Usage Based And Typological Approaches To Linguistic Units

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259836
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units written by Tsuyoshi Ono and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and interactional linguistics. This volume contributes to and extends this discussion by examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range of genetically and typologically unrelated languages, English, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, engaging with fundamental theoretical issues. The chapters show that categories originally created for the description of Indo-European languages have limited usefulness if our goal is to understand the nature of human language in general. The authors thus question the status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest instead that an emergent and interactional view of both structure and function offers a better fit with the data from the languages examined. Originally published as special issue 43:2 (2019) of Studies in Language.

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono
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Download or read book Special Issue: Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units written by Tsuyoshi Ono and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : András Kertész
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110540258
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Approaches to Syntax written by András Kertész and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261512
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages written by Tsuyoshi Ono and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for ‘NP’ has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants’ evolving social agendas.

Author : Ritva Laury
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN 13 : 9522229008
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction written by Ritva Laury and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns the ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in a range of contexts in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism. The volume includes an introduction which, besides presenting the content of the articles, discusses terminological fundamentals such as the understanding of the terms “clause”, “action” and “linkage” and “combining” in different grammatical traditions and the ways they are conceived of here, as well as open questions collectively formulated by the contributors in planning for the volume concerning the recognition, emergence and distance of linkage, and the ways these questions are addressed in the contributions to the volume. Topics treated in the articles include combining physical actions and verbal announcements in everyday conversation, linking of verbal and nonverbal actions as well as verbal linkages between nonverbal actions by dance teachers building pedagogical activity. Other topics concern the mediation of questions through informal translating in multilingual conversation in order to organize participation, and the ways in which student requests for clarification and confirmation create learning occasions in a foreign language classroom. Still other articles concern the on-line emergence of alternative questions with the Finnish particle vai 'or', delayed completions of unfinished turns, the transforming of requests and offers into joint ventures, and the ways in which direct quotations are created in written journalism from the original talk in the spoken interview. Most of the papers employ Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics as a theoretical framework. The languages used as data are Finnish, English, Estonian, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish.

Author : Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107085756
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Frequency in Language written by Dagmar Divjak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Author : Thomas Brunner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110521806
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes written by Thomas Brunner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.

Author : Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505424
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching written by Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both first and second language acquisition, to monolingual and bilingual development, and to naturalistic and instructed settings, it is not common to consider these different kinds of acquisition in tandem. The present volume takes an integrative approach and shows that usage-based theories provide a much needed unified framework for the study of first, second and foreign language acquisition, in monolingual and bilingual contexts. The contributions target the acquisition of a wide range of linguistic phenomena and critically assess the applicability and explanatory power of the usage-based paradigm. The book also systematically examines a range of cognitive and linguistic factors involved in the process of language development and relates relevant findings to language teaching. Finally, this volume contributes to the assessment and refinement of empirical methods currently employed in usage-based acquisition research. This book is of interest to scholars of language acquisition, language pedagogy, developmental psychology, as well as Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar.

Author : Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027247927
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Grammar from the Human Perspective written by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations. Other articles concern embodiment in language, showing how conceptualization is mediated by one's embodied experience of the world and ourselves. Finally, some of the articles discuss coding of person focusing on the subjec­tivity of conceptualization and how it is reflected in grammar. The articles show that conceptualization reflects the speaker's construal of the situation, and furthermore, that it is intersubjective because it reflects the speaker's understanding of the relations between the speech act participants. The papers deal with Finnish, utilizing the rich resources of Finnish grammar to contribute to issues in contemporary linguistics and in particular to Cognitive Grammar.

Author : Jian Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819927641
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Download or read book A Constructional Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality written by Jian Hu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: