Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Syntax

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of uninterpretable phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty.

Die Syntaxforschung hat in den letzten Jahren groe Fortschritte erzielt, bietet aber auch das Bild erheblicher Zersplitterung. Die vorliegende Darstellung fuhrt theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zusammen. Das gewahlte Leitmodell ist eine erweiterte Dependenzgrammatik, die auf der Grundlage des klassischen abhangigkeitsgrammatischen Ansatzes andere Beschreibungsverfahren integriert. Schwerpunkte sind, nach Erarbeitung der Grundlagen, die hierarchischen Bezuge im Satz, der Bau der einzelnen Komponenten und die Regularitaten der Anordnung. Andere syntaktische Module wie die Satzarten, die...

This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates and forges links between two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky s Bare Phrase Structure and Richard Kayne s Antisymmetry. The text details how the two linguistic paradigms interact to cause differing patterns of noun incorporation across world languages. With a solid empirical foundation in its close reading of Northern Iroquoian languages especially, Barrie argues that noun incorporation needs no...

In dieser Studie wird sorgfaltig begrundet, dass Konstruktionen von haben als Vollverb in der syntaktischen Analyse systematisch in Beziehung zu absoluten mit-Konstruktionen (vgl. Mit den Fuen auf dem Tisch] erwartete ich meine Schwiegereltern) zu setzen sind. Auf dieser Grundlage erweist sich eine einheitliche Modellierung der unterschiedlichen syntaktischen Verwendungsweisen von haben als Vollverb als theoretisch wie empirisch angemessen.
In weiterer Perspektive bietet die Arbeit Evidenz fur die Annahme, dass fur die Beschreibung von Phanomenen...

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars. This volume breaks with the tradition in that it investigates relative constructions in non-standard varieties from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses a crucial question: what does Europe's typological panorama actually look like?

The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar brings together work on the acquisition of German from over four decades of child L1 and immigrant L2 learner studies. The book's major feature is new longitudinal data from three secondary school students who began an exchange year in Germany with no German knowledge and attained fluency. Their naturalistic acquisition process -- with a succession of stages described for the first time in L2 acquisition -- is highly similar to that of younger learners. This has important implications for German teaching and for the theory of...

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies...

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque.

The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic...

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.