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ISBN 10: 0521671507
ISBN 13: 978-0521671507
Author: Thomas Payne
Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how to analyze the syntax and morphology of any language, by clearly describing the basic methods and techniques, and providing almost 100 practical exercises based on data from a rich variety of the world’s languages. Written in an engaging style and complete with a comprehensive glossary, Exploring Language Structure explains linguistic concepts by using clear analogies from everyday life. It introduces a range of essential topics in syntax and morphology, such as rules, categories, word classes, grammatical relations, multi-clause constructions and typology. Providing a solid foundation in morphology and syntax, this is the perfect introductory text for beginning students, and will fully prepare them for more advanced courses in linguistic analysis.
Exploring Language Structure A Student’s Guide 1st Table of contents:
1 Introduction to morphology and syntax
The form–function composite
Creativity and recursion
Grammar
Morphology and syntax
Lexicon
Three expression types compared
Subtypes of lexical expression
Classes in the lexicon
Some basic concepts in morphology
Morphemes
Types of morphemes
Types of words, prototypes, and penguins
Introduction to the exercises
How to gloss linguistic data
Rules
Conceptual outline of chapter 1
Notes
2 Morphological processes and conceptual categories
Conceptual categories and the problem of labeling
Derivational vs. inflectional categories
The “big ten” morphological processes
Methods for representing morphological processes
Prose
Position-class diagrams
Process rules
Conceptual outline of chapter 2
Notes
3 Morphophonemics
Specifying the environments for morphophonemic rules
How to pick an underlying form
Rule ordering
Nasal assimilation in English
Types of morphophonemic rules
Possession in Asheninka
Summary of notational conventions
Conceptual outline of chapter 3
Notes
4 Word classes
Nouns
Distributional properties of nouns
Conceptual categories likely to be associated with nouns or noun phrases
Types of nouns
Verbs
Conceptual categories likely to be expressed in verbs or verb phrases
Semantic roles
Semantically defined verb subclasses – scenes and argument structures
States
Processes
Motion
Position
Actions
Action-processes
Factives
Cognition
Sensation
Emotion
Utterance
Manipulation
Adjectives
Adverbs
Manner
Time
Direction/location
Evidential/epistemic
Other word classes
Pronouns and anaphoric clitics
Auxiliaries
Complementizers
Adpositions
Conjunctions
Determiners
Particles
Conceptual outline of chapter 4
Notes
5 Exploring subclasses
Methodology
Conceptual outline of chapter 5
Notes
6 Constituent structure
A note about syntactic formalisms
Syntax
Linear order
Constituency
Hierarchical structure
Grammaticality
Tests for constituent structure
Movement
Substitution
Interposition
Coordination
Omissibility
Phrase structure rules
Constituent structure trees
Ambiguity
Conceptual outline of chapter 6
Notes
7 Language typology
Morphological typology
Syntactic typology
Examples of an OV and a VO language
Pragmatic constituent order languages
How to nalyzing the syntactic typology of a language
Conceptual outline of chapter 7
Note
8 Grammatical relations
Grammatical relations within noun phrases
Grammatical relations in clauses
Systems for organizing grammatical relations
Analyzing grammatical relations systems
Split systems
Split intransitivity
Split ergativity
Conceptual outline of chapter 8
Notes
9 Voice and valence
Valence-decreasing constructions
Reflexives and reciprocals
Middle constructions
Subject omission
Passives
Antipassives
Object demotion and omission
Object incorporation
Valence-increasing constructions
Causatives
Applicatives
Dative shift
Dative of interest
Possessor raising or external possession
Combinations of valence-related constructions
Conceptual outline of chapter 9
Notes
10 Multiclause constructions
Serial verbs
Complement clauses
Finite complement clauses
Non-finite complement clauses
Direct and indirect speech
Adverbial clauses
Time or temporal adverbial clauses:
Location or locative adverbial clauses
Manner adverbial clauses
Purpose adverbial clauses
Reason and cause adverbial clauses
Conditional clauses
Clause chains and switch-reference
Relative clauses
The position of the head
How the R-element is expressed
Coordination
Conceptual outline of chapter 10
Glossary
How to use this glossary
References
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