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Sigurdsson, Einar Freyr – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation places case, agreement and Voice phenomena in syntax. It argues that the derivation is driven by so-called derivational features, that is, structure-building features (Merge) and probe features (Agree) (Heck and Muller 2007 and Muller 2010; see also Chomsky 2000, 2001). Both types are essential in deriving case and agreement in…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary
Fowlie, Meaghan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adjuncts and arguments exhibit different syntactic behaviours, but modelling this difference in minimalist syntax is challenging: on the one hand, adjuncts differ from arguments in that they are optional, transparent, and iterable, but on the other hand they are often strictly ordered, reflecting the kind of strict selection seen in argument…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Language Research
Kelly, Justin Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Distributed Morphology (DM; Halle & Marantz 1993; Marantz 1997) is founded on the premise that the syntax is the only computational component of the grammar. Much research focuses on how this premise is relevant to the syntax-morphology interface in DM. In this dissertation, I examine theory-internal issues related to the syntax-semantics…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Linguistic Theory
Wood, Jim – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is about the elements that build verbs, the elements that introduce arguments, and how these elements interact to determine the interpretation of arguments and events. A theory of argument structure is a theory how arguments are introduced syntactically, interpreted semantically, and marked morphologically, and how this…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Verbs, Persuasive Discourse, Syntax
Mack, Jennifer Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Most approaches to argument realization in English are grounded in lexical semantic structure. While it is widely acknowledged that there is an intimate relationship between information structure and grammatical relations such as "subject," there have been few attempts to formalize this observation. This dissertation proposes an "interface model…
Descriptors: Semantics, Mandarin Chinese, Semiotics, Persuasive Discourse
Egorova, Veronika – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research examines advertising discourse in Russian and English as acts of communicative exchange and interpersonal relationship between advertising discourse participants. The purpose was to identify and describe the way that viewers process information contained in television commercials and how they become consumers moving from getting…
Descriptors: Advertising, Schemata (Cognition), Russian, English
Work, Nicola – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Recent research on monolingual (L1) and bilingual (2L1) language acquisition is exploring the idea that children's early deviant structures involving omission of obligatory subjects and objects might be due not so much to performance limitations or purely syntactic deficits, but rather to an immature interface between syntax and discourse. For…
Descriptors: Evidence, Syntax, Monolingualism, Exhibits