Exploring crash-proof grammars / / edited by Michael T. Putnam |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PutnamMichael T |
Collana | Language faculty and beyond |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Generative grammar Minimalist theory (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-282-77507-3
9786612775079 90-272-8801-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface & -- acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Exploring Crash-proof grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining crash(es) -- 3. Scope and content of this volume -- Works cited -- Part I. Applications of crash-proof grammar -- Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feature inheritance -- 3. Subject-verb agreement -- 4. Subject extraction and Anti-Agreement Effects -- 5. Long distance extraction and agreement -- 6. DONATE, KEEP and SHARE application in crash-proof syntax -- 7. Conclusion -- Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Theoretical overview -- 1.2 Structure of the paper -- 2. Gender and interpretability -- 2.1 Romance gender -- 2.2 Bantu noun class -- 3. Gender agreement in Bantu and Romance -- 4. Why Bantu agreement is independent of case -- 4.1 The proposal: Gender is never deactivated -- 4.2 Against an Agree-with-Agreement approach -- support from semitic -- 5. Activity: A closer look -- 5.1 Strengthening the Activity Requirement -- 6. A problem for Feature Inheritance -- 7. Deriving Goal Deactivation -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- The Empty Left Edge Condition (ELEC) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A uniform approach to null-arguments -- 3. Germanic argument drop and the ELEC -- 4. More cases of left edge sensitive argument drop -- 5. The emptiness conditions are operative in PF -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II. The crash-proof debate -- Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG -- 1. Linguistics as the study of I-language -- 2. Acceptability and grammaticality -- 3. Selection and structure-building -- 4. Prospects for an unprincipled syntax -- A tale of two minimalisms.
1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The distinguishing feature between the two minimalisms -- 2.1 The crash-proof route -- 2.2 The alternative route -- 2.3 A concise comparison, and why Merge α has an edge -- 3. On Agree -- 4. Conclusion -- Uninterpretable features -- 1. Unclarities regarding the distinction between crash vs. convergent gibberish -- 2. A pervasive empirical problem for the valuation-transfer analysis -- 3. Designing a perfect system "primarily" for CI and "secondarily" for SM -- 4. A crash-proof system and a remaining question -- References -- Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Phrase structure rules" a la the Survive Principle -- 3. Theta Roles in Survive-minimalism -- 4. Cleaning-up crashes -- 5. Consequences and conclusions -- References -- Toward a strongly derivational syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Labeling and First Merge -- 2.1 C-selection is not feature checking -- 2.2 C-selection has no role in labeling -- 2.3 Labeling at First Merge: Agree -- 2.4 Collins' Locus and First Merge -- 2.5 Crash-proof derivation vs. immediate filtering -- 3. The issues facing First and Second Merge -- 4. Toward a strongly derivational syntax -- 4.1 Eliminating the First Merge/Second Merge dichotomy -- 4.2 Eliminating First Merge -- 4.3 A)symmetry in narrow syntax and at the interfaces -- 4.4 Eliminating Merge -- 4.5 Consequences of Eliminating Merge -- 4.6 Transfer and feature checking -- 4.7 Complex specifiers -- 5. Concluding remarks -- On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof grammars -- 1. Rainbow, language, theory -- 2. The concept of crash-proof syntax -- 3. Mechanisms of crash-proof syntax -- 4. Elements, contexts, and formal Systems -- 5. Peano's axioms -- 6. The language-number correspondence -- 7. Conclusions -- Crash-proof syntax and filters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. OT-syntax as a theory of filters. 3. Crash-proof syntax does not void the need for filters -- 3.1 Movement -- 3.2 Negative sentences -- 3.3 Other differences -- 3.4 The universal generator -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4. Why developing a crash-proof syntax may be desirable -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammar as system of declarative constraints rather than a system of production operations -- 3. When derivations crash (in performance) -- 4. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- the Language Faculty and Beyond series. |
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Exploring second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes [[electronic resource] ] : bridging a paradigm gap / / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee, Marianne Hundt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 222 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 427 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MukherjeeJoybrato
HundtMarianne |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Second language acquisition - Study and teaching
Language and languages - Study and teaching English language - Variation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-12207-3
9786613122070 90-272-8714-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Exploring second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes [[electronic resource] ] : bridging a paradigm gap / / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee, Marianne Hundt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 222 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 427 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MukherjeeJoybrato
HundtMarianne |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Second language acquisition - Study and teaching
Language and languages - Study and teaching English language - Variation |
ISBN |
1-283-12207-3
9786613122070 90-272-8714-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Exploring second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes : bridging a paradigm gap / / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee, Marianne Hundt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 222 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 427 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MukherjeeJoybrato
HundtMarianne |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Second language acquisition - Study and teaching
Language and languages - Study and teaching English language - Variation |
ISBN |
1-283-12207-3
9786613122070 90-272-8714-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Modal auxiliaries in second language varieties of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Second language acquisition and New Englishes - a bridge to be built -- 2.1 The (ENL-) ESL-EFL taxonomy revisited -- 2.2 Modal auxiliaries in L2 varieties: An SLA perspective -- 3. Modal expressions of obligation and necessity in Asian, African and South Pacific varieties of English -- 3.1 The corpus-linguistic approach -- 3.2 Defining the variable -- 3.3 Overall tendencies -- 3.4 The central modal should -- 3.5 The central modal must -- 3.6 Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- English in Cyprus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cyprus English - second language variety or learner English? -- 2.1 Some theoretical considerations -- 2.2 English in Cyprus: Historical background -- 2.3 The status of English in postcolonial Cyprus -- 2.4 CEDAR - Cyprus English Data Analysis and Research -- 2.5 Potential candidates for structural nativization -- 2.6 The Variety Spectrum -- 2.7 Language attitudes and use -- 3. Placing Cyprus English on the map of World Englishes research -- 3.1 The ESL-EFL distinction in early models -- 3.2 Continuous models -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- From EFL to ESL -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From EFL to ESL -- 3. The preposition into -- 4. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of into in ICLE -- 4.1 Frequency -- 4.2 Syntactic structures -- 4.3 Lexical variation -- 4.4 Semantic analysis -- 4.5 Phraseological uses -- 4.6 Non-standard uses -- 5. Novice vs expert writing -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Formulaic sequences in spoken ENL, ESL and EFL -- 1. Introduction: Comparing ESL and EFL communities and speakers -- 2. Frequent multiword expressions in ENL, ESL and EFL.
3. Database and methodology -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Quantitative findings of all 3-grams in ENS, ESL and EFL -- 4.2 Common core of 3-grams in ENL, ESL and EFL -- 4.3 Variant-specific 3-grams in ENL, ESL and EFL -- 5. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Studying structural innovations in New English varieties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is cross-linguistic influence? -- 3. Factors constraining cross-linguistic influence -- 4. How to study cross-linguistic influence in New Englishes -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Interrogative inversion as a learner phenomenon in English contact varieties -- 1. Introduction, previous research and the "paradigm gap" -- 2. Non-standard inversion patterns in varieties of English -- 2.1 IndE and SingE -- 2.2 Irish English -- 3. Inversion as imitation rather than rule overgeneralization -- 3.1 Tendencies from individual SLA -- 3.2 An attempt at quantifying "formulaic language" -- 4. Methodological and theoretical conclusions -- References -- Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes - fact or fiction?* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data -- 4. Definition of the variable -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Quantitative findings -- 5.2 Qualitative analysis -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Typological profiling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 2.1 Learner Englishes -- 2.2 Indigenized L2 varieties -- 2.3 Standard British English benchmark varieties -- 2.4 European mother-tongue languages -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Coding varieties of English -- 3.2 Coding European mother-tongue languages -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The big picture -- 4.2 Sources of variability -- 4.3 Substrate effects? -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social and psycholinguistic forces. 3. Evidence -- 3.1 Case Study 1: The progressive aspect in South African English -- 3.2 Case Study 2: "Can be able to" in South African English -- 3.3 Case Study 3: "Enable + bare infinitive verb" in East African English -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Discussion forum -- 1. Modelling Englishes in the world -- 1.1 ENL, ESL and EFL countries? -- 1.2 ENL, ESL and EFL speakers -- 1.3 Structural properties of ENL, ESL and EFL: Discrete variety types or continuum? -- 1.4 Labelling and the paradigm gap -- 2. The error-innovation cline -- 3. ESL and EFL: Developmental differences -- 4. Corpus methodology and the role of frequency -- 5. Looking ahead -- References -- Bionotes -- Index. |
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Exploring the lexis-grammar interface [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 321 p |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RömerUte
SchulzeRainer |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Lexicology Grammaticality (Linguistics) Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-10493-4
9786612104930 90-272-8980-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Exploring the lexis-grammar interface [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 321 p |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RömerUte
SchulzeRainer |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Lexicology Grammaticality (Linguistics) Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-282-10493-4
9786612104930 90-272-8980-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Zooming in / Rainer Schulze and Ute Römer -- Technology and phraseology: with notes on the history of corpus linguistics / Michael Stubbs -- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar: the search for common ground / Michael Hoey -- Valency: item-specificity and idiom principle / Thomas Herbst -- Fowler's Modern English usage at the interface of lexis and grammar / Ulrich Busse and Anne Schröder -- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1): lexical access / Nick C. Ellis, Eric Frey and Isaac Jalkanen -- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English: corpus-based perspectives on structural nativisation / Joybrato Mukherjee -- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that: evidence from non-standard English / Daniela Kolbe -- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation / Yoko Iyeiri -- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: the N1 to N1 pattern / Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin -- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions / Silke Höche -- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English / Matthias l.G. Meyer -- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations: the case of intensifiers / Silvia Cacchiani -- Polysemy and lexical priming: the case of drive / Fanie Tsiamita -- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns / Michaela Mahlberg -- Loud signatures: comparing evaluative discourse styles: patterns in rants and riffs / Alison Duguid. |
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Exploring the lexis-grammar interface / / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 321 p |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RomerUte
SchulzeRainer |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Lexicology Grammaticality (Linguistics) Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-282-10493-4
9786612104930 90-272-8980-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Zooming in / Rainer Schulze and Ute Römer -- Technology and phraseology: with notes on the history of corpus linguistics / Michael Stubbs -- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar: the search for common ground / Michael Hoey -- Valency: item-specificity and idiom principle / Thomas Herbst -- Fowler's Modern English usage at the interface of lexis and grammar / Ulrich Busse and Anne Schröder -- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1): lexical access / Nick C. Ellis, Eric Frey and Isaac Jalkanen -- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English: corpus-based perspectives on structural nativisation / Joybrato Mukherjee -- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that: evidence from non-standard English / Daniela Kolbe -- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation / Yoko Iyeiri -- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: the N1 to N1 pattern / Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin -- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions / Silke Höche -- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English / Matthias l.G. Meyer -- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations: the case of intensifiers / Silvia Cacchiani -- Polysemy and lexical priming: the case of drive / Fanie Tsiamita -- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns / Michaela Mahlberg -- Loud signatures: comparing evaluative discourse styles: patterns in rants and riffs / Alison Duguid. |
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Expressing the same by the different [[electronic resource] ] : the subjunctive vs the indicative in French / / Igor Dreer |
Autore | Dreer Igor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 445/.6 |
Collana | Studies in functional and structural linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
French language - Mood
French language - Subjunctive |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15255-6
9786612152559 90-272-9190-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454319603321 |
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Expressing the same by the different [[electronic resource] ] : the subjunctive vs the indicative in French / / Igor Dreer |
Autore | Dreer Igor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Company, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxx, 272 pages) |
Disciplina | 445/.6 |
Collana | Studies in functional and structural linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
French language - Mood
French language - Subjunctive |
ISBN |
1-282-15255-6
9786612152559 90-272-9190-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Expressing the Same by the Different; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1. Sentence-oriented approaches; 2. Sign-oriented approaches; 3. The basic principles; 4. Hypothesis; 5. Occurrence System and the encoder's commitment; 6. Occurrence System and subjective comment; 7. Occurrence System and negation; 8. "From sign to text" approach; 9. "From text to sign" approach; 10. Previous explanations for the use of the Subjunctive forms and for their disfavoring |
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Dreer Igor | ||
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Expressing the same by the different : the subjunctive vs the indicative in French / / Igor Dreer |
Autore | Dreer Igor |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxx, 272 pages) |
Disciplina | 445/.6 |
Collana | Studies in functional and structural linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
French language - Mood
French language - Subjunctive |
ISBN |
1-282-15255-6
9786612152559 90-272-9190-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Expressing the Same by the Different; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1. Sentence-oriented approaches; 2. Sign-oriented approaches; 3. The basic principles; 4. Hypothesis; 5. Occurrence System and the encoder's commitment; 6. Occurrence System and subjective comment; 7. Occurrence System and negation; 8. "From sign to text" approach; 9. "From text to sign" approach; 10. Previous explanations for the use of the Subjunctive forms and for their disfavoring |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822501403321 |
Dreer Igor | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2007 | ||
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