The Development of Morphological Systematicity
Author: Hanna Pishwa
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783823350644
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The Architecture of Cognition
Author: Paco Calvo
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014-04-18
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0262027232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical insofar as adult human cognition is essentially systematic. This volume reassesses Fodor and Pylyshyn's 'systematicity challenge' for a post-connectionist era, covering the most important recent developments in the systematicity debate.
Understanding Morphology
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1134645961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism
Author: Natascha Müller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789027219213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are compared, the existence of multiple grammars in L1 acquisition, simultaneous L2 acquisition (balanced and unbalanced bilingualism) and successive L2 acquisition (child and adult L2 acquisition). Evidence from the language pairs French-German, Italian-Swedish, Spanish-English, Spanish-German, Spanish-Basque, Portuguese-Japanese-English, Portuguese-German, English-German, Turkish-German is brought to bear on grammatical issues pertaining to the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase, pronoun use and the null-subject property, clause structure, verb position, non-finite clauses, agreement at the clause level, and on issues like code mixing and language dominance.
The Origins of Complex Language
Author: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780198238218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposing a theory of the origins of human language ability and presenting an account of the early evolution of language, this text explains why humans are the only language-using animals and challenges the assumption that language is due to intelligence-- jacket cover.
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology
Author: Andrew Hippisley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-11-24
Total Pages: 1442
ISBN-13: 1316712451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.
Telicity in the Second Language
Author: Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789027224941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Slabakova (U. of Iowa) examines the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian. Particular attention is paid to subtle differences between English and Slavic telic and atelic sentences. Slabakova contends that Vendler's lexical classes of verbs can be represented in four phrase structure templates, where lexical properties of the verb and of the object compositionally determine telicity. The text is a revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis (1997, McGill U.) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Learning to Read: An Integrated View from Research and Practice
Author: Terezinha Nunes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9401148260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiteracy research has continued to develop at a rapid pace in these last five years of the millennium. New ideas about how children learn to read have led to a better understanding of the causes of progress and failure in the mastery of literacy, with repercussions for children's assessment and teacher education. These new discoveries also allow teachers to transcend the old debates in reading instruction (phonics versus whole language) and offer the path to a synthesis. At the same time, research with teachers about their own implementation of methods and the development of their own knowledge about the teaching of literacy has produced a fresh analysis of the practice of literacy teaching. Inspired by these developments, teachers, teacher educators and researchers worked together to produce this volume, which promotes the integration of literacy research and practice.
Rhetorical Strategies in Legal Language
Author: Anna Trosborg
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9783823350897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelating Events in Narrative: Typological and contextual perspectives
Author: Sven Strömqvist
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0805846727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis follow-up volume to the 'frog-story studies' book, 'Relating Events in Narrative: A Cross-Linguistic Developmental Study' (1994) is divided into two main parts. Part one focuses on crosslinguistic perspectives whilst part two offers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
