Cross Linguistic Variation And Efficiency
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Cross Linguistic Variation And Efficiency
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Author : John A. Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-02-28
Cross Linguistic Variation And Efficiency written by John A. Hawkins and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural options from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word orders and between relative clauses with a resumptive pronoun versus a gap. The preferences and patterns of performance within languages are reflected, he shows, in the fixed conventions and variation patterns across grammars, leading to a 'Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis'. Hawkins extends and updates the general theory that he laid out in Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (OUP 2004): new areas of grammar and performance are discussed, new research findings are incorporated that test his earlier predictions, and new advances in the contributing fields of language processing, linguistic theory, historical linguistics, and typology are addressed. This efficiency approach to variation has far-reaching theoretical consequences relevant to many current issues in the language sciences. These include the notion of ease of processing and how to measure it, the role of processing in language change, the nature of language universals and their explanation, the theory of complexity, the relative strength of competing and cooperating principles, and the proper definition of fundamental grammatical notions such as 'dependency'. The book also offers a new typology of VO and OV languages and their correlating properties seen from this perspective, and a new typology of the noun phrase and of argument structure.
Cross Linguistic Variation And Efficiency
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Author : John A. Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Cross Linguistic Variation And Efficiency written by John A. Hawkins 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 2014 with Computers categories.
This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing and cooperating principles.
Cross Linguistic Variation In Sentence Processing
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Author : Despoina Papadopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-08-27
Cross Linguistic Variation In Sentence Processing written by Despoina Papadopoulou and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. It is maintained that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles.
Cross Linguistic Variation In The Semantics Of Comparatives
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Author : Michael Ryan Bochnak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Cross Linguistic Variation In The Semantics Of Comparatives written by Michael Ryan Bochnak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Research on understudied languages and cross-linguistic variation from a formal semantic perspective is in its relative youth, but has been attracting the attention of more and more linguists over the past 15 years or so. This dissertation contributes to this line of work by investigating comparative constructions in Luganda and Washo. These languages make use of comparative constructions that are typologically common (Stassen 1985) but which have received little attention in formal linguistics. I provide a formal semantic analysis of these constructions, and situate the results within a broader picture of the nature of cross-linguistic variation in the meaning component of grammar.
Communicative Efficiency
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Author : Natalia Levshina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Communicative Efficiency written by Natalia Levshina 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 2022-11-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making efficient choices in grammar, lexicon and phonology. It presents a new theory of 'communicative efficiency', the idea that language is designed to be as efficient as possible, as a system of communication. The new framework accounts for the diverse manifestations of communicative efficiency across a typologically broad range of languages, using various corpus-based and statistical approaches to explain speakers' bias towards efficiency. The author's unique interdisciplinary expertise allows her to provide rich evidence from a broad range of language sciences. She integrates diverse insights from over a hundred years of research into this comprehensible new theory, which she presents step-by-step in clear and accessible language. It is essential reading for language scientists, cognitive scientists and anyone interested in language use and communication.
Agreement
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Author : Kora Singer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Agreement written by Kora Singer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Georgian language categories.
Linguistic Variation In The Minimalist Framework
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Author : M. Carme Picallo
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-07-24
Linguistic Variation In The Minimalist Framework written by M. Carme Picallo and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or weakly accounted for by syntactic factors; and the explicitness - or lack thereof - that should be assumed with respect to the conditions imposed by narrow syntax. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains chapters that consider the term 'parameter' to be a relevant theoretical notion under minimalist tenets. In the second part, on the other hand, chapters either argue that the term parameter amounts to no more than a label to describe variation, or assign it a less prominent role. Instead, language variation is attributed to sociolinguistic factors, language contact, frequency of use, or simply to options in the externalization of abstract syntactic relations. The book offers a valuable overview of the different approaches adopted in the study of language variation phenomena, and will appeal to theoretical linguists of all persuasions from graduate level upwards.
Dimensions Of Register Variation
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Author : Douglas Biber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-08-31
Dimensions Of Register Variation written by Douglas Biber 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 1995-08-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dimensions of Register Variation he gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali. Using the multi-dimensional analytical framework employed in his earlier work, Biber carries out a principled comparison of both synchronic and diachronic patterns of variation across the four languages. Striking similarities as well as differences emerge, allowing Biber to predict for the first time cross-linguistic universals of register variation. This major new work will provide the foundation for the further investigation of cross-linguistic universals governing the pattern of discourse variation across registers, and will be of wide interest to any scholar interested in style, register and literacy.
Cross Linguistic Variation And Cross Linguistic Influence In Quantifier Interpretation
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Author : Megumi Tona
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Cross Linguistic Variation And Cross Linguistic Influence In Quantifier Interpretation written by Megumi Tona and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Efficiency And Complexity In Grammars
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Author : John A. Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004-11-04
Efficiency And Complexity In Grammars written by John A. Hawkins and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
John Hawkins demonstrates a clear link between how languages are used and the conventions of their grammars. He sets out a theory in which performance shapes grammars and accounts for the variation patterns found in the world's languages.