Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Grammatical case / Journal articles

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Grammatical case.

Journal articles on the topic 'Grammatical case'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 25 April 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Grammatical case.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. "Grammatical Relations in Tariana." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 17, no. 2 (1994): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500003012.

Full text

Abstract:

This article deals with the marking of grammatical relations in Tariana, North-Arawakan, and how this marking interrelates with topicality, definiteness and other discourse characteristics of nominal constituents. The following four case-marking systems are distinguished in Tariana: (i) a subject vs object case system, used with personal pronouns with animate reference; (ii) a case system characterized by an enclitic -nuku for marking topicalized and referential non-subjects, used with all types of nominal constituents; (iii) an ergative case-marking used with all types of nominal constituents under emphasis in A function, the ergative case marker being the same as instrumental; (iv) a system of peripheral cases – locative and instrumental, used with all types of nominal constituents, but obligatory only with pronouns. The overt case-marking in Tariana is related to such parameters as topicality, definiteness and emphasis, and consequently is dependent on the structure of discourse. I will argue that the unusual case-marking patterns in Tariana corroborate cross-linguistic generalizations on a dependency between case-marking and topical properties of NPs in languages with an opposition between marked and unmarked case forms.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Bredin-Oja, Shelley L., and Marc E. Fey. "Children's Responses to Telegraphic and Grammatically Complete Prompts to Imitate." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 23, no. 1 (2014): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2013/12-0155).

Full text

Abstract:

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to determine whether children in the early stage of combining words are more likely to respond to imitation prompts that are telegraphic than to prompts that are grammatically complete and whether they produce obligatory grammatical morphemes more reliably in response to grammatically complete imitation prompts than to telegraphic prompts.MethodFive children between 30 and 51 months of age with language delay participated in a single-case alternating treatment design with 14 sessions split between a grammatical and a telegraphic condition. Alternating orders of the 14 sessions were randomly assigned to each child. Children were given 15 prompts to imitate a semantic relation that was either grammatically complete or telegraphic.ResultsNo differences between conditions were found for the number of responses that contained a semantic relation. In contrast, 3 of the 5 children produced significantly more grammatical morphemes when presented with grammatically complete imitation prompts. Two children did not include a function word in either condition.ConclusionProviding a telegraphic prompt to imitate does not offer any advantage as an intervention technique. Children are just as likely to respond to a grammatically complete imitation prompt. Further, including function words encourages children who are developmentally ready to imitate them.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Laleko, Oksana, and Maria Polinsky. "Marking Topic or Marking Case: A Comparative Investigation of Heritage Japanese and Heritage Korean." Heritage Language Journal 10, no. 2 (2013): 178–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.46538/hlj.10.2.3.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper, we examine the relationship between grammatical and discourse-related domains of linguistic organization in heritage speakers by comparing their knowledge of categories mediated at different structural levels: grammatical case marking, which is mediated within the structure of the clause, and the marking of information structure, grammatically mediated at the syntax-discourse interface. To this end, we examine the knowledge of case and topic particles in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean as assessed through a series of rating tasks. We find that heritage speakers in both languages experience different degrees of difficulty with elements that belong to different linguistic modules: phenomena which involve semantic and discourse computation are found to be more difficult than phenomena governed primarily by structural syntactic constraints.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Obiamalu, Greg O. "The Notion Of ˜Case From Traditional Grammar To Modern Grammatical Theories: A Critical Historical Review." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 7, no. 1 (2016): 1124–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v7i1.4615.

Full text

Abstract:

The notion of case has been a controversial one, yet the grammatical terminology has survived right from traditional Grammar to the current grammatical theories. This paper critically examines the notion of case within different grammatical frameworks. Our interest is mainly on the role of syntax and semantics in case determination and the level of grammatical analysis (deep or surface) at which case is assigned. The paper looks at the notion of case as conceived in traditional grammar and the explores how the concept has been adapted to antecedent grammatical theories up to the Principles and parameters theory. The paper concludes that in all the grammatical models, Case has both syntactic and semantic relevance.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Gerdts, Donna B. "Surface Case and Grammatical Relations in Korean." Studies in Language 11, no. 1 (1987): 181–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.11.1.08ger.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

FREDE, MICHAEL. "THE STOIC NOTION OF A GRAMMATICAL CASE." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 39, no. 1 (1994): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1994.tb00449.x.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Zaenen, A., J. Maling, and H. Thráinsson. "Case and grammatical functions: The Icelandic passive." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 3, no. 4 (1985): 441–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00133285.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Blake, Barry J. "Case markers, case and grammatical relations: An addendum to Goddard." Australian Journal of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (1985): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268608508599338.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Kim, I. E. "Lexical and Grammatical Environment and Its Influence on the Noun Case Form in Russian Language." Critique and Semiotics 38, no. 2 (2020): 129–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2020-2-129-151.

Full text

Abstract:

This article is devoted to a new phenomenon in modern Russian language. Earlier, a native speaker of Russian chose a noun case form depending on the “requirements” of the grammatically dominant word. Nowadays, more and more often, a native speaker chooses a noun case taking into account the influence of several words included in its lexical and grammatical environment. The article discusses in detail all the potential elements of the lexical and grammatical environment of a noun that can influence on the choice of its case form, and provides facts of their consolidated or contradictory influence, which creates a choice problem. The lexical and grammatical environment of a noun potentially includes a controlling word, homogeneous terms of a sentence and generalizing word for them, a preposition that can be combined with several case forms, an adjective, participle or number dependent on the noun, as well as other nouns nearby. Each of the elements of the environment influences the choice of case in its own way, so the speaker often chooses a case form incorrectly. The phenomenon illustrates the antinomy of language: 1) being singled out as part of a syntagm, a linguistic expression seeks to expand its existence at the expense of other linguistic expressions; 2) being singled out as part of a syntagm, a linguistic expression is subjected to pressure from neighboring linguistic expressions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Stassen, Leon. "Typology Versus Mythology: The Case of the Zero-Copula." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 17, no. 2 (1994): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500002961.

Full text

Abstract:

It is widely believed that copulas perform a mere grammatical function, as carriers of grammatical categories such as Tense, Mood and Aspect in sentences with non-verbal predicates. Accordingly, zero copulas are predicted to occur only in contexts where these grammatical categories are unmarked. This article argues that this view of copulas, and especially of zero copula encoding, is untenable as a principle of Universal Grammar. More generally, the article demonstrates how typological generalizations can be used as an evaluation measure for putative abstract principles of linguistic theory.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Hofman, Rijcklof. "The linguistic preoccupations of the glossators of the st gall priscian." Historiographia Linguistica 20, no. 1 (1993): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.20.1.07hof.

Full text

Abstract:

Summary The existence of a native Irish grammatical tradition suggests that the intensive study of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae by Irish scholars which is attested to by the glosses in the St Gall Priscian should have been the occasion for a contrastive analysis of Latin and Old Irish. This is not the case, however, as is apparent from the glossators’ apparent identification of themselves with Latini and their silence about Old Irish usage. Evidence of an original contribution to linguistic thought may be found only in the use of construe marks (syntactical glossing) and vernacular calques of Latin grammatical terms. This is to be explained by the glossators’ narrowly didactic focus upon Latin forms.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Kharchenko, Svetlana. "Orthographic Norm and Grammatical Homonymy." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 4 (December 2019): 248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.4.19.

Full text

Abstract:

The article deals with the relevant linguistic issue of correlation between word spelling and the distinction of units belonging to different grammatical classes. The concepts of word and part of speech are contrasted. The author has revealed the peculiarities of lexical units functioning in written speech, which enables their part-of-speech status identification. The analysis of criteria, suggested by the linguists for differentiation of homonymous adverbs, preposition-and-case-form combinations, and derivative prepositions resulted in proposing a procedure of consecutive operations, accomplished to identify the part-of-speech status of grammatically homonymous words. The results of the linguistic experiment show how in speech practice native speakers solve the problems of part of speech determination and establishing the spelling of such words. It was revealed that the methods for distinguishing grammatical homonyms used by recipients, in many cases, do not lead to the correct solution. The existing codified guidelines are not applied while writing, as spelling of the major part of grammatically homonymous words does not meet the requirements of the norm. To solve the problem under consideration, it is necessary to adjust the content of spelling rules and change the spelling of a number of words, where traditional spelling principles are reflected.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

고길수. "Are There Really Grammatical Case Postpositions in Korean?" Linguistic Research 24, no. 1 (2007): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17250/khisli.24.1.200706.002.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Hotta, Makiko, and Aiko Takeuchi. "A Case of Conduction Aphasia with Grammatical Problems." Higher Brain Function Research 14, no. 4 (1994): 240–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2496/apr.14.240.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Murao, Aimi, Tomohiko Ito, Suzy E. Fukuda, and Shinji Fukuda. "Grammatical case-marking in Japanese children with SLI." Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 31, no. 7-9 (2017): 711–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1310929.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Fried, Mirjam. "Grammatical Functions in Case Languages: Subjecthood in Czech." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 20, no. 1 (1994): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v20i1.1453.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Velázquez-Castillo, Maura. "Grammatical relations in active systems." Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics 9, no. 2 (2003): 133–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.9.2.03vel.

Full text

Abstract:

An active system is frequently analyzed as the most semantically transparent case-marking system, where the agent-patient opposition underlies case marking and/or cross-referencing patterns. It has also been claimed that transitivity and its prototypical manifestation of subject-object opposition are irrelevant for this language type. This paper examines these claims in the light of the grammatical system of Guaraní, an active language spoken in Paraguay. Based on lexical and morpho-syntactic data such as reflexivization, passivization, relativization, incorporation and external possession, the results suggest that grammatical relations are indeed semantically driven and that they do not correlate with subjects and objects. The paper clarifies the semantic underpinnings of the active-inactive distinction in this language and shows that the relevant opposition is not that of agent-patient but rather that of source-locative. The study argues for an analysis based on language-specific event typing and construal.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Çanta, Agnesa. "The Category of Case in English and Albanian Nominal System: A Contrastive Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2016): 226. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n1p226.

Full text

Abstract:

The grammatical category of case, as one of the most discussed grammatical categories in English and one of the most specific categories in Albanian, has always attracted the researchers’ attention and, therefore, there are numerous studies about this category in these two respective languages. However, the main purpose of this article is to indicate that despite their different morphological structure which implies differences in their grammatical categories, English and Albanian, also show some similarities that concern the grammatical category of case and especially the genitive case as the only marked case in English nominal system. This article examined the grammatical category of case in English and Albanian nominal system through the contrastive method, emphasizing the differences that regard several aspects of the category of case, such as the number of cases in these two languages, the way they build their case forms, the use of prepositions in building the case forms, i.e., prepositions as case markers, and also several characteristics of the category of case that these two languages have in common. The results indicate that the similarities concern mainly the genitive case. Nouns in the genitive case, in English and Albanian, share some characteristics that concern their semantic functions, their use in “the double genitive” constructions, rules of forming such constructions, and the omission of the case markers without affecting meaning.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Klyshinsky, Eduard S., Varvara K. Logacheva, Olesya V. Karpik, and Alexander V. Bondarenko. "Quantitative Estimation of Grammatical Ambiguity: Case of European Languages." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 18, no. 1 (2020): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2020-18-1-5-21.

Full text

Abstract:

The grammatical ambiguity (multiple sets of grammatical features for one word form or coinciding surface forms of different words) can be of different types. We distinguish six classes of grammatical ambiguity: unambiguous, ambiguous by grammatical features, by part of speech, by lemma, by lemma and part of speech, and out-of-vocabulary words. These classes are found in all languages, but word distribution may vary significantly. We calculated and analysed the statistics of these six ambiguity classes for a number of European languages. We found that the distribution of ambiguous words among these classes depends primarily on basic linguistic features of a language determining its typology class. Although it is influenced by text style and the considered vocabulary, the distinctive shape of the distribution is preserved under different conditions and differs significantly from distributions for other languages. The fact that the shape is primarily defined by linguistic properties is corroborated by the fact that closely related languages demonstrated in our research similar properties as far as their ambiguous words are concerned. We established that Slavic languages feature a low rate of part-of-speech ambiguous words and a high rate of words which are ambiguous by grammatical features. The former is also true for French and Italian, while the latter holds for German and Swedish, whereas the combination of these traits is characteristic of Slavic languages alone. The experiments showed that reduction of the grammatical feature set does not change the shape of distribution and therefore does not reflect similarity among languages. On the other hand, we found that the top 1000 most frequent words in all the languages considered have different distribution in ambiguity classes unlike in the rest of the words. At the same time, for the majority of considered languages, less frequent words are less unambiguous by part of speech. In Romance and Germanic languages, the ambiguity is reduced for less frequent words. We also investigated the differences in statistics for texts of different genres in the Russian language. We found out that fiction texts are more ambiguous by part of speech than newswire, which are in turn more ambiguous by grammatical features. Our results suggest that the quality of multilingual morphological taggers should be measured relying only on ambiguous words as opposed to all words of the processed text. Such an approach can help get a more objective linguistic picture and enhance the performance of linguistic tools.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Rispoli, Matthew. "The mosaic acquisition of grammatical relations." Journal of Child Language 18, no. 3 (1991): 517–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900011235.

Full text

Abstract:

ABSTRACTThe view that grammatical relations have substantial essence, designated as ‘subject’ or ‘object’ has difficulty in accounting for the variety of naturally acquirable grammatical relations. The acquisition of grammatical relations is examined from a theoretical framework, ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR, in which grammatical relations are decomposed into two separate types of structure: logical (semantic) structure and information (pragmatic) structure. The acquisition of grammatical relations from four languages is compared: (1) the definite accusative suffix and pragmatically motivated word order of Turkish; (2) Kaluli verb agreement, case and focus marking postpositions, and pragmatically motivated word order; (3) Hungarian definite and indefinite verb conjunction; and (4) Italian participial agreement and anaphoric, accusative case pronouns. Two conditions on structures are found to cause difficulty: the neutralization of a semantic or pragmatic distinction by interfering structures (e.g. Kaluli and Italian), and global case marking which forces the child to discover relevant semantic characteristics of both the actor and the undergoer (e.g. Hungarian and Kaluli). Structures that encode semantic or pragmatic distinctions independently are more easily acquired (e.g. Turkish). Piecing together discrete structures in a mosaic fashion, the child can acquire the great variety of grammatical relations that exist in human languages.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Piepers, Joske, Ad Backus, and Jos Swanenberg. "Ziej is a woman and het is a girl." Taal en Tongval 73, no. 1 (2021): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tet2021.1.piep.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract In this paper, we report on a study of gender reference in Limburgian, specifically the use of the neuter subject pronoun het ‘she’ (lit. ‘it’) to refer to a female referent. This pronoun is used in addition to the feminine pronoun ze ‘she’. We investigate the role of the referent’s social and grammatical characteristics in the variation between grammatically feminine and ‘non-feminine’ (nf; i.e., neuter and masculine) pronouns in two experiments. First, we test the effect of a referent’s age in a language production study, in which 41 native speakers participated. The results of this study indicate that speakers use het more often to refer to younger than to older women. Second, we use an acceptability judgment task (N = 72) to assess whether the preference for non-feminine pronouns for younger women might be explained by grammatical agreement with non-feminine antecedent nouns (e.g., grammatically neuter maedje ‘girl’). The results indicate that this is not the case: het is preferred as a pronoun for younger but not older women, regardless of an antecedent noun’s grammatical gender. We conclude that the variation in pronoun gender in Limburgian is a socio-pragmatic phenomenon, and we offer suggestions for future research in this area.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Lucas, Christopher. "Contact-induced grammatical change." Diachronica 29, no. 3 (2012): 275–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.29.3.01luc.

Full text

Abstract:

Language contact plays a key part among the factors leading to change in grammars, and yet the study of syntactic change, especially in the generative or innatist tradition, has tended to neglect the role of contact in this process. At the same time, work on contact-induced change remains largely descriptive, with theoretical discussion restricted mostly to the putative limits on borrowing. This article aims at moving beyond these restrictions by outlining a psycholinguistically-based account of some of the ways in which contact leads to change. This account takes Van Coetsem’s (1988, 2000) distinction between recipient-language and source-language agentivity as its starting point, building on this insight in the light of work on language acquisition and first language attrition, and showing how these principles can be integrated into a unified acquisitionist model of syntactic change in general. The model is then applied to case studies of contact-induced syntactic change in Yiddish and Berber.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Ghersetti, Antonella. "Systematizing the Description of Arabic: The Case of Ibn al-Sarrāj." Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 71, no. 3 (2017): 879–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asia-2017-0020.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract This paper will focus on the Arabic grammatical tradition and, in particular, on the new arrangement, in the 4th/10th c., of grammatical matters already elaborated in the first centuries of Islam. With this aim in mind we will take into consideration two representative grammatical treatises of the 8th c. and the 10th c.: Sībawayh’s Kitāb and Ibn al-Sarrāj’s al-Uṣūl fī l-naḥw, which both represent watershed moments in the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition. Abū Bakr ibn al-Sarrāj’s philosophical training is obvious in the way he approaches the subject through the precise description of single items and in the laboured logic of the subdivision of his treatises. He follows the principle of “comprehensive subdivisions” (taqāsīm) borrowed from the logic he had studied under the direction of al-Fārābī. Ibn al-Sarrāj’s method of organizing and introducing linguistic matters will be contrasted with the approach of the father of Arabic grammar, Sībawayh, who wrote – two centuries earlier – the most comprehensive description of Arabic.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Hudson, Richard. "Coordination and grammatical relations." Journal of Linguistics 24, no. 2 (1988): 303–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700011816.

Full text

Abstract:

The most serious recent work on the theory of coordination has probably been done in terms of three theories of grammatical structure: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG–see especially Gazdar, 1981; Gazdaret al., 1982; 1985; Saget al., 1985; Schachter & Mordechay, 1983), Categorial Grammar (CG–see especially Steedman, 1985; Dowty, 1985) and Transformational Grammar (TG–notably Williams, 1978, 1981; Neijt, 1979; van Oirsouw, 1985, 1987). Each of these approaches is different in important respects: for instance, according to whether or not they allow deletion rules, and according to the kinds of information which they allow to be encoded in syntactic features. However, behind these differences lies an important similarity: in each case the theory concerned makes two assumptions about grammatical structure in general (i.e. about all structures, including coordinate ones):I The basic syntagmatic relations in sentence-structure are part-whole relations (consituent structure) and temporal order; note that this is true whether or not syntactic structure is seen as a ‘projection’ of lexical properties, since these lexical properies are themselves defined in terms of constituent structure and temporal order.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

CHOIKyuBal. "Grammatical Meaning of Directional Complement : A Case of 'Qilai'." JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES ll, no. 24 (2008): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26585/chlab.2008..24.001.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

백정혜. "Emerging Grammatical Functions: A Case of Korean Nominalizer Cikyeng." Journal of Studies in Language 30, no. 4 (2015): 807–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18627/jslg.30.4.201502.807.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Bender, Andrea, Sieghard Beller, and Karl Christoph Klauer. "Grammatical Gender in German: A Case for Linguistic Relativity?" Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 64, no. 9 (2011): 1821–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.582128.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Van Valin, Robert D. "Another look at Icelandic case marking and grammatical relations." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 9, no. 1 (1991): 145–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00133328.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Fried, Mirjam. "Reflexives as Grammatical Constructions: A Case Study in Czech." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16, no. 1 (1990): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v16i0.1715.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Brooks, Patricia J., and Michael Tomasello. "First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development." American Journal of Psychology 107, no. 2 (1994): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1423044.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

He, Pei, Zelin Deng, Houfeng Wang, and Zhusong Liu. "Model approach to grammatical evolution: theory and case study." Soft Computing 20, no. 9 (2015): 3537–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1710-9.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Pato, Enrique. "Indefinite article + possessive + noun in Spanish: A case of refunctionalization?" Languages 3, no. 4 (2018): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages3040044.

Full text

Abstract:

The phenomenon under discussion is an example of a grammatical change that can be explained by refunctionalization, and as such, can be understood as the acquisition of a new meaning by an ‘endangered’ grammatical construction, which is reassigned to express another value. Refunctionalization involves the development of a new function (in this case a syntactic-semantic one). When an item loses its function, or is marginal within a system, it can be lost (as happens with the construction under study in Standard Spanish), it can be ‘saved’ as a marginal element (as in some areas of American Spanish varieties) or it can be reused for other purposes (as in the Central American Spanish varieties). The latter case presents new discursive values. Hence, this construction should be understood as an example of reusing grammatical functionally opaque material for new purposes.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Clahsen, Harald, and João Veríssimo. "Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6, no. 5 (2016): 685–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.15039.cla.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract In this article we discuss methods for investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals. We will present a methodological approach that relies on: (i) linguistic theory (in our case, morphology) for the construction of experimental materials; (ii) a design that allows for direct (within-experiment, within-participant, and within-item) comparisons of the critical conditions; and (iii) data analysis techniques that make both linear and non-linear gradient effects visible. We review recent studies of masked morphological priming in bilinguals in which the application of these methodological principles revealed highly selective interactions of age of acquisition (and the native/non-native contrast) with the linguistic distinction between inflection and derivation. We believe that such considerations are not only relevant for grammatical processing experiments, but also for studying bilingualism, and its potential cognitive advantages, more generally.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Kováříková, Dominika. "Sharing Data Through Specialized Corpus-Based Tools: The Case of GramatiKat." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 72, no. 2 (2021): 531–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0049.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract This paper presents a specialized corpus tool GramatiKat in the context of Open Science principles, namely data sharing, which offers opportunities for original research and facilitates verifiability of research and building on previous research. The tool is designed primarily for examining grammatical categories from the quantitative point of view. It offers grammatical profiles of particular lemmas (currently 14 thousand Czech nouns) and the proportion of individual grammatical categories within a part of speech, i.e., the standard behavior of a word class. The data in GramatiKat are pre-processed, statistically evaluated, and presented in charts and tables for clarity, and they are available to other linguists, especially from fields of morphology and lexicography. This article is aimed at providing inspiration and support to corpus and non-corpus linguists with utilization and enhanced use of the existing tools and with the creation of new specialized tools available to other users.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Bösiger, Melanie. "Der onymische Artikel im Schweizerdeutschen in seiner Funktion als Genusmarker." Linguistik Online 107, no. 2 (2021): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.107.7693.

Full text

Abstract:

In Swiss German dialects first names are commonly used with a preceding article. Historically, the function of these so-called onymic articles was to show the name’s case. They first arose when inflection of first names had been omitted and case was thus no longer expressed in suffixes. The data gathered in 2016 in an online survey for the research project “Das Anna und ihr Hund” indicate that today the function of reflecting the case is hardly relevant. However, it is important to the speakers to emphasize the nameʼs grammatical gender. The three grammatical genders in (Swiss) German are feminine, masculine, and neuter. Typically, the ononymic articles’ grammatical gender corresponds to their referents’ biological gender, i. e. feminine articles for women’s names, masculine articles for men’s names. But sometimes neuter articles are used with female or, less often, with male names. Therefore, the same first name can have different grammatical genders that are indicated with an onymic article, e. g. d Anna (f.) or s Anna (n.). The choice of the article depends on the speaker, the situation, the referent, and other factors. Based on these observations, it is argued that marking grammatical gender is the onymic article’s main function and marking case is secondary.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Ershova, Natalia B. "The functioning of a noun in German language (case category)." Neophilology, no. 26 (2021): 270–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2021-7-26-270-275.

Full text

Abstract:

The purpose of the research is to study the variety of functions performed by a noun in the modern German language. We consider the noun grammatical categories, determine the place of the case grammatical category among the noun grammatical categories on the material of mod-ern German language. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that, when studying the case category, the genitive case is singled out from the case system, on the one hand, as disappearing, on the oth-er, as a marker of the syntactic functions of a noun. We define the role of the article, to which many foreign and domestic linguists attribute an auxiliary function along with a noun, calling it the accompanying noun. As a result of the study, we identify the features of a noun functioning in German language, determine the cases functions, and indicate the reasons for the displacement of the genitive case from the case system of the German language and the defining role of the article in the formation of a sentence meaning.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Bayley, Robert, Ceil Lucas, and Mary Rose. "Phonological variation in American Sign Language: The case of 1 handshape." Language Variation and Change 14, no. 1 (2002): 19–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394502141020.

Full text

Abstract:

This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1 handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of more than 5,000 tokens, extracted from informal conversations among more than 200 signers in seven different regions of the United States, indicates that variation in the form of these signs is conditioned by multiple linguistic and social factors. Significant factor groups include grammatical function and features of the preceding and following segments, as well as a range of social constraints including age, regional origin, and language background. Two findings are especially notable. First, although the results for preceding and following segment effects show evidence of progressive and regressive assimilation, grammatical function is the first-order linguistic constraint on the use of two of the three main variants. Second, signers in all regions of the United States show similar patterns of variation, thus providing evidence that ASL signers constitute a single “speech” community.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Singnoi, Unchalee. "Noun Classifier Constructions in Thai: a Case Study in Construction Grammar." MANUSYA 11, no. 1 (2008): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01101006.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper is a study in the framework of Construction Grammar that seeks for how much information grammatical units like noun classifier constructions in Thai can reveal and why such information must be presented as distinctive grammatical properties. The findings show that noun classifiers, occurring in nominal phrases, have a large number of grammatical functions not restricted to syntax but encompassing semantics and pragmatics, as well. They function syntactically by constituting numeric phrases, standing for head nouns, substituting for nouns, acting as the heads of modifier constructions, acting as noun modifiers and disambiguating constructions. Semantically, they are divided into generic and perceptual main types, which evince different syntactic behaviors. Finally, they pragmatically function by unitizing nouns, referring to particular entities, individuating items, and indicating the numeral ‘one’. It is these pragmatic functions that motivate their forms/structures. Therefore, information types such as semantic and/or pragmatic properties need to be included in the explanation and viewed as a cluster of information, rather than autonomous syntax.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Ali, Rana Imran, Muhammad Imran, and Muhammad Waris Shahzad. "Analyzing Grammatical Errors: A Case Study of Virtual University of Pakistan." Global Educational Studies Review V, no. III (2020): 417–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2020(v-iii).41.

Full text

Abstract:

The current study investigated an overview of the grammatical errors committed by the students of Virtual University of Pakistan (VoU) particularly in the English courses. These students were mainly from the computer science and management sciences programs. However, the learners fail to concentrate on the grammatical errors, which are the important part of their writing skills. The researchers selected a stratified random sample of ninety-nine students through the random number technique by using T-Yamani's method of selecting a sample for descriptive cum statistical analysis from online creative writings in thousands of Graded Discussion Board (GDB). These GDBs are part of the internal exams system of VoU. The study points out the most common grammatical errors committed by the graduate and post-graduate students of the Virtual University of Pakistan and suggests some remedial measures to correct those errors. Moreover, the research also provides facilitation for the teachers and students for further research in this area.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues. "Marking and Hierarchy Types and the Grammaticalization of Case-Markers." Studies in Language 21, no. 2 (1997): 313–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.21.2.04ari.

Full text

Abstract:

Silverstein (1976) showed that the grammatical cases take varying kinds of case-marking according to the hierarchical value of the nominal being marked. This paper demonstrates that such hierarchical marking occurs in non-grammatical cases as well. Moreover, these cases typically take nominals of a specific hierarchical value as arguments. Analysis of the data according to classic marking theory reveals that departures from the typical pattern often take extra morphological marking. Since the new forms appear in atypical contexts, they are prone to being pragmatically reinterpreted. And the combination of marking and reinterpretation will produce new cases in the language.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Blake, Barry J., and Stanley Starosta. "The Case for Lexicase: An Outline of Lexicase Grammatical Theory." Language 65, no. 3 (1989): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415229.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Salkova, M. A., and O. A. Machina. "The genitive case as a grammatical preference of modern press." Professional Discourse & Communication 1, no. 4 (2019): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2019-1-4-7-15.

Full text

Abstract:

The article focuses on the construction N’s + N known as the genitive case structure. Analysis of the data retrieved from two English Language corpora (the BNC and COCA) has demonstrated that the N’s + N structure as a typical grammatical feature of modern mass media discourse realizes certain communicative and discursive properties that constitute the core of this mixed morphological-and-syntactic phenomenon. Thanks to its anthropocentric character, the structure also possesses some functional capacities that make a valuable and indispensable contribution to the organization of meaning in mass media texts.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Krisda Chaemsaithong. "Grammatical Identities at Work: A Case Study of Courtroom Talk." Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 17, no. 4 (2017): 729–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15738/kjell.17.4.201712.729.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Bílý, Milan. "Typologi of case languages with respect to grammatical constructions used." Scando-Slavica 32, no. 1 (1986): 111–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00806768608600900.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Cardini, Filippo-Enrico. "Grammatical constraints and verb-framed languages: The case of Italian." Language and Cognition 4, no. 3 (2012): 167–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0010.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractIn the literature on motion events, a lot of previous research can be found on the contrast between the typology of expression favoured by so-called ‘verb-framed languages’ and that favoured by so-called ‘satellite-framed languages.’ Only some of this previous research, however, has focused its attention on the reasons that ultimately bring about such contrasting fashions of speaking. The present study explores this issue in some depth by trying to identify what specific grammatical constraints lead Italian speakers to be shy of the use of manner verbs in the expression of motion events (at least when compared with speakers of a typical satellite-framed language such as English). The outcome of an interpretation task and a grammatical judgement task conducted with some Italian native speakers suggests that this phenomenon ultimately originates from features exhibited by the Italian system of spatial prepositions, as well as from features exhibited by a certain kind of Italian manner verbs. The constraints caused by the verbs appear to be particularly significant.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Kousta, Stavroula-Thaleia, David P. Vinson, and Gabriella Vigliocco. "Investigating linguistic relativity through bilingualism: The case of grammatical gender." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 34, no. 4 (2008): 843–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.34.4.843.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Semenza, Carlo, Sara Mondini, and Marinella Cappelletti. "The grammatical properties of mass nouns: An aphasia case study." Neuropsychologia 35, no. 5 (1997): 669–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932(96)00124-8.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Legendre, Géraldine, William Raymond, and Paul Smolensky. "An Optimality-Theoretic Typology of Case and Grammatical Voice Systems." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1498.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Lee, Chang-soo. "A corpus-based approach to transitivity analysis at grammatical and conceptual levels." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21, no. 4 (2016): 465–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21.4.02lee.

Full text

Abstract:

The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of a novel corpus-based approach to analyzing Halliday’s transitivity for application to critical discourse analysis (CDA). The approach expands transitivity analysis beyond the traditional profiling of participant roles and process types at grammatical level to conceptual subcategorization, in light of the fact that CDA researchers often end up delving into the meanings of individual processes as part of their transitivity analyses. The paper introduces a scheme for annotating transitivity both at grammatical and conceptual levels on the basis of Halliday & Matthiessen (2004) and applies it to a case study examining news reports from two ideologically opposed South Korean newspapers on a nationwide public movement against US beef imports. The analysis reveals that the two newspapers contrast with each other in representing the riot police and the demonstrators as Actor and Goal in material processes grammatically and in processes of violence conceptually.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Bardagil-Mas, Bernat, and Charlotte Lindenbergh. "Realigning alignment." Linguistics in the Netherlands 35 (December 3, 2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00001.bar.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract We analyse case marking in the Jê language family (Brazilian Amazonia) with the new completeness alignment typology proposed by Lindenbergh & Zwart (2017). In contrast with classical alignment typology, the completeness typology first determines whether all grammatical functions participate in a grammatical process (e.g. case marking) and only then determines how these grammatical functions are aligned, adding nine incomplete alignment types to the five types of classical alignment typology. Nine of the ten Jê languages are classified as split-ergative, while Panará is seen as fully ergative, making it a typologically odd language within the family. We show that applying the completeness typology to Jê languages more accurately describes the true variation in case marking patterns across the Jê language family.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!