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- Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: A Brief History of Grammar
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14221
we've had huge arguments over this before but that title's sort of inaccurate you should instead say "Generative Grammar" there, because otherwise you're implying that you're writing about the development of grammar as a component of language which is both misleading, and in my snot-nosed opinion re...
- Mon May 21, 2007 8:41 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443785
- Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:37 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: OTTER
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 412377
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:32 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Wekipeijua?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4456
Can you imagine the hell any of us would catch for doing something this obtuse? I'm sure there's some complicated justification someone could give for implementing something from contemporary pop culture in a conworld, but somewhere this tears the fourth wall down too far. Next thing you know he's g...
- Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:20 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 652190
- Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:36 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 150090
"eigentlich". I surely miss "eigentlich". LEO has lots of translations, which means that none of them actually hits the mark. Most definitely, and all the other Abtönungspartikel, such as "halt" and "ja" etc. as well. I also miss "doch". BTW, eigentlich literally translates as 'ownly' Oddly, I miss...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: the Old Granny thread
- Replies: 624
- Views: 193058
Vegetarian option: omit sausage. Again. This can be substituted rather then omitted. They do actually make sausages out of tofu or weat. Urgh. I'm sorry, but meat substitute is just wrong . While I'm not a strict vegetarian, I do eat more vegetarian food than non-vegetarian because of its economy, ...
- Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:22 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 290604
- Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 290604
What about Proto-Germanic to modern High German? I don't know these as such, but I can give some links in the right direction: http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Marmaria/ohg/ohg_primer_contents.htm (Also in image form at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/ohg_wright_about.html ) http://...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:13 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So... who're ewemi?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 19802
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:34 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 85659
Just thought that I'd throw in that I'm doing some very non-mainstream (= makes sense) literary analysis and have stumbled across some ideas tangent with cognitive linguistics, which is making me want to buy a more formal book on it. Of course the work isn't explicitly grammatical, but there are sti...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
Nonetheless, adjectives in English in LFG are usually analyzed this way: http://www.kutjara.com/adjectives.png Then how do you account for the difference between "the little old man" (which contains "old man" as a sub-unit) and "the little, old man" (which doesn't)? I said usually . There I would p...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:45 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/tree1.png ;) Spack, two of your trees aren't loading. At least one of my trees are hosted by Miekko there, whose server is his computer, and is thus prone to issues. Also, everyone's tree analyses for homework are correct, which means that you're clever and I expl...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:39 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:50 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
So anyway, I've covered constituents and in general how to identify them. Constituent identification can be hairy, but don't worry too much about it now. In this post I'm going to cover how constituents combine to form larger constituents and so forth. This is basically what syntax is all about: how...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:33 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
I'd like to see an example of this australian language. If you don't have one, whyever did you do the tree in the first place? I'm intrigued. By the way, my exam went alright, but it was pretty easy. We have done stuff like most of this before but the exam was less difficult. Also I'm wondering why...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:08 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
Here's a term you might benefit from knowing later on: theta role Semantic role - for instance, the agent is the agent regardless of whether it's a nominative subject or an oblique argument in a passive or even something else in some constructions in other languages. I should also note that I might...
- Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:20 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: OTTER
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 412377
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:41 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 85659
There's a whole book on fuzzy syntactic categories-- Linguistic Categorization by John Taylor-- well worth looking at. I heartily second zomp's endorsement of the Taylor book! It presents a wonderfully concise, coherent, and comprehensive treatment of the same ideas presented in Lakoff's famous but...
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:38 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
Not exactly illustrating the same principle, but still within the larger vein of "why isn't the second one grammatical?" That's what I meant to ask for, sorry if there was any confusion. [/quote] 1) a. The boy threw a ball at the girl. b. The boy threw the girl a ball. 2) a. The boy threw a ball at...
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
Question: how is LFG related to optimality theory? I ask this because I've read an article by Bresnan ( The emergence of the unmarked pronoun , PDF ) which made heavy use of OT methods. A lot of LFGers use OT to expand LFG to include phonology. Basically the way they relate is LFG generates possibl...
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:07 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
One of the foundational topics of syntax covered in every syntax book I have (that's introductory at least) is the notion of the "syntactic constituent": things like nouns, verbs, and phrases. It's possible for a constituent at a certain "level" to be more than one word long, as long as the words ar...
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:11 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
- Replies: 62
- Views: 40248
Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Fancy title, isn't it? In any case, Miekko has volunteered to help me out with this. We've pretty much agreed to approach it on a topic-by-topic basis, analyzing phenomena from different angles where possible. The focus, though, is going to be LFG, since that's what Miekko and I both are most profic...
- Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 85659
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:17 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Metaphors We Live By
- Replies: 35
- Views: 28312
We can; we can even get across the poetics, if we work at it enough. The problem with that is the amount of effort necessary to convey a discrete unit of meaning not already present in the language can approach infinity. Imagine trying to explain an analogy to an automobile to a Papuan native who h...