Grammar, syntax and morphology

The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so.

Suffixaufnahme is an unusual pattern of multiple case marking due to agreement: a nominal that is already case-marked for its own adnominal function in addition copies the case of the nominal to which it is to be related.

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach.

Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type.

Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory.

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade.

This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents.

Particles are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech.

This book elaborates a theory of ellipsis that sheds new light on a well-known phenomenon, bringing it under the aegis of general and universal principles.

The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework.

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating.

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne.

The main function of language is to convey meaning.

Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "e;play"e; for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "e;played"e; or "e;player"e; is marked.

This collection of previously unpublished papers explores the implications of Chomsky's "e;Minimalist"e; framework for the modularity of grammar, which simplifies the "e;modular"e; approach he took in his Government and Binding theory of grammar.

Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic.

The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction.

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators.

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories.

This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping.

This volume introduces the study of language attrition--the forgetting of language.

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles.

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause.

Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters.

This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program.

A fundamental concept in all syntactic theories is that of a syntactic relation between syntactic objects.

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This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences.

Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs.

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement.

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects.

Ellipsis is the non-expression of one or more sentence elements whose meaning can be reconstructed either from the context or from a person's knowledge of the world.

In this book, HinterhA lzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness.

This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time.

The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics.

This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French.

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory.

Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses.

This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "e;it"e; that stand for other words).

This volume consists of an introduction and two groups of essays by Paul M.

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language.

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian.

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity.

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses.

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages.

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970.

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do.

This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects.