Author: Susan Pintzuk Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198250272 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.
Author: Rolf Kailuweit Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110386437 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.
Author: Bernd Heine Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199297339 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 375
Book Description
"Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe." "The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Emily Cole Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc. ISBN: 9780821227749 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
This compact volume, modeled after the classic decorative arts reference book "The Grammar of Ornament, " reveals the fascinating history of architecture through a diverse series of building styles and architectural details. 750 color illustrations.
Author: Martin Harris Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110109900 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author: Tania Kuteva Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199265053 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Probing the nature of grammaticalisation on the basis of an in-depth study of the process of auxiliation, this book brings together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalisation theory and insights from the latest psychological studies.
Author: Bjørn Normann Sandaker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415415454 Category : Architectural design Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
This new edition is completely updated and rewritten, covers an expanded range of topics, and includes many worked-out examples inspired by built projects. The approach throughout is to present structures as a fundamental basis for architecture. --Book Jacket.
Author: Malte Rosemeyer Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027270406 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.
Author: Susan Pintzuk
Author: Rolf Kailuweit
Author: Paul Frankl
Author: Bernd Heine
Author: Emily Cole
Author: Martin Harris
Author: Tania Kuteva
Author: Paul Frankl
Author: Bjørn Normann Sandaker
Author: Malte Rosemeyer