Case
Case

Author: Barry J. Blake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521014915

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A new textbook on the ways languages mark the relations between words in sentences (suffixes, prepositions etc). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Grammatical Relations
Grammatical Relations

Author: D. N. S. Bhat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1134923767

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Detailed examination of the grammars of two different Indian languages, Kannada and Manipuri and shows that grammatical relations are neither necessary nor universal. They are examined from the point of view of several linguistic theories.

Modern Kannada Grammar
Modern Kannada Grammar

Author: S. N. Sridhar

Publisher: Manohar Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9788173047671

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The present descriptive grammar gives a detailed and sophisticated account of the standard language, drawing on the insights of traditional, structuralist, and generative linguists, and on the author`s own extensive research.

Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar
Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar

Author: K.A. Jayaseelan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 0190630248

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This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word order to more particular questions such as the morphological basis of anaphora, the genesis of lexical categories, the morpho-syntax of quantifiers, and the syntax and semantics of questions. Important universalist claims are embedded in these essays; for this reason, this volume will be of interest also to a student of the general theory of syntax. No future discussion of Dravidian (or South Asian) languages is possible without taking into account the insightful analyses set forth in these pages.

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward
Sentence First, Arguments Afterward

Author: Lila Gleitman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 0199828105

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Sentence First, Arguments Afterward collects the most important papers of Lila Gleitman's career, spanning over 50 years of work. These papers explore the nature of linguistic knowledge in children and adults by asking how children acquire language, how language and thought are related, the nature of concepts, and the role of syntax in shaping the direction of word learning. With an exclusive foreword by Noam Chomsky and an essay by Jeffrey Lidz contextualizing Gleitman's work in the emergence of the field of cognitive science, this book promises to be valuable both for its historical perspective on language and its acquisition and for the lessons it offers to current practitioners.

Phrasal and Clausal Architecture
Phrasal and Clausal Architecture

Author: Simin Karimi

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-02-21

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9027292922

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The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-related constructions. In addition, several papers offer syntax-based discussions of aspects of acquisition, pedagogy, and neurolinguistics, addressing issues related to case marking, negation, thematic relations, and more. Several papers report on new findings relevant to less commonly investigated languages, and all provide valuable observations related to natural language syntactic properties, many of which are universal in their implications. The authors challenge several aspects of recent syntactic theory, broaden the applicable scope of others, and introduce important and provocative analyses that bear on current issues in linguistics.