Constructive adpositional grammars : foundations of constructive linguistics

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Constructive adpositional grammars : foundations of constructive linguistics

Title remainder

foundations of constructive linguistics

Statement of responsibility

by Federico Gobbo and Marco Benini

Creator

• Gobbo, Federico

Contributor

• Benini, Marco

Subject

• Constructive mathematics
• Constructive mathematics
• Electronic books
• Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mathematical models
• Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mathematical models
• Grammar, syntax & morphology
• Applied mathematics
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics | Syntax
• Languages
• Linguistics
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

CDX

Dewey number

415.015118

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

P151

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Target audience

specialized