Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference - 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 Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference write by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr. This book was released on 2013-11-29. Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic - 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 Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic write by Antonia Petronella Sleeman. This book was released on 2011. The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.
Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe
Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe - 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 Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe write by Frans Plank. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.
Views on Phrase Structure
Views on Phrase 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 Views on Phrase Structure write by K. Leffel. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Views on Phrase Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici pants in the conference were able to contribute to this volume. The purpose of the conference was to explore theories of phrase structure in their relation to other subsystems of grammar and/or systems of nonlinguistic knowledge. Some of the grammatical subsystems which the authors consider are theta-theory, movement, Case, and binding; a number of papers address how the conceptual system and/or aspects of language use may interact. Unifying the various approaches and perspectives is an attempt to furnish hypotheses concerning prin ciples of phrase structure with some sort of independent justification. 1. PHRASE STRUCTURE THEORY: A BRIEF HISTORY A basic outline for a theory of phrase structure theory is accepted by all of the authors here; it is known as 'X-bar theory'. The concepts of X-bar theory are expressed in some form by a number of pre-generative linguists. For example, Bloomfield (1933) contrasted endocentric struc tures such as noun phrases and verb phrases with those he considered exocentric, e. g. prepositional phrases and clauses. Jespersen (1933), while presenting a functional system of description (in terms of 'ranks', where rank one is 'nominal', for example), clarified the relations among the head of a phrase, its modifier, and a phrase which modifies the modifier.
Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences
Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences - 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 Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences write by Christa Bhatt. This book was released on 1989. Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different definitions of the notion Barrier. The ten papers deal with certain aspects of English and German noun phrases.
