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

The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings.

The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and...

With its detailed examination of reconstruction effects and the properties of resumption in these constructions, the book makes an important contribution to the study of A -syntax.

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.

Was tun mit dem Verb? Wortarten, namentlich das Verb, bilden seit jeher einen zentralen Bestandteil des schulischen Grammatikunterrichts. Man wurde daher von der germanistischen Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik eine in sich konsistente Analyse des Verbs mit wissenschaftlich abgesicherten didaktischen Pfaden erwarten. Diese Erwartung bleibt unerfullt: So einander widersprechend und teils in sich selbst inkonsistent wie die zugrundegelegten linguistischen Ansatze zur Erfassung des Verbs selbst, so unvereinbar sind die unterschiedlichen Vorschlage zu einer Didaktik, die sein vielfaltiges Formen-...

This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analytical mechanisms proposed in recent minimalist work, specifically concerning recent analyses by Noam Chomsky. The collection includes eight papers by the collaborators (one with Miki Obata), plus three additional papers, each individually authored by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, that cover a range of related topics including: the minimalist commitment to explanation via simplification; the Strong Minimalist Thesis; strict adherence to simplest...

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the...

Combinando distintas perspectivas como la gramatica generativa, la gramatica tradicional y estudios empiricos 'variacionistas', el libro aborda el uso de los sujetos pronominales en el espanol hablado en Buenos Aires (porteno) y abarca dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, determina las condiciones de uso de los sujetos explicitos e implicitos, tanto categoricos como variables. En este sentido, ya que el 'sujeto nulo' se asume como forma no marcada del sujeto, la cuestion fundamental es explicar la variante explicita del pronombre sujeto de la misma. Se observa que el sujeto expreso...

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to show that the importance of representational details is not diminished by the insights of such theories.