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Title

Linguistic analysis : from data to theory / by Annarita Puglielli, Mara Frascarelli.

Author

Puglielli, Annarita.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Frascarelli, Mara

Description

viii, 403 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 220

Uniform Title

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 220.

Subjects

• Grammar, Comparative and general
• Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Note

• Originally published as: L'analisi linguistica : Dai dati alla teoria. Cesena/Roma : Caissa Italia editore, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Categories and functions -- 1.1.Different levels of analysis -- 1.2.The theoretical framework: Generative Grammar -- 1.2.1.X-bar (X') Theory -- 1.2.2.The head-complement parameter -- 1.2.3.Levels of analysis and X' structure -- 1.2.3.1.The Syntax-Semantics interface: Verb Phrase -- 1.2.3.2.The Syntax-Morphology interface: Inflectional Phrase -- 1.2.3.3.The Syntax-Discourse grammar interface: Complementizer Phrase -- 1.3.Parts-of-speech classification: The concept of category -- 1.3.1.A formal approach to classification -- 1.3.2.The concept of grammaticality -- 1.4.Categories: Typology and formal properties -- 1.5.Categories and syntactic functions -- 1.5.1.Subject function -- 1.5.2.Predicate function -- 1.5.3.Modifier function -- 2.The structure of the verb phrase -- 2.1.Predicates, arguments and structural categorization -- 2.2.Argument structure -- 2.2.1.Macro-roles and event structure -- 2.2.2.Mono-argument verbs -- 2.2.3.Two-argument verbs -- 2.2.4.Three-argument verbs -- 2.2.5.Macro-roles and VP structure -- 2.3.Argument roles, event structure and overt syntax -- 2.3.1.Event structure and macro-role of the subject in inflecting and agglutinative languages -- 2.3.2.Event structure and macro-role of the subject in incor-porating languages -- 2.3.3.Event structure and macro-role of the subject in predicate-initial languages -- 2.4.Arguments realized by clauses -- 2.5.Clauses as nouns -- 3.Syntactic functions -- 3.1.The relationship between deep roles and surface structure -- 3.2.Deep and structural Cases -- 3.2.1.Correlations and tendencies -- 3.2.2.When structural function is not associated with deep Case: Expletive subjects -- 3.3.Deep roles in surface structure: Ergative languages -- 3.4.The morpho-syntactic realization of structural Cases -- 3.4.1.Subject -- 3.4.2.Direct object -- 3.5.Morphological Case: Cross-linguistic strategies -- 4.The structure of the noun phrase -- 4.1.The internal structure of the NP -- 4.1.1.Elements in Spec, NP -- 4.1.2.Elements in Compl, NP and restrictive noun modifiers -- 4.1.3.When the head is a nominalization -- 4.2.NPs as arguments -- 4.3.The functional area of NP: The determiner phrase (DP) -- 4.4.Noun head modification -- 4.4.1.Adjectival modification -- 4.4.2.The relative clause -- 4.4.2.1.The internal structure of restrictive relative clauses -- 4.4.2.2.Relative clauses from a typological perspective -- 4.4.2.3.Types of relative clauses and their meaning -- 5.Adverbial modification -- 5.1.Adverbs and adverbials: Preliminary considerations -- 5.2.Properties and distribution of adverbial modifiers -- 5.3.Structural insertion of adverb phrases -- 5.4.Noun and prepositional phrases with adverbial function -- 5.5.Clausal structures with adverbial function -- 5.5.1.The internal syntax of adverbial clauses -- 5.5.2.The external syntax of adverbial clauses -- 6.The sentence as utterance -- 6.1.Discourse grammar and information structure -- 6.2.Speech acts -- 6.3.Information structure in declarative clauses -- 6.3.1.The notion of markedness -- 6.3.2.Given and new in marked and unmarked structures -- 6.4.Focus -- 6.4.1.Focus strategies in typologically different languages -- 6.4.2.Focus as a specificational predicate -- 6.4.3.Focus-prominent languages -- 6.4.4.Syntactic interface: The complex structure of CP -- 6.4.5.Prosodic interface -- 6.5.Topicalization -- 6.5.1.The functions of Topic in discourse -- 6.5.2.Phrasal restrictions on the topicalized constituent -- 6.5.3.Topicalization strategies in typologically different languages -- 6.5.4.Topic-prominent languages -- 6.6.Contrast -- 7.Illocutionary force -- 7.1.Types of illocutionary acts -- 7.1.1.Overt performatives -- 7.1.2.Covert performatives -- 7.1.2.1.Formal markers of the covert performative -- 7.1.2.2.Formal markers in the presence of a performative -- 7.2.Illocutionary force and performative structure -- 7.2.1.The distribution of information in different types of sentences -- 7.2.1.1.Requests for information -- 7.2.1.2.Requests for action -- 7.3.Illocutionary force and subordinate clauses -- 7.3.1.Declarative sentences -- 7.3.2.Interrogative sentences -- 7.3.3.Imperative sentences -- 7.4.More on illocutionary acts -- 7.4.1.Performative structure modification -- 7.4.2.Indirect illocutionary acts.

ISBN

9783110222500 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 688559519
• SCSB-11114124

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library