Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases

This paper claims that the cleft sentence in Berber has many interesting aspects of both the simple and the complex sentences; however, this construction seems to derive from the basic simple sentence rather than from the complex sentence, since it involves just one main verb and behaves like an S, and not like an NP. The pragmatic implications of the cleft sentence reveal that the clefted constituents are generally contrasted with other constituents of the same structural status in some previous discourse. It is also argued that a WH-movement analysis of the cleft construction is intuitively plausible since clefting involves constituents being moved to the initial position of the sentence. The aim of this paper is to give a syntactic description of the cleft sentence in Berber.1 The reason for undertaking this study is that clefts in Berber pose interesting problems in terms of their structural possibilities, their pragmatic effect and their possible derivation.

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Syntactic Description of Mental-State Predicative Constructions

Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie ◽

10.17951/zcm.2021.10.158-182 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 158-182

Author(s):

Marina Dzhonova

Keyword(s):

Mental State ◽

Syntactic Description

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Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava

10.36253/978-88-6453-114-4 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Nicoletta Marcialis

Keyword(s):

Ninth Century ◽

Profound Influence ◽

Syntactic Description ◽

Liturgical Texts ◽

National Languages

In the middle of the ninth century, the recently Christianised Slavic peoples entered into literature and history through the offices of two Byzantine missionaries, the Thessalonian brothers Constantine-Cyril and Methodius, who, having invented a new alphabet, proceeded to translate sacred and liturgical texts. This book traces the progress of this event, which has had a profound influence on Slavic culture, crystallising its mentality and determining the evolution of the modern national languages, particularly that of Russian. It recounts the genesis, the transformations and the functions of palaeoslavic within the mediaeval Slavic world, providing an accurate phonetic, morphological and syntactic description of the language, complete with numerous examples and morphological tables.

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On the syntax of spoken French

Revue Romane ◽

10.1075/rro.00004.sab ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 6-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Frédéric Sabio

Keyword(s):

Spoken Language ◽

Syntactic Description ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Language Description

Abstract This paper gives an account of the research carried out by the Groupe Aixois de Recherche en Syntaxe (GARS, Aix-Marseille University), in the field of spoken French description. Our framework explicitly states the need for two independent but related levels of grammatical description, namely the microsyntactic and macrosyntactic levels. Elaborating a twofold model has allowed us to propose a descriptive method differing from traditional sentence-based analyses, which raise considerable difficulties, especially in the domain of spoken language description. Regarding the “maximal-units” of syntactic description, our framework suggests that two different kinds of units should be postulated: Government-Units and Utterance-Units. The paper illustrates the distinction between the micro- and macro-syntactic components by introducing examples mostly drawn from spoken French corpora.

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