Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form
Title | Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199263930 |
Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.
Structuring Sense: Volume 1: In Name Only
Title | Structuring Sense: Volume 1: In Name Only PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2005-01-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780199263899 |
'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules.
In Name Only. Structuring Sense
Title | In Name Only. Structuring Sense PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
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Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the first, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language. Hagit Borer departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material. In Name Only applies this radical approach to nominal structure. Integrating research in syntax, semantics, and morphology, the author argues that nominal structure is based on the syntactic realization of semantic notions such as classifier, quantity, and reference. In the process she seeks to do away with lexical ambiguity and type-shifting.Among the topics she considers are the interpretation of proper names, the mass-count distinction, the weak-strong interpretation of quantifiers, partitive and measure phrases, and the structural representation of the definite article. In the process she explores inter-language variation through the properties of the morpho-phonological system. The languages discussed include English, Chinese, Italian, and Hebrew.
Structuring Sense: Taking form
Title | Structuring Sense: Taking form PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules.
In Name Only
Title | In Name Only PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780199263905 |
'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules.
The Normal Course of Events
Title | The Normal Course of Events PDF eBook |
Author | Hagit Borer |
Publisher | Oxford Linguistics |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199263914 |
Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the second, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure,from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language.Hagit Borer departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material.The Normal Course of Events applies this radical approach to event structure. Integrating research results in syntax, semantics, and morphology, the author shows that argument structure is based on the syntactic realization of semantic event units. The topics she addresses include the structure ofinternal arguments and of telic and atelic interpretations, accusative and partitive case, perfective and imperfective marking, the unaccusative-unergative distinction, existential interpretation and post-verbal subjects, and resultative constructions. The languages discussed include English,Catalan, Finnish, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
The Sense of Grammar
Title | The Sense of Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Shapiro |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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