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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Neka Mu E Vechna Slavata
Author: Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics
Author: Howard Isaac AronsonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588114617
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their field data to address problems of general linguistic interest, such as reflexivization. A number of papers look at the evidence for contact-induced change in multilingual areas. Some of the most exciting contributions to the collection represent significant advances in the reconstruction of the prehistory of such understudied language families as Northeast Caucasian, Tungusic and the baffling isolate Ket. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the indigenous languages of the former USSR, but also to historical and synchronic linguists seeking to familiarize themselves with the fascinating, typologically diverse languages from the interior of the Eurasian continent.Dee Ann Holisky is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs of the College of Arts & Sciences at George Mason University. She is the author of Aspect and Georgian Medial Verbs (Caravan Books, 1981) and of numerous articles on Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics. Kevin Tuite is Professor of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal. Among his books are An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and Ethnolinguistics and Anthropological Theory (co-edited with Christine Jourdan; Montreal: Editions Fides, 2003).
Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Author: Birgit GerlachPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027299196
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).
Distance in Language
Author: Anastasia MeermannPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878847
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The conceptual metaphor of ""distance"" plays a crucial role in current perceptions of the world and humans' various interactions within it. It hardly seems possible to conceptualize space and time, emotional involvement in events, and relationships with other people in terms other than ""distance"". As a consequence, this primarily spatial concept figures prominently in the verbal expression of these abstract notions, and is thus highly relevant for the analysis of linguistic phenomena. In recen ...
Greece in Modern Times
Author: Stratos E. ConstantinidisPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This complete and annotated bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive of works published in English about Greece, its people, and modern times.
Slavic Review
Author: "See how the Gods Favour Sacrilege"
Author: Vasilēs K. GounarēsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789609538152
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description