Function and Class in Linguistic Description

2021-09-22
Function and Class in Linguistic Description

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  • Author: Mário Alberto Perini
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030781739
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 335

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and is based on the use of distinctive features analogous to the ones used in phonology, which entails a radical reworking of the traditional classification. The first part presents some basic notions such as the use of distinctive features and the role of word classes in grammar; classification by prototypes; and the use of world knowledge as a resource to assign thematic relations to constituents in the sentence. In the second part, some descriptive problems are examined, namely the classification of verbs according to valency; connectives, adverbs, and the internal constituents of the NP; and the classification of units larger than words. This book will be of use as a guide for linguists working on the description of natural languages, as well as a resource for students on courses in linguistic theory and description.

Systemic Functional Language Description

2019-10-08
Systemic Functional Language Description

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  • Author: J.R. Martin
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351184520
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 362

This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together, the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description, providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics, SFL, and theoretical linguistics.

The Role of Functions in Syntax

2016-03-10
The Role of Functions in Syntax

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  • Author: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027267286
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different when they encode different meanings. Even if languages encode the same meaning, they may differ with respect to the formal means used to code those meanings. This approach allows for a typology based on functional domains, subdomains and functions coded in individual languages. The outcome of the study is a unified approach to language theory, linguistic typology, and descriptive linguistics. The argumentation for the hypotheses and the proposed approach is supported by analyses of data from more than a dozen languages, including English, Polish, French, Wandala, Mina, Hdi, and several other Chadic languages. The study is accessible to a wide variety of linguists.

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

2011-05-03
Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

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  • Author: Petra M. Vogel
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110806126
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 529

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description

1986-01-01
Sentence Adverbials in a Functional Description

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  • Author: Eva Koktova
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027225524
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 105

The author presents empirical arguments in favor of a joint syntactico-semantic treatment, within the framework of a functional generative description, of a range of adverbial expressions which should be viewed as belonging to a single, lexically heterogeneous but functionally homogeneous, class exhibiting scoping properties and functioning as 'complementation of attitude' (CA). These CA-expressions do not only share their underlying functional properties but also certain surface-syntax properties.

Natural Data in Linguistic Description

2008
Natural Data in Linguistic Description

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  • Author: Gerald Knowles
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Malay language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Encyclopedia of Linguistics

2013-02-01
Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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  • Author: Philipp Strazny
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1135455236
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1304

Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.

A Linguistic Description and Computer Program for Children's Speech (RLE Linguistics C)

2014-01-10
A Linguistic Description and Computer Program for Children's Speech (RLE Linguistics C)

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  • Author: Geoffrey J. Turner
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317933109
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

This book presents a framework for the linguistic analysis of speech and a computer program to process the results of this analysis. The model of description for the linguistic analysis is that known as ‘scale-and-category’ grammar. It is particularly suited for a study of how people use their language, and especially for a sociologically-oriented study of linguistic behaviour. By incorporating a concept of ‘delicacy’, it enables the investigator to vary, according to his particular interests, the amount of detail he enters into at various points in the description. The present authors have made use of this facility and discuss the special interests, sociological and psychological, that influenced their choice of detail. The computer program analyzes the grammatical structures written in a linear notation. A second version has been written which allows easy modification to handle a variety of grammatical schemes, and the program has application to the processing of the analysis of sequential behaviour in general, especially where there are complex relations between the units analyzed.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

2011-10-06
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

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  • Author: Rajend Mesthrie
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139500937
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Radical Construction Grammar

2001-10-25
Radical Construction Grammar

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  • Author: William Croft
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0191544795
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'. Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.