Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English write by Dagmar Haumann. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the hypothesis that the licensing of adverbs within and across the three layers of the clause is contingent on specifier-head agreement and that variation in the linear order of adverbs and other elements of the clause follows from the interplay of a small number of factors. The central claims made are: functional projections hosting adverbs are not confined to the inflectional and complementizer layer of the clause, but also play a central role in the shaping of the lexical layer; postverbal adverbs are realized within a semantically empty verbal projection and licensed under specifier head agreement by proxy; and adverbs that occur within the complementizer layer of the clause do so by either move or merge.
Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative
Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative write by Eric Potsdam. This book was released on 2019-07-12. Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1998. This work is an unrevised version of my 1996 University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. dissertation. The only changes that have been made are corrections of typographical errors, minor rewording, updating of references, and the inclusion of an index. I would like to thank Rosemary Plapp and Kristi Long for help with proofreading and preparation of the manuscript.
Clauses
Clauses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clauses write by Chandralekha Mathur. This book was released on 2003. Clauses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Clause Structure
Clause Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clause Structure write by Elly van Gelderen. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Clause Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human brain. This volume presents a clear and up-to-date overview of the Minimalist Program, synthesizes the most important research findings, and explores the major shifts in generative syntax. As an accessible topic book, it includes chapters on framework, the clause in general, and the semantic, grammatical and pragmatic layers. Designed for graduate students and researchers interested in syntactic theory, this book includes a range of examples taken from data acquisition, typology and language change, alongside discussion questions, helpful suggestions for further reading and a useful glossary.
Grammar – Discourse – Context
Grammar – Discourse – Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammar – Discourse – Context write by Kristin Bech. This book was released on 2019-12-20. Grammar – Discourse – Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
