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Author: Karen Zagona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521576840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear and well-organised introduction to Spanish syntax, assuming no prior knowledge of current theory.
Author: Ljiljana Progovac
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9027233578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.
Author: J. Clements
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-30
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0230522688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first usage-based approach of its kind, this volume contains twelve studies on key issues in Spanish syntax: word order, arguments, grammatical-relation marking, inalienable possession, ser and estar , adjective placement, small clauses and causatives. The studies are approached within a broad functionalist perspective. The studies strengthen the view that components of grammar intricately interact and that a usage-based approach to analyzing them offers new and insightful perspectives on some stubborn problems.
Author: Liina Pylkkänen
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0262162547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.
Author: Brandon Simpson
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780981646602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does this word have an accent? When do I use ser and estar? Why por and not para? I don't understand the difference between the imperfect and the preterit. The subjunctive? I give up! Do these questions sound familiar to you? If they do, you have the right book. I had the same exact questions when I was studying Spanish. Now, I know them well enough to explain in this book. I have to admit that I don't always know the reason why I use one form instead of another; I learned a lot just from reading and listening to spoken Spanish.
Author: Luis Eguren
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9789027233752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.
Author: Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1527549143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as topic preposing and focus fronting across languages, with a particular focus on English and Spanish. It discusses issues such as word order and the diverse conditions under which types of topics and foci are licensed in different contexts. It shows the different behaviors of languages with respect to specific discourse-oriented operations to be the consequence of feature inheritance, which takes place in the different peripheries detected in the sentence. The book will be of interest to linguists and MA and PhD students of linguistics.
Author: Teresa Satterfield
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9027237271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers are included in this volume. The selected papers have been reworked for the current publication.
Author: Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 1098
ISBN-13: 1316800717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.
Author: Hilda J Koopman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1134718233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.
