Semantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality
Title | Semantic and syntactic aspects of impersonality PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Herbeck |
Publisher | Helmut Buske Verlag |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2019-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3875489624 |
Peter Herbeck, Bernhard Pöll & Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Foreword Hubert Haider: On expletive, semantically void, and absent subjects Janayna Carvalho: Incorporated subjects in Existential Impersonal Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese Thórhallur Eythórsson, Anton Karl Ingason & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson: Flavors of reflexive arguments in Icelandic impersonals Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir & Joan Maling: From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions Anne C. Wolfsgruber: Impersonal interpretations of Medieval Romance se - tracing initial contexts Eduardo Amaral & Wiltrud Mihatsch: Incipient impersonal pronouns in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese based on pessoa, pessoal and povo
Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition
Title | Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Joaquim Camps |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027237239 |
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and head-movement), control, issues of second language acquisition related to the Determiner Phrase, the effect of word order and syntactic simplification in second language acquisition, adverbials, syntactic constraints on access to lexical structure, a semantic characterization of the subjunctive in Spanish, and impersonal constructions and impersonal reflexive pronouns. The papers in this volume not only discuss issues related to most of the major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian and Spanish) and a Portuguese Creole, but also include comparisons with languages from other families (Marathi, Bulgarian, Polish and Slovenian). This collection of papers illustrates the richness in the field of Romance linguistics and the value of cross-linguistic research and multi-modular approaches.
Impersonal Constructions
Title | Impersonal Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 653 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027205914 |
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
Impersonal "si" constructions
Title | Impersonal "si" constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Roberta D'Alessandro |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110207516 |
This book is a research monograph on impersonal si constructions (ISC) in Italian within the Minimalist program framework. The book offers a new point of view on ISCs, providing a new set of crucial data that were previously unknown, and pointing out many characteristics of ISCs that were overlooked before. It results in the introduction of additional means of syntactic analysis at the edge between narrow syntax and pragmatics.
Syntactic Structures
Title | Syntactic Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3112316002 |
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Impersonal Constructions
Title | Impersonal Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Andrej Malchukov |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 653 |
Release | 2011-07-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027287163 |
This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R-impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered construction.
Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature
Title | Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Osamu Imahayashi |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9783631609668 |
"The first international conference was held at Chiba University in 1-3 September 2005, the second one at Nagoya University in 7-9 September 2007, and the third one at Hiroshima University in 28-30 August 2009"--P. [v].