Author: Charles N. LiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Word Order and Word Order Change
Author: Charles N. LiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact
Author: Bettelou LosPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027264848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.
Word Order Change
Author: Ana Maria MartinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747306
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
Word Order Change in Icelandic
Author: Thorbjörg HróarsdóttirPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902729920X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with “restructuring” phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Word-order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Author: Susann FischerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027255407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.
Word Order Universals
Author: John A HawkinsPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483296601
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Word Order Universals
Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese
Author: Chaofen SunPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724180
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.
Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Author: Doris L. PaynePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027229058
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.
Deriving Syntactic Relations
Author: John S. BowersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107096758
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions
Author: Paul Kent AndersenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.