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Previous accounts of evaluativity have assumed that it is not part of the...

Previous accounts of evaluativity have assumed that it is not part of the...

Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews changes and improvements in the formulation and implementation of basic ideas, and addresses some of the controversies that arose over the general framework.

Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely from MIT,...

Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify what counts as evidence in syntactic reconstruction and how syntactic reanalysis progresses. It therefore represents a first step toward...

Die Beitrage des Bandes diskutieren das Thema Deutsch als Zweitsprache - ein Thema, das fachdidaktisch wie bildungspolitisch oft bemuht wird. Dennoch bleiben Fragen zum Erwerb grammatischer Strukturen und zu Besonderheiten und Unterschieden des Zweitspracherwerbs im Vergleich zum Erstspracherwerb weiterhin offen. Aktuelle Befunde werden in diesem Band auf ihre Relevanz fur einen Grammatikunterricht in multilingualen Zusammenhangen uberpruft.

Wackernagels Gesetz verdeutlicht die globale Ahnlichkeit naturlicher Sprachen. Wackernagelelemente haben die Tendenz, in zweiter Position, allgemeiner moglichst nahe am Satzanfang zu stehen. Ihre Besonderheiten und ihre Serialisierung im Wackernagelkomplex beschreibt Wackernagels Gesetz im Deutschen als Ergebnis von Interaktionen zwischen Syntax, Phonologie und Informationsstruktur. - Ein Beitrag zu Typologie und Sprachwandeltheorie.

This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iinia Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology,...

First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description of natural language temporalia. The second chapter applies this theory to the analysis of temporal meaning in German. Frame adverbials, the Present and Past Tenses, duratives, aspectual adverbials using in, and the adverbials particle schon are examined. Chapter 3 provides a formal syntax to bear...

Diese Studie untersucht, ob im Franzosischen und Italienischen die Verwendung mehrerer Frageelemente in einem Fragesatz (z.B. engl. Who ate what?) moglich ist. Wie sich zeigt, gibt es Frage- und Exklamativsatztypen, die mit mehrfachen Frageelementen von Muttersprachlern als ungrammatisch bewertet werden und deren Existenz auch nicht in groen Korpora des Italienischen und Franzosischen bestatigt werden kann. Einige Beschrankungen, die in dieser Arbeit beobachtet werden, sind in der vorhandenen Literatur bereits bekannt (vgl. Obenauer 1994, Den Dikken & Giannakidou 2002 zu...

Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which has insisted that languages have to be characterized in terms that make little or no reference to the dynamics of language use.

This orthodox view fails to fit languages in which the verb has to be at the end of the clause - which encompasses more than half of the world's languages. Thus, as this book shows, these languages remain very...

R. M. W. Dixon begins by outlining...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal syntactic and morphological theory. This volume proposes that words in Palauan are not drawn directly from a mental lexicon, but are instead composed at least partially in the syntax. Using original data from syntactic constructions not previously explored in the language, the author entertains several competing theories of word formation and highlights the compatible and incompatible aspects of each, through an exploration into new corners of...

Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...