10.1835, Books: Historical/Corpus Ling, Slavic Ling

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Subject: 10.1835, Books: Historical/Corpus Ling, Slavic Ling

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Date:  Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:08:31 +0100
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Historical Ling: Historical English Syntax, J. Pirez-Guerra

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Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:38:47 +0100
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Slavic Ling: Russian Existential Sentences: A functional approach

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Date:  Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:08:31 +0100
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Historical Ling: Historical English Syntax, J. Pirez-Guerra

HISTORICAL ENGLISH SYNTAX

A statistical corpus-based study on the organisation
of Early Modern English sentences

JAVIER PÉREZ-GUERRA
University of Vigo

In this monograph the author explores the syntactic organisation of
declarative clauses from late Middle English to present-day English and
pays special attention to the consequences which the location of the
subject has for the determination of the unmarked word order in Early
Modern English. The data have been taken from two electronic corpora,
namely, The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the
Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English.
	The author outlines his own concept of 'theme,' which will be useful
for the (explanatory and descriptive) purposes of describing syntactic
(un)markedness. Such a concept leads to the existence of, on the one
hand, an unmarked SV organisation and, on the other, of several marked
patterns, viz sentences introduced by existential there, instances of
subject extraposition and insertion of it, clefts, topicalisations,
left-dislocations and subject inversions. The subsystems just mentioned
are located on a scale of markedness, according to two variables: first,
frequency, which is investigated by way of the statistical analysis of
the data, and, second, 'linguistic functionality.' This second variable
has been examined in the light of variables such as gender, textual
category, discourse taxonomy, orality and informative principles such as
'given before new' or end-weight.
	JAVIER PÉREZ-GUERRA lectures on English linguistics and corpus
linguistics at the Department of English, University of Vigo. His
research is focused on syntactic change from Early Modern English
onwards.

ISBN 3 89586 651 2.
LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics 11.
Ca. 300pp. EUR 61.35 / USD 76 / DM 120

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Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:38:47 +0100
From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
Subject:  Slavic Ling: Russian Existential Sentences: A functional approach


RUSSIAN EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

MARIAVOEIKOVA
Institute of Linguistics, St. Petersburg


Russian grammar system is penetrated with the idea of  existence.
Be-sentences are used for  the  expression of  other  categorial
meanings such as possession, qualification,  space  and  time
localization etc. In fact we can quote    Russian dialogues  that
consist only of Be-sentences.The expansion of  Be-meaning  and  a short
review of its studying in Russian forms the content of  the first
chapter of the manuscript. The second  chapter  deals  with the semantic
variety of  existential constructions  in  literary language. It is
based upon the functional-semantic  approach  and includes the analysis
of Be-predicate in its grammar variants and the influence of contextual
means.  Telling  somebody  about  the existence is usually  an
indirect  speech  act  with  a  lot of implications. These special
usages is  the  basis  of  the  third chapter. 	
	The first  two  chapters  are  based  on  the  material of  my
dissertation that was published as a  summary  in Russian.  More
extended variant is prepared for the serie "Theory of  Functional
grammar" V.6. that is to be published in 1995. The third  chapter
represents quite a new material that was never published.

ISBN 3 89586 057 3.
LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 04.
Ca. 220pp. USD 67 / EUR 48.06


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