Author: Hermann BluhmePublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878082934
Category : Discourse analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Descriptio Linguistica
Author: Hermann BluhmePublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878082934
Category : Discourse analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language
Author: Richard A. GeigerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110857103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition
Author: Giuliano BocciPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198889488
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms. The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III
Author: Otto ZwartjesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902729173X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on orthography and phonology), this volume looks at methodology and descriptive techniques from a historical point of view, offering articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, typologists, and descriptive linguists. It presents research into languages such as Tarasco (Pur’épecha), Massachusett, Nahuatl, Conivo, Sipibo, Guaraní, Vietnamese, Tamil, Southern Min Chinese dialects, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages, such as Yapese and Chamorro.
Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes
Author: Marge E. LandsbergPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110882922
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics
Author: Reinhard KöhlerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276439
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Bibliography of Quantitative Linguistics (BQL) comprises more than 6500 titles from all areas of quantitative linguistic research. Publications have been included without restrictions regarding form, place, language, and date of publication. This bibliography thus provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of, and easy bibliographical access to, publications in quantitative linguistics, a linguistic discipline characterized by its rapid and promising scientific development, and its increasing significance for most branches of theoretical and applied language studies. The bibliography consists of: an introduction and instructions for use; a main section containing more than 6500 titles, which is subdivided in 28 thematic classes, each forming a chapter; an index of authors; an index of keywords from titles; indices of subject headings and subheadings; an index of uncontrolled vocabulary; an index of languages investigated; an index of reviewed publications. All texts and indices are in English, German and Russian.
Foundations of Cognitive Grammar
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804738521
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
This is the second volume of work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. This volume suggests how to use the theoretical tools presented in Volume One.
Toward a Calculus of Meaning
Author: Edna AndrewsPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027215529
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which represent a very specific way of defining and viewing language and linguistics. The specific approach presented in this volume has its origins and inspirations in the theoretical and methodological paradigm of European Structuralism in general, and the sign-oriented legacy of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce and the functional and communication-oriented approach of the Prague School in particular. The book is divided in three sections: Theoretical and Methodological Overview: Cornelis H. van Schooneveld; Anatoly Liberman; Petr Sgall; Alla Bemova and Eva Hajicova; Robert Kirsner. Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages: Edna Andrews; Lawrence E. Feinberg; Annie Joly Sperling; Ronald E. Feldstein; Irina Dologova and Elena Maksimova; Stefan M. Pugh. Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and Aphasia: Ellen Contini-Morava; Barbara A. Fennell; Victor A. Friedman; Robert Fradkin; Yishai Tobin; Mark Leikin.
Phonology as Human Behavior
Author: Y. TobinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Showing the far-reaching psycho- and sociolinguistic utility of this theory, Tobin demonstrates its applicability to the teaching of phonetics, text analysis, and the theory of language acquisition.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
Author: Eva Haji?ováPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781556196737
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and F. ?ermak, those of quantitative linguistics by M. T? itelova, of sentence structure by H.-H. Lieb, Y. Tobin, J. Panevova, T. Gross and J. abr ula, discourse patterns are dealt with by J. Hoffmannova, S. ?mejrkova and F. ticha, phonology and graphemics by E. Battistella, A. Svoboda and P.A. Luelsdorff with S.V. Chesnokov, and the lexicon by L. Waugh and V. Strakova.