[PDF] Unaccusativity And Movement In Russian eBook

Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110293501

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This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

Author : Sebastian Kempgen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110214474

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Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199257652

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The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0195136519

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Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.

Author : Olga Kagan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9400752253

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The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.

Author : Jill de Villiers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2011-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9400716885

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Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.