Linguistic analysis : from data to theory / by Annarita Puglielli, Mara Frascarelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puglielli, Annarita.

Contributor:

Frascarelli, Mara.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 220.

Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs ; 220

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Summary:

Puglielli and Frascarelli (both linguistics, U. of Roma Tre) introduce intermediate or advanced university students, teachers, and researchers to a new approach to linguistic analysis that accommodates typological and comparative considerations within a formal framework in which the interaction between the various levels of grammar is taken into account. They cover categories and functions, the structure of the verb phrase, syntactic functions, the structure of the noun phrase, adverbial modification, the sentence as utterance, and illocutionary force. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Categories and functions 5

1.1 Different levels of analysis 5

1.2 The theoretical framework: Generative Grammar 6

1.2.1 X-bar (X') Theory 8

1.2.2 The head-complement parameter 11

1.2.3 Levels of analysis and X' structure 15

1.2.3.1 The Syntax-Semantics interface: Verb Phrase 16

1.2.3.2 The Syntax-Morphology interface: Inflectional Phrase 17

1.2.3.3 The Syntax-Discourse grammar interface: Complementizer Phrase 19

1.3 Parts-of-speech classification: The concept of category 20

1.3.1 A formal approach to classification 22

1.3.2 The concept of grammaticality 25

1.4 Categories: Typology and formal properties 28

1.5 Categories and syntactic functions 32

1.5.1 Subject function 33

1.5.2 Predicate function 38

1.5.3 Modifier function 41

2 The structure of the verb phrase 43

2.1 Predicates, arguments and structural Categorization 43

2.2 Argument structure 45

2.2.1 Macro-roles and event structure 49

2.2.2 Mono-argument verbs 52

2.2.3 Two-argument verbs 55

2.2.4 Three-argument verbs 61

2.2.5 Macro-roles and VP structure 62

2.3 Argument roles, event structure and overt syntax 66

2.3.1 Event structure and macro-role of the subject in inflecting and agglutinative languages 66

2.3.2 Event structure and macro-role of the subject in incorporating languages 73

2.3.3 Event structure and macro-role of the subject in predicate-initial languages 77

2.4 Arguments realized by clauses 79

2.5 Clauses as nouns 83

3 Syntactic functions 89

3.1 The relationship between deep roles and surface structure 89

3.2 Deep and structural Cases 90

3.2.1 Correlations and tendencies 91

3.2.2 When structural function is not associated with deep Case: Expletive subjects 98

3.3 Deep roles in surface structure: Ergative languages 100

3.4 The morpl1o-syntactic realization of structural Cases 104

3.4.1 Subject 104

3.4.2 Direct object 112

3.5 Morphological Case: Cross-linguistic strategies 116

4 The structure of the noun phrase 129

4.1 The internal structure of the NP 129

4.1.1 Elements in Spec, NP 130

4.1.2 Elements in Compl, NP and restrictive noun modifiers 133

4.1.3 When the head is a nominalization 136

4.2 NPs as arguments 139

4.3 The functional area of NP: The determiner phrase (DP) 142

4.4 Noun head modification 148

4.4.1 Adjectival modification 149

4.4.2 The relative clause 161

4.4.2.1 The internal structure of restrictive relative clauses 161

4.4.2.2 Relative clauses from a typological perspective 166

4.4.2.3 Types of relative clauses and their meaning 172

5 Adverbial modification 177

5.1 Adverbs and adverbials: Preliminary considerations 177

5.2 Properties and distribution of adverbial modifiers 178

5.3 Structural insertion of adverb phrases 181

5.4 Noun and prepositional phrases with adverbial function 194

5.5 Clausal structures with adverbial function 201

5.5.1 The internal syntax of adverbial clauses 201

5.5.2 The external syntax of adverbial clauses 211

6 The sentence as utterance 9

6.1 Discourse grammar and information structure 219

6.2 Speech acts 219

6.3 Information structure in declarative clauses 223

6.3.1 The notion of markedness 224

6.3.2 Given and new in marked and unmarked structures 226

6.4 Focus 234

6.4.1 Focus strategies in typologically different languages 236

6.4.2 Focus as a specificational predicate 239

6.4.3 Focus-prominent languages 243

6.4.4 Syntactic interface: The complex structure of CP 244

6.4.5 Prosodic interface 246

6.5 Topicalization 247

6.5.1 The functions of Topic in discourse 248

6.5.2 Phrasal restrictions on the topicalized constituent 255

6.5.3 Topicalization strategies in typologically different languages 258

6.5.4 Topic-prominent languages 261

6.6 Contrast 264

7 Illocutionary force 269

7.1 Types of illocutionary acts 269

7.1.1 Overt performatives 270

7.1.2 Covert performatives 275

7.1.2.1 Formal markers of the covert performative 276

7.1.2.2 Formal markers in the presence of a performative 276

7.2 Illocutionary force and performative structure 281

7.2.1 The distribution of information in different types of sentences 283

7.2.1.1 Requests for information 284

7.2.1.2 Requests for action 290

7.3 Illocutionary force and subordinate clauses 293

7.3.1 Declarative sentences 294

7.3.2 Interrogative sentences 297

7.3.3 Imperative sentences 302

7.4 More on illocutionary acts 305

7.4.1 Performative structure modification 305

7.4.2 Indirect illocutionary acts 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110222500

3110222507

OCLC:

688559519