Adverb Placement

Adverb Placement
Title Adverb Placement PDF eBook
Author Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 267
Release 1997-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 902722739X

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This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to adjectives. The author advances an analysis according to which adverbs are licensed as Specifiers of functional projections in the clausal domain. As such, they enter a matching relation with the relevant features of the respective functional head. Adverbs are either directly merged at the relevant functional projection (for instance Aspectual and Speaker Oriented adverbs) or alternatively they are moved to this position from the complement domain of the verb (for instance manner adverbs). Furthermore, the volume examines the phenomenon of Adverb Incorporation. It is proposed that Incorporation is obligatory for those VP internal Adverbs which are 'structuraly non-complex' in Chomsky's 1995 terms. Finally, the similarities and differences between adverbs and adjectives, clausal and nominal structure are investigated and a number of asymmetries between the two are highlighted.

Optimizing Adverb Positions

Optimizing Adverb Positions
Title Optimizing Adverb Positions PDF eBook
Author Eva Engels
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 362
Release 2012
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027255644

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Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising semantics, syntax, phonology and information structure –, which interact in determining adverb positions. The results of the investigation are formulated within the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory, which captures the complex interaction of these factors by hierarchically ranked constraints, deriving cross-linguistic variation of adverb positions by differences in the language-specific constraint hierarchies. The book is divided into two parts: While Part I examines adverb positions in general, Part II investigates under which circumstances an adverb may attach to a phonetically empty constituent in the languages under discussion. The book appeals to a linguistic audience interested in Germanic and Romance languages as well as in theoretical syntax in general.

Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Title Approaches to Second Language Acquisition PDF eBook
Author Richard Towell
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 296
Release 1994
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781853592348

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Examines five central issues of second-language acquisition: transfer, staged development, cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability.

Optimizing Adverb Positions

Optimizing Adverb Positions
Title Optimizing Adverb Positions PDF eBook
Author Eva Engels
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 363
Release 2012-02-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 902728184X

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Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising semantics, syntax, phonology and information structure –, which interact in determining adverb positions. The results of the investigation are formulated within the theoretical framework of Optimality Theory, which captures the complex interaction of these factors by hierarchically ranked constraints, deriving cross-linguistic variation of adverb positions by differences in the language-specific constraint hierarchies. The book is divided into two parts: While Part I examines adverb positions in general, Part II investigates under which circumstances an adverb may attach to a phonetically empty constituent in the languages under discussion. The book appeals to a linguistic audience interested in Germanic and Romance languages as well as in theoretical syntax in general.

Serial Position Effects of Adverb Placement Upon Recall

Serial Position Effects of Adverb Placement Upon Recall
Title Serial Position Effects of Adverb Placement Upon Recall PDF eBook
Author Richard Russell Lee
Publisher
Pages 156
Release 1967
Genre English language
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Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilinguals

Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilinguals
Title Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilinguals PDF eBook
Author Wai Lan Tsang
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 151
Release 2016-12-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 178309690X

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This book reports on a research project conducted in multilingual Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the mother tongue (L1) of the majority of the population and learning different foreign languages is commonplace. In addition to English, which is usually the second language (L2), more and more people learn other languages, such as French (L3). Drawing on the notions of ‘interface’ and ‘reverse transfer’ in second language acquisition, this book addresses the possible role of L3 French in the acquisition of English as an L2 with two major concerns: firstly, the degree to which L3 acquisition will bring about a positive or negative transfer effect on L2 acquisition and secondly, the way in which an L3 interacts with an L2 and/or even an L1 on different interfaces as identified in second language acquisition. The study will appeal to researchers interested in second and third language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence.

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition
Title Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition PDF eBook
Author Dalila Ayoun
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 226
Release 2005-02-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1847143369

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This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena. From an historical perspective on parameter-setting theory to an introduction to its role in computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, and language change, the reader will find a critique of the most commonly made arguments, as well as an index of all the syntactic, phonological, lexical, and morphological parameters presented in the literature to date. A closer look at the theory itself addresses the following questions: What does a parameter-setting approach to language acquisition entail? What are the underpinnings of the theory? What issues and problems remain to be solved? The empirical studies carried out to test the null subject parameter and verb movement parameter are reviewed to re-examine long-standing theoretical assumptions as well as the learnability implications for first and second language acquisition.