(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-1997, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027275820)
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order syst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-1997, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027275875)
This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still comm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-1997, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027281975)
This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027276223)
Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027285645)
This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic struct...Loe edasi...
Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Sari: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Aug-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027282392)
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop...Loe edasi...
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft, Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen
Sari: Studies in Language Companion Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027282019)
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as b...Loe edasi...
