A case study In syntactic markedness
Title | A case study In syntactic markedness PDF eBook |
Author | Henk van Riemsdijk |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3112327764 |
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
A Case Study in Syntactic Markedness
Title | A Case Study in Syntactic Markedness PDF eBook |
Author | Henk C. van Riemsdijk |
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Pages | 313 |
Release | 1982 |
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H.C. van Riemsdijk. A case study in syntactic markedness
Title | H.C. van Riemsdijk. A case study in syntactic markedness PDF eBook |
Author | Henk Van Riemsdijk |
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Release | 1978 |
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Wh-Questions: A Case Study in Czech
Title | Wh-Questions: A Case Study in Czech PDF eBook |
Author | Veselovská, Ludmila |
Publisher | Palacký University Olomouc |
Pages | 241 |
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Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 8024459663 |
In the empirical, descriptive sections of this monograph the author develops standard argumentation in favour of the structurally-based transformational nature of Wh-questions in English and Czech. She demonstrates how Wh-questions in Slavic languages first impacted the theoretical discussion and how their description challenged some earlier assumptions based on specifically English data. The study provides a historical survey of the analyses which reflect the development of the field. Individual chapters are devoted to comparing extraction domains, locality conditions, and constraints defined in terms of the structures proposed. The Wh-characteristics are compared with Focus/ Contrastive Topic re-orderings, which leads to an improved structural analysis, using the concept of a Split CP. In spite of the demonstrable progress of the research, many so far unexplained aspects of the Wh-phenomena will without doubt continue to provide an interesting source for future research on the structure of human language.
The Syntax of Number, Person and Gender
Title | The Syntax of Number, Person and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Johan Kerstens |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110869365 |
Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling
Title | Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling PDF eBook |
Author | Lambertus Christiaan Jozef Barbiers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1848550200 |
Contains seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling. This work provides an overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested and of the theoretical analyses available. It discusses the syntactic doubling phenomena including, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, clitic doubling and auxiliary doubling.
Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling
Title | Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling PDF eBook |
Author | Sjef Barbiers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2008-10-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1848550219 |
Contains seventeen papers on microvariation in syntactic doubling. This work provides an overview of the syntactic doubling phenomena attested and of the theoretical analyses available. It discusses the syntactic doubling phenomena including, among others, subject pronoun doubling, WH pronoun doubling, clitic doubling and auxiliary doubling.