Finiteness - 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 Finiteness write by Irina Nikolaeva. This book was released on 2007. Finiteness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understood. Scholars representing a variety of theoretical positions seek to clarify what it is and to establish its usefulness and limitations. In doing so they reveal cross-linguistically valid correlations between subject licensing, subject agreement, tense, syntactic opacity, and independent clausehood; show how these propertiesare associated with finiteness; and discuss what this means for the content of the category. The issues explored include how different grammatical theories represent finiteness; whether the finite/nonfinite distinction is universal; whether there are degrees of finiteness; whether the syntacticnotion of finiteness has a semantic corollary; whether and how finiteness is subject to change; and how finiteness features in language acquisition.Irina Nikolaeva opens the book by describing the history of finiteness and its place in current thinking and research. She then introduces the chapters of the book, comparing the authors' perspectives and showing what they have in common. The book is then divided into four parts. Part I considers the role finiteness plays in formal syntactic theories and Part II its deployment in functional theories and as the subject of research in typology. Parts III and IV look respectively at thefinite/nonfinite opposition in individual languages and at the role finiteness plays in linguistic change and linguistic development. The book is written and structured to appeal to scholars and students of syntax and general linguistics at graduate level and above.
Finiteness Matters
Finiteness Matters - 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 Finiteness Matters write by Kristin Melum Eide. This book was released on 2016-08-25. Finiteness Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness, before elaborating on, modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways.
Finiteness Conditions and Generalized Soluble Groups
Finiteness Conditions and Generalized Soluble Groups - 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 Finiteness Conditions and Generalized Soluble Groups write by Derek J.S. Robinson. This book was released on 2013-06-29. Finiteness Conditions and Generalized Soluble Groups available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of group theoretical properties of two disparate kinds, firstly finiteness conditions or generalizations of finiteness and secondly generalizations of solubility or nilpotence. It will be particularly interesting to discuss groups which possess properties of both types. The origins of the subject may be traced back to the nineteen twenties and thirties and are associated with the names of R. Baer, S.N. Cernikov, K.A. Hirsch, A.G. Kuros, 0.]. Schmidt and H. Wielandt. Since this early period, the body of theory has expanded at an increasingly rapid rate through the efforts of many group theorists, particularly in Germany, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Some of the highest points attained can, perhaps, be found in the work of P. Hall and A.I. Mal'cev on infinite soluble groups. Kuras's well-known book "The theory of groups" has exercised a strong influence on the development of the theory of infinite groups: this is particularly true of the second edition in its English translation of 1955. To cope with the enormous increase in knowledge since that date, a third volume, containing a survey of the contents of a very large number of papers but without proofs, was added to the book in 1967
Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages
Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages - 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 Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages write by Aldo de Luca. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a rigorous and self-contained monograph on a central topic in theoretical computer science. For the first time in book form, original results from the last ten years are presented, some previously unpublished, using combinatorial and algebraic methods. These are mainly based on combinatorics on words and especially on the theory of "unavoidable regularities." Researchers will find important new results on semigroups and formal languages, as well as various applications for these methods.
Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations
Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations - 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 Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations write by Christiane Rousseau. This book was released on 2004-02-29. Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proceedings of the Nato Advanced Study Institute, held in Montreal, Canada, from 8 to 19 July 2002
