Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finno-Ugric languages
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Estonian Grammar
Author: Robert T. HarmsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134899106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Estonian Grammar
Author: Robert T. HarmsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134899033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Author: Tania KoutevaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.
Estonian Textbook
Author: Juhan TuldavaPublisher: Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies
ISBN: 9780933070547
Category : Estonian language
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This textbook is intended foremost for Americans and other speakers of English with an interest in the Estonian language. Its forty lessons are each divided into six sections: grammar, readngs, vocabulary, exercises, expressions, and answers to the exercises. For the most part, the textbook may be used for independent study.
Complex Words
Author: Lívia KörtvélyessyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108788459
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A state-of-the-art survey of complex words, this volume brings together a team of leading international morphologists to demonstrate the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation. Encompassing methodological, empirical and theoretical approaches, each chapter presents the results of cutting-edge research into linguistic complexity, including lexico-semantic aspects of complex words, the structure of complex words, and corpus-based case studies. Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages, it covers both general aspects of word-formation, and aspects specific to particular languages, such as English, French, Greek, Basque, Spanish, German and Slovak. Theoretical considerations are supported by a number of in-depth case studies focusing on the role of affixes, as well as word-formation processes such as compounding, affixation and conversion. Attention is also devoted to typological issues in word-formation. The book will be an invaluable resource for academic researchers and graduate students interested in morphology, linguistic typology and corpus linguistics.
Negation in Uralic Languages
Author: Matti MiestamoPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027268649
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.
Word and Paradigm Morphology
Author: James P. BlevinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019959354X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from classical grammars to current information-theoretic and discriminative learning paradigms. The synthesis of this tradition outlined in the volume highlights leading ideas about the organization of morphological systems that are shared by word and paradigm approaches, along with strategies that have been developed to formalize these ideas, and ways in which the ideas have been validated by experimental methodologies. An extended comparison of contemporary word and paradigm variants isolates the central assumptions about morphological units and relations that distinguish implicational from realizational models and clarifies the relation of these models to morpheme-based accounts. Designed to be accessible to a wide readership, this book will serve both as an introduction to morphology and morphological theory from the word and paradigm perspective for non-specialists, and for morphologists, as a detailed account of the history of the ideas that underlie these models.
An Estonian-English dictionary
Author: Johannes AavikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar
Author: Randy ValentinePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083890
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe) includes extensive descriptive treatment of phonology, orthography, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and major structural and functional syntactic categories.
Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
Author: G. ZuckermannPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403938695
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.