Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure
Title | Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1135500207 |
This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.
Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure
Title | Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Rodrigo Gutíerrez-Bravo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Spanish language |
ISBN |
Structure Preserved
Title | Structure Preserved PDF eBook |
Author | C. Jan-Wouter Zwart |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027255474 |
"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Title | The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Mursell |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259739 |
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.
Markedness in Grammar
Title | Markedness in Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Talmy Givón |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information
Title | Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information PDF eBook |
Author | Uwe Junghanns |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110178241 |
This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.
The Major Syntactic Structures of English
Title | The Major Syntactic Structures of English PDF eBook |
Author | Robert P. Stockwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 868 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |