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Author Gobbo, Federico

Title Constructive adpositional grammars : foundations of constructive linguistics / by Federico Gobbo and Marco Benini
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; LEGENDA; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposition as the key concept, considered a general connection between two morphemes--or group of morphemes. The adpositional paradigm considers the morpheme as the basic unit to represent morphosyntax, taken as a whole, in terms of constructions, while semantics and pragmatics are treated accordingly. All linguistic observations within the book can be described through the methods and tools of Constructive Mathematics, so that the modelling become formally feasible. A full description in category-theoretic terms of the formal model is provided in the Appendix. A lot of examples taken from natural languages belonging to different typological areas are offered throughout the volume, in order to explain and validate the modeling--with a special attention to ergativity. Finally, a first real-world application of the paradigm is given, i.e., conversational analysis of the transcript of therapeutic settings in terms of constructive speech acts. The main goal of this book is to broaden the scope of Linguistics by including Constructive Mathematics in order to deal with known topics such as grammaticalization, children speech, language comparison, dependency and valency from a different perspective. It primarily concerns advanced students researchers in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics but the audience can also include scholars interested in applications of Topos Theory in Linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mathematical models.
Constructive mathematics.
Linguistics.
Grammar, syntax & morphology.
Applied mathematics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Languages.
Constructive mathematics
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
Author Benini, Marco
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