A Syntax of Substance
Title | A Syntax of Substance PDF eBook |
Author | David Adger |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262518309 |
A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its empirical consequences.
The Substance of Language Volume I: The Domain of Syntax
Title | The Substance of Language Volume I: The Domain of Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | John Mathieson Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 447 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199608318 |
The Domain of Syntax explores the consequences for syntax of assuming that language is grounded in cognition and perception. He considers whether this permits a lexicalist approach to syntax that would allow it to dispense not only with structural mutations but with universal grammar itself.
The Substance of Language Volume III: Phonology-Syntax Analogies
Title | The Substance of Language Volume III: Phonology-Syntax Analogies PDF eBook |
Author | John Mathieson Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199608334 |
Phonology-Syntax Analogies looks at the degree to which analogies between syntax and phonology result from their being representational subsystems within the overall system of language, at why they sometimes break down, and at how far semantic and phonetic properties limit such analogies.
The Syntax of Desire
Title | The Syntax of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Lombardi |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802090702 |
In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval 'grammars:' theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine's theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante's poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis.
The Principles of English Grammar : Comprising the Substance of All the Most Approved English Grammars Extant, Briefly Defined, and Neatly Arranged : with Copious Exercises in Parsing and Syntax
Title | The Principles of English Grammar : Comprising the Substance of All the Most Approved English Grammars Extant, Briefly Defined, and Neatly Arranged : with Copious Exercises in Parsing and Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | William Lennie |
Publisher | Toontoc [i.e. Toronto?] : J. Lovell |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Title | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1969-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262260503 |
Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account. Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar." Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it has become apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened.The major purpose of this book is to review these developments and to propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.
A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical: Syntax
Title | A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical: Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Sweet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |