The Syntax of Yes and No - 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 Syntax of Yes and No write by Anders Holmberg. This book was released on 2016. The Syntax of Yes and No available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no questions: those that employ particles such as 'yes' and 'no' (as found in English) and those that echo a part of the question, usually the finite verb, with or without negation (as found in Finnish). The latter are uncontroversially derived by ellipsis, while the former have been claimed to be clause substitutes. Anders Holmberg argues instead that even answers that employ particles are complete sentences, derived by ellipsis from full sentential expressions, and that the two types share essential syntactic properties. The book also examines the related cross-linguistic and intralinguistic variation observed in answers to negative questions such as 'does he not drink coffee?', whereby 'yes' in one language appears to correspond to 'no' in another. The book illustrates how a seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging consequences for theories of language, and will be of interest not only to theoretical linguists but also to students and scholars of typological and descriptive linguistics.
Syntax of Yes and No
Syntax of Yes and No - 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 Syntax of Yes and No write by Holmberg. This book was released on 2015. Syntax of Yes and No available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Minimalist Syntax
Minimalist 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 Minimalist Syntax write by Andrew Radford. This book was released on 2004-05-27. Minimalist Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 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 Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary write by Kate Woodford. This book was released on 2003. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Asking Questions
Asking Questions - 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 Asking Questions write by Robert Fiengo. This book was released on 2007-05-03. Asking Questions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asking Questions examines a central phenomenon of language - the use of sentences to ask questions. Although there is a sizable literature on the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the logic of "questions", and the speech act of questioning, no one has tried to put the syntax and semantics together with the speech acts over the full range of phenomena we pretheoretically think of as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not only does this, but also takes up some more foundational issues in the theory of language. By positioning the findings of contemporary grammatical theorizing within the larger domain of language use, Fiengo challenges the use theorist to acknowledge the importance of grammatical form and the grammarian to acknowledge the importance of use. In addition to developing an Austinian distinction between four questioning speech-acts, and a proposal concerning the philosophy of language, Asking Questions contains a useful discussion of the type-token distinction and how use of language compares with use of other things. Fiengo also considers the nature of multiple questions, revealing what one must know to ask them, and what speech acts one may perform when asking them. Asking Questions advances our understanding of a wide range of issues in a number of important respects. Scholars and students of linguistics and philosophy will find plenty to interest them in this pioneering work.
