Author: Berkeley Linguistics SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting ... February 17-20, 1984
Author: Berkeley Linguistics SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Author: Berkeley Linguistics SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linguistics
Languages : fr
Pages : 698
Book Description
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 17-20, 1984
Author: Claudia BrugmanGender Differences in English Syntax
Author: Britta MondorfPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110943379
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
What factors govern women's and men's use of syntactic alternatives? This is the central issue explored in the present volume, which provides the most comprehensive account so far of gender differences in syntax. By drawing on the theoretical frameworks of functional grammar (cf. Givón 1984, 1990), cognitive semantics and pragmatics, the book is able to show that the underlying characteristic of syntactic constructions that are sensitive to gender lies in their ability to encode epistemic meaning. Paying due attention to the closely intertwined relation between gender and a range of internal and external determinants, the present volume shows how apparently contradictory results in previous research can be reconciled. The internal and external factors investigated are: semantic type, position, intonation, pragmatic function - style, power, surreptitiousness, group composition. The Labovian 'Vanguard of Change' and 'Linguistic Conformity of Women' Principles (Labov 2001) are supplemented by an 'Epistemic Modality Principle' (stating that women are more prolific users of epistemic downtoners than men) and a 'Turn-Allocation Principle' (assessing that women use more completion signals than men in the negotiation of floor-apportionment). These principles are crucial in paving the ground for an explanation of gender differences in language. This volume is essential reading for those interested in language and gender and in how functionalism can be brought to bear in illuminating language structure and use.
The Sonority Controversy
Author: Steve ParkerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110261529
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has never been the focus of an entire book. Consequently, this is the first complete volume that explores diverging viewpoints about phonological phenomena rooted in sonority taken from numerous languages. All of the contributors are well-known and respected linguists who publish their research in leading academic outlets. Furthermore, each chapter in this collection contains new, cutting-edge results based on the latest trends in the field. Hence, no other extant piece of literature matches this volume in terms of its breadth and coverage of issues, all converging on the common theme of sonority. Given the wide variety of subtopics in this collection, there is something to appeal to everyone — the list of contributions encompasses areas such as Optimality Theory, acquisition, computational modeling, acoustic phonetics, typology, syllable structure, speech perception, markedness, connectionism, psycholinguistics, and even MRI technology. What ties all of these issues together is a solid and consistent emphasis on sonority as a unified background phenomenon. Furthermore, a continuum of opinions about sonority is represented, ranging from complete acceptance and enthusiasm, on the one hand, to moderate skepticism on the other hand.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Author: Berkeley Linguistics SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Author: Garry W. DavisPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277508
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp (“On remote reconstruction”) that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World.
Proceedings of the 10. Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 17-20 1984
Author: Berkeley linguistics societyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Advances in Role and Reference Grammar
Author: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277516
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section contains an introduction to the theory which is the most thorough statement of it since FSUG, summarizing the features of Role and Reference Grammar established there and developing new theoretical components and analyses of syntactic phenomena not discussed in the earlier work. Throughout the discussion features of RRG are compared and contrasted with comparable features of other syntactic theories. The remainder of the volume is devoted to detailed analyses of specific problems, e.g. control, case marking, in a wide variety of languages, e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Nootka, Mparntwe Arrernte and Turkish. Thus the works presented here illustrate well the strong cross-linguistic approach to syntactic theory and description in Role and Reference Grammar.
Levels in Clause Linkage
Author: Tasaku TsunodaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110517051
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level classification of clause linkage based on semantic and pragmatic grounds, it shows that, within individual languages different markers exhibit different distributions on the five levels. Also, the rich evidence presented from seventeen languages from many parts of the world documents that these distributions present commonalities as well as differences across the languages of the sample.