Lexical Grammar

2018-05-31
Lexical Grammar

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  • Author: Leo Selivan
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781316644751
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

This book is for anyone is interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary. The introduction looks at recent developments in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition research, and outlines the important role which chunks play in textual cohesion and in fluency, as well as in grammar acquisition. The practical part of the book provides practitioners with a large number of classroom suggestions and activities for making grammar teaching more lexical, and for making vocabulary practice more grammatical. Activities move from receptive to productive and can be used on their own or to supplement and enhance coursebook content.

Lexical grammar

2019-11-18
Lexical grammar

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  • Author: Teun Hoekstra
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3111711226
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

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Pattern Grammar

2000
Pattern Grammar

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  • Author: Susan Hunston
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9789027222732
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the two books in the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns series (1996; 1998). This volume describes the research that led to these publications, and explores the theoretical and practical implications of the research. The first chapter sets the work in the context of work on phraseology. The next two chapters give several examples of patterns and how they are identified. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss and exemplify the association of pattern and meaning. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 relate the concept of pattern to traditional approaches to grammar and to discourse. Chapter 9 summarizes the book and adds to the theoretical discussion, as well as indicating the applications of this approach to language teaching. The volume is intended to contribute to the current debate concerning how corpora challenge existing linguistic theories, and as such will be of interest to researchers in the fields of grammar, lexis, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is written in an accessible style, however, and will be equally suitable for students taking courses in those areas.

Lexical-Functional Grammar

2019-06-20
Lexical-Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Kersti Börjars
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107170567
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 231

A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

2015-06-25
The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

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  • Author: Douglas Biber
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316298701
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 757

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

1998-01-01
The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Hella Olbertz
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027230463
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 325

In functional grammar, the lexicon plays a central role. Lexical items form the basic building blocks around which the structure of a clause is built. This book examines 5 aspects of the role of the lexicon in functional grammar.

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing

2000
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing

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  • Author: Ruth Elizabeth King
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9789027237163
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar

1995-11-24
Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Mary Dalrymple
  • Publisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
  • ISBN: 9781881526377
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

Lexical-Functional Grammar was first developed by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan in the late 1970s, and was designed to serve as a medium for expressing and explaining important generalisations about the syntax of human languages and thus to serve as a vehicle for independent linguistic research. An equally important goal was to provide a restricted, mathematically tractable notation that could be interpreted by psychologically plausible and computationally efficient processing mechanisms. The formal architecture of LFG provides a simple set of devices for describing the common properties of all human languages and the particular properties of individual languages. This volume presents work conducted over the past several years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University, and elsewhere. The different sections link mathematical and computational issues and the analysis of particular linguistic phenomena in areas such as wh-constructions, anaphoric binding, word order and coordination.

The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

2023-12-14
The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Mary Dalrymple
  • Publisher: Language Science Press
  • ISBN: 3961104247
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 2192

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Lexical-functional Grammar

2001-01
Lexical-functional Grammar

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  • Author: Yehuda N. Falk
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
  • ISBN: 9781575863405
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 237

With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories and now wish to approach LFG. Falk examines LFG's relation to more conventional theories—like Government/Binding or the Minimalism Program—and, in many respects, establishes its superiority.