Guide to the East Slavonic Languages
Author : Reginald George Arthur De Bray
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Guide to the East Slavonic languages
Author : R. G. A. De Bray
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Slavic languages, Eastern
ISBN :
Book Description
The Slavonic Languages
Author : Professor Greville Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1136861440
Book Description
In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages - particularly Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic - are discussed, and the relationships of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of those Slavonic languages in exile, for example, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak in the USA. Each language-chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for comparative study. Information on each language includes: an introductory description of social context and development (where appropriate); a discussion of phonology; a detailed presentation of synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments; comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties; a discussion of vocabulary; an outline of main dialects; and an extensive bibliography, listing English and other sources.
The Major Languages of Eastern Europe
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134932642
Book Description
Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0195136519
Book Description
Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.
Terminology, LSP and Translation
Author : Harold Somers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 1996-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283559
Book Description
A state-of-the-art volume highlighting the links between lexicography, terminology, language for special purposes (LSP) and translation and Machine Translation, that constitute the domain of Language Engineering. Part I: Terminology and Lexicography. Takes us through terminological problems and solutions in Europe, the former Soviet Union and Egypt. Part II focuses on LSP for second language learners and lexical analysis. Part III treats translator training in a historical context, as well as new methods from cognitive and corpus linguistics. Part IV is about the application of language engineering in Machine Translation, corpus linguistics and multilingual text generation.
Understanding Morphological Rules
Author : Stela Manova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9048195470
Book Description
This volume analyzes morphological and morphonological phenomena from a number of distinct Slavic languages. It does so in an innovative manner, yet also positions the analysis in the context of current morphological debates. It is thus a valuable contribution both to comparative Slavic morphology and general morphological theory. Moreover, the book is the first attempt at a theory of conversion and subtraction relevant to languages with rich inflectional morphology. It contributes to our structural understanding of the nature of word. As the first illustration of subtraction with examples from southern Slavic languages, it is an excellent source of specialist data. The book’s theoretical framework is easily accessible and applicable to other languages, which makes it attractive to researchers on Slavic languages and general linguists alike. The volume will also appeal to general morphologists, typologists, and advanced students in linguistics.
Passivization and Typology
Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229805
Book Description
Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative, perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, modern structuralist approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, cognitive semantics, Distributed Morphology, and case grammar have been applied by the different authors.
Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology
Author : Thomas Olander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004270507
Book Description
Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages. Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas Olander provides a new look at the Proto-Slavic inflectional system. The systematic, coherent and exhaustive approach laid out in the handbook paves the way for new solutions to long-standing problems of Slavic historical grammar.
Clitics
Author : Joel Ashmore Nevis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237484
Book Description
This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay What is a Clitic? by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.
