Perspectives On The Architecture And Acquisition Of Syntax

Author : Gautam Sengupta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811042950
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax written by Gautam Sengupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data. Professor R. Amritavalli, a renowned linguist, has spent over three decades in the fields of syntax and syntactic acquisition, making important and landmark contributions in these areas, and this book is a recognition of her work. The contributors cover these themes in the context of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi-Urdu, Bangla, Dravidian languages, and understudied languages like Huave. The analyses presented here have major implications for current theories of syntax and semantics, first and second language acquisition, language typology and historical linguistics, and will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and teachers.

Author : András Bárány
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540047
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic architecture and its consequences III written by András Bárány and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters develop novel insights into a number of core syntactic phenomena, such as the structure of and variation in diathesis, alignment types, case and agreement splits, and the syntax of null elements. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and they provide varied perspectives on current research in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax.

Author : Giuliano Bocci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198889488
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition written by Giuliano Bocci and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms. The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.

Author : András Bárány
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3961102767
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic architecture and its consequences I written by András Bárány and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions on the relation of syntax to other aspects of grammar and linguistics more generally, including studies on language acquisition, variation and change, and syntactic interfaces. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax ranging from the core verbal domain to higher, propositional domains. This book is complemented by volume II available at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/276 and volume III available at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/277.

Author : Luis López
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230507722
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies written by Luis López and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on minimalist syntax develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. A crash-proof system is obtained if syntactic dependencies are strictly local (i.e. there is no long-distance Agree). Apparent long-distance dependencies turn out to be the outcome of a recursive chain on local complex dependencies. This framework allows for novel analyses of quirky subjects in Icelandic and Spanish, indefinite SE in Spanish and different types of expletive constructions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Icelandic.

Author : Andreas Trotzke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268061
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Syntactocentrism written by Andreas Trotzke and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the generative perspective, as they are formulated in alternative frameworks such as construction grammar, disappear once the consequences of recent minimalist theory are taken seriously. To show this, the book applies recent concepts of minimalist grammar to phenomena like the syntactic flexibility of idioms, the pragmatics of left-periphery-movement, or opacity effects involved in subextraction patterns. The book makes a new contribution to the field, as existing monographs on architectural matters in minimalism neither discuss alternative frameworks at length nor place a premium on pragmatic explanations for syntactic facts. The primary audience of this book are researchers and graduate students interested in a state-of-the-art discussion of grammatical architecture.

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191635685
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Syntax written by Peter W. Culicover and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the cognitive foundations of linguistic theory and the place of syntactic theory in explaining how language works. This has led him to specific proposals regarding the proper scope of syntactic theory and to a re-examination of the empirical basis of syntactic analyses, which reflect judgements reflecting not only linguistic competence but the complexity of the computations involved in acquiring and using language. After a brief a retrospective the author opens the book with the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis, an article written with Ray Jackendoff, that proposes significant restrictions on the scope of the syntactic component of the grammar. The work is then divided into parts concerned broadly with representations, structures, and computation. The chapters are provided with contextual headnotes and footnote references to subsequent work, but are otherwise printed essentially as they first appeared. Peter Culicover's lively and original perspectives on syntax and grammar will appeal to all theoretical linguists and their advanced students.

Author : András Bárány
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Architecture and Its Consequences written by András Bárány and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jieun Kiaer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350258288
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Syntax written by Jieun Kiaer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more. Referencing big data and drawing on a corpus of linguistic research, the book explores in particular the socio-pragmatic sensitivity and complexity within East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, offering new insights that step away from traditional approaches to formal syntax. In tracing the history of syntactic theory, it highlights the shifts in our communication as we adapt to technological developments, and focuses in particular on the significant advances in AI. Arguing that traditional syntactic theory is no longer in keeping with real life communication, Jieun Kiaer scrutinises current approaches and raises key questions about the need for a more appropriate grammar better suited to the diversity of human language.

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198700234
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Nuts written by Peter W. Culicover and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.