The Evolution of Case Grammar

The Evolution of Case Grammar

Author: Remi Van Trijp

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9783944675848

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There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today. However, despite centuries worth of research, case has yet to reveal its most important secrets. This book offers breakthrough explanations for the understanding of case through agent-based experiments in cultural language evolution. The experiments demonstrate that case systems may emerge because they have a selective advantage for communication: they reduce the cognitive effort that listeners need for semantic interpretation, while at the same time limiting the cognitive resources required for doing so.


Complementation and Case Grammar

Complementation and Case Grammar

Author: Juhani Rudanko

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1989-07-03

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780887069321

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This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko’s work on infinitive complements.


Case Grammar

Case Grammar

Author: Walter Anthony Cook

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The case grammar model is essentially a description of predicates and the arguments required by the meaning of those predicates in the semantic description of sentences. By probing into semantic structures, case systems can relate one surface structure to many semantic structures and one semantic structure to many surface structures. It is in the area of explaining paraphrase and ambiguity that the model is able to establish relationships which cannot be established on the basis of syntax alone. Yet these semantic realities have important syntactic correlates and help to reveal regularities not otherwise apparent. This volume contains thirteen papers, published between 1970 and 1978, which trace the development of the case grammar matrix model, its relation to tagmemics, generative semantics, and interpretive semantics, and its application to such areas as the analysis of literature and stylistics -- Page 4 of cover.


The Grammar of Case

The Grammar of Case

Author: John M. Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1971-07-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780521080354

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A study of the different roles which nouns play in the event or state expressed by the verb or adjective with which they are associated. The book explores within the framework of transformational-generative grammar the 'localist hypothesis', which asserts that all the roles for nouns involve basically the notions of location and direction.


The Semantics of Case

The Semantics of Case

Author: Olga Kagan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 110841642X

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Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.


Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations

Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations

Author: Catherine Fuchs

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9027223556

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Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing. The various contributions (linguistic, anthropological, psychological and neurophysical) on the nature and status of variation and invariants in language provides evidence for complex interactions between language-specific processes and general cognitive faculties. This overview of some recent trends in cognitive linguistics opens up a promising new research area in the humanities as well as in the cognitive sciences.


Competition and Variation in Natural Languages

Competition and Variation in Natural Languages

Author: Mengistu Amberber

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0080459773

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This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking. Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there is no volume such as the present one, which exclusively looks at case marking, competition and variation from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the context of different contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of language. In addition to chapters with broad conceptual orientation, the volume offers detailed empirical studies of case in a number of diverse languages including: Amharic, Basque, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Malagasy and Yurakaré. The volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in the cognitive sciences, general linguistics, typology, historical linguistics, formal linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The book will interest scholars working within the context of formal syntactic and semantic theories as it provides insight into the properties of case from a cross-linguistic perspective. The book also will be of interest to cognitive scientists interested in the relationship between meaning and grammar, in particular, and the human mind's capacity in the mapping of meaning onto grammar, in general.


Theories of Case

Theories of Case

Author: Miriam Butt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 052179322X

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This 2006 textbook introduces the various theories of case, and how they account for its distribution across languages.