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Author : Richard S. Kayne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paths Towards Universal Grammar written by Richard S. Kayne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guglielmo Cinque
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ISBN 13 : 9780608080369
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paths Towards Universal Grammar written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by . This book was released on with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aafke Hulk Professor of French Linguistics University of Amsterdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195349547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar written by Aafke Hulk Professor of French Linguistics University of Amsterdam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.
Author : Daniel L. Everett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307907023
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Language written by Daniel L. Everett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms—that is, different grammar—reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. For example, the Amazonian Pirahã put words together in ways that violate our long-held under-standing of how language works, and Pirahã grammar expresses complex ideas very differently than English grammar does. Drawing on the Wari’ language of Brazil, Everett explains that speakers of all languages, in constructing their stories, omit things that all members of the culture understand. In addition, Everett discusses how some cultures can get by without words for numbers or counting, without verbs for “to say” or “to give,” illustrating how the very nature of what’s important in a language is culturally determined. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering—and adventurous—research with the Amazonian Pirahã, and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett gives us an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.
Author : Aafke Hulk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195142691
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar written by Aafke Hulk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.
Author : Margaret Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134388535
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition written by Margaret Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important properties despite their obvious differences, and the story of how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning. In narrating these two stories, the author argues that modern second language acquisition theory needs to reassess what counts as its own past. The book addresses Greek contributions to the prehistory of universal grammar, Roman bilingualism, the emergence of the first foreign language grammars in the early Middle Ages, and the Medieval speculative grammarians efforts to define the essentials of human language. The author shows how after the renaissance expanded people's awareness of language differences, scholars returned to the questions of universals in the context of second language learning, including in the 1660 Port-Royal grammar which Chomsky notoriously celebrated in Cartesian Linguistics. The book then looks at how Post-Saussurean European linguistics and American structuralism up to modern generative grammar have each differently conceived of universals and language learning. Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition is a remarkable contribution to the history of linguistics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, specialists in second language acquisition and language teacher-educators.
Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521475139
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of Italian syntax.
Author : René Dirven
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783878085652
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Issues in the Theory of Universal Grammar written by René Dirven and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiroyuki Ura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353404
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Checking Theory and Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar written by Hiroyuki Ura and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters.
Author : K.A. Jayaseelan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190630248
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar written by K.A. Jayaseelan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word order to more particular questions such as the morphological basis of anaphora, the genesis of lexical categories, the morpho-syntax of quantifiers, and the syntax and semantics of questions. Important universalist claims are embedded in these essays; for this reason, this volume will be of interest also to a student of the general theory of syntax. No future discussion of Dravidian (or South Asian) languages is possible without taking into account the insightful analyses set forth in these pages.
