[PDF] Syntactic And Semantic Variation In Copular Sentences eBook

Author : Daniel J. Wilson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260966

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This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative semantics. Approaching this subject from the framework of Distributed Morphology provides an elegant and comprehensive explanation for both the syntactic and semantic variation in these sentences. This book also presents a theoretical model for analyzing copular sentences in other languages included related phenomena– such as pseudo-copulas. It is also a demonstration of what can be gained by applying modern linguistic analyses to dead languages. Citing and building off previous studies on this topic, this book will be of interest to those interested in the theoretical examination of copular and existential sentences and to those interested in Classical Hebrew more specifically.

Author : María J. Arche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192565427

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This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.

Author : Line Mikkelsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027294135

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This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses — one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit — but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.

Author : Aaron D. Hornkohl
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1800641664

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Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume is the published outcome of this initiative. It contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260877

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Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground are sentences with sub­ject inversion, subject suppression and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for text begin­nings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic exclamatives, thus speech acts without com­mu­nicative goals – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contribu­tions in this volume not only guide the reader through the history of philosophical logic and distributions of impersonals in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast to German and English, sport specific morphological markers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.

Author : Michael Lumsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317933710

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What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.

Author : Line Mikkelsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228093

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LC Number: 2005054553

Author : Susann Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443898007

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This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.

Author : Mónica Cabrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108488277

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An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

Author : Isabelle Roy (Writer on linguistics)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199543542

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This book concerns the interpretation and structure of non-verbal predicates in copular sentences (i.e. sentences with the verb 'be'). The author provides a unifying analysis based on a ternary distinction between defining/characterizing/situation-descriptive predicates.