The Lexicon-syntax Interface in Second Language Aquisition
The Lexicon-syntax Interface in Second Language Aquisition

Author: Roeland van Hout

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9789027224996

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Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is learnt through a process of implementing a particular set of universal structures, whereas the learning of lexis is characterised by the building up of associations (or connections). Yet these two systems must come together in the creation of a whole linguistic system in the mind of an individual. This book is designed to state the implications of these two paradigms in as clear a way as possible through examples of the research carried out within each paradigm and to examine how they can be made to inter-relate in a way which would enable us to explain better the overall process of SLA.

Exploring Interfaces
Exploring Interfaces

Author: Mónica Cabrera

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108488277

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An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface
The Lexicon–Syntax Interface

Author: Pritha Chandra

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9027270821

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The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.

Clitics Between Syntax and Lexicon
Clitics Between Syntax and Lexicon

Author: Birgit Gerlach

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9789027227720

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As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.

Lexical Matters
Lexical Matters

Author: Anna Szabolcsi

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)

Published: 1992-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780937073667

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This volume contains new research on the lexicon and its relation to other aspects of linguistics. These essays put forth empirical arguments to claim that specific theoretical assumptions concerning the lexicon play a crucial role in resolving problems pertaining to other components of grammar. Topics include: syntactic/semantic interface in the areas of aspect, argument structure, and thematic roles; lexicon-based accounts of quirky case, anaphora, and control; the boundary between the lexicon and syntax in the domains of sentence comprehension and nominal compounding; and the possibility of extending the concept of blocking beyond the traditional lexicon. Ivan Sag is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Anna Szabolcsi is an associate professor of linglustics at UCLA.

The Unaccusativity Puzzle
The Unaccusativity Puzzle

Author: Artemis Alexiadou

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780199257652

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The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory
Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory

Author: James Pustejovsky

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9400751893

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This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage. Today’s growing shift towards distributed compositional analyses evinces the applicability of GL theory, and the contributions to this volume, presented at three international workshops (GL-2003, GL-2005 and GL-2007) address the relationship between compositionality in language and the mechanisms of selection in grammar that are necessary to maintain this property. The core unresolved issues in compositionality, relating to the interpretation of context and the mechanisms of selection, are treated from varying perspectives within GL theory, including its basic theoretical mechanisms and its analytical viewpoint on linguistic phenomena.

Morphology and Its Interfaces
Morphology and Its Interfaces

Author: Alexandra Galani

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 902725561X

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One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition
The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Roeland van Hout

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-08-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9027296456

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Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is learnt through a process of implementing a particular set of universal structures, whereas the learning of lexis is characterised by the building up of associations (or connections). Yet these two systems must come together in the creation of a whole linguistic system in the mind of an individual. This book is designed to state the implications of these two paradigms in as clear a way as possible through examples of the research carried out within each paradigm and to examine how they can be made to inter-relate in a way which would enable us to explain better the overall process of SLA.

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Author: Gillian Ramchand

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 0199247455

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'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.