Grammatical Relations in Tohono O'odham: an Instrumental Perspective

2008 ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Mizuki Miyashita ◽  
Richard Demers ◽  
Delbert Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Tohono O'odham ◽  
Grammatical Relations

Functional Clauses and Sentence Segmentation

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Carroll ◽  
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Keyword(s):  
Surface Structure ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Grammatical Relations ◽  
Sentence Segmentation ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Structural Theories

In two experiments subjects listened to a sentence containing a brief tone, then wrote out the sentence and marked the location of the tone. The experimental sentences were biclausal with the tone placed before or after the clause break. The initial clause was either functionally complete or functionally incomplete. Functionally complete clauses contain a complete set of fully specified grammatical relations, while functionally incomplete clauses do not. In Experiment 1 tones were mislocated toward the clause break and the final word of the first clause significantly more often for functionally complete clauses. Experiment 2 replicated this finding holding deep-and surface-structure variables constant. The resulis indicate that functionally complete clauses are better segmentation units during sentence perception than functionally incomplete clauses. Purely structural theories of the units of sentence perception cannot account for this finding.

A comparison of degree intensifiers across English corpora: Is it ‘flagrant’, ‘blatant’, or ‘sheer’ audacity?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 74-92
Author(s):  
Julija Korostenskienė ◽  
◽  
Lina Bikelienė
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Academic English ◽  
News Values ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Grammatical Relations ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Present World ◽  
Linguistic Means

Due to its free-adjoining nature, the category of adjuncts is generally viewed as somewhat peripheral to the forefront of grammatical relations. Meanwhile, given the significance of the media in the present world and the ever-growing prevalence of the notion of news values, outlining the criteria conducive to a message becoming news and including values such as negativity, superlativeness, prominence, timeliness, proximity, etc. (Bednarek, Caple 2014), the broad range of linguistic means encoding intensification, thereby foregrounding a given phenomenon, presents a considerable interest. In this corpus study, we focus on three adjectival emphasisers, flagrant, blatant, and sheer, and examine their use in adjective + noun collocations across a variety of English corpora on the Sketch Engine tool (Kilgarriff et al. 2014) in the academic and the news registers: the “British Academic Written English Corpus”, the “Cambridge Academic English Corpus”, the “English Language Newspapers Corpus”, the “Brexit WR Corpus”, and the “English Timestamped JSI Corpus 2020–10”. We also consider the nominal element the adjectives in question collocate with, seeking to provide an account as to their differences in English. The findings of the study may have implications both for language classrooms and for more specialized fields, such as media studies.

scholarly journals A Connectionist Simulation of the Empirical Acquisition of Grammatical Relations

2000 ◽  
pp. 175-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Morris ◽  
Garrison W. Cottrell ◽  
Jeffrey Elman
Keyword(s):  
Grammatical Relations

scholarly journals Editorial Book Critique: A Grammar of Kusaal

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Reginald Akuoko Duah
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
Grammatical Relations

In this paper, we review Musah’s (2018) Grammar of Kusaal – a modern, carefully researched study of Kusaal, a Central-East Mabia language spoken in the Bawku Municipality and surrounding towns, and in parts of Burkina Faso and Togo. The review covers major topics in the book such as phonology, morphological affixes, syntax of nouns, verbs and modifiers, temporal and aspectual marking, argument structure and grammatical relations, serialization, and focus constructions. The author makes an effort to situate the Kusaal language in the larger Mabia cluster in the analysis of the data. More importantly, he provides fresh data and analysis of Kusaal that incorporates ethnolinguistic knowledge. The book is written in a clear language and effort is made to limit theoretical labeling and jargon to a minimum thus, making it accessible to those with limited background in linguistics.

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