Verb First

Verb First
Title Verb First PDF eBook
Author Andrew Carnie
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 456
Release 2005-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9789027227973

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This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.

First Verbs

First Verbs
Title First Verbs PDF eBook
Author Michael Tomasello
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 386
Release 1992-03-27
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0521374960

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During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development.

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook
Author Andrew Carnie
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 265
Release 2000-06-29
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0198030290

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This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook
Author Andrew Carnie
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 265
Release 2000
Genre Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN 019513222X

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This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook
Author Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 270
Release 2000-05-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0195344014

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This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition

Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition
Title Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition PDF eBook
Author Dagmar Bittner
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 472
Release 2003
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9783110178234

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Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds

Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds
Title Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds PDF eBook
Author Olga Tribulato
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 459
Release 2015-06-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110415860

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This book provides a brand new treatment of Ancient Greek (AG) verb-first (V1) compounds. In AG, the very existence of this type is surprising: its left-oriented structure goes against the right-oriented structure of the compound system, in which there also exists a large class of verb-final (V2) compounds (many of which express the same agentive semantics). While past studies have privileged either the historical dimension or the assessment of semantic and stylistic issues over a systematic analysis of V1 compounds, this book provides a comprehensive corpus of appellative and onomastic forms, which are studied vis-à-vis V2 ones. The diachronic dimension (how these compounds developed from late PIE to AG and then within AG) is combined with the synchronic one (how they are used in specific contexts) in order to show that, far from being anomalous, V1 compounds fill lexical gaps that could not, for specified morphological and semantic reasons, be filled by more ‘regular’ V2 ones. Introductory chapters on compounding in morphological theory and in AG place the multi-faceted approach of this book in a modern perspective, highlighting the importance of AG for linguists debating the properties of the V1 type cross-linguistically.