The Categories Of Grammar
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English Grammatical Categories
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Author : Ian Michael
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-10
English Grammatical Categories written by Ian Michael 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 2010-06-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.
Concise Encyclopedia Of Grammatical Categories
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Author : K. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Pergamon
Release Date : 1999-10-22
Concise Encyclopedia Of Grammatical Categories written by K. Brown and has been published by Pergamon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Complementing Brown & Miller's recent Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories (1996), to which this is a companion volume, this encyclopedia is a collection of articles drawn from the highly successful Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. It presents a collection of 79 articles, all of which have been revised and updated. It also provides a number of newly commissioned articles, one of which has been substantially updated and extended. The volume is alphabetically organised and includes an introduction and a glossary. The Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories will provide a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of the building blocks of syntax: word classes, sentence/clause types, functional categories of the noun and verb, anaphora and pronominalisation, transitivity, topicalisation and work order.
The Categories Of Grammar
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Author : Alan Huffman
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The Categories Of Grammar written by Alan Huffman 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 1997-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally taken as pretheoretical categories of observation about language, are in fact part of a theory of language which does not withstand empirical testing. It shows that the correct categories are neither those of structural case nor those of lexical case, but rather, semantic ones. Traditionally, anomalies in the selection of dative and accusative case in French, such as case government, use of the dative for possession and disadvantaging, its use in the faire-causative construction, and other puzzling distributional irregularities have been used to support the idea of an autonomous, non-functional central core of syntactic phenomena in language. The present analysis proposes semantic constants for lui and le which render all their occurrences explicable in a straightforward way. The same functional perspective informs issues of cliticity and pronominalization as well. The solution offered here emerges from an innovative instrumental view of linguistic meaning, an acknowledgment that communicative output is determined only partially and indirectly by purely linguistic input, with extralinguistic knowledge and human inference bridging the gap. This approach entails identification of the pragmatic factors influencing case selection and a reevaluation of thematic-role theory, and reveals the crucial impact of discourse on the structure as well as the functioning of grammar. One remarkable feature of the study is its extensive and varied data base. The hypothesis is buttressed by hundreds of fully contextualized examples and large-scale counts drawn from modern French texts.
Grammatical Categories
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Author : M. Rita Manzini
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31
Grammatical Categories written by M. Rita Manzini 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 2011-03-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian.
Grammatical Categories
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Author : Maria Rita Manzini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Grammatical Categories written by Maria Rita Manzini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
"Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian"--
Syntactic Categories And Grammatical Relations
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Author : William Croft
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991-01-15
Syntactic Categories And Grammatical Relations written by William Croft and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Analiza: Metodología sintáctica y gramática universal; Bases de las "marcas" lingúísticas para las categorías sintácticas; Hacia una definición externa de las categorias sintácticas; Roles temáticos, semántica verbal y estructura causal; Marcas de casos y orden causal de participantes; Formas verbales y conceptualización de los sucesos.
Categorial Grammar
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Author : Wojciech Buszkowski
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Categorial Grammar written by Wojciech Buszkowski 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 1988-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of categorial grammar including type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, grammatical categories and other topics related to categorial grammar and to philosophical and linguistic applications of this framework. The volume consists of three parts. The first, introductory part, contains the editor's addresses and two survey chapters concerning the history (W. Marciszewski) and current trends of the discipline (J.van Benthem). The second part consists of 10 chapters devoted to categorial grammar proper, and the third part 7 chapters devoted to areas close to categorial grammar. Most of the contributions are original papers, but five of them are reprints of classics (M.J. Cresswell, P.T. Geach, H. Hiz, J. Lambek, T. Potts).
The Evolution Of Grammar
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Author : Joan Bybee
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994-11-15
The Evolution Of Grammar written by Joan Bybee and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Categories Constructions And Change In English Syntax
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Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Categories Constructions And Change In English Syntax written by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza 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 2019-10-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
The Nature And Function Of Syntactic Categories
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Author : Robert Borsley
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1999-10-15
The Nature And Function Of Syntactic Categories written by Robert Borsley and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: What are the categories? What properties do they have? And, How do they relate to each other? This book contains essays that address these questions by inquiring whether there is a distinction between lexical and functional categories.