Folia Slavica
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Slavic languages
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Slavic languages
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Author : Dee Ann Holisky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275254
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 Université de Montréal. 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; Montréal: Éditions Fides, 2003).
Author : Ernest A. Scatton
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Page : 635 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Tinatin Bolkvadze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1315281112
Georgian: A Comprehensive Grammar constitutes a complete reference work addressing all major elements of modern Georgian grammar and usage. It provides a systematic and accessible description of the language’s phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax. The focus is on contemporary spoken and written usage, with attention devoted throughout to differences in register and genre. Points are illustrated with examples drawn from a range of authentic written and recorded sources, such as press, radio, and television. The grammar is designed for a wide readership, including students of Georgian, particularly at the intermediate and advanced levels, as well as scholars of Georgian and theoretical linguistics.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
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Author : William R. Schmalstieg
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Nils B. Thelin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725012X
In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.
Author : Christina Yurkiw Bethin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521591485
Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, is about the Slavic languages and how they have changed over time.
Author : Olga Mieska Tomi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227904
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomic offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography. Friedman, on the example of the evidentials, argues for typologically informed areal explanation of the Balkan properties. The other contributions analyze specific phenomena: polidefinite DPs in Greek and Aromanian (Campos and Stavrou), Balkan constructions in which datives combine with impersonal clitics or non-active morphology (Rivero), Balkan optatives (Ammann and Auwera), imperative force in the Balkan languages (Isac and Jakab), clitic placement in Greek imperatives (Bokovic), focused constituents in Romanian and Bulgarian (Hill), synthetic and analytic tenses in Romanian (D'Hulst, Coene and Avram), "purpose-like" modification in a number of Balkan languages (Buarovska), Balkan modal existential wh-constructions (Grosu), child and adult strategies in interpreting empty subjects in Serbian/Croatian (Stojanovic and Marelj), conditional sentences in Judeo-Spanish (Montoliu and Auwera).
Author : Olga M. Tomic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402044887
This book discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. It contains a wealth of Balkan linguistic material. The focus is on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP or the sentence of individual languages.