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Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations : Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977
Jan 1978
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The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal languages for the purpose of describing and explaining phenomena of natural language. The second group of papers concerns the notion of (deep) case and the implications of tracing a grammatical theory on semantic case. The final series of papers is distinguished by the degree of accent it puts on the link between linguistic surface phenomena including semantic case and grammatical relations in the sense that it has been postulated by Universal Grammar.
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi' : A critical edition
Jan 1977
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This book provides a critical edition translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus the authorship is debated.The format of the twenty-one questions of this text follows the standard pattern of the time: after stating the question the author cites as argumenta opinions with which he does not agree gives his own answer and then refutes the argumenta.
For the author of these questions three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar the problem of universals and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.
For the author of these questions three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar the problem of universals and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.
Adverbs and Comparatives : An analytical bibliography
Jan 1977
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There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take within a syntactic string has proved to be much more difficult to determine than had previously been thought. Still another reason for the increase of interest in this topic may be found in the recent trend in linguistics which focusses on communicative competence and actual language use in daily discourse. Although this bibliography has no claim to exhaustiveness it should nonetheless be useful to researchers working on adverbs and comparatives. The titles selected relate in one way or another to the problems the linguist faces with respect to the adverb.