The Theory Of German Word Order From The Renaissance To The Present

Author : Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816609837
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present written by Aldo D. Scaglione and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The uniquely systematic character of German word order and sentence structure has long been recognized as an important feature of the language and of its literary uses. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the way theorists and stylists have interpreted these features through the centuries. Aldo Scaglione contends that the story of this theoretical awareness is part of the emerging cultural and literary consciousness of the German nation, as well as a testing ground for contemporary linguistic typology. German speculation on the nature of a national language is, to Scaglione, best understood as a dialogue with the prevailing models of Latin, Italian, French, and English. His account of the debates over German word order is thus grounded in the complex historical circumstances from which they emerge: Renaissance grammarians took stock of German divergencies from the Latin cultural model, and those in the seventeenth century faced the challenges of French rationalism, nineteenth-century Romanticism and the many linguistic movements of the twentieth century have all cast new light upon the peculiarities of German sentence structure. Readers interested in historical syntax, rhetorical traditions, and the history of the German language will value both Scaglione's wide-ranging knowledge and his lively style.

Author : Aldo Domenico Scaglione
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ISBN 13 : 9780783729206
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Author : Giuliano Bernini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110892227
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe written by Giuliano Bernini and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

Author : Mirko Tavoni
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 394079399X
Total Pages : 3692 pages
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Download or read book Renaissance Linguistics Archive (1.0) : Online Publication of the Bibliographic Repertorium of Secondary Literature (1870-1999) written by Mirko Tavoni and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 3692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans-Josef Niederehe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902724541X
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Download or read book History and Historiography of Linguistics written by Hans-Josef Niederehe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V. Renaissance; VI. 17th Century. Volume 2 continues with: VII. 18th Century; VIII. 19th Century; IX. 20th Century; and provides Author and Subject Indexes.

Author : Jean Boase-Beier
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775270
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The German Language written by Jean Boase-Beier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Language introduces students of German to a linguistic way of looking at the language. Written from a Chomksyan perspective, this volume covers the basic structural components of the German language: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, and the lexicon. Explores the linguistic structure of German from current theoretical perspectives. Written from a Chomksyan perspective, this volume covers the basic structural components of the German language: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, and the lexicon. Serves as a valuable resource for students of German language and literature and for linguists with little or no background in the language. Includes exercises, definitions of key terms, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Andreas Kathol
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198237341
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Linear Syntax written by Andreas Kathol and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes a case for a critical reassessment of the wide-spread view that syntax can be reduced to tree structures, arguing for concepts that are defined in terms of linear order. By connecting the descriptive tools of modern phrase-structure grammar with traditional descriptive scholarship, Andreas Kathol offers a new perspective on many long-standing problems in syntactic theory.

Author : Irmengard Rauch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110856441
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Download or read book On Germanic Linguistics written by Irmengard Rauch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792342632
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Morphosyntax of Verb Movement written by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.

Author : J.-W. Zwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401158800
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Morphosyntax of Verb Movement written by J.-W. Zwart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.