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Author: Anneli Meurman-Solin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199860211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics.
Author: Anneli Meurman-Solin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199938482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformation Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony.
Author: Kristin Bech
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9027270465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In addition to discussing changes in individual languages along the syntax–information structure axis, the volume also makes a point of comparing and contrasting different languages with respect to the interplay between syntax and information structure. Since the creation of increasingly sophisticated annotated corpora of historical texts is on the agenda in many research environments, methods and schemes for information structure annotation and analysis of historical texts from a theoretical and applied perspective are discussed.
Author: Bettelou Los
Publisher: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9789027210647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of the English language, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics, work on linguistic interfaces, and on mechanisms of language change.
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-05-18
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 3112316002
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Author: Teresa Fanego
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9789027247315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.
Author: Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-10-10
Total Pages: 983
ISBN-13: 0199996385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.
Author: Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 983
ISBN-13: 0190627883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 1168
ISBN-13: 3110251604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Feist
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9027266522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures. The research reported in this book shows semantic structure to be in part hierarchic, fitting the syntax in which it is expressed, and partly a network, fitting the nature of the mind, from which it springs. It is complex enough to provide for the emotive and imaginative dimensions of language, and for shifts of standard meanings in context, and the “rules” that control them. Showing the full structure of English semantics requires attention to many currently topical issues, and since the underlying theory is fresh, there are fresh implications for them. The most important of those issues is information structure, which is given full treatment, showing its overall structure, and its relation to semantics and the whole grammar of English. As of October 2024, this e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
