This book is the first to bring together applications of cognitive grammar for a range of stylistic purposes, including the analysis of both literary and non-literary discourse. Chapters apply this framework to poetry, narrative fiction, comics, pre...Loe edasi...
A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don’t know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the r...Loe edasi...
A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don’t know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the r...Loe edasi...
Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the very first generative linguists who brought the theoreti...Loe edasi...
Sari: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Dec-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319645704)
This textbook examines empirical linguistics from a theoretical linguist’s perspective. It provides both a theoretical discussion of what quantitative corpus linguistics entails and detailed, hands-on, step-by-step instructions to implement the techn...Loe edasi...
The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theor...Loe edasi...
Codeswitching occurs when multilingual speakers embed elements of more than one language into the dominant (or Matrix) language within individual utterances of conversation. Igbo-English Bilingualism explores the syntax of bilingual codeswi...Loe edasi...
Integrating and expanding on previous publications about irregular negations and their deployment in idiomatic speech, the author has developed this core aspect of his research into a systematic exposition of his latest thinking. As well as the...Loe edasi...
The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems, providing unified explanations of the observation that suffixes predominate over prefixes and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107088832)
Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a languages morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant evidence from a wide range of languages (French, Hua, Hungarian,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319229904)
This volume combines psycholinguistic experiments with typological investigations in order to provide a comprehensive exploration of the linguistic structure of verb-number agreement in bilingual speakers, with a particular focus on the Turkish langu...Loe edasi...
Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a languages morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on abundant linguistic evidence, Stump develops a new theoretical framework t...Loe edasi...
The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in particular considers how successive utterances cohere together in continuous spoken discourse. Beginning with an earlie...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach....Loe edasi...
The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises t...Loe edasi...
Typical cases of agreement are easy to identify, but where the boundaries of agreement lie depend on what aspects of the agreement relation are considered to be defining properties. It is a short step from viewing agreement in the traditional way,...Loe edasi...
This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, wit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: St. Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250060419)
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The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystals classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuat...Loe edasi...
Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field.Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesi...Loe edasi...
Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen, Stephen Wechsler
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2015, Other digital carrier, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN-13: 9781119105664)
Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthe...Loe edasi...
This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis an...Loe edasi...
The answer to the question "How can we understand and use a definition " provides new constraints on natural language and on the internal language in which meaning is mentally represented. Most syntax takes the sentence as the basic unit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319141015)
This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of re...Loe edasi...
Sari: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Mar-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783662463666)
?This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be cate...Loe edasi...
Truth without Predication contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate senten...Loe edasi...
