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Author : John L. Finlay
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Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Linguistic Studies Presented to John L. Finlay written by John L. Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205914
Total Pages : 653 pages
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Download or read book Impersonal Constructions written by Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275785
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by T. Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-11-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan’s pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only be described properly by a basket of neither necessary nor sufficient properties — thus within a framework akin to Rosch’s theory of Prototype. Some GR properties are functional (reference, topicality, accessibility); others involve overt coding (word-order, case marking, verb agreement). Others yet are more abstract, involving control of grammatical processes (rule-governed behavior). Building on Keenan’s pioneering work, this volume concentrates on the structural aspects of GRs within a functionalist framework. Following a theoretical introduction, the papers in the volume deal primarily with recalcitrant typological issues: The dissociation between overt coding properties of GRs and their behavior-and-control properties; GRs in serial verb constructions; GRs in ergative languages; The impact of clause union and grammaticalization on GRs.
Author : Carmen Dagostino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712814
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America written by Carmen Dagostino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229376
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Case, Typology, and Grammar written by Anna Siewierska and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special interest to researchers in morphosyntax, and linguistic typology. In addition, scholars in discourse grammar, historical linguistics, theoretical syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language contact will find articles of interest in the book.
Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027225788
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Syntax written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of "Syntax: A functional-typological introduction" is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and pragmatic correlates of syntactic structure. With hindsight the author now finds the de-emphasis of the formal properties a somewhat regrettable choice, since it creates the false impression that one could somehow be a functionalist without being at the same time a structuralist. To redress the balance, explicit treatment is given to the core formal properties of syntactic constructions, such as constituency and hierarchy (phrase structure), grammatical relations and relational control, clause union, finiteness and governed constructions. At the same time, the cognitive and communicative underpinning of grammatical universals are further elucidated and underscored, and the interplay between grammar, cognition and neurology is outlined. Also the relevant typological database is expanded, now exploring in greater precision the bounds of syntactic diversity. Lastly, Syntax treats synchronic-typological diversity more explicitly as the dynamic by-product of diachronic development or grammaticalization. In so doing a parallel is drawn between linguistic diversity and diachrony on the one hand and biological diversity and evolution on the other. It is then suggested that as in biology synchronic universals of grammar are exercised and instantiated primarily as constraints on development, and are thus merely the apparent by-products of universal constraints on grammaticalization.
Author : Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198754957
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in the History of Linguistics written by Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.
Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199568871
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meaning and the Lexicon written by Ray Jackendoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Meaning and the Lexicon' brings together Ray Jackendoff's pathbreaking work on language. It traces the development of his parallel architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored structures.
Author : Philip W. Davis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276315
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book Alternative Linguistics written by Philip W. Davis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 1993. The participants were asked to concentrate in depth and in a self-reflective way upon some range of data. The intent was multifold. The first purpose was descriptive. It was expected that the participants would carry out their task in a retrospective way, exemplifying and building upon their previous work, but it was also expected that they would begin to demonstrate the configuration of some area in a more comprehensive picture of language. The point was to take (at least) one substantive step in the depiction of what we think language will ultimately be like. The contributions were both specific and generalizing, with focus as much upon methodology as upon hypotheses about language. In examining descriptive practice, we continued to concentrate upon issues which concerned us all, and at the same time we tried to advance the discourse by the results of such description. We hoped that problematic and recalcitrant data would make our own practice clearer to us and that it might also instruct us in the refinement of our conceptions of language.
Author : Glecia Bear
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771185
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kôhkominawak Otâcimowiniwâwa written by Glecia Bear and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
