Unaccusativity and Movement in Russian
Author: Natalie L. Borovikoff
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 618
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Unaccusative Syntax in Russian
Author: Stephanie Annemarie Harves
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDie slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1
Author: Sebastian Kempgen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-10-28
Total Pages: 1195
ISBN-13: 3110214474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "SLAVISCHE SPRACHEN (BERGER U.A.) HSK 32.1 E-BOOK".
Verbal Plurality and Distributivity
Author: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3110293501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-10-16
Total Pages: 990
ISBN-13: 0195136519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIts twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.
Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Author: Jill de Villiers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-27
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9400716885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring core concepts in acquisition theory, including notions of the initial state, parameters, triggering theory, the role of competition and frequency, and many others, across a variety of syntactic topics that have formed the central domains of investigation and debate. These topics are treated from the unique perspective of central actors in each domain who have helped shape the research agenda. The authors have presented a summary of the data, the theories under discussion, and their own best assessments of where each domain stands. Providing as well the agenda for future work in the field showing both particular needs and general directions that should be pursued in the coming decades.
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780199257652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian
Author: Olga Kagan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9400752253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.
Copular Sentences in Russian
Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-04-06
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
The Theta System
Author: Martin Everaert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0199602522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains. Distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the theory in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.
