Author: Mary Lewis Harper MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palaung language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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An Elementary Palaung Grammar
Author: Mary Lewis Harper MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palaung language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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An Elementary Palaung Grammar
Author: Mrs. Leslie MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palaung language
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Evolution of Grammar
Author: Joan BybeePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Author: The Aesthetics of Grammar
Author: Jeffrey P. WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007127
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book provides a detailed comparative overview of an array of elaborate grammatical resources used in Southeast Asian languages.
The Periodical
Author: Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Author: Revere D. PerkinsPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277176
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis. Precisely such a connection is developed employing a functional view of language and grammaticization principles. Using a world-wide probability sample of forty-nine languages, an association between culture and the grammatical coding of deictics is tested and statistically found to be corroborated to a very significant extent. Suggestions are included on how some of the concepts used and developed in this study might be extended.
Approaches to Grammaticalization
Author: Elizabeth Closs TraugottPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902722899X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.
Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation
Author: Jacek FisiakPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110850176
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Journal of the Society of Oriental Research
Author: Society of oriental researchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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