The Logic of Markedness

The Logic of Markedness
Title The Logic of Markedness PDF eBook
Author Edwin L. Battistella
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 188
Release 1996-08-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 019535592X

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Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "play" for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "played" or "player" is marked. This opposition, referred to as markedness, is one of the concepts which both Chomskyan generative grammar and Jakobsonian structuralism appear to share, yet which each tradition has treated differently. Battistella studies the historical development of the concept of markedness in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson, its importation into generative linguistics, and its subsequent development within Chomsky's "principles and parameters" framework. He traces how structuralist and generative linguistics have drawn on and expanded the notion of markedness, both as a means of characterizing linguistic constructs and as a theory of the innate language faculty.

Markedness

Markedness
Title Markedness PDF eBook
Author Fred Eckman
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 364
Release 1986-09-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780306423727

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This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM. It includes all papers that were given at the conference with the exception of Genevieve Escure and Glenn Gilbert's joint paper "Syntactic marking/unmarking phenomena in the creole continuum of Belize" which was not submitted for publication by the authors. Many of the papers appear in this volume in a revised form that is somewhat different from the oral version. We would like to thank the various departments and other units at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that sponsored the mark- ness symposium. These are: the Department of Linguistics, the English as a Second Language Intensive Program, the College of Let ters and Science, the Division of Urban Outreach, the Center for Latin America and the Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute. Finally, we wish to thank Lisa Carrara for doing a careful joh on the preparation of the index, and J. L. Russell, for his patience and perseverance in typing a difficult manuscript.

The Logic of Language

The Logic of Language
Title The Logic of Language PDF eBook
Author Michael Shapiro
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 347
Release 2022-08-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 303106612X

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This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to Shapiro’s The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage. The two volumes taken in tandem will provide a solid grounding in the observational science of linguistics, linking theory with practice in a way that will expand one’s understanding of language as a global phenomenon.

Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels

Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels
Title Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels PDF eBook
Author Wally V. Cirafesi
Publisher BRILL
Pages 203
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004250271

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This source edition of Gessner’s private library contains those seventy eight books that Gessner read most carefully and annotated by hand. The majority have been reproduced from the rich holdings of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, while other important copies included in this edition are held by the University Library of Basle. The marginalia in these books are so numerous that they almost constitute a new set of sources, which are of interest not only to historians and philologists but also to those who study the history of early modern medicineand the natural sciences.

Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar

Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar
Title Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar PDF eBook
Author Adriana Belletti
Publisher
Pages 628
Release 1981
Genre Generative grammar
ISBN

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The Language of the New Testament

The Language of the New Testament
Title The Language of the New Testament PDF eBook
Author Stanley E. Porter
Publisher BRILL
Pages 535
Release 2013-02-21
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004236406

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In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.

Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture

Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture
Title Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture PDF eBook
Author Stanley E. Porter
Publisher BRILL
Pages 764
Release 2013
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004234160

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In "Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture," Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.