Argument Realization in Baltic

2016-01-21
Argument Realization in Baltic

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  • Author: Axel Holvoet
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027267537
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 570

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Argument Realization

2005-06-20
Argument Realization

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  • Author: Beth Levin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521663318
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

This 2005 book surveys theories about the relationship between verbs and their arguments, an important research topic in linguistics.

Argument Realization

2000
Argument Realization

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  • Author: Miriam Butt
  • Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

This volume presents seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages. The papers examine, within the architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), the variety of ways in which arguments of a predicate may be realized in the syntax. LFG allows for the complex interactions of arguments, syntactic positions and grammatical functions. Regardless of the complexity or simplicity of the predicational structure of a clause, the papers included show how the relationship between arguments and their overt realization can be dealt with. The papers also treat multiple case marking in Australian languages, possessor alternation in Welsh, directional complex predicates in American Indian languages and causatives in Japanese. They discuss representational issues that encompass underspecification and the encoding of semantic information needed to determine the correspondence of thematic arguments to their overt syntactic realization.

The Multiple Realization Book

2016
The Multiple Realization Book

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  • Author: Thomas W. Polger
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0198732899
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro offer the first full investigation of multiple realization--the idea that minds can be realized in ways other than the human brain. They cast doubt on the hypothesis and offer an alternative framework for understanding explanations in the cognitive sciences, and in chemistry, biology, and related fields.

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

2008
Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

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  • Author: Melissa Bowerman
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 0805841946
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 380

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and comprises chapters by both specialists in first language acquisition and field linguists working on a variety of lesser-known languages. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure integrates important contemporary issues in linguistics and language acquisition.

Theta Theory

2005
Theta Theory

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  • Author: Martin Haiden
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110182858
  • Category : Cognition
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 309

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

SignGram Blueprint

2017-11-20
SignGram Blueprint

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  • Author: Josep Quer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501516086
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1009

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability, and it appears scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. In general, comprehensive grammars are a rarity. The SignGram Blueprint is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systematic way, and with the highest scientific standards. The work builds on the existing knowledge in Descriptive Linguistics, but also on the insights from Theoretical Linguistics. It consists of two main parts running in parallel: the Checklist with all the grammatical features and phenomena the grammar writer can address, and the accompanying Manual with the relevant background information (definitions, methodological caveats, representative examples, tests, pointers to elicitation materials and bibliographical references). The areas covered are Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax and Meaning. The Manual is endowed with hyperlinks that connect information across the work and with a pop-up glossary. The SignGram Blueprint will be a landmark for the description of sign language grammars in terms of quality and quantity.

Structuring the Argument

2014-07-24
Structuring the Argument

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  • Author: Asaf Bachrach
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027270104
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This collection stems from an interest to find and explore practical, tangible points of intersection between theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists working on problems related to the representation and processing of verbs and their associated thematic structure. The book is organized around three core themes, (i) the basic building blocks of verbal representations and modes of construction of the verb-argument complex, (ii) non-canonical argument structure realization, with a particular focus on object-experiencer psych verbs, and (iii) the promises and challenges of neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigation into argument structure and the prospects for the future of interdisciplinary research on verb argument structure.

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes

2020-11-15
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes

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  • Author: Ryan Dux
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027261016
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions.

Approaches to Arabic Linguistics

2007
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics

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  • Author: Everhard Ditters
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004160159
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 795

This Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.