The fundamentally simple logic of language : learning a second language with the tools of the native speaker /: learning a second language with the tools of the native speaker. (2021)
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- The fundamentally simple logic of language : learning a second language with the tools of the native speaker /: learning a second language with the tools of the native speaker. (2021)
- Main Title:
- The fundamentally simple logic of language : learning a second language with the tools of the native speaker
- Further Information:
- Note: Luis H. González.
- Authors:
- González, Luis H
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: How subject, direct object, and indirect object really work 1.1. Introduction 1.2. The verber is always the subject, but the subject is not always the verber 1.3. Distinguishing the direct object from the indirect object 1.4. Verber, verbed, and beneficiary 1.5. Conclusions Chapter 2: Perfect auxiliary selection using verber and verbed 2.1. Verber, verbed, and beneficiary in languages with a have/be distinction 2.2. Further evidence for a subject that is the verbed 2.3. If the verbed can be expressed as the subject, so can the beneficiary 2.4. Evidence from English that the subject is the beneficiary 2.5. Conclusions Chapter 3: Solving the transitivity paradox 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The problem: sentences that are intransitive by case but transitive by meaning 3.3. The solution to the paradox 3.4. Dative overriding in four languages belonging to three different families 3.5. Dative overriding in English (leísmo in English) 3.6. Case created the transitivity paradox; verber and verbed solve it 3.7. Connecting leísmo and "accusative a" 3.8. An outline of a verber/verbed theory of case in English 3.9. Conclusions Chapter 4. There are verberless sentences, but no subjectless ones 4.1. Introduction 4.2. An outline of a verber/verbed theory of case in English 4.3. There are verberless sentences, but there are no subjectless ones 4.4. A sentence with a mandatory direct obeject and an indirect object in English. Or an insult turned into a teaching moment 4.5. SimplifyingChapter 1: How subject, direct object, and indirect object really work 1.1. Introduction 1.2. The verber is always the subject, but the subject is not always the verber 1.3. Distinguishing the direct object from the indirect object 1.4. Verber, verbed, and beneficiary 1.5. Conclusions Chapter 2: Perfect auxiliary selection using verber and verbed 2.1. Verber, verbed, and beneficiary in languages with a have/be distinction 2.2. Further evidence for a subject that is the verbed 2.3. If the verbed can be expressed as the subject, so can the beneficiary 2.4. Evidence from English that the subject is the beneficiary 2.5. Conclusions Chapter 3: Solving the transitivity paradox 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The problem: sentences that are intransitive by case but transitive by meaning 3.3. The solution to the paradox 3.4. Dative overriding in four languages belonging to three different families 3.5. Dative overriding in English (leísmo in English) 3.6. Case created the transitivity paradox; verber and verbed solve it 3.7. Connecting leísmo and "accusative a" 3.8. An outline of a verber/verbed theory of case in English 3.9. Conclusions Chapter 4. There are verberless sentences, but no subjectless ones 4.1. Introduction 4.2. An outline of a verber/verbed theory of case in English 4.3. There are verberless sentences, but there are no subjectless ones 4.4. A sentence with a mandatory direct obeject and an indirect object in English. Or an insult turned into a teaching moment 4.5. Simplifying linking by one third: indirect objects need not be part of argument realization 4.6. From Hopper & Thompson, Tsunoda, and Malchukov to Burzio. Or how transitivity is not only discrete; it is binary 4.7. Everything is connected 4.8. Conclusions Chapter 5. The case for the true gustar (Italian ‘piacere’) verbs in Spanish 5.1. Introduction 5.2. "Indirect objects" that pass the verbed inference are verbeds, not verbees 5.3. The true gustar (verberless) verbs in Spanish 5.4. Word order, verberless sentences, and the Naked Noun Constraint 5.5. Indefinite object deletion 5.6. Why ‘encantatarias/encantadas’ are so different from ‘encantadoras/encantadas’ 5.7. Is the only object of ayudar ‘help’ direct or indirect? 5.8. Conclusions Chapter 6. A brief comparison with other theories of linking (argument realization) 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Reducing Dowty (1991) protoproperties from ten to two simple inferences 6.3. Psych(ological) verbs need no longer be a headache for linguists 6.4. Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) macroroles 6.5. Primus (1999, 2014) protorecipient 6.6. Beavers (2010) proposal to change Dowty’s protopatient properties 6.7. Ackerman & Moore (1999; 2001) bounding entity 6.8. Some implications for linguistic theory and for language teaching 6.9. Conclusions … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 418.0071
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Second language acquisition
Native language -- Study and teaching - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000356519
9781000356458
9781003139225 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367688295
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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