Author: Summer Institute of LinguisticsPublisher:
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Research Papers of the Texas SIL at Dallas
Author: Summer Institute of LinguisticsPublisher:
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Research Papers of the Texas SIL at Dallas
Author: Summer Institute of LinguisticsPublisher:
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A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 19841992/93
Author: Beat GlauserPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276803
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it will prove an indispensable reference book. The collection is in four parts, dealing respectively with general studies, Britain and Ireland, the United States and Canada, and the rest of the world. There is a joint index in which the 2800 entries are classified according to specific areas, ethnic groups and major linguistic categories, thus making the bibliography easy to use with the greatest profit. The present bibliography complements the one compiled by W. Viereck, E.W. Schneider and M. Görlach, which covered the period from 1965 to 1983 and was published in the same series in 1984.
The Grammar of Discourse
Author: Robert E. LongacrePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489901620
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.
Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics
Author: Tone and Inflection
Author: Enrique L. PalancarPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110452758
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar. This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the link between tone and inflection by showing that there is more to tone than meets the eye. The book includes general chapters as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages, a large and diverse linguistic stock of Mexico that inspired Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal work on tone. Most of the contributions to this volume provide first-hand data from recent fieldwork that stems from important language documentation activities.
Kenneth L. Pike: An Evangelical Mind
Author: Boone AldridgePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725293757
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This biography examines the life of a most unusual twentieth-century evangelical, Kenneth L. “Ken” Pike (1912–2000), who served with the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Pike began his missionary career as a Bible translator, but he went on to become a world-class linguist who made his mark on the science of linguistics and the study of indigenous languages around the world. Known among linguists and anthropologists for his theoretical contributions, this volume seeks to bring Pike to a wider audience by illuminating his life as a key evangelical figure, one who often broke with conventional evangelical constraints to pursue the life of the mind as a Christian intellectual and scholar. Here is a story of how one evangelical Christian man served the global church, the scientific community, and the world’s indigenous peoples with his entire heart, soul, and mind.
The Book of Absolutes
Author: William D. GairdnerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773578323
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.
Pragmatics and Theme Identification
Author: Diversity and Diachrony
Author: David SankoffPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235473
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse.