Morphosyntactic Alternations in English - 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 Morphosyntactic Alternations in English write by Pilar Guerrero Medina. This book was released on 2011. Morphosyntactic Alternations in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of "diathesis alternations" --broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as "alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning" --i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ --derivational and non-derivational-- will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.
Language Usage and Language Structure
Language Usage and Language 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 Language Usage and Language Structure write by Kasper Boye. This book was released on 2010. Language Usage and Language Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure
Morphosyntactic Change
Morphosyntactic 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 Morphosyntactic Change write by Olga Fischer. This book was released on 2007. Morphosyntactic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change. After introducing the aims and methods of historical linguistics, Olga Fischer provides an exposition of the main theories used to describe morphosyntactic change and a full account of the causes and mechanisms by which their leading exponents seek to explain it. She measures the effectiveness of rival theories and methods in different contexts and in the process throws fresh light on the balance of factors influencing linguistic change. Professor Fischer emphazises the unity of form and meaning in the linguistic sign and examines the role played by analogy. She looks at how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and explores the relationship between external and internal causes of change. She considers whether morphosyntactic change is gradual or abrupt and discusses how far rates of change reflect the degree to which grammar is innate or learned. She uses detailed case studies to illustrate different types of morphosyntactic change, and to show how each theory fares when put into practice. The author's clear style and her balanced approach to this fascinating and complex subject combine to make this a book that will be of central interest and value to scholars and students of linguistic change, at graduate level and above.
The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics - 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 Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics write by Kimberly L. Geeslin. This book was released on 2018-08-23. The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.
A Functional Discourse Grammar for English
A Functional Discourse Grammar for English - 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 Functional Discourse Grammar for English write by Evelien Keizer. This book was released on 2015. A Functional Discourse Grammar for English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This textbook explores functional discourse grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological level. The book focuses principally on English and provides extensive exercises for students to use and evaluate the theory.
