Grammatical Relations in Change - 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 Grammatical Relations in Change write by Jan Terje Faarlund. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Grammatical Relations in Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages dealt with include Old English, Mainland Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and other Germanic languages, Latin, French and other Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and Popolocan. This book provides an opportunity to compare different theoretical approaches to similar phenomena in different languages and language families.
Understanding Syntax
Understanding 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 Understanding Syntax write by Maggie Tallerman. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Understanding Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assuming no prior knowledge, Understanding Syntax illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology associated with the study of cross-linguistic syntax. A theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint is taken throughout. Starting with an overview of what syntax is, the book moves on to an explanation of word classes (such as noun, verb, adjective) and then to a discussion of sentence structure in the world’s languages. Grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause are explained and thoroughly illustrated, including grammatical relations such as subject and object; function-changing processes such as the passive and antipassive; case and agreement processes, including both ergative and accusative alignments; verb serialization; head-marking and dependent-marking grammars; configurational and non-configurational languages; questions and relative clauses. The final chapter explains and illustrates the principles involved in writing a brief syntactic sketch of a language, enabling the reader to construct a grammatical sketch of a language known to them. Data from approximately 100 languages appears in the text, with languages representing widely differing geographical areas and distinct language families. The book will be essential for courses in cross-linguistic syntax, language typology, and linguistic fieldwork, as well as for basic syntactic description.
Grammatical Relations
Grammatical Relations - 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 Grammatical Relations write by D. N. S. Bhat. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Grammatical Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object are required in the case of the Indian language of Kannada. Furthermore, the notion of transitivity or transference which forms the basis for postulating grammatical relations does not play the expected central role in all languages: in the case of another Indian language, Manipuri, it is volitionality and transitivity which plays the central role in clause structure. Dr. Bhat argues against the universality and necessity of grammatical relations; his provocative hypothesis will be a challenge to all those concerned with the nature of language.
Grammatical Relations
Grammatical Relations - 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 Grammatical Relations write by Franz Müller-Gotama. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Grammatical Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations
Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations - 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 Categories and Grammatical Relations write by William Croft. This book was released on 1991-01-15. Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analiza: Metodología sintáctica y gramática universal; Bases de las "marcas" lingúísticas para las categorías sintácticas; Hacia una definición externa de las categorias sintácticas; Roles temáticos, semántica verbal y estructura causal; Marcas de casos y orden causal de participantes; Formas verbales y conceptualización de los sucesos.
