[PDF] Studies In Syntactic Typology And Constrastive Grammar eBook

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027228914

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The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations, and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of great interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350079197

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Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191544795

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This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'. Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027282374

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The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

Author : Vladimir Ivir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311086911X

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The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker.