Germanic languages and linguistic universals / edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita, and Hiroshi Hasegawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Askedal, John Ole, 1942-

Series:

Development of the Anglo-Saxon language and linguistic universals ; v. 1.

The development of the Anglo-Saxon language and linguistic universals, 1877-3451 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Grammar.

Germanic languages.

Linguistic universals.

English language--Grammar.

English language.

English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as English, German, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which are descended from the so-called Proto-Germanic language, and their clarification with regard to linguistic universals provided by the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar. In order to fulfill this aim, the project has to be responsive to theoretical advances in a variety of linguistic domains and approaches, such as language acquisition, pragmatics and corpus linguistics as well as philological and historical contributions on Germanic languages in various stages of their development. The present book seeks to advance these goals in ten chapters exemplifying work on a wide range of Germanic languages and linguistic universals. It is divided into three parts: Part 1. Old English and Germanic languages; Part 2. Generative Grammar; and Part 3. Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals will be of general interest to linguists who seek to understand the nature of the Germanic languages and the relationships obtaining between them.

Contents:

Some general evolutionary and typological characteristics of the Germanic languages / John Ole Askedal

Characteristics of Germanic languages / Tadao Shimomiya

Old English pronouns for possession / Yasuaki Fujiwara

Reflexive binding as agreement and its locality conditions within the phase system / Hiroshi Hasegawa

Movement in the passive nominal : a morphological analysis / Junji Hamamatsu

On tritransitive verbs / Ryohei Mita

On the cognitive dependence phenomena observed in English expressions / Shuichi Takeda

On pronoun referents in English / Hiromi Azuma

Relative and interrogative who/whom in contemporary professional American English / Yoko Iyeiri and Michiko Yaguchi

New functions of FrameSQL for multilingual FrameNets / Hiroaki Sato.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612663345

9781282663343

1282663348

9789027287687

9027287686

OCLC:

655829563