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

Linking - how semantic arguments map to the syntax - is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel - if sometimes surprising - conclusions, her Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis establishes the linking patterns of a wide range of verbs and, with those results, shows how to reason "backwards" from how a given verb's arguments link to what its lexical representation must be. Along the way, the...

Primarily an introductory work, this volume outlines the approaches that various disciplines have taken to the subject, attempts to...

Academic discourse is a rapidly growing area of study, attracting researchers and students from a diverse range of fields. This is partly due to the growing awareness that knowledge is socially constructed through language and partly because of the emerging dominance of English as the language of scholarship worldwide. Large numbers of students and researchers must now gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses to understand their disciplines, establish their careers and to successfully navigate their learning.

This accessible and readable book shows the...

Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics for some time but most work has focused on children's writing at particular ages, for example, at the early primary, late primary or secondary stage. Christie and Derewianka draw on extensive research in both primary and secondary years to trace the developmental trajectory from age 5 or 6 through to 18. Using a systemic functional grammar, they outline developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late...

Die kognitive Grammatik ist ein Beitrag zu den Kognitionswissenschaften, insofern die Kategorisierungsleistung und Systemorganisation der Sprache einen Zugang zum menschlichen Denken eroffnet; sie erneuert aber auch die Linguistik, indem sie die in den Grammatiken beschriebenen Regularitaten mit Begriffen der Psychologie, der Anthropologie und der Neurologie einer Erklarung zufuhrt. Da verschiedene Paradigmen entstanden sind, wird die Darstellung in den Hauptkapiteln nach Ansatzen und ihren Initiatoren (Lakoff, Talmy, Langacker, Fillmore/Kay/Goldberg, Fauconnier/Turner) getrennt. Dadurch...