Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar
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Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar
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Author : K.A. Jayaseelan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-13
Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar written by K.A. Jayaseelan 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 2017-07-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word order to more particular questions such as the morphological basis of anaphora, the genesis of lexical categories, the morpho-syntax of quantifiers, and the syntax and semantics of questions. Important universalist claims are embedded in these essays; for this reason, this volume will be of interest also to a student of the general theory of syntax. No future discussion of Dravidian (or South Asian) languages is possible without taking into account the insightful analyses set forth in these pages.
Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar
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Author : K. A. Jayaseelan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12
Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar written by K. A. Jayaseelan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12 with categories.
Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar
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Author : K. A. Jayaseelan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar written by K. A. Jayaseelan 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 2017 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume comprises twenty eight papers on Dravidian by K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli. These papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax, and they are simultaneously wide-ranging and targeted in their analyses. No future discussion of Dravidian languages is possible without taking into account the analyses set forth in these pages.
The Grammar Of Multiple Head Movement
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Author : Phil Branigan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-22
The Grammar Of Multiple Head Movement written by Phil Branigan 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 2023-02-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Head-movement has played a central role in morpho-syntactic theory, but its nature has remained unclear. While it is widely accepted that the main grammatical constraint controlling head-movement is the Head Movement Constraint (HMC), this constraint is flouted in many of the linguistic structures examined in this book. More specifically, the strictures of the HMC turn out to be sometimes inactive for specific grammars allowing multiple head-movement to take place in particular syntactic contexts. In The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement, Phil Branigan shows that multiple head-movement is far from rare, forming a part of the grammar in Finnish, in English, in Perenakan Javanese, in northern Norwegian and Swedish dialects, and generally in the Slavic and Algonquian language families. Basing his analysis on a new model of the grammatical parameters which control word formation in the human brain, Branigan shows how careful attention to the contexts in which multiple head-movement takes place allows new generalizations to be identified. And these, in turn, allow a new model to be formulated of how head-movement fits into the overall architecture of grammatical computation. Through careful comparative study, Branigan not only provides a better understanding of head-movement, but also provides new opportunities to address larger questions concerning the architecture of the grammatical system and the theory of linguistic parameters. A new account of how complex words are formed in languages as different as Russian or Innu-aimun, as well as in English, this study deepens our understanding of how languages vary and of the mental computational system of human grammars.
Dravidian Syntax
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Author : S. Agesthialingom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Dravidian Syntax written by S. Agesthialingom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Dravidian languages categories.
The Syntactic Variation Of Spanish Dialects
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Author : Angel J. Gallego
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-28
The Syntactic Variation Of Spanish Dialects written by Angel J. Gallego 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 2019-08-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena. Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects. This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.
The Comparative Syntax Of Korean And Japanese
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Author : Yutaka Sato
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-21
The Comparative Syntax Of Korean And Japanese written by Yutaka Sato 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 2023-12-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework. Yukata Sato and Sungdai Cho demonstrate that while the two languages exhibit remarkably similar morphosyntactic features, they behave differently in specific types of construction, with the main differences observed in genitive marking, sentence negation, Negative Polarity Items, the formation of causatives, and passivization. The book also explores pragmatic and sociolinguistic issues in the two languages, and shows that they differ in the perception and realization of 'givenness' as a topic marker and in the influence of relationships of power and distance on the use of honorifics. The authors further offer additional context by exploring the typological relationship between Japanese and Korean and the surrounding languages such as Ainu, and the Chinese and Altaic languages, as well as providing socio-cultural and historical background.
Rich Descriptions And Simple Explanations In Morphosyntax And Language Acquisition
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Author : Giuliano Bocci
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-24
Rich Descriptions And Simple Explanations In Morphosyntax And Language Acquisition written by Giuliano Bocci 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 2024-09-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.
Smuggling In Syntax
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Author : Adriana Belletti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Smuggling In Syntax written by Adriana Belletti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions. Smuggling in Syntax investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling. First introduced by volume editor Chris Collins in 2005, the term 'smuggling' refers to a specific type of movement interaction. The contributions in this volume each describe different areas where smuggling derivations play a role, including passives, causatives, adverb placement, the dative alternation, the placement of measure phrases, wh-in-situ, and word order in ergative languages. The volume also addresses issues like the freezing constraint on movement and the acquisition of smuggling derivations by children. In this work, Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins bring together leading syntacticians to present a range of contributions on different aspects of smuggling. Tackling fundamental theoretical questions with empirical consequences, this volume explores one of the least understood types of movement and points the way toward new research.
A Unified Theory Of Polarity Sensitivity
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Author : Ahmad Alqassas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-16
A Unified Theory Of Polarity Sensitivity written by Ahmad Alqassas 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 2021-04-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity, negative concord, and negative indefinites. In this book, Ahmad Alqassas proposes a unified approach to the study of this phenomenon that relies on examining the interaction between the various types of polarity sensitivity, with a particular focus on Arabic. Alqassas shows that treating this interaction is fundamental for scrutinizing their licensing conditions. Alqassas draws on data from Standard Arabic and the major regional dialects represented by Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Qatari. Through the (micro)comparative approach, Alqassas explains the distributional contrasts with a minimal set of universal syntactic operations such as Merge, Move, and Agree. He also considers a fine-grained inventory of negative formal features for polarity items and their licensors. These simple features paint a complex landscape of polarity and lead to important conclusions about syntactic computation. By engaging with the rich but under-studied landscape of Arabic polarity sensitivity, this book provides a new perspective on the syntax-semantic interface and develops a unified syntactic analysis for polarity sensitivity. These contributions have important implications for the study of Arabic and for syntactic theory more generally.