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Grammaire comparé -- Linguistique historique

Comparison (Grammar) --- Linguistics

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This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands - a compensatory strategy referred to as more -support. The analytic variant is claimed to be better suited to environments of increased processing complexity - presumably owing to its ability to facilitate early phrase structure recognition, the more transparent one-to-one relation between form and function and possibly because the degree marker more can serve as a structural signal foreshadowing cognitive complexity. A bird's eye view of 24 determinants reveals that the processing effort which triggers the analytic comparative emanates from structures that are phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, lexically, semantically or pragmatically complex. By bridging the gap between corpus-based variation research and psycholinguistic and typological approaches, the book breaks new ground in uncovering the functional motivation behind the continued variability of synthetic-analytic contrasts.

English language --- Comparison (Grammar) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Comparison. --- Adjective. --- Comparison --- Nominals --- Adjective --- Grammar --- Comparison (Grammar). --- Germanic languages

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This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripping located at the syntax-information structure interface and argues for a licensing mechanism which is strongly tied to the focus properties of the construction. Under this view, types of bare argument ellipsis such as stripping and pseudostripping, which have received different treatments in the literature, are shown to be subject to the same licensing mechanism. This analysis is also extended to instances of bare argument ellipsis in embedded contexts, which have received little attention in the literature so far. Integrating theoretical and experimental reasoning, this study presents a series of experiments investigating the extraction, prosody and context properties of stripping and thus arrives at a comprehensive and unified account.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- English language --- German language --- Comparison (Grammar) --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Ellipsis. --- Grammar, Comparative --- German. --- English. --- Comparison --- Ellipsis --- German --- English --- Comparison (Grammar).

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Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Comparison (Grammar) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- 801.52 # --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Comparison --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Comparison (Grammar).

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En adoptant une approche comparative, La syntaxe du chinois : une perspective comparative présente les différences syntaxiques cruciales et les propriétés communes entre le chinois mandarin et les autres langues. S'inscrivant dans le cadre de la syntaxe générative, cet ouvrage offre des solutions inédites aux problématiques importantes de la linguistique chinoise.

Chinese language --- Comparison (Grammar) --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Chinois (Langue) --- Linguistique comparée. --- Syntax. --- Syntaxe. --- Grammaire comparée.