Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections . The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax - 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 Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections . The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax write by Leslie Saxon. This book was released on 2005. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections . The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax - 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 The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax write by Guglielmo Cinque. This book was released on 2008-10-16. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Contrast and Representations in Syntax
Contrast and Representations in Syntax - 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 Contrast and Representations in Syntax write by Bronwyn M. Bjorkman. This book was released on 2020-10-05. Contrast and Representations in Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast between present and past tense - are encoded in the syntax of natural languages. The chapters approach the topic from a range of perspectives, drawing on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages, including Blackfoot, Greek, Onondaga, and Scottish Gaelic.
The Syntax of Aspect
The Syntax of Aspect - 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 The Syntax of Aspect write by Nomi Erteschik-Shir. This book was released on 2005-05-26. The Syntax of Aspect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic information. Various theories are developed in this collection, including those that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of Hale and Keyser, prominent among which is the chapter by Hale and Keyser themselves. By examining different phenomena in a cross-linguistic perspective, this book develops insights into the general theoretical question of universal grammar and acquisition as well as into the specific nature of the lexicon-syntax interface. It is a major contribution to modern syntactic theory.
Catching Language
Catching Language - 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 Catching Language write by Felix K. Ameka. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Catching Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's distinctive genius with an awareness of how other languages work, to combine rigour with readability, to depict structural regularities while respecting a corpus of real material, and to represent something of the native speaker's competence while recognising the variation inherent in any speech community. Despite a recent surge of awareness of the need to document little-known languages, there is no book that focusses on the manifold issues that face the author of a descriptive grammar. This volume brings together contributors who approach the problem from a range of angles. Most have written descriptive grammars themselves, but others represent different types of reader. Among the topics they address are: overall issues of grammar design, the complementary roles of outsider and native speaker grammarians, the balance between grammar and lexicon, cross-linguistic comparability, the role of explanation in grammatical description, the interplay of theory and a range of fieldwork methods in language description, the challenges of describing languages in their cultural and historical context, and the tensions between linguistic particularity, established practice of particular schools of linguistic description and the need for a universally commensurable analytic framework. This book will renew the field of grammaticography, addressing a multiple readership of descriptive linguists, typologists, and formal linguists, by bringing together a range of distinguished practitioners from around the world to address these questions.
