How Grammar Links Concepts
How Grammar Links Concepts

Author: Friedrich Ungerer

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-07-26

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 902726578X

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The proposed framework of concept linking combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this goal the idea of a unified network of constructions is replaced by the triad of verb-mediated constructions, attribution and scope-based perspectivizing, each of them understood as a syntactically effective concept-linking mechanism in its own right, but involved in interfaces with the other mechanisms. In addition, concept linking supplies a novel approach to early child language. It casts fresh light on widely accepted descriptions of early two-word utterances and verb islands in usage-based models of language acquisition and encourages a new view of children’s ‘mistakes’. Intended readership: Constructionist and cognitive linguists; linguists and psychologists interested in language acquisition; teachers and students of English grammar and grammar in general.

Language Links
Language Links

Author: Adrian Doff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783125341449

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Grammar Links 1
Grammar Links 1

Author: Mahnke

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780618274161

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Grammar Links Level 1 Volume B contains chapters 15-25 of Grammar Links Level 1.

Grammar Alive!
Grammar Alive!

Author: Brock Haussamen

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Offers elementary teachers advice and strategies to help them teach, apply, and understand English grammar while still adhering to state and school standards.

A Course Book in English Grammar
A Course Book in English Grammar

Author: Dennis Freeborn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1995-07-05

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1349240796

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The study of language in written texts and transcripts of speech is greatly helped by a student's abilityBB to identify and describe those prominent features of the grammar which make one variety of English different from another. A Course Book in English Grammar looks at many of the problems encountered by students and encourages them to find their own answers and to assess hypotheses about grammatical description. There are activities at each step, using authentic written and spoken data. Using 'real' texts avoids the faking of evidence to be found in some traditional grammar books, and interesting problems of analysis that arise in such texts are a source of useful discussion. The book has been thoroughly revised and expanded for this second edition, which contains additional chapters and material. A new opening chapter discusses the concept of 'grammatically correct English' and the differences between descriptive, prescriptive and proscriptive approaches to the writing of grammar books. The book is a systematic description of Standard English, and examples of contemporary spoken dialectal grammar are introduced and analysed to illustrate the differences between standard and nonstandard usage. A Course Book in English Grammar will prove invaluable to all students of English Language.

The evolution of case grammar
The evolution of case grammar

Author: Remi van Trijp

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 394623433X

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There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today. However, despite centuries worth of research, case has yet to reveal its most important secrets. This book offers breakthrough explanations for the understanding of case through agent-based experiments in cultural language evolution. The experiments demonstrate that case systems may emerge because they have a selective advantage for communication: they reduce the cognitive effort that listeners need for semantic interpretation, while at the same time limiting the cognitive resources required for doing so.

Grammatical Inference and Applications
Grammatical Inference and Applications

Author: Rafael C. Carrasco

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1994-09-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9783540584735

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-94), held in Alicante, Spain in September 1994. Besides 25 research papers carefully selected and refereed by the program committee, the book contains a survey by E. Vidal. The book is devoted to all those aspects of automatic learning that explicitly focus on principles, theory, and applications of grammars and languages. The papers are organized in sections on formal aspects; language modelling and linguistic applications; stochastic approaches, applications and performance analysis; and neural networks, genetic algorithms, and artificial intelligence techniques.

Language Diversity and World Englishes
Language Diversity and World Englishes

Author: Dan Clayton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1108402259

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Essential study guides for the future linguist. Language Diversity and World Englishes is an introduction to the variation of English throughout the UK and around the world. It is suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it examines how language varies among different geographical, ethnic and social groups, as well as looking at differing perceptions of language varieties. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, this book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.

Advances in Natural Language Processing
Advances in Natural Language Processing

Author: Tapio Salakoski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-10

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 3540373349

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, FinTAL 2006, held in Turku, Finland in August 2006. The book presents 72 revised full papers together with 1 invited talk and the extended abstracts of 2 invited keynote addresses. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.