[PDF] Typological Studies eBook

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317691237

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In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.

Author : Peter Kahrel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275106

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This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of the same questionnaire. Most work on this subject deals with syntactic aspects of negation; this volume attempts to include pragmatic and semantic issues as well, such as the expression of negative indefinites, interaction of negation and quantifiers, the scope of negation, and the choice of a particular form of negation in cases where there are several ways to express this. For a number of less-known languages descriptions offering a wealth of data are presented here, and in the articles about well-studied languages, new data and analyses of more complicated issues are provided.

Author : Tomas Riad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110207567

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Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, while others focus on the historical development of prosodic systems. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027278601

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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 : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317691245

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In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 37,35 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 : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229759

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The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic topology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.

Author : Joan L. Bybee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283915

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This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that create them. For the student, the clear discussion of morphology and morphophonemics and the rich variety of data brought in on the way to the theoretical conclusion is material for a direct learning experience.

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110641283

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Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization.

Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027211981

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Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.