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Cover of Theory of Complementation in English Syntax
by Joan Bresnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

The subject of this study, first published in 1979, is the role of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic theory. It is argued that the familiar transformational treatment of complementizers is inadequate, and that they must be specified in deep structure by means...
Cover of English Joyful Vocabulary Semantic Developments
by Angelina Zysko
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015

The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of ‘joy’ («bliss», «cheer», «delight», «dream», «game», «gladness», «glee», «joy», and «mirth»). The analysis, carried out within the framework of cognitive and historical...
Cover of Welsh Syntax

Welsh Syntax

A Government-Binding Approach

by Louisa Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

This book, first published in 1988, proposes an analysis of Welsh syntax within the theory of Government and Binding (GB). The main focus of the study is the theory of empty elements and the role of agreement phenomena in relation to empty categories. The study of the Celtic family of languages...
Cover of Introducing Phonetics and Phonology, Third Edition
by Mike Davenport, S.J. Hannahs
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book examines some of the ways in which linguists can express what native speakers know about the sound system of their language. Intended for the absolute beginner, it requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology. Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological...
Cover of Generative and Non-Linear Phonology
by Durand Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models. This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of the debate. It provides a detailed overview of the main models, revealing that they are often complimentary rather than contradictory, and how these can be interconnect and be used together to explore the subject.
Cover of The Syntax of the Albanian Verb Complex
by Philip L. Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

This work, first published in 1985, is an analysis of the syntax of the Albanian verb complex. The term "verb complex" is defined here as the verb stem and its conjugational endings, together with the perfect auxiliaries and verb clitics. In a wider sense the verb includes the verb and its...
Cover of Modification
by Marcin Morzycki
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015

Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field. Modification offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics, including vagueness and gradability, comparatives...
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From Conversation to Oral Tradition

A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

by Raymond F Person
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding...
Cover of The Syntax of Dutch
by Jan-Wouter Zwart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German, but its special properties have long aroused interest and debate among students of syntax. This is an informative guide to the syntax of Dutch, offering an extensive survey of both the phenomena of Dutch syntax and their theoretical...
Cover of Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

Perspectives from East Asian Languages

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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian...
Cover of Pragmatics
by Jean Stilwell Peccei
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics: encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts introduces...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently...
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South Asian Languages

A Syntactic Typology

by Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012

South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic...
Cover of Understanding Minimalism
by Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program - the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist program, looking firstly at analyses within Government...
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