A First Luyia Grammar
Author: L. L. Appleby
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 164
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Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Thematic variation
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntactic Theory
Author: Robert Borsley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1317858956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas which underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have been developed within two broad frameworks: principles and parameters theory and phrase structure grammar. While other texts either concentrate on one theory or treat them as totally separate, here both approaches are introduced together, highlighting the similarities as well as the differences. Thoroughly updated in the light of major recent developments, this second edition includes expanded explanations of the main characteristics of the two theories, summaries of the main features, exercises reinforcing key points and suggestions for further investigation.
The Noun Phrase in English
Author: Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9027264066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.
Introducing English Semantics
Author: Charles W. Kreidler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0415180643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Focusing on the English language, this comprehensive and accessible introduction to semantics explores how languages organize and express meaning through words, parts of words and sentences. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon
Author: Sharon Inkelas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0429848021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990. This study introduces Prosodic Lexical Phonology, a theory of morphology-phonology interaction. This theory unifies the theoretical treatments of lexical and postlexical phonological rule application. It also provides an explanatory account of systematic discrepancies that have been observed between the parsing of strings for purposes of the morphology, and the parsing of those strings into domains of phonological rule application. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
African Cultural Values
Author: Kwame Gyekye
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA-Morphous Morphology
Author: Stephen R. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-25
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780521378666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word structure to be the result of interacting principles from a number of grammatical areas, and thus not localized in a single morphological component. Dispensing with classical morphemes, the theory instead treats morphology as a matter of rule-governed relations, minimizing the non-phonological internal structure assigned to words and eliminating morphologically motivated boundary elements. Professor Anderson makes the further claim that the properties of individual lexical items are not visible to, or manipulated by, the rules of the syntax, and assimilates to morphology special clitic phenomena. A-Morphous Morphology maintains significant distinctions between inflection, derivation, and compounding, in terms of their place ina grammar. It also contains discussion of the implications of this new A-Morphous position analysis of word structure.
Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English
Author: Walter Hirtle
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2009-09-16
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0773576436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguishing the components that make up the meaning of a noun enables us to understand what permits us to say "Ground temperature plus one degrees," or to invent "small is beautiful." A careful look at the meaning and role of -'s and of words like a/the, any/some, this/that, often found in noun phrases, reveals how they refer to the speaker's message. Examining pronouns pin-points the fundamental role of the representation of a grammatical person in all noun phrases.
From NP to DP
Author: Martine Coene
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-07-17
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9027296561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which takes noun phrases to be headed by a functional head D(eterminer). The major concerns can be grouped around 3 subthemes: the internal syntax of noun phrases, the syntax and semantics of bare nouns and indefinites and the expression of measurement in noun phrases. The wealth of data coming from over 40 different languages combined with a thorough introduction to the current issues in the field of NPs/DPs and some alternative syntactic and semantic analyses, provide a comprehensive reference work from both a descriptive and a theoretical point of view. The second volume is concerned exclusively with the expression of possession in noun phrases.
