Author: Jane Barbara GrimshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
English Wh-constructions and the Theory of Grammar
Author: Jane Barbara GrimshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
English Wh-constructions and the Theory of Grammar
Author: Jane Barbara GrimshawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Introduction to the Theory of Grammar
Author: Henk C. van RiemsdijkPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Introduction to the Theory of Grammar makes available to teachers and students of syntax a comprehensive critical review of the main results of present day grammatical theory and shows how they were achieved.
Syntactic Constructions in English
Author: Jong-Bok KimPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108634753
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the analyses of particular structures are, but also how and why those analyses are constructed, with each chapter taking the student step-by-step through the reasoning processes that yield the best description of a data set. It offers a wealth of illustrative examples and exercises, largely based on real language data, making it ideal for both self-study and classroom use. Written in an accessible and engaging way, this textbook will open up this increasingly popular linguistic framework to anyone interested in the grammatical patterns of English.
English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar
Author: Michael Shaun RochemontPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521117180
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is concerned primarily with certain constructions in English, often referred to as 'stylistic,' whose use is restricted to particular contexts to discourse. Within the general framework of Chomskyan Government-Binding Theory, Michael Rochemont and Peter Culicover demonstrate how these constructions can be accommodated naturally within grammatical theory. Indeed, the existence of these constructions in English follows directly from general assumptions about the nature of English grammar. Along with explaining the formal properties of these constructions, the book investigates why it is that they are judged to be 'stylistic.' Rochemont and Culicover argue that what is perceived as stylistic does in fact follow from the special 'focus' property itself is predictable from general grammatical principles. This is an original study of 'stylistic constructions' in any depth, integrating them into syntactic theory. It will interest linguists and other scholars working within the area of English grammar and syntactic theory.
The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Constructions
Author: Paul HirschbuhlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131551351X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first part of the book deals with the semantics of questions, whilst the other part discusses the syntax of que and quoi (what) in questions in French and the syntax of free relatives in French and other languages. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar
Author: Joseph AounPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262511322
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An empirical study of wh-interrogatives and relative constructions and theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.
Construction Grammar and its Application to English
Author: Martin HilpertPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748675884
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic
English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar
Author: Michael S. RochemontQuantification in the Theory of Grammar
Author: Taisuke NishigauchiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400919727
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical structure of natural language from theoretical perspectives. The primary data on which theoretical claims are made is drawn from Japanese and Japanese-type languages, but it also contains discussion of related phenomena in English which have never been discussed from the same viewpoint in the current literature. Although the book is written in the format of a version of the Extended Standard Theory tradition, informally referred to as the Principles and Parameters Approach or 'Government and Binding (OB) Theory', it should be of interest to a much wider audience. The reader interested in other theoretical frameworks will find the discussion in this book easily translatable in the framework of his or her choice - in fact, I would like to claim that the problems posed by this book are inevitable in any theory of syntax and semantics of natural language.