Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses - 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 Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses write by Folke Josephson. This book was released on 2008. Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.
Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses
Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses - 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 Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses write by Folke Josephson. This book was released on 2008-08-29. Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.
Diachrony of differential argument marking
Diachrony of differential argument marking - 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 Diachrony of differential argument marking write by Ilja A. Seržant. This book was released on 2018. Diachrony of differential argument marking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.
Modality and Subordinators
Modality and Subordinators - 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 Modality and Subordinators write by Jackie Nordstrom. This book was released on 2010. Modality and Subordinators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and "that" and "if "depending on the speaker s and/or the subject s certainty of the truth of the proposition."
Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface
Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface - 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 Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface write by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.. This book was released on 2008-11-21. Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari’ (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.
