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Author : Theodore Marinis
Release : 2002
Genre : Greek language, Modern
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Book Synopsis Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP by : Theodore Marinis
Download or read book Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP written by Theodore Marinis. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodoros Marinis
Release : 2003-12-19
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek by : Theodoros Marinis
Download or read book The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek written by Theodoros Marinis. This book was released on 2003-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that require the use of multiple definite articles — possessive constructions, appositive constructions and Determiner Spreading, a form of adjectival modification — and number and case marking in nouns and definite articles. Detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses show an incremental development of the DP. The findings address the debate concerning maturation versus continuity. Incremental acquisition of the DP argues in favour of a weak continuity approach to language acquisition. Whilst gradual acquisition of the DP remains unexplained within the Principles and Parameters Theory, it is fully compatible within Minimalism, as it is argued to result from the gradual acquisition of the features associated with the Greek DP.
Author : David Adger
Release : 2006-01-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Peripheries by : David Adger
Download or read book Peripheries written by David Adger. This book was released on 2006-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, - has a distinct comparative slant, - brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, - could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, - contains papers addressing: = the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, = the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, = the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.
Author : Elisabeth Stark
Release : 2007-08-23
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 108/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nominal Determination by : Elisabeth Stark
Download or read book Nominal Determination written by Elisabeth Stark. This book was released on 2007-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count nouns); Kupisch & Koops (Specificity and negation); Jäger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the original demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Gothic, Old High German); Lohndal (Double definiteness during Old Norse); emergence of DP in ontogeny/phylogeny by Osawa (DP, TP and aspect in Old English and L1 acquisition); Bittner (Early functions of definites in L1 acquisition); Wood (Demonstratives and possessives emergent from Old English); Bauer ((in)definite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).
Author : Melita Stavrou
Release : 2005-05-19
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 518/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advances in Greek Generative Syntax by : Melita Stavrou
Download or read book Advances in Greek Generative Syntax written by Melita Stavrou. This book was released on 2005-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one is an extensive analysis of the distribution of goal and beneficiary dative DPs in Greek (and cross-linguistically) and the other addresses the relation agree in small clauses (and between adjectives and nouns). Two articles study the acquisition of the left periphery and of eventivity and one focuses on the historical evolution of participles in Greek, out of which gerunds emerged. The syntax and semantics of wh-clauses in DP positions and of the non-volitional verb θelo are the focus of two articles situated in the syntax–semantics interface. The DP domain is approached by two theoretical articles, one on a Greek possessive adjective and another on determiner heads. The final contribution studies the acquisition of the Greek definite article.
