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Author : Firew Girma Worku
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004449914
This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027235171
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.
Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category : English language
ISBN : 3961100837
This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.
Author : Maria-Margarita Makri
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2018
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Author : Susan Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1315518910
This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages display a range of constructions equally compatible with the suggested pattern of possibilities resulting from the general constraints proposed. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004207686
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.
Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027204322
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
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ISBN : 3961101418
Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.
Author : Charles J. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Semantics
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Author : Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257930
Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.