Author: Hermann BluhmePublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878082934
Category : Discourse analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Descriptio Linguistica
Author: Hermann BluhmePublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878082934
Category : Discourse analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Author: Robert S. KirsnerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027271046
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts of linguistic forms in texts, informant questionnaires, and perception tests. The present volume, continuing a dialogue between CS and CG, offers six such qualitative-quantitative studies, one on Afrikaans and five on Dutch. Topics include (a) demonstratives, (b) pragmatic particles and imperatives, (c) a puzzling “dismissive” idiom, (d) progressive aspect, and (e) indirect objects. While CS is better suited for analyzing relatively closed systems (e.g. tense, pronouns), CG provides more insight into the vagaries of the amorphous lexicon. The author also offers personal remarks on “linguistics as a path” and discusses how in one case a wrong prediction reflects his dual role as both linguist and student of Dutch as a foreign language.
Toward a Calculus of Meaning
Author: Edna AndrewsPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027282382
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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.
Major pillars of German syntax
Author: Peter Rolf LutzeierPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111356531
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
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
Text and Thinking
Author: Roger G. van de VeldePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110870304
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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Syntax gesprochener Sprachen
Author: Brigitte K. HalfordPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823342311
Category : Colloquial language
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Author: Bob de JongePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902721574X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research exemplifies how such a validation should be conducted by determining which forms underlie the analyses and extracting those observations that are considered to be objective. The volume consists of two parts: a section on synchronic and diachronic grammatical problems and a section on Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB), the Columbia School version of phonology, applied to evolutionary, developmental and clinical issues and the phonotactics of the selected lexicon of a literary text. It provides a wealth of useful empirical data and in-depth and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative analyses of a broad range of languages from diverse families: French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.
Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes
Author: Marge E. LandsbergPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110882922
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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