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- Theoretical linguistics [177] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-theor
- Pragmatics [126] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-prag
- Syntax [113] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-syntax
- Discourse studies [94] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-disc
- Cognition and language [68] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogn
- Semantics [66] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-seman
- Historical linguistics [53] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hl
- Sociolinguistics and Dialectology [51] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-socio
- Corpus linguistics [50] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-corp
- Germanic linguistics [47] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-germ
- Language acquisition [41] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-la
- English linguistics [39] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-eng
- Generative linguistics [36] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gener
- Cognitive linguistics [32] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogpsy
- Romance linguistics [28] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-rom
- Philosophy [27] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-gen
- Communication Studies [24] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/comm-cgen
- Bilingualism [23] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-bil
- Consciousness research [21] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/cons-gen
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- Theoretical literature & literary studies [20] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-theor
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- Language teaching [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-educ
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- Slavic linguistics [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-slav
- Romance literature & literary studies [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-rom
- Anthropological Linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-anthr
- Afro-Asiatic languages [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-afas
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- Semiotics [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sem
- Language disorders & speech pathology [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ladis
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- Semiotics [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-sem
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- Lexicography [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-lex
- Japanese linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-japanese
- Neurolinguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-neuro
- Interaction Studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/is-gis
- Altaic languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-alta
- Australian languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-austral
- Dialogue studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dial
- Forensic linguistics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-for
- Language policy [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-lapo
- Other African languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othaf
- Uralic languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ural
- Comparative literature & literary studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-comp
- Bibliographies in linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-biblio
- Caucasian languages [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cauc
- Classical linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-class
- Dictionaries [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dict
- Evolution of language [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-evo
- Natural language processing [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-nlp
- English literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-engl
- German literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-germli
- Medieval literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-med
- Terminology [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-term
- General studies in art & art history [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/art-gen
- Austro-Asian languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-austast
- Celtic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-celt
- Linguistics of isolated languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-isol
- Language documentation [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-landoc
- Languages of North America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-noam
- Other Indo-European languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othie
- Phonetics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-phot
- Signed languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sign
- Languages of South America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-soam
- Miscellaneous [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-gen
- Classical philosophy [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-class
- Anthropology [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/soc-anthr
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The Civilized Organization
Editor(s): Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis SmithPublication Date October 2002More LessThis book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective, inspired by the work of Norbert Elias (1897-1990), it becomes clear that many 'new' types of organizations are often variations on an old theme.Elias gives us considerable purchase on current debates through his emphasis on long-term historical perspectives, his highlighting of issues of power, emotion and subjectivity, his interweaving of analysis at the level of the state, the organization, groups, and individuals, his alternative 'take' on issues of agency and structure, and his relevance to a wide range of current organization theories.The contributions show the current relevance of Elias's work in numerous fields of organizational analysis such as the sociology of finance and markets, the comparative and cross-cultural study of organization, comparative management development, organizational meetings, organizational boundaries, gossip and privacy in organizations, emotion in organizations, and the significance of humiliation within organizations.It is, indeed, "time for Elias"!
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Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies
Editor(s): Gyde Hansen, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel GilePublication Date May 2004More LessThe volume contains a selection of papers, both theoretical and empirical, from the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Congress held in Copenhagen in September 2001. The EST Congresses, held every three years in a different country, reflect current ideas, theories and studies covering the whole range of "Translation", both oral and written, and the papers collected here, authored by both experienced and young translation scholars, provide an up-to-date picture of some concerns in the field.
Topics covered include translation universals, linguistic approaches to translation, translation strategies, quality and assessment issues, screen translation, the translation of humor, terminological issues, translation and related professions, translation and ideology, language brokering by children, Robert Schumann’s relation to translation, directionality in translation and interpreting, community interpreting in Italy, issues in interpreting for refugees, notes in consecutive interpreting, interpreting prosody, and frequent weaknesses in translation papers in the context of the editorial process.
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Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700)
Author(s): Jorge Braga RieraPublication Date September 2009More LessFrom 1660 to c 1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to be repeated until the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing a corpus of translated classical Spanish plays intended for performance, this book aims to show the strategies chosen by the translators concerned. Hence, many aspects present in the source texts are naturalized in order to meet the demands of the target culture, while others are kept to clarify the “Spanishness” of the text. This study draws significant conclusions on the validity of these mechanisms within the specific framework of Drama Translation Studies. This volume will be of interest to Hispanists, drama translation scholars and theatre practitioners.
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Classification Syntaxique des Constructions Adjectivales en Coréen
Author(s): Jeesun NamPublication Date October 1996More LessThe purpose of this study is the systematic description of a set of data called Adjectives in Korean, which reduces to a minimum theoretical preoccupations and abstract formalisations with no practical applications. The framework of our research is the Lexicon-grammar, whose fundamental idea is that the minimal meaningful unit is the simple sentence and not an isolated word. This work is constituted as follows: given that the corpus extracted from current dictionaries is insufficient for our purpose, we will reconstitute a complete corpus: first, with a formal definition, and then according to some other principles discussed in the first section. With this more complete corpus (5300 items), we will examine in the second section general syntactic properties of adjectival constructions. The third section is devoted to the description of 15 classes of adjectival structures. These syntactic classes will be represented in the form of tables in the annex. The results obtained in this work are indispensable at least for the following activities: first, the elaboration or verification of a linguistic theory demands a priori examination and systematic description of empirical data; furthermore, a syntactic description of lexical data, which is as exhaustive as possible, has a particular interest in the perspective of the elaboration of a lexicon suitable for computer processing of natural language.L’objectif de cette étude est la description systématique d’un ensemble de données dit Adjectifs en coréen, en réduisant au minimum les préoccupations théoriques et les formalisations abstraites et éloignées des faits. Notre démarche s’inscrit dans le cadre du Lexique-grammaire, dont l’idée fondamentale est que l’unité minimale de sens est la phrase simple et non le mot isolé. Ce travail est constitué de la manière suivante: étant donné que le corpus extrait des dictionnaires actuels est insuffisant pour notre objectif, on reconstituera un corpus complet: d’abord avec une définition formelle, et ensuite selon certains autres principes dont nous parlerons dans la première partie; une fois ce corpus constitué (5300 items), on examinera dans la deuxième partie, les propriétés syntaxiques générales des constructions adjectivales; la troisième partie est consacrée à décrire 15 classes de structures adjectivales. Ces classes syntaxiques se présentent sous la forme des tables dans l’annexe. Les résultats que nous avons obtenus dans ce travail sont indispensables au moins pour les deux activités suivantes: d’abord, une élaboration ou une vérification d’une théorie linguistique exige préalablement l’examen et la description systématique de données empiriques; par ailleurs, une description syntaxique des données lexicales, aussi exhaustive que possible, a un intérêt particulier dans la perspective de l’élaboration d’un lexique adéquat au traitement informatique du langage naturel.
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Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions
Author(s): Sabine MohrPublication Date October 2005More LessThis book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Mainland Scandinavian languages and English, it is shown that crosslinguistic variation as regards, e.g., the distribution of the expletive in impersonal passives and the occurrence of a Definiteness Effect in Transitive Expletive Constructions is mainly due to the choice of different kinds of 'expletive' elements (each associated with different featural make-ups which force them to show up in different positions), namely true expletives, event arguments and quasi-arguments, whereas expletive pro is shown not to exist.
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Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Editor(s): John Haiman and Sandra A. ThompsonPublication Date January 1988More LessTraditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.
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The Clause in English
Editor(s): Peter Collins and David LeePublication Date May 1999More LessThe focus in this volume is on grammatical aspects of the clause in English, presenting a fine balance between theoretically- and descriptively-oriented approaches. Some authors investigate the status and properties of ‘minor’ or ‘fringe’ constructions, including ‘deictic-presentationals’; non-restrictive relative clauses with that; ‘isolated if-clauses’, and ‘exceptional clauses’. In some articles the validity of conventional accounts and approaches is questioned: such as traditional constituency trees and labelled bracketings as a means of representing relationships between parenthetical elements and their ‘hosts’; or traditional morphophonemic analyses as explanations for Ross’s ‘doubl-ing’ constraint. While some authors question commonly made assumptions (for example those concerning the relationships of clauses to sentences and propositions; or those concerning the status of post-head dependents in the NP), others appeal to new frameworks (for instance ‘emergence theory’ is used as a source of inspiration in dealing with ‘intransitive prepositions’). This collection also includes articles that adopt a solidly corpus-based approach.
The Clause in English has been prepared by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description.
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Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy
Editor(s): Isabelle BrilPublication Date November 2010More LessThis collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of variables and statistics allowing cross-linguistic comparability. Part II deals with strategies relating to clause-chaining, conjunctive conjugations, converbial constructions, masdars. Part III centers on the interaction between the syntax, pragmatics, and semantics of clause-linking and subordination, in relation to informational structure, to referential hierarchy, and correlative constructions. Part IV presents insights in the clause-linking and subordinating functions of some T.A.M. markers, verbal inflectional morphology and conjugation systems, which may also interact with informational hierarchy, via the backgrounding effects and lack of illocutionary force of some aspect and mood forms. The volume is of particular interest to linguists and typologists working on clause-linkage systems and on the interface between syntax, pragmatics, and semantics.
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The Clause Structure of Wolof
Author(s): Harold TorrencePublication Date January 2013More LessThis volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the morpho‑syntax of wh‑questions, successive cyclicity, subject marking, relative clauses, topic/focus articulation, and complementizer agreement. Novel data from Wolof is used to evaluate and extend theoretical proposals concerning the structure of the Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Tense Phrase (TP). It is argued that Wolof provides evidence for the promotion analysis of relative clauses, an “exploded” CP and TP, and for analyses that treat relative clauses as composed of a determiner with a CP complement. It is further argued that Wolof has a set of silent wh‑expressions and these are compared to superficially similar constructions in colloquial German, Bavarian, Dutch, and Norwegian. The book also presents a comparison of complementizer agreement across a number of related and unrelated languages. Data from Indo‑European (Germanic varieties, French, Irish), Niger‑Congo (Atlantic, Bantu, Gur), and Semitic (Arabic) languages put the Wolof phenomena in a larger typological context by showing the range of variation in complementizer agreement systems.
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Cleft Structures
Editor(s): Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes VeenstraPublication Date November 2013More LessThe phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information state of the constituents contained in them. They are special as they exhibit a rather uncommon syntactic form to achieve the separation of the prominent part, either focal or topical, from the background of the clause. Despite the long-lasting interest in clefts, linguists have not yet come to an agreement on many basic questions. The articles contained in this volume address these issues from new theoretical and empirical perspectives. Based on data from about 50 languages from all over the world, this volume presents new arguments for the proper derivation of clefts, and contributes to the ongoing debate on the information-structural impact of cleft structures. Theoretically, it combines modern syntactic theorizing with investigations at the interface between grammar and information-structure.
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Clefts and their Relatives
Author(s): Matthew ReevePublication Date June 2012More LessCleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal modification whilst also permitting ‘discontinuous’ modification of the type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative clause extraposition. The empirical focus of the book is on clefts in English and Russian, which have a similar interpretation but considerably divergent syntactic structures. The author argues that, despite these syntactic differences, both types of cleft are mapped to their semantic interpretations in the same manner. This monograph will be essential reading for those working on cleft constructions and copular sentences more generally, and will be of interest to those working on the syntax-semantics interface.
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Clinical Linguistics
Editor(s): Elisabetta FavaPublication Date July 2002More LessThis book covers different aspects of speech and language pathology and it offers a fairly comprehensive overview of the complexity and the emerging importance of the field, by identifying and re-examining, from different perspectives, a number of standard assumptions in clinical linguistics and in cognitive sciences. The papers encompass different issues in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, discussed with respect to deafness, stuttering, child acquisition and impairments, SLI, William’s Syndrome deficit, fluent aphasia and agrammatism. The interdisciplinary complexity of the language/cognition interface is also explored by focusing on empirical data from different languages: Bantu, Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
The aim of this volume is to stress the growing importance of the theoretical and methodological linguistic tools developed in this area; to bring under scrutiny assumptions taken for granted in recent analyses, which may not be so obvious as they may seem; to investigate how even apparently minimal choices in the description of phenomena may affect the form and complexity of the language/cognition interface.
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Clitic and Affix Combinations
Editor(s): Lorie Heggie and Francisco OrdóñezPublication Date March 2005More LessIn this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism). Clitic/affix phenomena provide a rich range of data, not only for the identification of an affix vs. clitic, but also for the best way to explain ordering constraints, some of which are contradictory. A range of languages are considered, including Romance and Slavic languages, as well as Turkish, Greek, Icelandic, Korean, and Passamaquoddy. Moreover, several articles consider dialectal microparameterization, notably in Spanish, French, and Occitan. This volume thus reflects current debate on issues such as clitic ordering constraints, the relationship of clitics to inalienable possession and the left periphery, and templatic approaches to affixes vs. clitics while examining a broad range of languages.
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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
Editor(s): Dalina Kallulli and Liliane TasmowskiPublication Date November 2008More LessThis volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.
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Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Editor(s): Frits Beukema and Marcel den DikkenPublication Date March 2000More LessThis book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Bokovič, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevič Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomič). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.
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Clitics
Author(s): Joel A. Nevis, Brian D. Joseph, Dieter Wanner and Arnold M. ZwickyPublication Date October 1994More LessThis bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay “What is a Clitic?” by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.
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Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon
Author(s): Birgit GerlachPublication Date October 2002More LessAs a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.
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Clitics in Greek
Author(s): Marios MavrogiorgosPublication Date August 2010More LessThis monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky’s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax.
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Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Editor(s): Birgit Gerlach and Janet GrijzenhoutPublication Date February 2001More LessThis book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).
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Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Editor(s): James R. Black and Virginia MotapanyanePublication Date April 1997More LessThe introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with clitics, pronouns and movement in variety of language families. Articles on Romance include papers on the genitive clitic in Andean Spanish, proclitic groups and word order in Caribbean Spanish, overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese, the clitic en in Catalan, and clitic doubling in Romanian. Papers on Germanic discuss movement of verbal complements in Dutch and German, analyses of English finite auxiliaries in syntax and phonology, and complementizers in dialects of German in a reiterative syntax analysis. Other articles deal with object shift in Serbo-Croatian, operator-bound clitics in Niuean, a serial verb analysis of the ba construction in Mandarin Chinese, and experiencer verbs in Japanese.
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