Word Order Variation In Italian And Spanish Why Interrogatives
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Word Order Variation In Italian And Spanish Why Interrogatives
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Author : Svenja Krieger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-12-16
Word Order Variation In Italian And Spanish Why Interrogatives written by Svenja Krieger 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 2024-12-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Questions that are introduced by the wh-element ‘why’ are special. For instance, in Italian and Spanish, they allow the subject to occur in preverbal position in contrast to other wh-interrogatives. The overall goal of this book is to investigate the syntactic (and discourse) particularities of why-interrogatives in Italian and Spanish. More specifically, based on a parallel corpus study and several experimental studies, the factors that affect subject positioning in why-interrogatives are determined. In Italian, focus plays a determining role, while subject type and the heaviness of the subject affect its position in Spanish. After discussing previous accounts that address the differences between the two languages, an alternative approach is presented that builds on differences in the checking of the extended projection principle. Additionally, the special syntactic position of why is further supported by investigating a so far unnoticed intervening element in the context of why-interrogatives, namely vocatives. Finally, subject positioning in Italian why-interrogatives is examined in heritage bilingualism in order to contribute to the debate on the general vulnerability of the syntax-discourse interface.
Why Is Why Unique
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Author : Gabriela Soare
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Why Is Why Unique written by Gabriela Soare 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 2021-09-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Why is ‘Why’ Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties considers the behaviour of this peculiar wh-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspects of why-questions, such as the way why interacts with V2 constructions in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is established between high and low reason adverbials which are subsequently examined in why-stripping environments in Dutch. Beyond why proper, the book explores a special class of wh-expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected why-construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these wh-expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are what-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese what-initial sentences similar to how-initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these what-as-why questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. Why is ‘why’ unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect.
L2 Spanish And Italian Intonation
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Author : Andrea Pešková
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
L2 Spanish And Italian Intonation written by Andrea Pešková 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 2023-10-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative transfer from L1 to L2, and the formation of mixed patterns as well as native-like patterns, which are mainly constrained by linguistic factors such as the type of sentence and the position of the tonal event in the utterance. The results are discussed within Mennen’s (2015) L2 Intonation Learning theory and lead to the formulation of a Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis that makes several generalizations to characterize interlanguage intonation. This volume not only represents a step forward in the study of the acquisition of L2 intonation in general but also offers valuable findings that can be directly or indirectly applied in the classroom and will hopefully inspire further research.
Word Order Variation In Spanish And Italian Interrogatives
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Author : Georg A. Kaiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Word Order Variation In Spanish And Italian Interrogatives written by Georg A. Kaiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Studies In Historical Ibero Romance Morpho Syntax
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Author : Miriam Bouzouita
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-07-15
Studies In Historical Ibero Romance Morpho Syntax written by Miriam Bouzouita 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 2018-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the (Ibero-)Romance languages and diverse in terms of the approaches considered, ranging from cognitive-functionalist to generativist to variationist, they combine in this volume to showcase the merits of different, yet complementary, perspectives in understanding linguistic variation and language change. The gamut of phenomena scrutinised varies from morpho-phonological puzzles and word-formation to syntax and interface-related phenomena to, as a coda, methodological suggestions for future research in old Ibero-Romance; thus making it ideal reading for scholars and postgraduate students alike.
Studies On Interrogative And Relative Syntax In French And Romance
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Author : Jean-Yves Pollock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-01-23
Studies On Interrogative And Relative Syntax In French And Romance written by Jean-Yves Pollock 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 2025-01-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar and compares the relevant French constructions with their counterparts in English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.
Contrastive Studies In Morphology And Syntax
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Author : Michalis Georgiafentis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Contrastive Studies In Morphology And Syntax written by Michalis Georgiafentis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.
An Introduction To Word Grammar
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Author : Richard Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-29
An Introduction To Word Grammar written by Richard Hudson 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 2010-07-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics with the rigour of more formal theories. This textbook spans a broad range of topics from prototypes, activation and default inheritance to the details of syntactic, morphological and semantic structure. It introduces elementary ideas from cognitive science and uses them to explain the structure of language including a survey of English grammar.
Phonetics And Phonology
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Author : Marina Vigário
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-28
Phonetics And Phonology written by Marina Vigário 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 2009-10-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic interactions, and interactions between segments and features, both in child and in adult language, combining perception and production data, and doing so from theoretically as well as experimentally oriented perspectives. The book is unique in the universe of recent publications for its topic, wide scope and coherent thematic content. It is of interest to all researchers, teachers and students in the fields of phonetics and phonology as well as to those interested in the interplay between production and perception, the organization of grammar and language typology. In general, Phonetics and Phonology. Interactions and interrelations may be a useful companion to all those wishing to widen and deepen their knowledge of the sound structure of language(s).
The Syntax Of Multiple Que Sentences In Spanish
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Author : Julio Villa-García
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-03-20
The Syntax Of Multiple Que Sentences In Spanish written by Julio Villa-García 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 2015-03-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one complementizer as a point of departure, the author delivers new insights into the syntactic positions and behavior of Spanish complementizer que along the left edge. These observations have far-reaching consequences to such fundamental linguistic concepts as the derivation of left dislocations, ellipsis, and locality of movement. Of great interest to syntax graduate students and researchers in general, this volume provides a stepping stone to cracking the code on several current syntactic questions, including the widely-contested position of preverbal subjects in null-subject languages like Spanish. In addition, it offers the linguist a bountiful toolbox for the cross-linguistic investigation of a number of left-peripheral and clausal phenomena.