The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2000-06-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198030290 |
This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.
Verb First
Title | Verb First PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027227973 |
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.
Verb First
Title | Verb First PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2005-02-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294755 |
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.
The Syntax of the Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of the Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Syntactic Structures
Title | Syntactic Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3112316002 |
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Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.
Title | Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9786610530670 |
This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.
The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Title | The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Lorusso |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018-06-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1527512207 |
This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine words and produce their first verbs. Verbal items appear later than nouns in a child’s speech and refer to the relational concepts in the world that are represented in syntax through the argument structure. The central set of data investigated here is based on the analysis of the features of first verbal productions in Italian. Since the appearance of verbs implies the mastery of a mapping procedure between syntactic positions and semantic roles, the syntactic regularities found for each lexical verb class suggest that the relation at the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The non-adult-like sentences are those which involve the mastery of the scope-discourse semantic interface or higher functional syntactic categories. The analysis of the delay in the production and comprehension of some constructions here uncovers some general characteristics of language acquisition devices.