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The Acquisition of Ergativity
Author | : Edith L. Bavin,Sabine Stoll |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027271235 |
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Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s), the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. The volume will be of particular interest to language acquisition researchers, linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive scientists.
The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Author | : Jessica Coon,Diane Massam,Lisa deMena Travis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1297 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198739371 |
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This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative marking whereby transitive and intransitive subjects are treated as one grammatical class, to the exclusion of direct objects. While ergativity is sometimes referred to as a typological characteristic of languages, research on the phenomenon has shown that languages do not fall clearly into one category or the other and that ergative characteristics are not consistent across languages. Chapters in this volume look at approaches to ergativity within generative, typological, and functional paradigms, as well as approaches to the core morphosyntactic building blocks of an ergative construction; related constructions such as the anti-passive; related properties such as split ergativity and word order; and extensions and permutations of ergativity, including nominalizations and voice systems. The volume also includes results from experimental investigations of ergativity, a relatively new area of research. A wide variety of languages are represented, both in the theoretical chapters and in the 16 case studies that are more descriptive in nature, attesting to both the pervasiveness and diversity of ergative patterns.
Deconstructing Ergativity
Author | : Maria Polinsky |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780190256586 |
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Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic behavior of ergative arguments across languages. It offers a new analysis of ergativity by recognizing two distinct types, PP-ergative- and DP-ergative-languages. Each type is characterized by a set of correlated features which result in structural consistency.
Ergativity in Amazonia
Author | : Spike Gildea,Francisco Queixalós |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027206701 |
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This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations.
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Author | : Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Sharon J. Derry |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 2022-05-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781317708445 |
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This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals, presenting a multifaceted view of cognitive science. This volume contains papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the leading conference that brings cognitive scientists together to discuss issues of theoretical and applied concern. Submitted presentations are represented in these proceedings as "long papers" (those presented as spoken presentations and "full posters" at the conference) and "short papers" (those presented as "abstract posters" by members of the Cognitive Science Society).
Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory
Author | : Kristof Baten,Aafke Buyl,Katja Lochtman,Mieke Van Herreweghe |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027267702 |
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This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann 1998, 2005). The aim of the book is to provide a forum for new perspectives focusing on three intersections: (1) the interface between morpho-syntax and discourse/pragmatics/semantics, (2) constraints on processing and receptive processing and (3) developments in instructed second language learning. Each part also includes a response paper, in which the new perspectives, in terms of the theoretical challenges and/or the empirical results of the preceding chapters are discussed. This collection of articles and response papers will be very relevant to students and researchers interested in theoretical aspects of second language acquisition, and more specifically Processability Theory, and clearly indicates that the field is lively and open.
Functionalist and Usage based Approaches to the Study of Language
Author | : K. Aaron Smith,Dawn Nordquist |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027264480 |
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The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of ergative languages. The next three contributions successively investigate the grammaticalization of Greek postural verbs, Spanish third person pronouns, and American Sign Language topicalization constructions. The two following papers report on usage-based phonological studies of Spanish /s/ and /d/, respectively. The book concludes with four papers that address usage-based effects concerning the grammatical status of ain’t in African American English, Spanish verbs of “becoming”, and English lexis and prefabs. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience of functional and cognitive linguistic researchers.
The Proceedings of the 26th Annual Child Language Research Forum
Author | : Eve V. Clark |
Publsiher | : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI) |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1881526577 |
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This book is the product of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum held in April, 1994. The conference included panel sessions organised by Terry K.-F. Au on 'Does input constrain word-learning principles?', Matthew Rispoli on 'Pronoun case errors: new approaches to an old phenomenon', and Janet F. Werker on 'Setting the stage for acquisition: experiential influences on infant speech perception'.