From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English

Language ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Gregory Ward ◽  
Ronald Geluykens
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Process ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
Left Dislocation

On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
THEODORA ALEXOPOULOU ◽  
DIMITRA KOLLIAKOU
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Clitic Doubling ◽  
Left Dislocation ◽  
Information Packaging ◽  
Card System ◽  
Clitic Left Dislocation ◽  
Empirical Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structural Definition

This paper focuses on the Information Packaging notion of linkhood and provides a structural definition of this notion for Greek. We show that a combination of structural resources – syntactic (left dislocation), morphological (clitic duplication) and phonological (absence of nuclear accent) – are simultaneously exploited to realize linkhood in Greek, a generalization that can be captured in a constraint-based grammar such as HPSG, which permits the expression of interface constraints. We assume Vallduví's (1992) approach to Information Packaging, and Engdahl & Vallduví's (1996) implementation of the latter in HPSG, but deviate from Vallduví's work in adopting Hendriks & Dekker's (1996) revised definition of linkhood that relies on non-monotone anaphora. From an empirical point of view, our approach directly accounts for the invariable association of Clitic Left Dislocated NPs with wide scope readings, as well as a number of systematic differences in felicity conditions between Clitic Left Dislocation and other apparently related phenomena (Topicalization and Clitic Doubling). From a theoretical perspective, our analysis departs from syntax-based notions of topichood or discourse-linking and supports a definition that unifies linkhood with other anaphora phenomena. As such, it arguably overcomes previously noted problems for Vallduví's treatment of links as the current-locus-of-update in a Heim-style file-card system.

scholarly journals ڕۆڵی مۆرفيمە ڕێزمانييەكان لە سازكردنی وشەو زاراوەى زمانى كورديدا

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Osman Kareem Abdul-Raheem
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Grammatical Construction

This research is named ((The role of grammatical morpheme to build up word and terms in the Kurdish language)) highlighted the structural area of Kurdish words and terms of the structure, although the foreground and the most important results occurring him through this research, consists of three chapters: The first chapter under the concept of morpheme and morphology in linguistics address, and speaks of this chapter for the word components and all grammatical morphemes in theory with examples of the words in the Kurdish language, and in the second chapter emerged as the role and influence of morphemes grammatical construction of the Kurdish words hire science of statistics to prove its existence and build a word in the Kurdish language, and in the third chapter also analyzed the role of these morphemes any grammatical terminology for the construction of the subsidy with the knowledge of statistics as well, to demonstrate its role and influence in the Kurdish term.

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