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Word Grammar : Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure.
Title:
Word Grammar : Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure.
Author:
Sugayama, Kensei.
ISBN:
9781847142733
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. What is Word Grammar? -- 1. A Brief Overview of the Theory -- 2. Historical Background -- 3. The Cognitive Network -- 4. Default Inheritance -- 5. The Language Network -- 6. The Utterance Network -- 7. Morphology -- 8. Syntax -- 9. Semantics -- 10. Processing -- 11. Conclusions -- Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis: Its explanatory power and applications -- 2. Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: Implications for a theory of covert elements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Data -- 3. The Analysis of Case Agreement -- 4. Non-Existent Entities in Cognition and in Language -- 5. Extensions to Other Parts of Grammar -- 6. Comparison with PRO and pro -- 7. Comparison with Other PRO-free Analyses -- 8. Conclusions -- 3. Understood Objects in English and Japanese with Reference to Eat and Taberu: A Word Grammar account -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Word Grammar -- 3. Eat in English -- 4. Taberu in Japanese -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. The Grammar of Be To: From a Word Grammar point of view -- 1. Introduction and the Problem -- 2. Category of Be -- 3. Modal Be in Word Grammar -- 4. Morphological Aspects -- 5. Syntactic Aspects -- 6. Semantics of the Be To Construction -- 7. Should To be Counted as Part of the Lexical Item? -- 8. A Word Grammar Analysis of the Be To Construction -- 9. Conclusion -- 5. Linking in Word Grammar -- 1. Linking in Word Grammar: The syntax semantics principle -- 2. The Event Type Hierarchy: The framework -- event types -- roles and relations -- 3. Conclusion -- 6. Word Grammar and Syntactic Code-Mixing Research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constituent Structure Grammar Approaches to Intra-Sentential Code-Mixing -- 3. A Word Grammar Approach to Code-Mixing -- 4. Word Order in Mixed and Monolingual 'Subordinate' Clauses -- 5. Summary and Conclusion.

7. Word Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Word Grammar Approach -- 3. An Approach in Constructional HPSG: Ginzburg and Sag 2000 -- 4. A Linearization HPSG Approach -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar -- 8. Structural and Distributional Heads -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural Heads -- 3. Distributional Heads -- 4. That-Clauses -- 5. Extent Operators -- 6. Surrogates versus Proxies -- 7. Focusing Subjuncts: just, only, even -- 8. Pied-piping -- 9. Degree Words -- 10. Attributive Adjectives -- 11. Determiner Phrases -- 12. The type of Construction -- 13. Inside-out Interrogatives -- 14. 'Empty Categories' -- 15. Coordination -- 16. Correlatives -- 17. Dependency Types -- 18. Conclusion -- 9. Factoring Out the Subject Dependency -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dimensions of Subjecthood -- 3. The Locative Inversion Data -- 4. Factored Out Subjects -- 5. Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network  - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word dependency is therefore a key concept in Word Grammar, and the syntax and semantics of a sentence is built upon this foundation. Contributors to this volume are primarily Word Grammar grammarians from across the world. All the chapters here manifest theoretical potentialities of Word Grammar, exploring how powerful Word Grammar is to offer analysis for linguistic phenomena in various languages. The chapters come from varying perspectives and include work on a number of languages, including English, German, Japanese, Swahili, Turkish and Ancient Greek. Phenomena studied include verbal inflection, case agreement, extraction, construction and code-mixing. This collection will be of interest to academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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