The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789027228024
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The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2005-08-25
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 902729433X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on long-standing problems in syntactic theory and universal grammar. The contributions include novel theoretical and empirical approaches to infinitives, the syntax and acquisition of Verb Second, the structure and interpretation of present tense, the syntax and semantics of reflexives, the relationship between expletive syntax and the EPP, the syntax of possession, and the DP-internal syntax of pronouns. Some contributions present the results of experimental research which provide an entirely fresh perspective on previously unchallenged claims.
Semi-lexical Categories
Author: Norbert Corver
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-05-22
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 3110874008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories".
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1316764397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvanced R
Author: Hadley Wickham
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 1498759807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Essential Reference for Intermediate and Advanced R Programmers Advanced R presents useful tools and techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems, helping you avoid mistakes and dead ends. With more than ten years of experience programming in R, the author illustrates the elegance, beauty, and flexibility at the heart of R. The book develops the necessary skills to produce quality code that can be used in a variety of circumstances. You will learn: The fundamentals of R, including standard data types and functions Functional programming as a useful framework for solving wide classes of problems The positives and negatives of metaprogramming How to write fast, memory-efficient code This book not only helps current R users become R programmers but also shows existing programmers what’s special about R. Intermediate R programmers can dive deeper into R and learn new strategies for solving diverse problems while programmers from other languages can learn the details of R and understand why R works the way it does.
The Functional-notional Approach
Author: Mary Finocchiaro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780194341066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 1412
ISBN-13: 1107354587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntax – 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.
Language Acquisition and the Functional Category System
Author: Peter Jordens
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3110216213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second language has shown that language development proceeds in a stagewise manner. Learner utterances are accounted for in terms of so-called 'learner languages'. Learner languages of both children and adults are language systems that are initially rather simple. The present monograph shows how these learner languages develop both in child L1 and in adult L2 Dutch. At the initial stage of both L1 and L2 Dutch, learner systems are lexical systems. This means that utterance structure is determined by the lexical projection of a predicate-argument structure, while the functional properties of the target language are absent. At some point in acquisition, this lexical-semantic system develops into a target-like system. With this target-like system, learners have reached a stage at which their language system has the morpho-syntactic features to express the functional properties of finiteness and topicality. Evidence of this is word order variation and the use of linguistic elements such as auxiliaries, tense, and agreement markers and determiners. Looking at this process of language acquisition from a functional point of view, the author focuses on questions such as the following. What is the driving force behind the process that causes learners to give up a simple lexical-semantic system in favour of a functional-pragmatic one? What is the added value of linguistic features such as the morpho-syntactic properties of inflection, word order variation, and definiteness?
The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories
Author: Robert Borsley
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1999-10-15
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1849500096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.
Analysing English Sentences
Author: Andrew Radford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-12
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 0521516978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a concise introduction to work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program.
