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Call of the Wild (Paperback)
Jack London; Illustrated by Melanie Reim; Retold by Hagit Borer
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Buck, a big, powerful dog, is kidnapped from his California home
and sold as a sled dog in the Arctic. In his new environment, he
must learn quickly how to deal with man's club and dog's fang, or
he will not be able to survive. How will Buck not only survives,
but becomes a leader of dogs, and eventually a a leader of wolves.
He is transformed by two almost opposite forces. His love for John
Thornton who saved his life, and the memories that awaken within
him of the ways of his ancestors, both dogs and wolves.
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the
main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This
branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is
concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of
linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into
the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high
quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues.
The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from
syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to
studies of the lexicon.
This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into
the structure of complex nominals since the publication of
Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970. In the last 50 years
of research into the division of labour between the mental lexicon
and syntax, the specific properties of nominalized structures have
remained a particularly central question. The chapters in this
volume take stock of developments in this area and offer new
perspectives on a range of issues, including the representation of
morphological complexity in the syntax, the correlation of nominal
affixes with different types of nominalizations, and the modelling
of non-compositional meaning within syntactic approaches to word
formation. Crucially, the contributors base their analyses on data
from typologically diverse languages, such as Archi, Greek, Hiaki,
Icelandic, Mebengokre, Turkish, and Udmurt, and explore the
question of whether, cross-linguistically, nominalizations have a
uniform core to their structure that can be syntactically
described.
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 constructional approaches to syntax
and the long generative tradition that uses the word as the nucleus
around which the syntax grows. She argues that the hierarchical,
abstract structures of language are universal, not language
specific, 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 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 constructional approaches to syntax
and the long generative tradition that uses the word as the nucleus
around which the syntax grows. She argues that the hierarchical,
abstract structures of language are universal, not language
specific, 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 of internal 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.
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 constructional approaches to syntax
and the long generative tradition that uses the word as the nucleus
around which the syntax grows. She argues that the hierarchical,
abstract structures of language are universal, not language
specific, 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 of internal 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.
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 constructional approaches to syntax
and the long generative tradition that uses the word as the nucleus
around which the syntax grows. She argues that the hierarchical,
abstract structures of language are universal, not language
specific, 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.
This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core
elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the
interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of
their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that
interaction. Issues addressed in the book include the semantics and
phonology of roots in isolation and in context; the categorial
specification of roots; and the role of phases in word formation.
Internationally recognized scholars approach these topics from a
variety of theoretical backgrounds, drawing on data from languages
including German, Hebrew, and Modern Greek. The book will be of
interest to linguistics students and researchers of all theoretical
persuasions from graduate level upwards.
Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however
defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to
demonstrate over three volumes 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
language specific constructional approaches and from lexicalist
approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures
determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from
the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional
material. Taking Form, the third and final volume of Structuring
Sense, applies this radical approach to the construction of complex
words. Integrating research in syntax and morphology, the author
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.
Within such a model, syntactic category, syntactic selection and
argument structure are all mediated through syntactic structures
projected from rigid functions, or alternatively, constructed
through general combinatorial principles of syntax, such as
Chomsky's Merge. The meaning of 'words', in turn, does not involve
the existence of lexemes, but rather the matching of a well-defined
and phonologically articulated syntactic domain with conceptual
Content, itself outside the domain of language as such. In a
departure from most current models of syntax but in line with many
philosophical traditions, then, the Exo-Skeletal model partitions
'meaning' into formal functions, on the one hand, and Content, on
the other hand. While the former are read off syntactico-semantic
structures as is usually assumed, Content is crucially read off
syntactico-phonological structures.
These conference proceedings examine various aspects of formal
linguistics. Individual topics covered include: sequences of tense,
intentionality and scope; empty consonants and direct prosody;
syllable weight and quantity in Dutch; finite control on modern
Persian; and copular sentences.
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