On deletion phenomena in English
On deletion phenomena in English

Author: John Thomas Grinder

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3111352234

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions
Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions

Author: Julia Bacskai-Atkari

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3961100837

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.

The Syntactic Phenomena of English
The Syntactic Phenomena of English

Author: James D. McCawley

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-04-25

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 9780226556277

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Comprises a thorough treatment of the syntactic structures of English, beginning with an overview to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. Updates from the 1988 edition include sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Author: Marcel den Dikken

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 1107354587

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

The Language Organ
The Language Organ

Author: Stephen R. Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-09-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521007832

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book discusses the biological basis for a person's use of language.

Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German
Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German

Author: Hans C. Boas

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-07-09

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 3110457156

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic Linguistics over the past half century.