The Syntax Of Sentential Stress Microform
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The Syntax Of Sentential Stress Microform
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Author : Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
language : en
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Release Date : 2004
The Syntax Of Sentential Stress Microform written by Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and has been published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
This thesis explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. The central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations. In particular, it is proposed that the Sentential Stress Rule applies in a phase-based manner (Chomsky 2000, 2001 and subsequent work) and assigns stress to the highest element in the spelled out constituent. This proposal provides a systematic way of accounting for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from Persian, English, German, Eastern Armenian and some Romance languages. An additional rule, namely the Focus Stress Rule, is proposed to handle the interaction between sentential stress and information structure. The Focus Stress Rule, which is also proposed to apply in a phase-based manner, ensures that a focussed constituent receives the highest clausal prominence in languages which mark focus prosodically. It is shown that sentential stress is determined in an interplay between the default Sentential Stress Rule and the Focus Stress Rule. It is argued that the relationship between syntax and phonology is unidirectional, always from syntax to phonology, thereby arguing against syntactic phenomena being triggered by phonological or prosodic motivations (contra Zubizarreta 1998). It is also shown that, from a conceptual and empirical perspective, the proposed account of the interaction between focus and sentential stress is preferable to the theories based on the focus projection algorithm (Selkirk 1995).
Projecting The Adjective
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Author : Christopher Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-05
Projecting The Adjective written by Christopher Kennedy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Canadiana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Canadiana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Canada categories.
The Justification Of Linguistic Hypotheses
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Author : Rudolf P. Botha
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-04
The Justification Of Linguistic Hypotheses written by Rudolf P. Botha 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 2017-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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Syntactic Aspects Of Topic And Comment
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Author : André Meinunger
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Syntactic Aspects Of Topic And Comment written by André Meinunger 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 2000-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where they are base generated. The hierarchy of argument projection is claimed to be fix within and across languages. With the major attention to direct objects it is then argued that discourse-old, here called topical noun phrases undergo raising to agreement projections. This movement can be realized differently: scrambling, object agreement, clitic-doubling, differences in morphological case and stress pattern turn out to be analyzable as one underlying phenomenon. It is furthermore shown that many so-called subject:object asymmetries boil down to topic:non-topic differences, for example with respect to extraction. Thus, irrespectively of the argumental status discourse-new constituents do not act as barriers whereas topical arguments create (weak) islands.
The Syntax Of Sentential Stress
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Author : Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-07-30
The Syntax Of Sentential Stress written by Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations. Presented in a Chomskian multiple spell-out framework, the author develops the Sentential Stress Rule and provides a systematic way of accounting for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from Persian, English, German and Eastern Armenian. The author further proposes the Focus Stress Rule to handle the interaction between sentential structure and information structure. Sentential stress is thus determined through an interplay between two components, the default Sentential Stress Rule and the Focus Stress Rule. Syntactic phenomena are not, the author argues, triggered by phonology or prosodic motivations: the relationship between syntax and phonology is always from syntax to phonology. This important contribution to understanding processes at the syntax-phonology interface will interest syntacticians and phonologists at graduate level and above.
A Study In Comparative Prosody
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Author : Beth Bjorklund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
A Study In Comparative Prosody written by Beth Bjorklund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with English language categories.
An Historical Syntax Of The English Language
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Author : Visser, Fredericus Theodorus
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1963
An Historical Syntax Of The English Language written by Visser, Fredericus Theodorus and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with English language categories.
A Grammar Of Modern Breton
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Author : Ian Press
language : br
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1986
A Grammar Of Modern Breton written by Ian Press 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 1986 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
Negation And Clausal Structure
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Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-04
Negation And Clausal Structure written by Raffaella Zanuttini 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 1997-09-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that individual languages employ different syntactic strategies for the expression of the same semantic function of negating a sentence. Zanuttini's goal here is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the different syntactic means for expressing sentential negation exhibited by the members of one language family--the Romance languages--and by reducing the differences we witness to a constrained set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages. This sort of analysis is a first step towards the ultimate goal of determining and understanding what limits there are on the syntactic options that universal grammar imposes on the expression of sentential negation.