Author : Harrie Wetzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110813580
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : Petra M. Vogel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110806126
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521001106
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Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199270937
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.
Author : Leon Stassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199258932
Basing his analysis on a wide sample of languages, Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages - 'cognitive space' - the topography of which is the same for all languages.
Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027293597
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise the awareness of these linguistic subdisciplines of each other and to encourage their cross-fertilization to their mutual benefit. If linguistic typology is to unify the study of all types of linguistic variation, this variation, both diatopic and diachronic, will enrich typological research itself. With the aim of capturing the relevant dimensions of variation, the studies in this volume make use of new methodologies, including electronic corpora and databases, which enable cross- and intralinguistic comparisons dialectally and across time. Based on original research and unified by an innovative theme, the volume will be of interest to both students and teachers of linguistics and Germanic languages.
Author : Patricia Cabredo Hoffher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255369
Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Serbocroatian). The theoretical issues explored include: the syntax of attributive and predicative adjectives, the syntax of nominalized adjectives and the identification of adjectives as a distinct lexical category in Mandarin Chinese. A further four contributions examine different aspects in the semantics of adjectives in English, French, and Spanish, dealing with superlatives, comparatives, and aspect in adjectives. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
Author : Michael Rießler
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3944675657
This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study contributes to historical linguistics by reconstructing the origin of new types specifically in the language contact area between the Indo-European and Uralic families.
Author : Ekaterina Rakhilina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257914
What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object, and it is typically answered with adjectives: old, smooth, pointed, narrow, etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world, regardless of when or where we live – and regardless of our language. Despite this, the vocabulary of physical qualities has received comparatively little attention in lexical typology: most research so far has focused on verbs and the actions they express. This volume presents a lexico-typological study of several domains of physical qualities: ‘sharp’/‘blunt’, ‘wet’, ‘empty’/‘full’, ‘old’, as well as dimensions temperature and surface texture. It discusses several theoretical issues including intragenetic language sampling, the possibility of signed vs. spoken language comparison at the lexicon level, and the potential of applying computational models of distributional semantics to lexical typology. The book will be of interest to linguists with a focus on typology, general and lexical semantics, to lexicographers, and to language students and teachers.
Author : Simon E. Overall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027264244
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other, it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages, which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview, and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.
