Author: Ernest Arthur Gardner
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434452034
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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A survey of Greek sculpture. Illustrated.

Author: Ernest Arthur Gardner
Publisher:
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Category : Sculpture, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Ruby Sky Stiler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935662273
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This book collects 22 photographic and textual mash-ups that fragment and reweave pages of text and images. Overlaid with ghostly profiles and other iconography, the resulting page-sized wall-hangings display the sort of multifarious, patterned relationships that obtain between word and image, past and present. All 22 are reproduced in full-size, front and back, in full-color images printed by Dynagraphic of Portland, Ore..

Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136879897
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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First Published in 1990. This title embraces the descriptive, comparative and historical aspects of the language. It also concerns itself with the classical form as well as the modern and contemporary standard forms and their dialects. Moreover, it attempts to study the language in the appropriate regional, social and cultural settings. This series will be of interest not only to students and researchers in Arabic linguistics but also to students and scholars of other disciplines who are looking for information of theoretical, practical or pragmatic interest.

Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191515752
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the borrowing by one language of another's words, or of the diffusion of grammatical, phonetic, and phonological characteristics that takes place when languages come into contact. Languages sometimes show likeness because they have borrowed not from each other but from a third language. Languages that come from the same ancestor may have similar grammatical categories and meanings expressed by similar forms: such languages are said to be genetically affiliated. This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim (a) to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and (b) to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The introduction outlines the issues that underlie these aims, introduces the chapters which follow, and comments on recurrent conclusions by the contributors. The problems are formidable and the pitfalls numerous: for example, several of the authors draw attention to the inadequacy of the family tree diagram as the main metaphor for language relationship. The authors range over Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The book includes an archaeologist's view on what material evidence offers to explain cultural and linguistic change, and a general discussion of which kinds of linguistic feature can and cannot be borrowed. The chapters are accessibly-written and illustrated by twenty maps. The book will interest all students of the causes and consequences of language change and evolution.

Author: Graham Thurgood
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824821319
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Based on a reconstruction of ancient Chamic, with care taken to identify inherited Austronesian words as well as loan words and their sources, this text points out what the linguistic evidence tells us about the history of the region, and sketches the major consequences of historical contact on linguistic change in the history of Chamic.

Author: Danko Šipka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492711
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

Author: M. Louise Nichols
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Viktor Elšik
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197596
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample of language change phenomena: they are oral languages, which have been separated and dispersed from some six centuries, and are strongly shaped by the influence of diverse contact languages. The book takes a typological approach to markedness, viewing it as a hierarchy among values that is conditioned by conceptual and cognitive universals. But it introduces a functional-pragmatic notion of markedness, as a grammaticalised strategy employed in order to priositise information. In what is referred to as 'dynamic', such prioritisation is influenced by an interplay of factors: the values within a category and the conceptual notions that they represent, the grammatical structure onto which the category values are mapped, and the kind of strategy that is applied in order to prioritise certain value. Consequently, the book contains a thorough survey of some 20 categories (e.g Person, Number, Gender, and so on) and their formal representation in various grammatical structures across the sample. The various accepted criteria for markedness (e.g. Complexity, Differentiation, Erosion, and so on) are examined systematically in relation to the values of each and every category, for each relevant structure. The outcome is a novel picture of how different markedness criteria may cluster for certain categories, giving a concrete reality to the hitherto rather vague notion of markedness. Borrowing and its relation to markedness is also examined, offering new insights into the motivations behind contact-induced change.

Author: Francesco Gardani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500376
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.