Author: Ronald W. LangackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Studies in Uto-Aztecan Grammar: Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches
Author: Ronald W. LangackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Studies in Uto-Aztecan Grammar: An overview of Uto-Aztecan grammar
Author: Ronald W. LangackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Uto-Aztecan
Author: Eugene H. CasadPublisher: USON
ISBN: 9789706890306
Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Studies in Uto-Aztecan Grammar
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar
Author: Ronald LangackerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347453
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a symbolic view of grammar. Consisting in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content, grammar is inherently meaningful, and basic grammatical notions have conceptual characterizations. An account is given of grammatical categories, markings, and constructions. A number of central topics are examined in detail, including subjects, possessives, locatives, voice, and impersonals.
Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar
Author: Ronald LangackerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434747X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This book reviews the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central problems in grammatical analysis. The initial review covers conceptual semantics, the conceptual characterization of grammatical categories, grammatical constructions, and the architecture of a unified theory of language structure. Main themes in the framework’s development include the dynamicity of language structure, grammar as the implementation of semantic functions, systems of opposing elements to serve those functions, and organization in strata representing successive elaborations of a baseline structure. The descriptive application of these notions centers on nominal and clausal structure, with special emphasis on nominal grounding.
Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Author: Philipp StraznyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455228
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1275
Book Description
Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.
The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
Author: Søren WichmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110421763
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
Author: Walter BisangPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110712733
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.
Participles
Author: Ksenia ShagalPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110633388
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.