An Introduction To Linguistic Typology

Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027211981
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Linguistic Typology written by Viveka Velupillai and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.

Author : Lindsay J. Whaley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803959637
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Typology written by Lindsay J. Whaley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.

Author : Edith A. Moravcsik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521193400
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Language Typology written by Edith A. Moravcsik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226114330
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Universals and Linguistic Typology written by Bernard Comrie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199677093
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Typology written by Jae Jung Song and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Author : Carol Genetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782570
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Languages Work written by Carol Genetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used, and its broader social and cultural context. Chapters introducing the nuts and bolts of language study (phonology, syntax, meaning) are combined with those on the 'functions' of language (discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact), helping students gain a better grasp of how language works in the real world. A rich set of language 'profiles' help students explore the world's linguistic diversity, identify similarities and differences between languages, and encourages them to apply concepts from earlier chapter material. A range of carefully designed pedagogical features encourage student engagement, adopting a step-by-step approach and using study questions and case studies.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004992
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Typology and Universals written by William Croft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316790665
Total Pages : 1661 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Author : Luca Alfieri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259941
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology written by Luca Alfieri and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).

Author : Anthony Fox
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198700012
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Reconstruction written by Anthony Fox and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.