Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199577743
- eISBN:
- 9780191722844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577743.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Syntax and Morphology
We need to bring together research into the diverse content of features in the world's languages with the discussion of their formal properties, and look for insights across sub‐discipline ...
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We need to bring together research into the diverse content of features in the world's languages with the discussion of their formal properties, and look for insights across sub‐discipline boundaries. This chapter offers summaries of all contributions and highlights areas of common ground between the different approaches. The selected perspectives represent major areas of linguistics where features are used.Less
We need to bring together research into the diverse content of features in the world's languages with the discussion of their formal properties, and look for insights across sub‐discipline boundaries. This chapter offers summaries of all contributions and highlights areas of common ground between the different approaches. The selected perspectives represent major areas of linguistics where features are used.
Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199577743
- eISBN:
- 9780191722844
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577743.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Syntax and Morphology
This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components ...
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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no readily available inventory showing which features are found in which of the world's languages; there is no consensus about how they operate across different components of language; and there is no certainty about how they interact. This book seeks both to highlight and to tackle these problems. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics, expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, computer applications, and logic. Linguists representing different standpoints spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to different kinds of features and describe how they use them. Their contrasting contributions highlight the areas of difference and the common ground between their perspectives. The book brings together original work by leading international scholars. It will appeal to linguists of all theoretical persuasions.Less
This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no readily available inventory showing which features are found in which of the world's languages; there is no consensus about how they operate across different components of language; and there is no certainty about how they interact. This book seeks both to highlight and to tackle these problems. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics, expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, computer applications, and logic. Linguists representing different standpoints spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to different kinds of features and describe how they use them. Their contrasting contributions highlight the areas of difference and the common ground between their perspectives. The book brings together original work by leading international scholars. It will appeal to linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099470
- eISBN:
- 9789882207264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099470.003.0011
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter investigates the grammatical features of Philippine English. It validates the features already identified in previous studies by using a concordancing program on the one-million word ...
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This chapter investigates the grammatical features of Philippine English. It validates the features already identified in previous studies by using a concordancing program on the one-million word Philippine corpus, the Philippine component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-PHI). It aims to identify which grammatical features occur in ICE-PHI, and to investigate their frequency of occurrence.Less
This chapter investigates the grammatical features of Philippine English. It validates the features already identified in previous studies by using a concordancing program on the one-million word Philippine corpus, the Philippine component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-PHI). It aims to identify which grammatical features occur in ICE-PHI, and to investigate their frequency of occurrence.
James P. Blevins
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199593545
- eISBN:
- 9780191761492
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593545.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Theoretical Linguistics
Realizational models provide a conception of morphological analysis as an interpretive process. The grammatical features associated with paradigm cells or preterminal nodes are defined independently ...
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Realizational models provide a conception of morphological analysis as an interpretive process. The grammatical features associated with paradigm cells or preterminal nodes are defined independently of the realization rules that specify the formal ‘spell-out’ of the features. Rules of exponence directly spell out features, while rules of referral relate the spell-out of multiple feature sets. Rules are often organized into rule blocks and their applications is regulated by intrinsic disjunctive ordering conditions and extrinsic linear order. A variety of extended formalisms, including A-Morphous Morphology, Network Morphology, Separationist Morphology and Paradigm Function Morphology augment extend the scope of spell-out rules through the use of additional devices, including indices of various kinds.Less
Realizational models provide a conception of morphological analysis as an interpretive process. The grammatical features associated with paradigm cells or preterminal nodes are defined independently of the realization rules that specify the formal ‘spell-out’ of the features. Rules of exponence directly spell out features, while rules of referral relate the spell-out of multiple feature sets. Rules are often organized into rule blocks and their applications is regulated by intrinsic disjunctive ordering conditions and extrinsic linear order. A variety of extended formalisms, including A-Morphous Morphology, Network Morphology, Separationist Morphology and Paradigm Function Morphology augment extend the scope of spell-out rules through the use of additional devices, including indices of various kinds.
Sofia Oskolskaya
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198804628
- eISBN:
- 9780191842849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198804628.003.0020
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Language Families, Syntax and Morphology
The chapter deals with an overview of the Southern Tungusic languages: Hezhe, Udihe, Oroch, Nanai, Ulcha, and Orok. The sociolinguistic and dialectal situation is described, as well as the history of ...
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The chapter deals with an overview of the Southern Tungusic languages: Hezhe, Udihe, Oroch, Nanai, Ulcha, and Orok. The sociolinguistic and dialectal situation is described, as well as the history of the languages under discussion in respect of genealogy and contacts. The most specific features of this language group are observed alongside the features shared with the other Transeurasian languages. An outline of the Nanai language is given as an example of one of the Southern Tungusic languages, with a special focus on the historical development of some Nanai peculiarities (derivation of negative forms, substitution of finite forms by nonfinite forms and others). Some Nanai features are discussed in comparison with other closely related languages.Less
The chapter deals with an overview of the Southern Tungusic languages: Hezhe, Udihe, Oroch, Nanai, Ulcha, and Orok. The sociolinguistic and dialectal situation is described, as well as the history of the languages under discussion in respect of genealogy and contacts. The most specific features of this language group are observed alongside the features shared with the other Transeurasian languages. An outline of the Nanai language is given as an example of one of the Southern Tungusic languages, with a special focus on the historical development of some Nanai peculiarities (derivation of negative forms, substitution of finite forms by nonfinite forms and others). Some Nanai features are discussed in comparison with other closely related languages.
