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On understanding grammar /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1979.
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| Colección: | Perspectives in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; On Understanding Grammar; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Chapter 1. METHODOLOGY: on the crypto- Structuralist nature of transformational grammar; 1.1. INTRODUCTION; 1.2. THE ASCENT OF THE FORMALISM AS EXPLANATION; 1.3. THE GUTTING OF THE DATA BASE: COMPETENCE AND GRAMMATICALITY; 1.4. CONCLUSION; Chapter 2. GRAMMAR AND FUNCTION: toward a discourse definition of syntax; 2.1. INTRODUCTION; 2.2. THE DISCOURSE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS; 2.3. DISCOURSE MARKEDNESS AND DISTRIBUTIONAL RESTRICTIONS; 2.4. DISCOURSE MARKEDNESS AND SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY.
- 2.5. SYNTACTIC CONSERVATISM2.6. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 2.7. CONCLUSION: SYNTAX AND COMMUNICATION; Chapter 3. LOGIC VERSUS LANGUAGE: negation in language: pragmatics, function, ontology; 3.1. INTRODUCTION; 3.2. THE PRESUPPOSITIONAL STATUS OF NEGATIVE SPEECH ACTS; 3.3. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE MARKED STATUS OF NEGATIVES; 3.4. THE ONTOLOGICAL BASIS OF NEGATION; 3.5. CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1: TEST SHEET FOR AN EXPERIMENT ON THE INTERPRETATION OF ENGLISH MODALS; APPENDIX 2: TOTAL SCORES FOR 100 SUBJECTS OF THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT ON ENGLISH MODALS.
- Chapter 4. SEMANTIC CASE AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTION: promotion, accessibility, and the typology of case marking4.1. INTRODUCTION; 4.2. THE CASE-RECOVERABILITY PROBLEM; 4.3. RELATIVIZATION; 4.4. PASSIVIZATION AND PROMOTION TO DIRECT OBJECT; 4.5. SUMMARY; Chapter 5. SYNTACTICIZATION: from discourse to syntax: grammar as a processing strategy; 5.1. INTRODUCTION; 5.2. THE DIACHRONIC PROCESS OF SYNTACTICIZATION; 5.3. AN INTERIM SUMMARY; 5.4. PIDGINS AND CREOLES; 5.5 CHILD VERSUS ADULT LANGUAGE; 5.6. INFORMAL VERSUS FORMAL SPEECH; 5.7. DISCUSSION.
- Chapter 6. LANGUAGE CHANGE: where does crazy syntax come from: diachronic constraints on synchronic grammars6.1. INTRODUCTION; 6.2. CRAZY SYNCHRONIC PHONOLOGY; 6.3. TYPOLOGICAL INCONSISTENCIES BETWEEN MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX; 6.4. CLEFT AND WH-QUESTION REVISITED; 6.5. PRONOUN ATTRACTION AND OBJECT RELATIVIZATION; 6.6. SOME PUZZLES IN SWAHILI RELATIVIZATION; 6.7. MIXED TYPOLOGIES IN VERB PHRASE SYNTAX; 6.8. FROZEN SYNTACTIC CONSTRAINTS; 6.9. FROZEN LEXICAL PATTERNS; 6.10. DISCUSSION; Chapter 7. LANGUAGE AND PHYLOGENY: the SOV mystery and the evolution of discourse; 7.1. INTRODUCTION.
- 7.2. ARGUMENTS FOR A NEO-RECAPITULATIONIST VIEW7.3. THE SOV MYSTERY; 7.4. EXTRAPOLATION NUMBER 1: THE COMMUNICATIVE SYSTEM OF CANINES; 7.5. PONGID COMMUNICATION: BRIEF SUMMARY; 7.6. EXTRAPOLATION NUMBER 2: EARLY CHILD COMMUNICATION; 7.7. PRESYNTACTIC DISCOURSE AS A PHYLOGENETIC TARGET; 7.8. A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE EVOLUTIONARY SCENARIO; 7.9. SYNTACTICIZATION AS A PHYLOGENETIC PROCESS; 7.10. VESTIGIAL SURVIVAL OF EARLY LINGUISTIC MODES; 7.11. CONCLUSION: THE SOV MYSTERY REVISITED; Chapter 8. LANGUAGE AND ONTOLOGY: on construing a universe; 8.1. INTRODUCTION; 8.2. SPACE, TIME, AND BEING.