[PDF] Syntactic Constructions In English eBook

Author : Jong-Bok Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108634753

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Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the analyses of particular structures are, but also how and why those analyses are constructed, with each chapter taking the student step-by-step through the reasoning processes that yield the best description of a data set. It offers a wealth of illustrative examples and exercises, largely based on real language data, making it ideal for both self-study and classroom use. Written in an accessible and engaging way, this textbook will open up this increasingly popular linguistic framework to anyone interested in the grammatical patterns of English.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002

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No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748675868

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Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198299547

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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. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.

Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108419569

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Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

Author : David M. Perlmutter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520038288

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[This book] presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly written, it is an invaluable resource for working linguists as well as a pedagogical tool of unequaled depth and breadth. The chief focus of the book is syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals. It includes a wide variety of problems that guide the reader in constructing arguments deciding between alternative analyses of syntactic constructions and alternative theoretical formulations. -- Back cover.

Author : Jong-Bok Kim
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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"Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts"--Publisher's description.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 900436353X

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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226556247

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This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special knowledge of syntax is presupposed, and the number and variety of exercises after each chapter have been increased. And now available from the author! Answers to Selected Exercises. Instructors using James D. McCawley's The Syntactic Phenomena of English, Second Edition may request a complimentary copy of Answers to Selected Exercises in The Syntactic Phenomena of English by writing on their department's letterhead to the author, James D. McCawley, Department of Linguistics, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. [Note: This material is available only from the author and is not available from the University of Chicago Press.]

Author : Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027236542

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The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions.As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.