Semantic construction for nominal expressions in crosslinguistic perspective emily bender, markus eggy, and michael tepper university of washington and yuniversit at des saarlandes 1 introduction we discuss a case of typological variation which potentially constrains the design of the syntaxsemantics interface. Italian syntax and universal grammar 78 henry smith. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective by alice. A study of cappadocian greek nominal morphology from a. Diachronic patterns of usage of no doubt in the english. Historicalcomparative linguistics, as it was developed and practiced in the latter. Special session on historical issues in african linguistics. Ebook historical syntax in cross linguistic perspective as. Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into. The construction of a framework of theories which can account for how and why languages change. Other conference presentations excluding invited talks and those appearing in proceedings 2019 eric w. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective 75 liliane haegeman. Contactinduced change in dolgan lot dissertation series 336.
The encyclopedia of chinese language and linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of the languages of china and the different ways in which they are and have been studied. Max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology. This study offers a collocate analysis of the modal marker no doubt nd in the eebo, ecco and evans combined corpora using sketch engine. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in chinese. A biclausal account cleft structures are common crosslinguistically and are often said to be composed of a. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Semantic construction for nominal expressions in cross. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages. Theoretical issues in historical syntax 2 linguistic theory and the historical creation of english reflexives edward l. Perspectives on historical syntax download ebook pdfepub. Pdf syntax and syntactic reconstruction researchgate. Late assignments will be penalized 10% of total possible points for each day they are late, unless. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. Following the historical perspective there is a section on language apparatus, which discusses the idea of the \language chain. The handbook of chinese linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics.
Crosslinguistic coverage of a single linguistic phenomena. The historical linguistics of native america and historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective with alice c. Partitives and negation, a crosslinguistic survey matti miestamo the origin of the basque partitive. Of these case frames, at least two are extremely rare crosslinguistically, the accgen. Cambridge university press 9780521478816 historical. The transformational models became popular in nonenglish speaking countries which led to a wider cross linguistic perspective and a renewed interest in diachronic syntax by some transformationalists e. Prospective and proximative as crosslinguistic categories. Pdf existential constructions in crosslinguistic perspective. His research interests include grammatical theory the theory of computational grammar from a crosslinguistic perspective, experimental syntax the use of acceptability judgments as evidence for linguistic theories, and corpus linguistics the use of databased methods to capture linguistic phenomena in human languages. The corpus shows previously overlooked syntactic features, which may improve the view of this subvariety and also allows a quantitative analysis of agreement in existential constructions. And from this perspective, contemporary semantics and pragmatics are only a little younger than generative grammar.
Historical syntax and linguistic theory edited by paola. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective by alice c. Klima led to the recognition of greenbergs diachronic synchronic universals of word order as a useful focus for research among. This study utilizes a crosslinguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective alice. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective, cambridge studies in linguistics. Implicational universals as predictors of word order change. This cahiers chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered.
Please click button to get perspectives on historical syntax book now. The present collection of articles is the outcome of collaborative work carried out within the space project in the language and cognition group at the max planck institute for psycholinguistics. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the languages spoken in china, today and in the past, from many different. Chinese syntax in a crosslinguistic perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in chinese syntax.
In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards. Harris campbell, historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective, 1995, buch, 9780521478816. During the production process the hard copy or pdf are referenced by the typesetter and is of great help to solve problems in the files, such as conversion errors, distorted tables, lost graphs, etc. Chinese syntax in a crosslinguistic perspective oxford.
Systematic crosslinguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that lin. The shaping of transitivity and argument structure. The languages of native north america cambridge u press to be considered for the 2004 award, a nomination form and four copies of the. Li11 historical linguistics linguistics at cambridge. Accessible to readers with no specialist background knowledge of the languages discussed. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective alice c. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective book. The viking hypothesis from a dialectologists perspective. Brazilian portuguese, chinese, dutch, english, french, german, greek, italian, japanese, polish, russian and spanish.
Papers that adopt a diachronichistoricalcomparative perspective or that discuss languagecontact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with. In this major new work alice harris and lyle campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. The viking hypothesis neglects i the significant degree of stability from old to middle and even modern english grammar and ii parallel, but independent, developments not induced by north germanic in the grammars of continental west germanic dialects. On page 9 i discuss the areas of the brain that have been linked to. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in which the ellipsis of a sequence of words following an embedded wh question word appears to occur, and hearers must somehow recover the content of missing material as in someone saw her, but i dont know who. The handbook of chinese linguistics chengteh james. Harris, both of which won the linguistic society of americas prestigious leonard bloomfield book award, and other books. However, beyond these functional factors in the sense of bickel 2015, which are assumed to shape language. Grammar and syntax, english language and linguistics. The expressive resources of contextfree unification grammars are sufficient to characterise.
Written work must be turned in on time if you wish to receive full credit and comments. As is evident, the study of historical linguistics concerns many different topics. Pdf historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective. Much like mdf sils multidictionary formatter adds a hierarchical data model on top of toolbox standard format markers to support a data reuse scenario, cldf structures crosslinguistic data to make automated reuse in typical analyses in historical linguistics possible. Electronic files may be in pdf or microsoft word for mac. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective cambridge studies in linguistics by alice c. Prospective and proximative as crosslinguistic categories irina nevskaya leipzig 2015bernard comrie 1976. Semantic scholar extracted view of historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective. Linguists have proposed numerous explanations distributions, both languagespecific and crosslinguistic, of linguistic structures related to transitivity, valency, and argument structure. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns. It shows not only our faculty members expertise, but also which issues have been investigated by them.
Much of the early history of semantics and pragmatics took place within logic and philosophy, so the history starts out somewhat disjoint. Highlights the consequences for our understanding of the architecture of grammar. Harris campbell historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective. Modeling information structure in a crosslinguistic. At the same time it has also become clear that some aspects of learning to read and write are very similar across scripts. The historical linguistics of north america oxford u press 2002 mithun, marianne. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider crosslinguistic perspectives. The languages discussed by the authors include in alphabetical order. The following is the list of east asian linguisticsrelated publications as of march 2014 by our seven deall east asian linguistics faculty members chan, nakayama, noda, c. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective cambridge u press 2000 campbell, lyle. In this book, john coleman argues that they are unnecessary.
A crosslinguistic perspective if the nominal structure that precedes it changes its status from a left dislocated topic to the subject of the whole copular. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. The purpose is to determine the diachronic patterns of usage of nd, and secondly to compare results with the conclusions of existing diachronic pragmatic studies of modal markers. Formal and typological approaches to syntactic change. A study of cappadocian greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective. Please provide hard copy or a pdf file with embedded fonts. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective name author.
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