Middles and Argument Structure Across Languages
Author: Marijana Marelj
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 1412
ISBN-13: 1107354587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
The Theta System
Author: Martin Everaert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0199602514
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.
The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-09-22
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 3110245876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.
The Syntax of Argument Structure
Author: Leonard H. Babby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 052141797X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes an intriguing theory of argument structure. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations.
Argument Structure
Author: Eric J. Reuland
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789027233721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly, the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on lexical entries is now challenged by a syntactic view under which all properties of argument structure are taken up by syntactic structure. In the light of these new developments, the contributions in this volume provide detailed empirical investigations of argument structure phenomena in a wide range of languages. The contributions vary in their response to the theoretical questions and address issues that range from the role of specific functional heads and the relation of argument projection with syntactic processes, to the position of argument structure within a broader clausal architecture and the argument structure properties of less studied categories.
Argument Structure in Flux
Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-06-15
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 902727228X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different languages, and they offer new data from under-researched languages on the issues of event and argument structure. In some cases novel perspectives from widely discussed languages on highly debated topics are offered, also addressing more theoretical aspects concerning the predictability and derivation of linking. Several contributions apply current models of the lexicon–syntax interface to synchronic data. Other contributions focus on diachrony and are based on extensive use of corpora. Yet others, although empirically and theoretically grounded, privilege a methodological discussion, presenting analyses based on thorough and long-standing fieldwork.
The LexiconSyntax Interface
Author: Pritha Chandra
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-03-15
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9027270821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.
Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface
Author: Tanya Reinhart
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-03-18
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0262034131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments.
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
Author: Florent Perek
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9027268754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a usage-based perspective, taking the view that the cognitive representation of grammar is shaped by language use, and that crucial aspects of grammatical organization are tied to the frequency with which words and syntactic constructions are used. On the basis of several case studies combining quantitative corpus studies and psycholinguistic experiments, it is shown how a usage-based approach sheds new light on a number of issues in argument realization and offers frequency-based explanations for its organizing principles at three levels of generality: verbs, constructions, and argument structure alternations.
