Autore	Hoop Helen de <1964-, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	415
Collana	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase Grammar, Comparative and general - Case Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Generative grammar Semantics
ISBN	1-135-63721-0 1-315-05162-1 1-135-63714-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	ch. 1. The semantics of noun phrases -- ch. 2. The hypothesis -- ch. 3. Scrambling, subjects, and the weak-strong distinction -- ch. 4. Conclusion.
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Autore	Whitman Neal <1969-, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories Semantics Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Neutralization (Linguistics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-87676-2 1-135-87677-0 1-280-23633-7 9786610236336 0-203-49538-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Empirical Background; 1.1 Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Polysemy; 1.2 Category Neutrality; 2. Theoretical Background; 2.1 Different Kinds of Categorial Grammars; 2.2 Syntax: The Associative Lambek Calculus; 2.3 Semantics; 2.4 Conjunction and Disjunction Constructors; 2.5 Lexical Issues; 2.6 Other Background; 2.7 Conclusions; 3. Category Neutrality and Mixed-Wh Interrogatives; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Optional NP-Gap Mixed-Wh Interrogatives 3.3 Plural-Noun Mixed-Wh Interrogatives3.4 Mixed-Wh Interrogatives Without Lexical Neutrality; 3.5 Conclusions; 4. Category Neutrality and Verbal Argument Alternations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Previous Analyses of Verbal Dependent Coordinations; 4.3 Coordination of Verbal Adjuncts; 4.4 Coordination of Verbal Complements; 4.5 Coordination of Adjuncts with Complements; 4.6 Excursus: Two Sample Derivations; 4.7 Miscellaneous Alternations; 4.8 Conclusions; 5. Category Neutrality and Predicative Phrases; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Categories for the Copula, APs, PPs, and NPs 5.3 Category Neutrality, APs, and PPs5.4 Category Neutrality and Noun Phrases; 5.5 Proposed Reasons for Noun Phrases of Category Pr; 5.6 Conclusions; 6. Category Neutrality and Adverbial Nouns; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Previous Analyses; 6.3 Property 1: Projection of Adverbial NPs; 6.4 Property 2: Heading Non-Wh Adverbial Relative Clauses; 6.5 Interaction of Property 1 and Property 2; 6.6 Category Neutrality; 6.7 Conclusions; 7. Conclusion; 7.1 Summary; 7.2 Directions for Further Research; 7.3 Implications; Appendix A: Attestations of Mixed-Wh Interrogatives; Appendix Β: Questionnaire Items BibliographyIndex
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Autore	Whitman Neal <1969-, >
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories Semantics Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Neutralization (Linguistics)
ISBN	1-135-87676-2 1-135-87677-0 1-280-23633-7 9786610236336 0-203-49538-1
Classificazione	17.50
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Empirical Background; 1.1 Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Polysemy; 1.2 Category Neutrality; 2. Theoretical Background; 2.1 Different Kinds of Categorial Grammars; 2.2 Syntax: The Associative Lambek Calculus; 2.3 Semantics; 2.4 Conjunction and Disjunction Constructors; 2.5 Lexical Issues; 2.6 Other Background; 2.7 Conclusions; 3. Category Neutrality and Mixed-Wh Interrogatives; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Optional NP-Gap Mixed-Wh Interrogatives 3.3 Plural-Noun Mixed-Wh Interrogatives3.4 Mixed-Wh Interrogatives Without Lexical Neutrality; 3.5 Conclusions; 4. Category Neutrality and Verbal Argument Alternations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Previous Analyses of Verbal Dependent Coordinations; 4.3 Coordination of Verbal Adjuncts; 4.4 Coordination of Verbal Complements; 4.5 Coordination of Adjuncts with Complements; 4.6 Excursus: Two Sample Derivations; 4.7 Miscellaneous Alternations; 4.8 Conclusions; 5. Category Neutrality and Predicative Phrases; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Categories for the Copula, APs, PPs, and NPs 5.3 Category Neutrality, APs, and PPs5.4 Category Neutrality and Noun Phrases; 5.5 Proposed Reasons for Noun Phrases of Category Pr; 5.6 Conclusions; 6. Category Neutrality and Adverbial Nouns; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Previous Analyses; 6.3 Property 1: Projection of Adverbial NPs; 6.4 Property 2: Heading Non-Wh Adverbial Relative Clauses; 6.5 Interaction of Property 1 and Property 2; 6.6 Category Neutrality; 6.7 Conclusions; 7. Conclusion; 7.1 Summary; 7.2 Directions for Further Research; 7.3 Implications; Appendix A: Attestations of Mixed-Wh Interrogatives; Appendix Β: Questionnaire Items BibliographyIndex
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Autore	Gould Isaac (Linguist)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	401.93
Collana	Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Soggetto topico	Language acquisition Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Generative grammar
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Choosing a Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. A model for language learning -- 1.1 Core themes: A first look -- 1.2 Revisiting the core themes: A look at some similar learning models -- 2. The puzzle of ambiguous evidence -- 2.1 Preliminary considerations -- 2.2 The general case -- 2.3 The subset case -- 3. Ambiguous evidence and modeling learner errors and variability -- 3.1 Errors -- 3.2 Variability -- 4. Ambiguity and development -- 2. The learning model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the model -- 2.1 Introducing the model with two toy examples -- 2.2 The learning procedure: A summary -- 2.3 Ambiguous vs. unambiguous input -- 2.4 Prior probabilities and the update procedure -- 2.5 Generality of the model and learning results -- 3. Comparison with other learning models -- 3.1 Sakas and Fodor (2001): The Structural Triggers Learner -- 3.2 Gibson and Wexler (1994): The Triggering Learning Algorithm -- 3.3 Yang (2002): The Naïve Parameter Learner -- 4. Summary -- 3. The acquisition of verb movement in Swiss German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The core data of verb placement in Swiss German -- 2.1 Adult grammar -- 2.2 Child productions -- 3. Some possible analyses -- 3.1 Alternative #1: Overgeneralizing V2 in embedded clauses -- 3.2 Alternative #2: Extraposition in embedded clauses -- 3.3 Alternative #3: Overgeneralizing VR/VPR -- 3.4 Schönenberger's analysis: Verb movement in embedded clauses -- 4. A learning model for the acquisition puzzle -- 4.1 Analysis of the adult and child grammars -- 4.2 Overview of the model -- 4.3 Insight of the model -- 4.4 Predictions for the model -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Priors and update procedure -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 A closer look at the acquisition data: The distribution of subjects in embedded clauses. 6. Comparison with other learning models -- 7. The broader German perspective -- 8. The relation between input and learning -- 9. Summary -- 4. Head-finality and verb movement in Korean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modeling the effects of parameter interaction: The core example -- 2.1 A schematic version of the model: Learning in a 3-parameter hypothesis space -- 2.2 Results of the 3-parameter model -- 3. Making the model more general: A simplified Korean -- 3.1. Expanding the hypothesis space -- 3.2 Expanding the corpus -- 3.3 Predictions for the model -- 4. Han et al. (2007) and the current model: A deeper look at modeling end-state variability -- 4.1 Review of Han et al. (2007) -- 4.2 Comparison of Han et al. (2007) and the current model -- 4.3 Toward a unification of Han et al. (2007) and the current model -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Results of the 5-parameter model -- 5.2 Variability with a probabilistic learner: A broader perspective -- 6. Comparison with other models -- 7. Constraining the model: A first attempt -- 8. Summary -- 5. The case of zero-derived causatives in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pylkkänen (2008) and the learning challenge -- 2.1 Review of Pylkkänen (2008) -- 2.2 The learning challenge -- 3. Addressing the challenge -- 3.1 Learning from implicit negative evidence: The case of zero-derived causatives -- 3.2 Making the model more general -- 3.3 Results -- 3.4 Learning the grammar of the superset language -- 4. Comparison with other models -- 5. Summary -- 6. Learning biases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A problem for defaults -- 2.1 Errors in Swedish -- 2.2 Errors in English -- 2.3 Toward accounting for the Swedish and English errors -- 3. Constraining the model: A new proposal -- 4. Summary -- 7. Final summary -- References -- Swiss German input types and corresponding compatible grammars. Additional evidence for a Root-selecting grammar in English? -- Index.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston, : Mouton De Gruyter, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (464 p.)
Disciplina	415 415/.018
Altri autori (Persone)	GastVolker DiesselHolger
Collana	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Trends in linguistics.
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Linguistics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-85691-3 3-11-028069-8
Classificazione	ET 650
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges, prospects / Gast, Volker / Diessel, Holger -- Clausal juxtaposition and subordination: New light from Otomi / Palancar, Enrique L. -- The multi-purpose subordinator na in Laz / Lacroix, René -- Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of 'subordinate' clauses in Puma (Kiranti) / Schackow, Diana / Bickel, Balthasar / Rai, Shree Kumar / Sharma (Gautam), Narayan / Rai, Arjun / Gaenszle, Martin -- External agreement in the converbal construction of Northern Akhvakh / Creissels, Denis -- Adverbial clauses in the Tsezic languages / Comrie, Bernard / Forker, Diana / Khalilova, Zaira -- Relativization in Ket / Nefedov, Andrey -- New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat / Authier, Gilles -- Patterns of relativization in North Asia: Towards a refined typology of prenominal participial relative clauses / Pakendorf, Brigitte -- Participial complementation in Lithuanian / Arkadiev, Peter M. -- Participial and infinitival complement sentences in Ancient Greek / Cristofaro, Sonia -- Relative clauses with adverbial meaning: A quantitative investigation of hybrid adjunct clauses in Latin / Gast, Volker / Schäfer, Martin -- Switch-reference and temporal reference in Mian / Fedden, Sebastian -- The performance basis of grammatical constraints on complex sentences: A preliminary survey / Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten -- Contributors -- Subject index -- Language index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453085603321