Author: Helene OssipovPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A GPSG Analysis of Doubling and Dislocation Constructions in French
Author: Helene OssipovPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition
Author: Dalila AyounPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847143369
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena. From an historical perspective on parameter-setting theory to an introduction to its role in computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, and language change, the reader will find a critique of the most commonly made arguments, as well as an index of all the syntactic, phonological, lexical, and morphological parameters presented in the literature to date. A closer look at the theory itself addresses the following questions: What does a parameter-setting approach to language acquisition entail? What are the underpinnings of the theory? What issues and problems remain to be solved? The empirical studies carried out to test the null subject parameter and verb movement parameter are reviewed to re-examine long-standing theoretical assumptions as well as the learnability implications for first and second language acquisition.
Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT)
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Comparative Romance Linguistics Newsletter
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Category : Contrastive linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Actes du XVe Congrès international des linguistes
Author: André CrochetièrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782763773537
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Antisymmetry of Syntax
Author: Richard S. KaynePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611077
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure. It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. For example, English and Japanese phrases consisting of a verb and its complement are thought of as symmetrical to one another, differing only in linear order. The Antisymmetry of Syntax proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure. More specifically, Richard Kayne shows that asymmetric c-command invariably maps into linear precedence. From this follows, with few further hypotheses, a highly specific theory of word order in UG: that complement positions must always follow their associated head, and that specifiers and adjoined elements must always precede the phrase that they are sister to. A further result is that standard X-bar theory is not a primitive component of UG. Rather, X-bar theory expresses a set of antisymmetric properties of phrase structure. This antisymmetry is inherited from the more basic antisymmetry of linear order. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 25
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