De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 470 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 243). Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2003. — 529 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 151). This volume brings together a series of studies of morphological processing in Germanic (English, German, Dutch), Romance (French, Italian), and Slavic (Polish, Serbian) languages. The question of how morphologically complex words are organized and processed in the mental lexicon is...
Brill, 2008. — 495 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 36). Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e., a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, is expressed two or more times within a clause. Since such duplicates are often redundant in that they do not contribute to semantic interpretation, the question arises as to why they are possible or...
Brill, 2020. — xii, 378 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 11). During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2004. — 360 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 158). The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology,...
Brill, 2019. — xviii, 290 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 14). In Towards a Theory of Denominals, Adina Camelia Bleotu takes a comparative look at denominal verbs in English and Romanian from various theoretical frameworks such as lexical decomposition, distributed morphology, nanosyntax and spanning. The book proposes a novel spanning analysis, arguing for its...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 270 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 362). Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a multidisciplinary volume on this...
Brill, 1999. — 378 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 32). To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between...
Brill, 2000. — 430 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 33). This new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examining the role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics/discourse in the use of long-distance reflexives in a variety of languages. Graduate students, upper class undergraduates, theoretical linguists, computational linguists,...
Brill, 1997. — 415 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 29). The Limits of Syntax is a collection of original, never before published essays. Each essay explores the ways in which greater incorporation of nonsyntactic explanations into linguistic research may deepen our understanding of problematic linguistic phenomena and, at the same time, strengthen syntactic research. To clarify the...
Brill, 2001. — 498 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 34). Volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics is a thorough and accessible overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. The book motivates and describes the two syntactic structures of LFG:...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 314 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 365). How is grammaticalization theory to accommodate the external factors that drive change and the competition that inevitably comes with change? This volume collects a wide range of papers at this intersection between grammaticalization theory and variationist linguistics....
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 675 p. Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its...
Brill, 2023. — xiv, 433 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 19). Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of...
Brill, 2023. — x, 242 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 20). In this volume, long-standing assumptions about the formal changes involved in grammaticalization are evaluated in the light of the striking diversity of human languages. To this end, the traditional notions of morphological coalescence, syntactic fixation and phonological erosion are reassessed with...
Brill, 2020. — x, 386 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 42). Interactions of Degree and Quantification is a collection of chapters edited by Peter Hallman that deal with superlative, equative and differential constructions cross-linguistically, interactions of the comparative with both individual quantifiers and event structure, the use of the individual quantifier ‘some’ as a...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2005. — 364 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 79). This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories as primitives of the theory. It generalizes attempts to do this in the literature, while drawing significant...
Brill, 2014. — xiv, 244 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 5). Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives phrases and on the mechanism through which a vocative phrase connects with the clause. Vocatives are nouns that encode conversational pragmatic features at their left periphery. Any...
Brill, 1998. — 458 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 31). The innovative element of this volume is its overview of the fundamental psycholinguistic topics involved in sentence processing. While most psycholinguistic studies focus on a single language and induce a general model of universal sentence processing, this volume proposes a cross-linguistic approach. It contains two distinct...
Brill, 2014. — xvi, 204 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 6). In Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Syntax-Discourse Interface in Heritage Grammars, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan investigates comprehension and production of anaphoric dependencies with null and overt subject pronouns. She discusses the divergent behaviour of the heritage speakers of Russian by...
Brill, 2023. — 518 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 21). What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning...
Brill, 2005. — 447 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 35). For the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is different from the tasks of speaking and understanding. There have been some dissenters, but, by and large, this view still holds sway. This book takes a different view: it continues the task set in hand by Kempson...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 742 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 352). This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed...
Brill, 1991. — 284 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 25). This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of...
Brill, 2011. — 275 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 37). While experimental data collection has been common in psycholinguistics for some time, only relatively recently have experimental methods been employed to collect data for research in formal linguistics. Experimental methods can be particularly useful for investigating phenomena at the interfaces of the components of grammar,...
SOAS, University of London, 2011. — 238 p. The thesis offers an account of the secondary predication (resultatives and depictives) in four languages such as Chinese (Chapter 2), Japanese (Chapter 3), Mongolian (Chapter 4) and Korean (Chapter 5), in the domains of semantics and syntax. In the Chinese chapter, I categorise all the V-V compound constructions into nine sub-types,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2009. — 280 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 184). The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich “Gustav” Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology. All contributors to the volume deal with Wurzel’s work and thinking, who in his theoretical writings focused...
Brill, 1992. — 312 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 26). Syntax and the Lexicon is a dynamic investigation into the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory. Twelve chapters, authored by leaders in syntactic theory, provide a detailed yet easily understandable analysis of differing views on the lexicon in the field. Lively debates pepper the volume with interactive dialogue, and...
Brill, 1981. — 326 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 14). D. Armstrong, “The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of Countable Action” M. Bennett, “Of Tense and Aspect: One Analysis” L. Carlson, “Aspect and Quantification” B. Comrie, “Aspect and Voice: Some Reflections on Perfect and Passive” O. Dahl, “On the Definition of the Telic-Atelic (Bounded-Nonbounded) Distinction” J. Heath,...
Brill, 1988. — 322 p. — (Syntax and Semantics 21). Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these roles come to be associated with noun phrases. This book presents the interaction of components of the language faculty and other aspects of cognition. Organized into 13...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 302 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 260). This book centers on the idea that some verbs and other argument structure constructions have an inherently different propensity to realize lexically unfamiliar arguments, independently of lexical semantic meaning. This notion is explored both qualitatively using selected examples,...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 324 с. Книга является исследованием по теоретической морфологии, обобщающим опыт последних десятилетий как в отечественном, так и в зарубежном языкознании. Строится она на богатом фактическом материале всех современных германских языков, а также на материале русского языка.
М.: Наука, 1978. — 114 с. В монографии крупного отечественного языковеда Е.С. Кубряковой дан подробный анализ возникновения частей речи, их классификация по осуществляемым ими номинативным функциям, раскрывается связь между именем и деятельностью человека. Рекомендуется филологам всех специальностей, философам, психологам, всем, кого интересуют теоретические проблемы языка....
Л.: Наука, 1985. — 300 с. В книге с позиций теории речевой деятельности определяется содержание понятия лексемы как элементарной языковой номинативной единицы, вовлекаемой в синтаксические построения. Предлагаемый теоретический подход позволяет выявить закономерную полифункциональность форм словосочетания, сложного и суффиксального производного слова в их отношениях к...
Л.: Наука, 1985. — 300 с. В книге с позиций теории речевой деятельности определяется содержание понятия лексемы как элементарной языковой номинативной единицы, вовлекаемой в синтаксические построения. Предлагаемый теоретический подход позволяет выявить закономерную полифункциональность форм словосочетания, сложного и суффиксального производного слова в их отношениях к...
М.: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2022. — 264 с. В книге подробно исследуются центральные понятия различных областей языкознания: аксиоматика фонологии, определение грамматической категории, служебные слова со словарем русских «неизменяемых», переменные в толкованиях, теоретико-модельная семантика и семантические примитивы ВЕРИТЬ, ДУМАТЬ, ЗНАТЬ — повсюду читатель...