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Author: Lauren Kessler Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 244
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Words have impact. Thousands of journalists and would-be journalists used the first edition of this guide to make their words collide in a creative burst of energy. Now you, too, can use this new edition to become a master wordsmith -- one who writes correctly, concisely and with flair. In "When Words Collide: A Journalist's Guide to Grammar and Style" you'll find complete guides to: grammar; punctuation; word usage; journalistic style; plus, a new spelling guide! -- From publisher's description.
Author: Lauren Kessler Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Words have impact. Thousands of journalists and would-be journalists used the first edition of this guide to make their words collide in a creative burst of energy. Now you, too, can use this new edition to become a master wordsmith -- one who writes correctly, concisely and with flair. In "When Words Collide: A Journalist's Guide to Grammar and Style" you'll find complete guides to: grammar; punctuation; word usage; journalistic style; plus, a new spelling guide! -- From publisher's description.
Author: Gregory D. S. Anderson Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191535648 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 496
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This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework. The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchers in language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.
Author: Carol Lord Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027276854 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 283
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This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change. The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity. With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
Author: Martin Haspelmath Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110884461 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 576
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Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004460152 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents a contemporary look on how Creole English communities in Central America grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact with Spanish, language endangerment, discrimination, and linguistic creativity.
Author: Adele E. Goldberg Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691174261 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 209
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Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation—such as “Explain me this” or “She considered to go”—doesn’t sound quite right. In this incisive book, Adele Goldberg explores how these creative but constrained language skills emerge from a combination of general cognitive mechanisms and experience. Shedding critical light on an enduring linguistic paradox, Goldberg demonstrates how words and abstract constructions are generalized and constrained in the same ways. When learning language, we record partially abstracted tokens of language within the high-dimensional conceptual space that is used when we speak or listen. Our implicit knowledge of language includes dimensions related to form, function, and social context. At the same time, abstract memory traces of linguistic usage-events cluster together on a subset of dimensions, with overlapping aspects strengthened via repetition. In this way, dynamic categories that correspond to words and abstract constructions emerge from partially overlapping memory traces, and as a result, distinct words and constructions compete with one another each time we select them to express our intended messages. While much of the research on this puzzle has favored semantic or functional explanations over statistical ones, Goldberg’s approach stresses that both the functional and statistical aspects of constructions emerge from the same learning mechanisms.
Author: Mary Aizawa Kato Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190465891 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 385
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Spanish and Portuguese were Romance languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula and were brought to America as the languages of the colonizers in the 16th century. Along the centuries, the two languages developed specific properties that distinguish them from the varieties spoken in the Old World. This book offers a rich comparative material which helps us in the understanding of linguistic change and variation.
Author: Rajeshwari Pandharipande Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136851577 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 679
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First and only grammar available Author is native speaker of Marathi and a Professor of Linguistics Combines traditional insights from traditional grammarians and contemporary Linguistic approaches Comprehensive coverage of syntax, morphology, phonology of modern Marathi
Author: G. Tucker Childs Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027295883 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 287
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This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author’s lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author’s own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
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