Phrase Structure And Grammatical Relations In Tagalog

Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9780937073865
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog written by Paul Kroeger and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty years or so, most of the work on the syntax of Philippine languages has been focused on the question of whether or not these languages can be said to have grammatical subjects, and if so which argument of a basic transitive clause should be analysed as being the subject. Paul Kroeger's contribution to this debate asserts that grammatical relations such as subject and object are syntactic notions, and must be identified on the basis of syntactic properties, rather than by semantic roles or discourse functions. A large number of syntactic processes in Tagalog uniquely select the argument which bears the nominative case. On the other hand, the data which have been used in the debate to assert the ambiguity of subjecthood are best analysed in terms of semantic rather than syntactic constraints. Together these facts support an analysis that takes the nominative argument as the subject. Kroeger examines the history of the subjecthood debate and uses data from Tagalog to test the theories that have been put forth. His conclusions entail consequences for certain linguistic concepts and theories, and lead Kroeger to assert that grammatical relations are not defined in terms of surface phrase structure configurations, contrary to the assumptions of many approaches to syntax including the Government-Binding theory. Paul Kroeger is presently doing fieldwork in Austronesian languages and teaching linguistics to fieldworkers from around the world.

Author : Paul Richard Kroeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog written by Paul Richard Kroeger and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Teresita V. Ramos
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870226779
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tagalog Structures written by Teresita V. Ramos and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text approaches the grammar of Tagalog through an examination of word formation, sentence construction, and sentence types. There is also a discussion of the phonology. Tagalog Structures is to be used in conjunction with Conversational Tagalog and Tagalog Dictionary.

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102554
Total Pages : 1632 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).

Author : Clifford S. Burgess
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9781575860039
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Clifford S. Burgess and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of discussions of grammatical relations and related concepts using current syntactic theory.

Author : Patrick Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199264015
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Patrick Farrell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229317
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only be described properly by a basket of neither necessary nor sufficient properties — thus within a framework akin to Rosch's theory of Prototype. Some GR properties are functional (reference, topicality, accessibility); others involve overt coding (word-order, case marking, verb agreement). Others yet are more abstract, involving control of grammatical processes (rule-governed behavior). Building on Keenan's pioneering work, this volume concentrates on the structural aspects of GRs within a functionalist framework. Following a theoretical introduction, the papers in the volume deal primarily with recalcitrant typological issues: The dissociation between overt coding properties of GRs and their behavior-and-control properties; GRs in serial verb constructions; GRs in ergative languages; The impact of clause union and grammaticalization on GRs.

Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290180
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Case and Grammatical Relations written by Greville G. Corbett and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.

Author : Stanley Starosta
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821050
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Analysis written by Stanley Starosta and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on problems in the morphological and syntactic analysis of certain Asian and Pacific languages, bringing to bear alternative theories of grammar, including relational, categorical, and lexicase dependency grammar, and a whole-word approach to morphology.

Author : Katarzyna Janic
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260265
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antipassive written by Katarzyna Janic and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construction and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the individual contributions.