Grammatik, syntaks og morfologi

This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the theory of relativization to reason clauses. It continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal forms.

Grammatikundervisning handler ikke blot om at øve korrekt stavning og tegnsætning, ordklasser og sætningsstrukturer gennem individuelle udfyldningsopgaver.Den grammatikundervisning, der præsenteres her i bogen, sætter grammatikken ind i kontekst. Den kan ikke stå alene, men den viser, hvordan undervisningen kan udvikle elevernes bredere kommunikative kompetencer. Det sker gennem dialog om og refleksion over de grammatiske sproglige valg, eleverne møder og selv træffer i mundtlige og skriftlige tekster.Bogen giver lærere nye didaktiske forslag til, hvordan refleksion over forskellige grammatiske muligheder kan udfoldes eksplicit i undervisningen. Og den viser betydningen af at betragte grammatikken som en meningsfuld del af et bredere sprogbegreb.Bogen tager afsæt i elevers og læreres erfaringer med grammatikundervisning i praksis og i aktuel forskning. Den er henvendt til dansk- og fremmedsprogsfagene på læreruddannelsen og universitetet.Bogens centrale temaer:• Elevperspektiver• Didaktisk refleksion• Traditionelle og nye tilgange• Kontekst og mening• Praksisudvikling

This Element aims to address the complexity of metalinguistic awareness to achieve a thorough account of its impacts on second language (L2) reading development and promote an in-depth understanding of the factors regulating the influence of first language (L1) metalinguistic awareness on L2 reading. It is guided by four questions: 1) To what extent do L1 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with L2 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness in L2 readers? 2) To what extent do phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with word decoding intralingually in L2 readers? 3) To what extent do L1 phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness correlate with L2 word decoding in L2 readers? 4) To what extent do the relations in questions 1¿3 vary as a function of linguistic-, learner-, measurement-, and instruction-related factors? This Element is the first to systematically investigate the roles of distinct facets of metalinguistic awareness in L2 reading.

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gikuyu, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.

Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language.

In their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as well as the creative and dynamic ways in which Asians of the 21st century continually reinvent the lexicon of English, and the lexicons of their native tongues.