Search Results - "Syntax"

The architecture of focus

Table of Contents: “…The representation of focus, topic and contrast at the syntax-pragmatics interface -- pt. 3. The phonological representation of focus, topic and contrast and its relation to meaning -- pt. 4. …”
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Talking shop the language of craft in an age of consumption / by Betjemann, Peter J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ghost writer: the canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft -- The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise -- In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type -- The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion.…”
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CSS3 foundations by Lunn, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. 2. Learning CSS syntax and adding presentational styles -- pt. 3. …”
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Interpretation techniques and exercises / by Nolan, James, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Speaking -- Preparation : anticipating the speaker -- Complex syntax : compression -- Word order : clusters -- General adverbial clauses -- Untranslatability -- Figures of speech -- Argumentation -- Diction : register -- Formal style -- A policy address -- Quotations, allusions, transposition -- Political discourse -- Economic discourse -- Humor -- Latinisms -- Numbers -- Note-taking.…”
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Clitics, pronouns and movement

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : some reflections on movement / Anders Holmberg -- The genitive clitic and the genitive construction in Andean Spanish / José Camacho, Liliana Paredes & Liliana Sánchez -- Subject-object asymmetries and the clitic en / Corinne Cortés & Anna Gavarró -- Clitic doubling, specificity and focus in Romanian / Diana Gierling -- Reiterative syntax / Peter Hallman -- Experience versus non-experience asymmetries in the causative system / Fusa Katada -- Movement of verbal complements / Karen Lattewitz -- The ba construction in Mandarin Chinese : a serial verbal analysis / Jen-i Jelina Li -- Asymmetries in the distribution of overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese / Esmeralda Vailati Negrão -- Proclitic groups and word order in Caribbean Spanish / Yolanda Rivera-Castillo -- Operator-bound clitics and Niuean ai / Diane Massam & Yves Roberge -- Object shift in Serbo-Croatian / Danijela Stojanović -- English finite auxiliaries in syntax and phonology / Chris Wilder.…”
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Continuity in linguistic semantics

Table of Contents: “…/ Daniel Kayser -- Continuity, cognition, and linguistics / Jean-Michel Salanskis -- Reflections on Hansjakob Seiler's continuum / René Thom -- Attractor syntax / Jean Petitot -- A discrete approach based on logic simulating continuity in lexical semantics / Violaine Prince -- Coarse coding and the lexicon / Catherine L. …”
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Language Change /

Table of Contents: “…Greim -- Prosodic change in progress : evidence from Estonian / Ilse Lehiste -- Evolution of a semantic set : text, discourse, narrative / Irmengard Rauch -- The development of the Germanic reduplicating class : reanalysis and competition in morphological change / Frans van Coetsem -- Germanic reflexives and the implementation of binding conditions / Wayne Harbert -- On reconstructing a proto-syntax / David Lightfoot -- History of language change as it affects syntax / Winfred P. …”
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Language Change /

Table of Contents: “…Greim -- Prosodic change in progress : evidence from Estonian / Ilse Lehiste -- Evolution of a semantic set : text, discourse, narrative / Irmengard Rauch -- The development of the Germanic reduplicating class : reanalysis and competition in morphological change / Frans van Coetsem -- Germanic reflexives and the implementation of binding conditions / Wayne Harbert -- On reconstructing a proto-syntax / David Lightfoot -- History of language change as it affects syntax / Winfred P. …”
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Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Table of Contents: “…Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.…”
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Multivariable calculus with mathematica / by Gilbert, Robert P., 1932-

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Alignment change in Iranian languages a construction grammar approach / by Haig, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Aims and assumptions -- The Iranian languages -- Alignment in the Iranian context -- Constructions and syntax -- Old Iranian -- The Mana Kartam construction -- Implications for diachronic syntax -- What is a passive? …”
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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / by Baron, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.…”
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Music and the language of love seventeenth-century French airs / by Gordon-Seifert, Catherine Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Music and texts: an overview of the sources: A general description of the air ; The publications ; The composers ; Publications by Lambert, Bacilly, La Barre, and Le Camus: a description ; The song texts ; Poetic structure ; Style or elocution: figurative language and poetic syntax ; Poetry and rhetoric -- Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air: Seventeenth-century French sources on rhetoric and music ; Persuading the passions -- Musical representations of the primary passions: The primary passions ; The agitated passions ; The modest passions ; The neutral passion: Le contentement ; Summary -- Setting the texts: Painful love ; Bittersweet love ; Enticing love ; Joyous love ; Summary -- Form and style: the organization and function of expressions, syntax, and rhetorical figures: Form (disposition) ; The organization of expressions in short airs ; The organization of expressions in long airs ; Form in single-strophe airs ; The rhetorical sections of a piece: their function and expression ; Style (elocution): poetic structure, punctuation, and rhetorical figures -- L'art du chant: performing French airs: À haute voix: the importance of orality ; The art of proper singing: tone and style ; Ornamentation ; The pronunciation of seventeenth-century French ; Syllabic quantity ; Tempo ; Le mouvement ; Repeats ; Basso continuo accompaniment -- Salon culture and the mid-seventeenth-century French air: The French air and conversation ; Musical seductions ; Galanterie and the air: undercurrents of eroticism and lessons of morality ; Women singing airs as men -- The late-seventeenth-century air and the rhetoric of distraction ; The air after 1670 ; Songs and the rhetoric of distraction ; Pleasure, airs, and the new rhetoric ; The legacy of Lambert, Bacilly, Le Camus, and La Barre.…”
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Alternative linguistics descriptive and theoretical modes /

Table of Contents: “…Langacker -- What can conversation tell us about syntax? / Tsuyoshi Ono & Sandra A. Thompson -- Prolegomena to the next linguistics / Stephen A. …”
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Japanese psycholinguistics a classified and annotated research bibliography / by Kess, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…Morphology, word recognition, and the mental lexicon -- section 5. Syntax and sentence processing -- section 6. Discourse and text processing -- section 7. …”
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The concept of logical consequence an introduction to philosophical logic / by McKeon, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…Set-theoretic preliminaries ; Linguistic preliminaries ; Syntax of M ; Semantics for M -- Model-theoretic consequence. …”
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Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory /

Table of Contents: “…Harris -- Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world / Pavel Iosad -- Quirky case: rare phenomena in case-marking and their implications for a theory of typological distributions / Andrej Malchukov -- Negatives without negators / Matti Miestamo -- Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks / Frederick J. …”
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Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

Table of Contents: “…The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz -- The information structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti -- Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke -- Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard -- Discourse and syntax in linguistic change : decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati -- Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide -- The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil -- Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterhölzl.…”
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Focus on phonological acquisition

Table of Contents: “…Perception and production in learning to talk / Henning Wode -- Why syntax is different : a UG approach to language disorders in children / Alison Henry -- The role of feature geometry in the development of phonemic contrasts / Cindy Brown & John Matthews -- Consonant harmony in child language / Heather Goad -- Syllable structure parameters and the acquisition of affricates / Conxita Lleó & Michael Prinz -- The non-isomorphism of phonological and morphological structure / S.J. …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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