Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon
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Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon
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Author : Anne Tamm
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2011
Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon written by Anne Tamm and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses help to understand the aspectual structure of Estonian. In Estonian, transitive verbs fall into aspectual classes based on the type of case-marking of objects and adjuncts. The book relates the morphosyntactic frames of verbs to properties typically associated with adjectives and nouns: scalarity and boundedness. Verbs are divided according to how their aspect is composed. Some verbs lexicalize a scale, which can be bounded either lexically or compositionally. Aspectual composition involves the unification of features. Compositionally derived structures differ according to which of the aspectually relevant dimensions are bounded.
The Handbook Of Lexical Functional Grammar
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Author : Mary Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-12-14
The Handbook Of Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.
Atypical Predicate Argument Relations
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Author : Thierry Ruchot
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Atypical Predicate Argument Relations written by Thierry Ruchot 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 2016-12-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or lamaholot, an Austronesian language.
Negation In Uralic Languages
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Author : Matti Miestamo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Negation In Uralic Languages written by Matti Miestamo 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 2015-06-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.
Partitive Cases And Related Categories
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Author : Silvia Luraghi
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-08-29
Partitive Cases And Related Categories written by Silvia Luraghi and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.
Language Contact In The Territory Of The Former Soviet Union
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Author : Diana Forker
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Language Contact In The Territory Of The Former Soviet Union written by Diana Forker 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 2021-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.
Case Alternations In Five Finnic Languages
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Author : Aet Lees
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Case Alternations In Five Finnic Languages written by Aet Lees and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This corpus study presents a comparative analysis of the case of objects of various verb forms, and also subjects in existential clauses in five Finnic languages. Differences between present languages and historical changes in each language are discussed.
Linguistic Variation Issues Case And Agreement In Northern Russian Participial Constructions
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Author : Civardi, Antonio
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-12
Linguistic Variation Issues Case And Agreement In Northern Russian Participial Constructions written by Civardi, Antonio and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological stance adopted by the author focuses on singling out all the relevant patterns of variation and on pursuing a unified explanation for them. The key to the solution of the puzzle is the idea that the participial affix -n-/-t- and the agreement inflections are not just pieces of morphology inserted post-syntactically, but true heads that enter the computation and are able to manipulate the argumental roles of the verb and to check the EPP. The author’s proposal is properly framed in the context of current debate on interlanguage variation.
Remov D From Human Eyes Madness And Poetry 1676 1774
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Author : Natali, Ilaria
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-30
Remov D From Human Eyes Madness And Poetry 1676 1774 written by Natali, Ilaria and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
New Information Subjects In L2 Acquisition Evidence From Italian And Finnish
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Author : Dal Pozzo, Lena
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-30
New Information Subjects In L2 Acquisition Evidence From Italian And Finnish written by Dal Pozzo, Lena and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.