The Syntax Of Comparative Constructions

Author : Firew Girma Worku
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449914
Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Mursi written by Firew Girma Worku and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.

Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100837
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions written by Julia Bacskai-Atkari and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.

Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 386956301X
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Syntax of Comparative Constructions written by Julia Bacskai-Atkari and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a minimalist framework, the dissertation provides an analysis for the syntactic structure of comparatives, with special attention paid to the derivation of the subclause. The proposed account explains how the comparative subclause is connected to the matrix clause, how the subclause is formed in the syntax and what additional processes contribute to its final structure. In addition, it casts light upon these problems in cross-linguistic terms and provides a model that allows for synchronic and diachronic differences. This also enables one to give a more adequate explanation for the phenomena found in English comparatives since the properties of English structures can then be linked to general settings of the language and hence need no longer be considered as idiosyncratic features of the grammar of English. First, the dissertation provides a unified analysis of degree expressions, relating the structure of comparatives to that of other degrees. It is shown that gradable adjectives are located within a degree phrase (DegP), which in turn projects a quantifier phrase (QP) and that these two functional layers are always present, irrespectively of whether there is a phonologically visible element in these layers. Second, the dissertation presents a novel analysis of Comparative Deletion by reducing it to an overtness constraint holding on operators: in this way, it is reduced to morphological differences and cross-linguistic variation is not conditioned by way of postulating an arbitrary parameter. Cross-linguistic differences are ultimately dependent on whether a language has overt operators equipped with the relevant – [+compr] and [+rel] – features. Third, the dissertation provides an adequate explanation for the phenomenon of Attributive Comparative Deletion, as attested in English, by way of relating it to the regular mechanism of Comparative Deletion. I assume that Attributive Comparative Deletion is not a universal phenomenon, and its presence in English can be conditioned by independent, more general rules, while the absence of such restrictions leads to its absence in other languages. Fourth, the dissertation accounts for certain phenomena related to diachronic changes, examining how the changes in the status of comparative operators led to changes in whether Comparative Deletion is attested in a given language: I argue that only operators without a lexical XP can be grammaticalised. The underlying mechanisms underlying are essentially general economy principles and hence the processes are not language-specific or exceptional. Fifth, the dissertation accounts for optional ellipsis processes that play a crucial role in the derivation of typical comparative subclauses. These processes are not directly related to the structure of degree expressions and hence the elimination of the quantified expression from the subclause; nevertheless, they are shown to be in interaction with the mechanisms underlying Comparative Deletion or the absence thereof.

Author : Susan Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315518910
Total Pages : 235 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax written by Susan Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages display a range of constructions equally compatible with the suggested pattern of possibilities resulting from the general constraints proposed. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235171
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions written by Paul Kent Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004207686
Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book Language at Large written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.

Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783961100842
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deletion Phenomena in Comparative Constructions: English Comparatives in a Cross-linguistic Perspective written by Julia Bacskai-Atkari and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.

Author : Ming Xiang
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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Some Topics in Comparative Constructions written by Ming Xiang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Butler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230501605
Total Pages : 223 pages
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Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions written by A. Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.

Author : Peter Ackema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273642
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Germanic Syntax written by Peter Ackema and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and ‘do-support’-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.