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Author : Kit Fine
Release : 2005-07-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 709/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modality and Tense by : Kit Fine
Download or read book Modality and Tense written by Kit Fine. This book was released on 2005-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Release : 2013-07-25
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 587/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by : Marcel den Dikken
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax written by Marcel den Dikken. This book was released on 2013-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Release : 2008-07-27
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time and Modality by : Jacqueline Guéron
Download or read book Time and Modality written by Jacqueline Guéron. This book was released on 2008-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.
Author : Kit Fine
Release : 2005
Genre : Modality (Linguistics)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 105/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modality and Tense by : Kit Fine
Download or read book Modality and Tense written by Kit Fine. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.
Author : Joan Bybee
Release : 1994-11-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Grammar by : Joan Bybee
Download or read book The Evolution of Grammar written by Joan Bybee. This book was released on 1994-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
