28 juliol, 2026
Autors:
Gavarró, Anna
Títol:
Language Acquisition Device and Parameter SettingEditorial: Nesi, H., Milin, P. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3e. Vol 9.
Col·lecció: International Encyclopedia of Language and LinguisticsData de publicació: 2026
Pàgines: 6ISBN13: 9780323955041
Més informació
Text completIn the context of poverty of stimulus and a modular theory of the mind, the role of linguistics is not only to characterize
mental grammars, but also to explain how children develop them, given the variation attested in the languages of the world.
The language acquisition device is proposed as an inborn system, that guides the child in building mental grammars.
Parameters were posited as an economical way of encoding language variation. Building a learning model of parameter
setting has proven to be a herculean task given the feasibility condition imposed on them by the cognitive limitations of
humans. Empirical studies, on the other hand, provide evidence that parameter setting is achieved earlier than previously
thought, at least for morphosyntactic parameter.
15 maig, 1982
Autors:
M. Lluïsa Hernanz
Títol:
El infinitivo en españolEditorial: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
Col·lecció: Sèrie Lingüística #2Data de publicació: 1982
Pàgines: 570 Text completEl presenta trabajo constituye un intento de estudiar desde una perspectiva generativo-transformacional el infinitivo en español. No pretende ser un estudio exhaustivo: se trata de una investigación el la que se ha intentado contrastar las hipótesis con respecto a la naturaleza sintáctico-semántica de dicha forma no personal principalmente con una parcela dentro del campo de la oración compuesta: las completivas.
Títols de la col·lecció / Also in this series:
19 agost, 2005
Autors:
Montserrat Batllori, Maria-Lluïsa Hernanz, Carme Picallo, and Francesc Roca
Títol:
Grammaticalization and Parametric VariationEditorial: Oxford University Press
Data de publicació: 2005
Pàgines: 332ISBN13: 9780199272129
Més informacióIn this book the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change.
The book opens with a detailed introduction to the ideas and techniques deployed in the book and the phenomena and issues on which they are brought to bear. Seventeen chapters follow, divided into two parts, the first part concerned with grammaticalization and the second part with parametric variation. These show what the application of contemporary theories of syntax and language variation can reveal about syntactic change and variation and the processes of parametric change which lie behind them.
The chapters also demonstrate the value of testing and constructing synchronic theories on the basis of historical data. The analyses range over many languages and language families, including Germanic, Romance, Greek, and Chinese.
25 abril, 2022
Autors:
Nicola Lampitelli, Paolo Roseano, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Títol:
Vowel length in Friulian verbs: a case of mora affixationEditorial: Morphology, 32(1):1-28 (Springer)
Data de publicació: Febrer del 2022
Text completThis paper deals with vowel length in Friulian, and shows that this is sometimes phonologically predictable and sometimes an instance of mora affixation in conjugation 1 verbs. Building on newly collected data on verbal morphology, we make the hypothesis that the Theme morpheme in conjugation 1 verbs in the dialect of Negrons has distinct allomorphs, among which a mora. This analysis of morphological length in Negrons Friulian shows that there is no need for a morphome-based analysis of the data. In our analysis, each morph, including length, spells out a morphosyntactic property.
