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Author: J. Forsyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1970-07
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0521075149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - found in the Russian language.
Author: Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 3110804263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura A. Michaelis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1134730063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.
Author: Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9027255776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the interaction of grammar with the factors reducing complexity. This book aims to bring about further understanding of the interfaces of the grammar in a broader biolinguistic sense. It anchors the formal properties of grammar at the interfaces between language and biology, language and experience, bringing about language acquisition.
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1969-03-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780262260503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account. Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar." Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it has become apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened.The major purpose of this book is to review these developments and to propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.
Author: Peter Howard Fries
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9027235341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical problems was a vital part of developing linguistic theory. He spent most of his effort exploring grammar as a tool for communicating meaning. Charles C. Fries was quite influential in the development of linguistics in the United States, and yet in some ways remained outside of the mainstream of the linguistics he helped to develop. The contributors to this volume were asked to present and evaluate some aspect of Fries' work and to show how similar ideas are being used today.
Author: John W. M. Verhaar
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780824816728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mathew C. Grayshon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 3110806649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author: Basil Bernstein
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780415302883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this second volume show some of the results of the empirical exploration of Bernstein's hypothesis. The volume represents a significant contribution not only to the study of the sociology of language, but also to education and the social sciences.
Author: Jan Nuyts
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9027250324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to be accounted for, simultaneously and coherently, in accounting for language. Chapter 1 presents the cognitivist and functionalist points of view and their interrelation and discusses the integration of language research under a cognitive umbrella; the issue of defining 'functions of language', and the formalism-functionalism debate. Chapter 2 criticizes the Chomskyan formalist conception of language and cognition from the perspective of cognitive-pragmatic theory. The focus is on different aspects of the competence-performance dichotomy, and in particular on the nature of linguistic knowledge. The ontogenesis and phylogenesis of language are also discussed. Chapter 3 deals with the potential contribution of a functional-linguistic grammar to an integrated conception of the cognitive systems of language, viz. Dik's Functional Grammar, and introduces the concept of a Functional Procedural Grammar as a more integrative model for language production. Special attention is also paid to the nature of conceptual knowledge and the relationship between language production and interpretation. The debate is illustrated by an analysis of negative-raising.
