The Syntax Of Coordination

Author : Niina Ning Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767555
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Download or read book Coordination in Syntax written by Niina Ning Zhang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the syntactic issues raised by coordinate pairings, with particularly emphasis on their properties in English and Chinese.

Author : Robert R. van Oirsouw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000639428
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Coordination written by Robert R. van Oirsouw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordination is a syntactic construction which occurs in most languages. In the past, it has been a fruitful area of research, but also a controversial one. Arguments from coordination have been used in support of transformations, and against phrase-structure rules, but also in support of phrase-structure rules and against transformations. This

Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318990
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3 written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Author : Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290318
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text written by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization – at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific – predominantly semantic – topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.

Author : J. Camacho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1402015119
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Coordination written by J. Camacho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena. A substantial amount of data represented in this book are taken from varieties of Spanish. Unlike English, Spanish has a rich pattern of overt agreement between the subject and the verb, between nouns and adjectives, and also between clitics and lexical DP objects and indirect objects. Spanish agreement paradigms reveal very interesting patterns of agreement mismatch that provide important theoretical insights. Unless otherwise specified, it can be assumed that non-English examples are from Spanish. IX CHAPTER #1 INTRODUCTION Although coordination has figured more or less steadily in the Generative tradition beginning with Chornsky's (1957) Conjunction Transformation (later known as Conjunction Reduction), until recently, the two prevailing areas of research had been ellipsis (see, for example, Van Oirsouw 1987) and the semantic interpretation of conjuncts.' The internal structure of coordination was usually left unanalyzed, or assumed to be ternary branching, as in (I).

Author : Ewald Lang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230080
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Coordination written by Ewald Lang and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an attempt to explain coordinate conjoining as a rule-governed process of establishing specific semantic relations within and between sentences. Coordination is thus conceived of both as a basic device of linguistic complex formation and as a rather fundamental principle underlying the creation of the text. From the point of view of achieving coherence, coordinate conjoining is described in this monograph as an integrative process. Described are the conditions governing this process, the rules according to which take place, in short: the complex interaction of various linguistically identifiable features displayed by coordinate structures. Coordinate conjoining is regarded here as the result of the interplay of three factors which belong to distinct levels of semantic description: the meaning of the conjuncts, the relation between the meaning of the conjuncts and the meaning of the connectors. The step-by-step explication of the interaction of these levels in determining the semantic interpretation of coordinate structures forms the core of the present study.

Author : Giuliana Giusti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257930
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions written by Giuliana Giusti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.

Author : Grant Goodall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Structures in Syntax written by Grant Goodall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a radical revision in the definition of phrase markers, the fundamental object in the generative theory of syntax. Phrase markers have traditionally been defined in such a way that each node in the phrase marker must satisfy a relation of either dominance or precedence with every other node. Grant Goodall argues convincingly that the dominance and precedence requirement should be dropped. The argument is lucidly articulated and is supported by a comprehensive description and analysis of of coordination in English and of causative and restructuring constructions in the Romance languages. Parallel Structures in Syntax is a significant and thoughtful contribution to syntactic theory, and arguably provides the simplest and most elegant account available of many of the complex phenomena observed in coordination, causatives, and restructuring. It will interest not only theoretical linguists, but also computational linguists and cognitive scientists.

Author : Daniel Altshuler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526286
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coordination and the Syntax – Discourse Interface written by Daniel Altshuler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume makes it the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date: at first glance, it appears to be a syntactic matter, but the survey raises theoretical and empirical questions not just for syntax, but also across semantics, pragmatics, and discourse structure. Rather than promoting a single analysis, Daniel Altshuler and Robert Truswell outline reasonable hypotheses that allow theoretical conclusions to be deducted from empirical facts. The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories, and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. In many cases, however, the necessary empirical work has not yet been carried out, and too much of the literature revolves around the same handful of primarily English examples. The volume offers a starting point for further research on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in understudied languages, and provides a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.

Author : Niina Ning Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485083
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coordination in Syntax written by Niina Ning Zhang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordination in syntax is an important part of the analysis of sentence structure. Niina Ning Zhang addresses the issues raised by coordinate pairings and the implications of these structures, looking in particular at examples within English and Chinese. The volume covers the major questions regarding coordinates in syntax, providing a fresh perspective to arguments raised within previous literature. She explains how such coordinate complexes are structured, how some coordinators can be combined in parts of speech, the fixed nature of some of these pairings and what changes exist between the coordinate and non-coordinate constructions. The theories raised are backed up by a rich variety of examples as well as providing a cross-linguistic perspective, contextualising these ideas within current syntactic research.