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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

Generative Grammar (Hardcover): Geoffrey Horrocks Generative Grammar (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Horrocks
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.

Complex Words in English (Hardcover): Valerie Adams Complex Words in English (Hardcover)
Valerie Adams
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Complex Words in English presents a comprehensive account of present-day word formation in English. Starting with a discussion of some basic issues, including the definition of 'word', motivation, lexicalization, productivity, the relevance of historical information and the usefulness of dictionaries and other data-bases, the book then moves on to describe in detail a variety of prefixing, suffixing and compounding patterns - all illustrated with copious up-to-date examples. Other topics that are explored in-depth include diminutives, backformation and other effects of reanalysis, Latin and Greek based formations and sound symbolism. Many examples are given in context: recent writing and the records of OED on CD ROM are drawn on to demonstrate the relationship between spontaneous coinages and familiar items. The comprehensive coverage allows an instructive overview and comparison of patterns and of the many and diverse factors relevant to the notion of productivity. Throughout, the discussions are placed in the context of other recent and less recent work in the area and the book also contains a useful extensive bibliography.

Relational Grammar (Hardcover): Barry Blake Relational Grammar (Hardcover)
Barry Blake
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Predicative Possession (Hardcover): Leon Stassen Predicative Possession (Hardcover)
Leon Stassen
R5,297 Discovery Miles 52 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat." It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and (c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over time.
Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.

Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach (Hardcover): Fuyi XING Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach (Hardcover)
Fuyi XING; Translated by Yong Wang, Fangfeng Dong
R9,947 Discovery Miles 99 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996. Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ground-breaking in linguistics research. The book contains discussion of the topics which are essential to Chinese grammar, from words and phrases, to complex sentences and sentence groups. It addresses such controversial issues as word class identification, the distinction between words and phrases, and between clauses and complex sentences. The book also shows, through a wealth of examples, how the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach can be applied productively in grammatical studies. Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Theoretical Approach is an essential purchase for researchers and graduate students of Chinese grammar and syntax.

The Syntax of Negation (Hardcover, New): Liliane Haegeman The Syntax of Negation (Hardcover, New)
Liliane Haegeman
R3,605 Discovery Miles 36 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima and Lasnik, Haegeman demonstrates the parallelism between negative sentences and interrogative sentences, and gives a unified analysis in terms of a well-formedness condition on syntactic representations: the AFFECT criterion, instantiated as the WH-criterion in interrogative sentences and as the NEG-criterion in negative sentences. It is shown that in the same way that in many languages the WH-criterion gives rise to WH-movement, the NEG-criterion may also give rise to NEG-movement. This is particularly clear in the Germanic languages. In the analysis of sentential negation in Romance languages the author makes extensive use of the notion of representational chain, showing that in these languages too the NEG-criterion applies at the level of S-structure. In addition to providing a syntactic analysis of sentential negation the book also raises a number of theoretical issues such as that of the distinction between A-positions and A'-positions and the level of application of well-formedness conditions. This book will be of interest to all those working on theoretical syntax, particularly of the Germanic and Romance languages.

Epistemic Modality (Hardcover): Andy Egan, Brian Weatherson Epistemic Modality (Hardcover)
Andy Egan, Brian Weatherson
R3,519 Discovery Miles 35 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is a lot that we don't know. That means that there are a lot of possibilities that are, epistemically speaking, open. For instance, we don't know whether it rained in Seattle yesterday. So, for us at least, there is an epistemic possibility where it rained in Seattle yesterday, and one where it did not. What are these epistemic possibilities? They do not match up with metaphysical possibilities - there are various cases where something is epistemically possible but not metaphysically possible, and vice versa. How do we understand the semantics of statements of epistemic modality? The ten new essays in this volume explore various answers to these questions, including those offered by contextualism, relativism, and expressivism.

Sardinian Syntax (Paperback): Michael Jones Sardinian Syntax (Paperback)
Michael Jones
R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sardinian Syntax presents the first comprehensive synchronic description of Sardinian syntax available in English. Michael Jones combines a detailed coverage of the language with a theoretical approach that draws on contemporary linguistic theory. The book provides an extensive reference grammar and an invaluable source of information for all linguists whose interests extend beyond the world's major languages.

On Germanic Linguistics - Issues and Methods (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes On Germanic Linguistics - Issues and Methods (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes
R6,059 Discovery Miles 60 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Belfast English and Standard English - Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting (Hardcover, New): Alison Henry Belfast English and Standard English - Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting (Hardcover, New)
Alison Henry
R5,318 Discovery Miles 53 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using the Principles and Parameters framework, Henry analyses various syntactic constructions in Belfast English, and compares them with their Standard English counterparts to gain insight into both English syntax and general syntactic theory. The study will also make linguistic data on Belfast English readily available for the first time.

A Frequency Dictionary of Korean - Core vocabulary for learners (Hardcover): Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, Sang Kyu Seo A Frequency Dictionary of Korean - Core vocabulary for learners (Hardcover)
Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, Sang Kyu Seo
R5,698 Discovery Miles 56 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Frequency Dictionary of Korean is an invaluable tool for all learners of Korean, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on the Sejong National Corpora, the largest written and spoken corpora in Korean comprised of 10 million words collected from different genres, the Dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the entries, including illustrative examples and English translations. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguists. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Korean enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.

Long-Distance Dependencies (Paperback): Mihoko Zushi Long-Distance Dependencies (Paperback)
Mihoko Zushi
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the theory of locality within the framework of minimalism, with a special focus on restructuring and other related phenomena that exhibit an apparent violation of the strictly local conditions.

Problems and Perspectives - Studies in the Modern French Language (Hardcover): Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Janice Carruthers, Rosalind... Problems and Perspectives - Studies in the Modern French Language (Hardcover)
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Janice Carruthers, Rosalind Temple
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining these issues or data. The book is divided into two parts- the first section is a preliminary to, and contextualises, the discussion of the more specialised topics of the second part. Part two presents problematic and controversial areas in the description and analysis of the contemporary language. Where appropriate historical and sociolinguistic issues are also integrated into the discussion of modern French. Aimed primarily at advanced students and researchers in French linguistics, the introductory sections of part one also make this book accessible to undergraduates beginning their study of French linguistics, and to less specialised readers.

Event and Result Nominals - A Morpho-semantic Approach (Paperback, New edition): Chiara Melloni Event and Result Nominals - A Morpho-semantic Approach (Paperback, New edition)
Chiara Melloni
R1,812 Discovery Miles 18 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The syntax and semantics of deverbal action nominals, notoriously ambiguous between event and result interpretation, have been a thought-provoking issue in many areas of theoretical linguistics. This volume contributes to current work on this topic by showing how the analysis of these nouns can benefit from a morphological and lexical-semantic treatment. While being a revealing synthesis of a number of formal accounts on this popular research domain, this study specifically targets the largely unexplored area of result nouns and addresses several crucial issues. What are result nouns in a strictly lexical-semantic perspective? Why do some verb classes allow ambiguous event/result nominal correlates, while others do not? What are the relevant verbal features involved in result noun formation? Is there a range of predictability in the number and types of meaning conveyed by a derived nominal? Couched within a framework of decompositional lexical semantic, the analysis offers original formal solutions to the polysemy issues arising in this word formation domain and convincingly argues in favor of the semantic alignment between the morphologically simplex and complex lexicon. A compelling range of Italian data provides empirical support to the author's claims.

The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb - A Minimalist Approach (Paperback): Julie Brittain The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb - A Minimalist Approach (Paperback)
Julie Brittain
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program.

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies (Paperback): Robert N. Cust A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies (Paperback)
Robert N. Cust
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tuvaluan - A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. (Paperback): Niko Besnier Tuvaluan - A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. (Paperback)
Niko Besnier
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.

A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics - Volume 100 of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (Hardcover,... A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics - Volume 100 of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Louise McNally, Zoltan Gendler Szabo
R3,440 Discovery Miles 34 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining the afterlife of the proposals, and offering a useful bibliography for further study. The chapters were commissioned by the series editors to mark the 100th volume in the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. The target articles are amongst the most widely read and cited papers up to the end of the 20th century, and cover most of the important subfields of formal semantics. The authors are all prominent researchers in the field, making this volume a valuable addition to the literature for researchers, students, and teachers of formal semantics. Chapter 19 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Grammatical Relations - The Evidence Against Their Necessity and Universality (Paperback): D.N.S. Bhat Grammatical Relations - The Evidence Against Their Necessity and Universality (Paperback)
D.N.S. Bhat
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object are required in the case of the Indian language of Kannada. Furthermore, the notion of transitivity or transference which forms the basis for postulating grammatical relations does not play the expected central role in all languages: in the case of another Indian language, Manipuri, it is volitionality and transitivity which plays the central role in clause structure. Dr. Bhat argues against the universality and necessity of grammatical relations; his provocative hypothesis will be a challenge to all those concerned with the nature of language.

Origins of Predicates - Evidence from Plains Cree (Paperback): Tomio Hirose Origins of Predicates - Evidence from Plains Cree (Paperback)
Tomio Hirose
R1,587 Discovery Miles 15 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena.

Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Hardcover): Gerrit Kentner, Joost Kremers Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Hardcover)
Gerrit Kentner, Joost Kremers
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure? A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain intonational features as integral components of the syntactic structure. Yet another conception maintains that prosody and syntax are parallel systems that mutually constrain each other to yield surface sentential form. The different viewpoints reflect the various functions prosody may have: On the one hand, prosody is a signal to syntax, marking e.g. constituent boundaries. On the other hand, prosodic or intonational features convey meaning; the concept "intonational morpheme" (as e.g. an exponent of information structural notions like topic or focus) puts prosody and intonation squarely into the syntactic representation. The proposals collected in this book tackle the intricate relationship of syntax and prosody in the encoding of sentences. The contributions build their cases on the basis of solid empirical evidence, adducing data from experiments or from the careful analysis of natural speech. The volume thus represents a state of the art survey of research on the syntax-phonology interface.

Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective - The 10th Anniversary FDSL Conference, Leipzig 2013 (Hardcover, New edition): Olav... Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective - The 10th Anniversary FDSL Conference, Leipzig 2013 (Hardcover, New edition)
Olav Mueller-Reichau, Maria Yastrebova, Gerhild Zybatow, Petr Biskup, Marcel Guhl, …
R2,959 Discovery Miles 29 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages in Leipzig 2013 offer current formal investigations into Slavic morphology, phonology, semantics, syntax and information structure. In addition to papers of the main conference, the volume presents those of two special workshops: "Formal Perspectives and Diachronic Change in Slavic Languages" and "Various Aspects of Heritage Language". The following languages are addressed: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Resian, Slovak and Slovene.

Intensifiers in English and German - A Comparison (Paperback): Peter Siemund Intensifiers in English and German - A Comparison (Paperback)
Peter Siemund
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies (Hardcover): P. R. Hawkins Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies (Hardcover)
P. R. Hawkins
R3,432 Discovery Miles 34 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1977, Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies reports on the results of a grammatical analysis of the speech of a large sample (about 300) of five-year-old middle- and working-class children. The author is concerned in particular to answer the questions: What is the relationship, within certain restricted contexts, between the use of particular grammatical structures and factors such as social class, IQ and sex? How are any differences in the type or frequency of structures to be interpreted? The central part of the book presents the results of a set of correlations: the correlations of linguistic categories on the one hand, with sociological or 'background' categories on the other. The author then sets this study and its results in the perspective of related research and comments on some aspects of the 'deficit-difference' controversy. Finally, he presents his own conclusions in a detailed discussion. He argues that, instead of trying to ascertain the purely linguistic competence of children from different backgrounds, we must rather compare the different verbal strategies they use in a particular situation or context. The book will be of interest to students of language, linguistics, pedagogy and education.

Minimal Indirect Reference - A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface (Paperback): Amanda Seidl Minimal Indirect Reference - A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface (Paperback)
Amanda Seidl
R1,607 Discovery Miles 16 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.

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