This book is dealing with sentential proforms and their relationship to their relating clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammar theory since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume contributes to a better under-standing of the interfaces. Providing syntactic, prosodic, semantic, psycho-linguistic as well as corpus-based support, this book underpins the claim that there exist different sentential pro-form types in German and Dutch, that these proform types correlate with different verb...
This book is dealing with sentential proforms and their relationship to their relating clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the po...
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nioman anderro > niemand anderer nobody else, analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives, and pronouns) but all changed to adjectival quantifiers. These changes are interpreted as a novel type of upward reanalysis from head to specifier, which we associate with degrammaticalization driven by analogy. As for the quantified phrases, most appeared in the genitive in Old High...
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nioman anderro > niemand anderer nobody else, analyzin...
Though "pejoration" is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and deals with diverse languages and their variants. The collection will appeal to all those linguists with a genuine interest in locating pejoration at the grammar-pragmatics interface.
Though "pejoration" is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptiv...
The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation, but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very rapidly both theoretically and methodologically, giving rise to many competing theories and varied hypotheses. Many drastically different and often contradictory models and foundational hypotheses have been proposed. Theories diverge with respect to everything from foundational architectural...
The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issu...
Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among ...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory . This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness...
Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among ...] the most poorly unders...
This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner's evidence. The model is then applied to a range of cross-linguistic case studies - in Swiss German, Korean, and English - involving child errors, grammatical variability, and implicit negative evidence. Building on earlier work on language modeling, this book is unique for its focus on ambiguous evidence and its careful attention to the effects of...
This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic...
This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that Temporal and Locative appear relatively freely with respect to a certain range of the Modal/Aspect functors in the middle field, whereas the rest of the PP types are more constrained in this respect. Unlike cartographic approaches to PPs (Schweikert 2005, Cinque 2006), the book adopts the working...
This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarc...
