| Author | : Matthew Baerman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2005-09-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521821810 |
This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages.
| Author | : Tibor Kiss |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 2015-02-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110393166 |
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.
| Author | : Leila Lomashvili |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027255571 |
Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the functional morphology associated with the argument structure of these constructions is unusually rich. Due to such focus, the syntax-morphology interface in causative and applicative constructions is subject to scrutiny in two main chapters of the book. The analysis includes the argument structure of causatives and applicatives along with the morpho-phonological instantiation of the functional heads involved in these constructions. The book is written very clearly and is accessible for a wide audience including undergraduate students in the introductory syntax and morphology courses as well as graduate students in basic syntax courses and seminars in linguistics. It naturally appeals to a general linguistic audience interested in theoretical linguistics.
| Author | : Alexandra Galani |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902725561X |
One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.
| Author | : Rochelle Lieber |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521895499 |
A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.
| Author | : Itamar Kastner |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961102570 |
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible values of the head Voice. The formal assumptions are as similar as possible to those made in work on non-Semitic languages. The first part of the book (four chapters) is devoted to Hebrew; the second part (two chapters) compares the current theory with other approaches to Voice and argument structure in the recent literature.
| Author | : Gillian Ramchand |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 686 |
| Release | : 2007-02-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199247455 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.
| 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 | : Lunella Mereu |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1999-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027284628 |
The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change. The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.
