This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,na...This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,namely,we will elaborate the textual function with the film Godfather as the example. The expletives may be very appropriate and necessary in certain situation since they have a cohesive function.展开更多
This thesis put the expletives into the whole language system to analyze, using the frame of the Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory. The expletives can be analyzed on the sentential level, inclu...This thesis put the expletives into the whole language system to analyze, using the frame of the Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory. The expletives can be analyzed on the sentential level, including the ideational function and the interpersonal function.展开更多
This paper is a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of a particular methodology for uncovering dialectal morpho-syntactic variation. It outlines the challenges facing linguists on a project to document morpho-synt...This paper is a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of a particular methodology for uncovering dialectal morpho-syntactic variation. It outlines the challenges facing linguists on a project to document morpho-syntactic variation in Afrikaans in the Cape Provinces of South Africa as well as some novel data on the typology of expletives in Afrikaans. South Africa’s linguistic situation is precarious, rapidly changing and driven by underdevelopment. This poses particular challenges to the organization of a comparative dialectological survey at practical and methodological levels that are perhaps slightly different to the issues faced in European contexts where the methodology was developed.The preliminary results have uncovered previously unknown variation with respect to expletives.展开更多
In this article,we examine the syntactic derivation of subject wh-words in Jordanian Arabic.Firstly,we provide empirical evidence that questions with a subject wh-word are syntactically derived by overt movement of th...In this article,we examine the syntactic derivation of subject wh-words in Jordanian Arabic.Firstly,we provide empirical evidence that questions with a subject wh-word are syntactically derived by overt movement of the given subject wh-word to the left periphery.This empirical evidence is based on the position of the subject wh-words to the left of the high IP adverbials,including epistemic adverbials and evidentials,as well as the position of the subject wh-words relative to topical elements.Secondly,we examine the intriguing ban on the use of subject wh-words in VSO sentences although non-interrogative subjects are permitted to occur in such clauses,and other wh-words may appear in their thematic positions(given the appropriate context).We show that this ban results from the effects of a proposed economy-driven condition that disallows the use of an expletive(to fill Spec,TP)while the thematic subject is available(in Spec,vP).Additionally,we show that this ban results from the interactions of the effects of criterial freezing and the conditions that licence elements in the low IP area.展开更多
文摘This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,namely,we will elaborate the textual function with the film Godfather as the example. The expletives may be very appropriate and necessary in certain situation since they have a cohesive function.
文摘This thesis put the expletives into the whole language system to analyze, using the frame of the Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory. The expletives can be analyzed on the sentential level, including the ideational function and the interpersonal function.
文摘This paper is a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of a particular methodology for uncovering dialectal morpho-syntactic variation. It outlines the challenges facing linguists on a project to document morpho-syntactic variation in Afrikaans in the Cape Provinces of South Africa as well as some novel data on the typology of expletives in Afrikaans. South Africa’s linguistic situation is precarious, rapidly changing and driven by underdevelopment. This poses particular challenges to the organization of a comparative dialectological survey at practical and methodological levels that are perhaps slightly different to the issues faced in European contexts where the methodology was developed.The preliminary results have uncovered previously unknown variation with respect to expletives.
文摘In this article,we examine the syntactic derivation of subject wh-words in Jordanian Arabic.Firstly,we provide empirical evidence that questions with a subject wh-word are syntactically derived by overt movement of the given subject wh-word to the left periphery.This empirical evidence is based on the position of the subject wh-words to the left of the high IP adverbials,including epistemic adverbials and evidentials,as well as the position of the subject wh-words relative to topical elements.Secondly,we examine the intriguing ban on the use of subject wh-words in VSO sentences although non-interrogative subjects are permitted to occur in such clauses,and other wh-words may appear in their thematic positions(given the appropriate context).We show that this ban results from the effects of a proposed economy-driven condition that disallows the use of an expletive(to fill Spec,TP)while the thematic subject is available(in Spec,vP).Additionally,we show that this ban results from the interactions of the effects of criterial freezing and the conditions that licence elements in the low IP area.
