Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on ex...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108841504)
This is the first full-scale discussion of English phonology since Chomsky and Halles seminal The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). The book enphasizes the analysis using ordered rules and builds on SPE by incorporating lexical and metrical and prosod...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-scale discussion of English phonology since Chomsky & Halles seminal The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). The book emphasizes the analysis using ordered rules and builds on SPE by incorporating lexical and metrical and prosodi...Loe edasi...
Why does English pronunciation differ from other related languages? This book addresses this and other questions by analysing a high number of innovative Middle English spellings. Stenbrenden explores the changes in long-vowel pronunciation, using em...Loe edasi...
A language columnist helps readers approach grammar with confidence, in a practical guide that provides a fresh foundation in English syntax, from the basic parts of speech and sentence structure to usage and grammar dos and don’ts. Original....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027257277)
Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, P...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jul-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262035637)
A bold argument that and always means &, the truth-functional sentential connective.In this book, Barry Schein argues that and is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. And always means &, acr...Loe edasi...
Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some...Loe edasi...
This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a cons...Loe edasi...
This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. This study concerns certain aspects of the relationship betwee...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107055759)
The English language has undergone many sound changes in its long history. Some of these changes had a profound effect on the pronunciation of the language. A number of these significant instances of language evolution are generally grouped together...Loe edasi...
Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which...Loe edasi...
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the termexistential sentence (ES) to designate all and only thos...Loe edasi...
Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some...Loe edasi...
This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a cons...Loe edasi...
This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. This study concerns certain aspects of the relationship betwee...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631645901)
In a revision of her April 2013 doctoral dissertation at the University of Cologne, Gather analyzes the phenomenon of syntactic dislocation in English congregational song from the 16th century to the 19th in order to examine its development and disco...Loe edasi...
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(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781623560218)
Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which ha...Loe edasi...
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only tho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, ISBN-13: 9781575866659)
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De se statements are emphatic assertions in which speakers make fundamental claims about either themselves or others. In English, they are usually conveyed via I statements or third person reflexive pronouns, e.g. she herself, he himself. De s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, ISBN-13: 9781575866642)
In English, we use the word I to express thoughts that we have about ourselves, and we use the reflexive pronouns himself and herself to attribute such thoughts to others. Philosophers and linguists call such thoughts, and the statements w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027253163)
The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, The DP Domain and Le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2012, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034310376)
This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2014This volume investigates Left Dislocation (LD) in the recent history of English, especially in the Late Modern English period, from the syntactic, semantic, informational and disco...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027256218)
The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the t...Loe edasi...
