This book seeks to investigate the distinction between endocentricity and exocentricity, and how they are systematically distributed over the syntax-semantics interface....Loe edasi...
Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. The book speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question Why literature matters? remains an urgent intellect...Loe edasi...
This book provides an overview of the structures, topics and main theories of syntactic processing. It covers the last 40 years of sentence-level psycholinguistic research and debates and makes it accessible to both theoretical linguists and experim...Loe edasi...
Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and regular plurals, this book provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology which will engage and excite the reader while building pre-literacy skills and make learning fun, as well as...Loe edasi...
This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodalls previous publications to explore how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studyi...Loe edasi...
Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on...Loe edasi...
This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and r...Loe edasi...
This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume....Loe edasi...
Offering a comprehensive overview of research on adjuncts and foundational minimalist principles, this book will be of particular interest to graduate students and practicing researchers interested in syntax....Loe edasi...
Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating the information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterance, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers attitudes and feelings....Loe edasi...
Reviewing theories about syntax-phonology interface, Dobashi addresses questions of how syntactic objects are mapped to the sensorimotor system. Dobashi develops a null theory of prosodic domains recasting them as domains of interpretation that are...Loe edasi...
This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic the...Loe edasi...
This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukuis pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences....Loe edasi...
This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, this book discussses how the proper boundary between the lexicon and syntax should be defined and examines various word formation processes in Japanese and English which involve some interaction of morphology and syntax...Loe edasi...