Explorations in Nominal Inflection - 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 Explorations in Nominal Inflection write by Gereon Müller. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Explorations in Nominal Inflection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks. James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and Economy Bernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification in Russian Declension
The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks - 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 Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks write by Monika Rathert. This book was released on 2010-08-31. The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.
Yearbook of Morphology 2004
Yearbook of Morphology 2004 - 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 Yearbook of Morphology 2004 write by Geert E. Booij. This book was released on 2006-07-11. Yearbook of Morphology 2004 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2004 a number of papers is devoted to the topic ‘morphology and linguistic typology’. These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the context of this denominator, a number of issues are discussed wich bear upon universals and typology. These issues include: universals and diachrony, sign language, syncretism, periphrasis, etc.
A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord
A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord - 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 A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord write by Marco Benincasa. This book was released on 2018-03-26. A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book focusses on the grammatical feature definiteness in German, visible in the inflection of adjectives (ein schön-es Kind vs. das schön-e Kind). It argues for an analysis of this effect that draws a connection to the visible categories of number and gender on nouns and related words rather than an abstract property. This conclusion rests on the conflation of the established grammatical categories into a single one, number-gender, which explains a vast body of grammatical phenomena in German and principles of language in general.
Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries
Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries - 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 Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries write by Dorian Roehrs. This book was released on 2009. Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are base generated below adjectives and subsequently move to the left periphery in a successive-cyclic fashion. Demonstrating that determiners are complex elements, it is proposed that languages vary with regard to when and what part of the determiner they move. This provides a novel account of the variation in the Scandinavian noun phrase. With various copies left behind by moving the determiner, the restrictive and non-restrictive readings of adjectives and relative clauses are suggested to follow from the interpretation of these different copies. The system is extended to the strong and weak adjective inflections in German. Proposing that determiners are auxiliaries in the nominal domain explains these apparently unrelated data in a uniform way.
