Grammar, syntax and morphology

Derivation or Representation?

other aspects of developing grammars.

The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field.

Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics.

All work is work in progress.

I should like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Professor H.

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science.

The aim of this enterprise is to assemble together in one volume works on various syntactic aspects of Arabic and Hebrew, in the hope that it will spur further comparative work within the Semitic family at the level of richness achieved in other language families such as Germanic and Romance.

Recent developments in linguistic theory, as well as the growing body of evidence from languages other than English, provide new opportunities for deeper explorations into how language is represented in the mind of learners.

Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more and more.

Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; -shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses; -allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies; -contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.

This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena.

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation.

Features, Categories, and the Syntax of A-Positions investigates various aspects of the distribution of nominal arguments, and in particular the cross-linguistic variation that can be found among the Germanic languages in this domain of the syntax.

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The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages.

How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not coincide with that in embedded clauses is not well understood.

Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases.

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology.

This piece of work began life as a doctoral thesis written at the University of Texas between 1976 and 1978.

The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram- mar.

The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semantic variability of such constructions.

The present collection of papers grew out of a Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax and Theory of Grammar, held in Trondheim in 1982.

In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted.

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The purpose of this book is to argue for the claim that Hungarian sentence structure consists of a non-configurational propositional component, preceded by configurationally determined operator positions.

This book is based in large part on fieldwork that I conducted in Brittany and Wales in 1983 and 1985.

This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo.

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex- tended Standard Theory' (EST).

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.

Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating.

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presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar.

Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar.

This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing.

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum.

This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages.

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds-their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages.

The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis.

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles.

Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages.

This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject.

This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax.

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "e;I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge.