[PDF] The Role Of Functions In Syntax eBook

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267286

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The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different when they encode different meanings. Even if languages encode the same meaning, they may differ with respect to the formal means used to code those meanings. This approach allows for a typology based on functional domains, subdomains and functions coded in individual languages. The outcome of the study is a unified approach to language theory, linguistic typology, and descriptive linguistics. The argumentation for the hypotheses and the proposed approach is supported by analyses of data from more than a dozen languages, including English, Polish, French, Wandala, Mina, Hdi, and several other Chadic languages. The study is accessible to a wide variety of linguists.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228024

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LC number: 2005048395

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401009910

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The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Author : Hadley Wickham
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1498759807

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An Essential Reference for Intermediate and Advanced R Programmers Advanced R presents useful tools and techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems, helping you avoid mistakes and dead ends. With more than ten years of experience programming in R, the author illustrates the elegance, beauty, and flexibility at the heart of R. The book develops the necessary skills to produce quality code that can be used in a variety of circumstances. You will learn: The fundamentals of R, including standard data types and functions Functional programming as a useful framework for solving wide classes of problems The positives and negatives of metaprogramming How to write fast, memory-efficient code This book not only helps current R users become R programmers but also shows existing programmers what’s special about R. Intermediate R programmers can dive deeper into R and learn new strategies for solving diverse problems while programmers from other languages can learn the details of R and understand why R works the way it does.

Author : Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521499156

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An introduction to syntactic theory and analysis.

Author : Peter Seibel
Publisher : Apress
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1430200170

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* Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp course that most schools teach . This would appeal to students who sat through a LISP course in college without quite getting it – so a "nostalgia" approach, as in "wow-lisp can be practical..." * Discusses the Lisp programming model and environment. Contains an introduction to the language and gives a thorough overview of all of Common Lisp’s main features. * Designed for experienced programmers no matter what languages they may be coming from and written for a modern audience—programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, Python, and Perl. * Includes several examples of working code that actually does something useful like Web programming and database access.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729433X

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This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on long-standing problems in syntactic theory and universal grammar. The contributions include novel theoretical and empirical approaches to infinitives, the syntax and acquisition of Verb Second, the structure and interpretation of present tense, the syntax and semantics of reflexives, the relationship between expletive syntax and the EPP, the syntax of possession, and the DP-internal syntax of pronouns. Some contributions present the results of experimental research which provide an entirely fresh perspective on previously unchallenged claims.

Author : Josef Hladký
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027296731

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The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.

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Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : English language
ISBN : 0595283152

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For the educated, this book is an invaluable resource, one that allows for easy reference to any grammatical concept imaginable. the book gives thousands of examples, but it also provides explicit reasoning why we should speak and write following certain patterns. Don't feel like studying for hours to learn a concept? Look here for the diagrams you need to understand why things go where they go in a sentence. Did he act foolish? OR Did he act foolishly? Both answers are here. If you are in college, grad school, or simply interested, you decide what you want to know-your answers are here. Written by two professors who hate to condescend but love to teach, English Grammar and Syntax cuts through the pedantic wasteland.

Author : Roberto Ierusalimschy
Publisher : Roberto Ierusalimschy
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8590379825

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Authored by Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of the language, this volume covers all aspects of Lua 5---from the basics to its API with C---explaining how to make good use of its features and giving numerous code examples. (Computer Books)