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Associated Motion

Author : Antoine Guillaume

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 702 pages

File Size : 48,71 MB

Release : 2021-03-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110692120

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This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.



Romance motion verbs in language change

Author : Katrin Pfadenhauer

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 17,38 MB

Release : 2024-07-22

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 3111248143

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Cross-linguistically, motion verbs are frequently involved in language change and feature a wide array of motion-related constructions. The aim of this volume is to grasp more completely the typological characteristics and the developmental potential of motion verbs and to acknowledge the formal and functional diversity of motion-related constructions in Romance languages. To this end, the contributions in this collection provide synchronic and diachronic as well as typologically oriented studies that focus on motion verbs and single- and multi-verb constructions that have received scant attention to date. These include verbal periphrases, (pseudo-/semi-)copula and pseudo-coordinated constructions in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French and French-based Creoles. In comparison to previous research on Romance languages, the present volume also adopts a broader perspective on language change, taking into account not only grammaticalization processes but also discursive, lexical and pragmatic phenomena such as the development of discursive, quotative or mirative functions. The studies build on functional, usage-based and constructionist models of language change and rely on corpus-based as well as experimental empirical approaches.



Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description

Author : Laure Sarda

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 29,40 MB

Release : 2022-07-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027257817

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The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has left aside other aspects of motion event descriptions. The chapters of this volume take an in-depth look at three less-studied aspects of motion expression. The first part of the book focuses on directional deixis, especially in relation to associated motion and visual motion. The second part explores variations in Source-Goal asymmetries. The third part investigates different types of motion event constructions, e.g., with various types of co-events. Many languages are taken into consideration throughout the 11 chapters, which gives the volume a clear typological dimension. This book is intended for students and academics interested in motion, spatial semantics, typological variation and cognitive linguistics.



A Grammar of Mosetén

Author : Jeanette Sakel

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 544 pages

File Size : 31,6 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9783110183405

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Book Description

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.



A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization

Author : Janet Zhiqun Xing

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 490 pages

File Size : 50,43 MB

Release : 2020-01-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110637421

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Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization.



Moving Object Detection and Segmentation for Remote Aerial Video Surveillance

Author : Teutsch, Michael

Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 37,6 MB

Release : 2015-03-11

Category : Electronic computers. Computer science

ISBN : 3731503204

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with video cameras are a flexible support to ensure civil and military safety and security. In this thesis, a video processing chain is presented for moving object detection in aerial video surveillance. A Track-Before-Detect (TBD) algorithm is applied to detect motion that is independent of the camera motion. Novel robust and fast object detection and segmentation approaches improve the baseline TBD and outperform current state-of-the-art methods.



Verb Classification in Australian Languages

Author : William B. McGregor

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 47,50 MB

Release : 2013-06-10

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110870878

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This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.



Applicative Morphology

Author : Sara Pacchiarotti

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 473 pages

File Size : 30,74 MB

Release : 2022-10-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110778025

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This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evidence, it challenges received wisdom on applicatives in several ways. First, in many of the surveyed languages, applicatives are the sole means to introduce a non-Actor semantic role into a clause. When there is an alternative way of expression, the applicative counterpart often has no valence-increasing effect on the targeted root. Second, applicative morphology can introduce constituents which are not syntactic objects and/or co-occur with obliques. Third, functions such as conveying aspectual nuances to the predicate (intensity, repetition, habituality) or its arguments (partitive P, highly individuated P), narrow-focusing constituents, and functioning as category-changing devices are attested in geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Further, this volume reveals that spatial-related morphology is prone to developing applicative functions in disparate languages and phyla. Finally, several contributions discuss the diachrony of applicative constructions and their (non-syntactic) attested functions, including a case of applicatives-in-the-making.



Grammars of Space

Author : Stephen C. Levinson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 553 pages

File Size : 19,13 MB

Release : 2006-09-14

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1139458396

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Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain – is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this collection, a team of leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. Contrary to existing assumptions, they show that there is great variation in the way space is conceptually structured across languages, thus substantiating the controversial question of how far the foundations of human cognition are innate. Grammars of Space is a supplement to the psychological information provided in its companion volume, Space in Language and Cognition. It represents a new kind of work in linguistics, 'Semantic Typology', which asks what are the semantic parameters used to structure particular semantic fields. Comprehensive and informative, it will be essential reading for those working on comparative linguistics, spatial cognition, and the interface between them.



Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Author : Claire Lefebvre

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 638 pages

File Size : 14,74 MB

Release : 2011-02-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027287430

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Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.