Hakutulokset: Sarja stanford monographs in linguistics
yhteensä 14 hakutulosta
Focus Projection in Serbo-Croatian
Research on the English language suggests that the relationship among phonological prominence, word order, and focus - better known as focus projection - is mediated through …
The Semantics of Incorporation
Distinguishing between discourse referents and thematic arguments, the analysis of incorporation proposed by Donka Farkas and Henriette de Swart accounts for the relationship …
Beyond Alternations
Beyond Alternations provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative ("be-") construction. Using natural data from a varietyof corpora, the authors …
Bare Grammar
Without assuming arbitrary restrictions on grammar notation at the outset, 'Bare Grammars' aim to provide the most straightforward definitions of the constructions present in human …
Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory
Descriptive grammarians and typologists often encounter unusual constructions or unfamiliar variants of otherwise familiar construction types. Many of these phenomena are puzzling …
Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding
This book develops a comprehensive proto-property theory of argument encoding based on the work of David Dowty (1989, 1991): such a theory is intended to cover much of the …
The Many Faces of Agreement
Agreement features correlate closely with semantics as well as with noun morphology. This book presents a precise formal theory of those correlations, illustrated with …
Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG
This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in …
Lexical Relations
The thrust of this book is to provide a model of lexical relations which reconciles the lexicon's idiosyncratic and productive aspects. Building on work in Head-Driven …
Local Constraints Vs. Economy
The book offers a detailed critique of the economy-of-derivation model of grammar that has emerged within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It looks at the conceptual …
Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman
Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by about ten people in the top end of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which Wilson calls …
Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish
This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented …