| Author | : Peter Ackema |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027227470 |
This text addresses issues in morphosyntax. It covers areas including: noun incorporation; the morphosyntax of periphrastic participal constructions; derivation of lexical integrity; and mismatches between morphosyntax and morphophonology.
| Author | : Peter Ackema |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 1999-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027282250 |
Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax. The view that is defended is that morphological operations do not take place in syntax, but that they are governed by the same principles that govern syntax. There are morphological categories distinct from syntactic categories, which appear in their own domain, below the zero X-bar level, so in this sense there is a morphological module. However, this module is not distinct from the syntactic one, in the sense that the same principles apply equally to the morphological and the syntactic domain. Specific topics of discussion include Noun Incorporation, past participle constructions in Germanic (passives, perfects, and auxiliary selection) and Lexical Integrity effects.
| Author | : Thomas E. Payne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 1997-10-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521588058 |
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
| Author | : Danuta Gabryś |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1847690653 |
This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching.
| Author | : Andreas Dufter |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1104 |
| Release | : 2017-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110393425 |
This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.
| Author | : M. Rita Manzini |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2018-10-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501505149 |
This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania. These languages are set in the context of current generative research on syntax, morphology, language variation and contact – yielding insights into key morphosyntactic notions of case, agreement, complementation, and into phenomena such as Differential Object Marking, the Person Case Constraint, linkers and control.
| Author | : Maria Polinsky |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2018-08-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1107047641 |
A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.
| Author | : Peter Ackema |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2004-10-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191533041 |
The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch. Their exposition combines insights from lexicalism and distributed morphology, and is expressed in terms accessible to scholars and advanced students. - unique exploration of interfaces of morphology with syntax and phonology - wide empirical scope with many new observations - theoretically innovative and important - accessible to students with chapters designed for use in teaching
| Author | : Karen De Clercq |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2020-06-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 150151377X |
This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.
