Special Issue: Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Title | Special Issue: Register Variation and Syntactic Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Massam |
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Release | 2017 |
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Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
Title | Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography PDF eBook |
Author | Fuzhen Si |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259771 |
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the high and low peripheral zones. Syntactic issues in the study of dialects and ancient languages are also addressed. The languages investigated include French, Hebrew, Standard Dutch and the Ghent dialect, Etruscan, Japanese, English, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and the Teochew dialect. The intended readers of this book include researchers and students working on natural language syntax, the interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, and comparative and typological linguistics, as well as scholars interested in particular languages such as East Asian and Romance languages.
Special Issue: Syntactic Variation and Change
Title | Special Issue: Syntactic Variation and Change PDF eBook |
Author | David Håkansson |
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Release | 2017 |
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Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance
Title | Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Wolfe |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 623 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198841167 |
This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer; inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery; and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.
Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition
Title | Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Giuliano Bocci |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2024-09-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019888947X |
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.
Syntax and Variation
Title | Syntax and Variation PDF eBook |
Author | Leonie M.E.A. Cornips |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2005-06-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294380 |
The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and variationist linguists with a view to developing an innovative and more cohesive approach to syntactic variation. The present volume contains treatments incorporating the analysis of external factors into accounts focusing on the internal linguistic conditioning of syntactic variation and change cross-linguistically. As such, it offers novel approaches to three key areas of current linguistic debate, viz. (1) Methodological practices, (2) Theoretical applications and (3) Modularity. The volume is, therefore, an important achievement for the progress of linguistic theory more generally and it is an even more crucial milestone in the coming-of-age of ‘Socio-Syntax’ as a discipline in its own right.
Third Factors in Language Variation and Change
Title | Third Factors in Language Variation and Change PDF eBook |
Author | Elly Van Gelderen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108924468 |
In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal search, labelling, determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical process, and that third factor principles must combine with linguistic information to fully account for the cyclical development of 'optimal' language structures. Third Factor Principles also account for language variation around that-trace phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and Verb-second. By linking insights from recent theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change, this book provides a unique perspective, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students in syntactic theory and historical linguistics.