The Study of Aspect, Tense, and Action
The Study of Aspect, Tense, and Action

Author: Carl Bache

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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This book addresses some methodological problems in the study of tense, aspect and action: How should linguists go about describing these categories and with what terminology? How does our work in this area relate to descriptions of language(s) in general? What research strategies should be explored? Bache discusses the interaction between language-specific grammars and universal grammar, including the problems of analytic directionality, semantic minimalism, and the general metalanguage of universal grammar. The book has several sources of inspiration: generative linguistics, structuralist phonology, glossematics, functional grammar, cognitive semantics and prototype theory. Bache argues strongly for the inclusion of a paradigmatic dimension in the study of the semantics of morphosyntactic categories. Rather than adhering to one particular linguistic school, Bache provides a general description of tense, aspect and action in the form of generalizations that should be accommodated in any theory.

A Grammar of Aspect
A Grammar of Aspect

Author: J. Forsyth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1970-07

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0521075149

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This book examines the aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - found in the Russian language.

Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar
Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar

Author: Anne-Marie Di Sciullo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9027255776

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Explores the interaction of grammar with the factors reducing complexity. This book aims to bring about further understanding of the interfaces of the grammar in a broader biolinguistic sense. It anchors the formal properties of grammar at the interfaces between language and biology, language and experience, bringing about language acquisition.

Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference
Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference

Author: Laura A. Michaelis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1134730063

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This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1969-03-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780262260503

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Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account. Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar." Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it has become apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened.The major purpose of this book is to review these developments and to propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.

ELTLT 2020
ELTLT 2020

Author: Widhiyanto Widhiyanto

Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1631903225

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Unnes International Conference on English Language, Literature and Translation (ELTLT 2020), held in Semarang, Indonesia, in November 2020. The full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from all submissions. The papers reflect the conference sessions as follows: English Language Teaching and Linguistics: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, EAP/ESP, Literacy Education, ICT in ELT, Multingualism in Education, Multimodality, Teaching Material and Curriculum Development, Language Testing and Assessment, Language Acquisition, TESOL/TEFL/CLIL; Literature: Children Literature, Cultural Studies, Cyber Literature, Gender Studies, Ecoliterature, World Literature, Travel Literature, Popular Literature; Translation: Audio Visual Translation, Interpreting, ICT in Translation, Translation Teaching and Training, Translation of Different Genres, Cyber Culture Translation, Multimodality in Translation Studies.