in dealing with 'intransitive prepositions'). This collection also includes articles that adopt a solidly corpus-based approach. The Clause in English has been prepared by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description.
Navigating English Grammar
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Author : Anne Lobeck
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-07-09
Navigating English Grammar written by Anne Lobeck and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it. Presents a novel, inquiry-based approach to understanding speakers' unconscious knowledge of English grammar Makes lucid connections, when relevant, with current linguistic theory Integrates language change and variation into the study of grammar Examines historical sources of socially evaluative perceptions of grammar, as 'good' or 'bad', and notions of language authority Provides syntactic explanations for many modern punctuation rules Explores some of the current controversies about grammar teaching in school and the role of Standard English in testing and assessment