Chemehuevi, a Grammar and Lexicon
Author : Margaret L. Press
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780520096004
Chemehuevi, a Grammar and Lexicon
Author : Margaret L. Press
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780608184616
Book Description
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Author : John A. Goldsmith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1444343041
Book Description
The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print
The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking
Author : Michael Cysouw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191564990
Book Description
This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says "Mummy is going to say goodnight now", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.
Participles
Author : Ksenia Shagal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110629933
Book Description
The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.
Syntactic architecture and its consequences I
Author : András Bárány
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102759
Book Description
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions on the relation of syntax to other aspects of grammar and linguistics more generally, including studies on language acquisition, variation and change, and syntactic interfaces. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax ranging from the core verbal domain to higher, propositional domains.
Describing Morphosyntax
Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521588058
Book Description
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
Commands
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198803222
Book Description
This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse languages on the basis of extensive fieldwork and in a way that allows useful comparison.
Uto-Aztecan
Author : Eugene H. Casad
Publisher : USON
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN : 9789706890306
Book Description
The Languages of Native North America
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107392802
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
