Morphology-driven Syntax
Morphology-driven Syntax

Author: Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9027227365

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This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for “person” are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.

Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax
Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax

Author: Brian Roark

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-08-09

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199274770

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"The authors discuss the nature and uses of syntactic parsers and examine the problems and opportunities of parsing algorithms for finite-state, context-free, and various context-sensitive grammars.

Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax
Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax

Author: Lunella Mereu

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-06-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9027284628

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The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lexical-functional grammar to grammaticalization theory, taking into account both synchronic variation and diachronic change. The volume is divided into three sections: I. Morphological phenomena and their boundaries, II. Morpho-syntax and pragmatics, and III. Morpho-syntax and semantics, as the interaction with the higher components of the grammar is seen as contributing to explaining variation in morpho-syntactic behaviour.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Author: Stefan Müller

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published:

Total Pages: 1632

ISBN-13: 3961102554

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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).

A Morphology-driven Syntax of Arabic Clauses
A Morphology-driven Syntax of Arabic Clauses

Author: Ali S. Ellafi

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783843366847

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This book examines the formal features of verbal predicates and their nominal arguments in Arabic clauses. Four types of constructions are examined in particular: simple two-place predicates, ditransitive three-place predicates, copular constructions and progressive constructions. In relation to these, the formal features that are examined include the so called "phi-features" [Person, Gender, Number], verbal TAM features [Tense, Aspect, Mood], and Case and Definiteness features [Case, Def] on nominals. The way these features interact with the possible word order variation permitted by each type of construction is accounted for in light of recent developments in Minimalist Syntax (Chomsky 1998, 1999, 2001). The title of the book reflects a change in the way that Chomskyan generative syntax is perceived: syntactic operations are driven by the need to check the morphological properties of words, suggesting therefore a bottom-up approach to grammar. The book is a recommended reading for students and researchers of syntactic theory and Arabic grammar alike.

Beginning Morphology and Syntax
Beginning Morphology and Syntax

Author: Benjamin Franklin Elson

Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Prepares students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language. ¿Laboratory Manual for Morphology and Syntax¿ should be used with this book.

One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics
One-to-many-relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics

Author: Berthold Crysmann

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 3961103070

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The standard view of the form-meaning interfaces, as embraced by the great majority of contemporary grammatical frameworks, consists in the assumption that meaning can be associated with grammatical form in a one-to-one correspondence. Under this view, composition is quite straightforward, involving concatenation of form, paired with functional application in meaning. In this book, we discuss linguistic phenomena across several grammatical sub-modules (morphology, syntax, semantics) that apparently pose a problem to the standard view, mapping out the potential for deviation from the ideal of one-to-one correspondences, and develop formal accounts of the range of phenomena. We argue that a constraint-based perspective is particularly apt to accommodate deviations from one-to-many correspondences, as it allows us to impose constraints on full structures (such as a complete word or the interpretation of a full sentence) instead of deriving such structures step by step. Most of the papers in this volume are formulated in a particular constraint-based grammar framework, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The contributions investigate how the lexical and constructional aspects of this theory can be combined to provide an answer to this question across different linguistic sub-theories.

Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information
Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information

Author: Uwe Junghanns

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-11-21

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 3110904756

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The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian. The overall question discussed in this book is to what extent morphological information shows up in syntactic structures and how this information is represented. The authors adopt different theoretical frameworks such as the Derivational Theory of Morphology, Distributed Optimality, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Lexical Decomposition Grammar combined with Linking Theory and OT-like constraints, Paradigm-Based Morphosyntax as well as the Principles and Parameters Approach of Generative Grammar.

Complex Predicates
Complex Predicates

Author: Leila Lomashvili

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9027287198

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Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the functional morphology associated with the argument structure of these constructions is unusually rich. Due to such focus, the syntax-morphology interface in causative and applicative constructions is subject to scrutiny in two main chapters of the book. The analysis includes the argument structure of causatives and applicatives along with the morpho-phonological instantiation of the functional heads involved in these constructions. The book is written very clearly and is accessible for a wide audience including undergraduate students in the introductory syntax and morphology courses as well as graduate students in basic syntax courses and seminars in linguistics. It naturally appeals to a general linguistic audience interested in theoretical linguistics.

Syntax Within the Word
Syntax Within the Word

Author: Daniel Siddiqi

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9027255210

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Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph provides analyses of familiar data much of which has not been treated within the framework: argument selection, stem allomorphy and suppletion, nominal compounds in English (feet-first vs. *heads-first), and the structure of the verb phrase. This monograph also proposes a future for the theory in the form of revisions to DM including: the elimination of readjustment rules, a new economy constraint (Minimize Exponence) that triggers fusion of functional heads, and a feature blocking system.