Tag: Morphosyntax

Free Download Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence from Differential Object Marking
by Semra Kizilkaya
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111311015 | 221 Pages | PDF | 1.68 MB

Free Download Joseph Emonds, "The North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English"
English | ISBN: B0D4YVBNNM | 2024 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB
This book argues that Middle English – and hence Modern English – is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest. The authors challenge the widely accepted assumption that Middle English descends from Anglo-Saxon. Presenting over 20 arguments in morphology and syntax, they show that the patterns found in standard history of English sources derive from the North Germanic Scandinavian languages. The book shows that, while Danes ruled all England (1013-1066), their Anglo-Norse, lexically but not grammatically close to Anglo-Saxon, superseded the latter throughout England. Sentential word order, modern phrasal verbs, stranded prepositions, and standard regular noun plurals, phonetic

Free Download Giuliano Bocci, "Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition "
English | ISBN: 019888947X | 2024 | 480 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms.

Free Download Andras Barany, "Person, Case, and Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Inverse Agreement and Global Case Splits "
English | ISBN: 0198804180 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. It offers an explicit and detailed analysis of differential object marking in Hungarian, and shows that the same general type of analysis can account for related phenomena in unrelated languages such as Kashmiri and Sahaptin. In Hungarian, the person of both the subject and the object determines verbal morphology, while in Kashmiri and Sahaptin, person determines object case-marking and subject case-marking, respectively. Andras Barany adopts broadly the same analysis for these three languages, focusing on how person and agreement influence case-marking. In contrast, the final chapters examine how case-marking influences agreement and show how to account for both orders of interaction. Finally, the author discusses typological generalizations based on the interaction of case and agreement and shows how only the attested patterns of case-marking and agreement in ditransitive clauses are predicted.