Author : Bohumil Trnka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110816636
Author : Bridget Drinka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261679
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change.
Author : John Rupert Firth
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521625685
This concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists a language is a self-contained and tightly organised system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This idea has its origin in the nineteenth century and was developed in the twentieth by Saussure and his followers, including the school of Bloomfield in the United States. Through the work of Chomsky, especially, it is still very influential. Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyses the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the 'Chomskyan revolution' in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning.
Author : Robert J. Di Pietro
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780874131901
This volume represents the wide range of interests that comprise applied linguistics today. Contains new approaches to such current topics as discourse analysis, code-switching, second-language acquisition, and functional/notational syllabi for language teaching.
Author : Carlos Martín-Vide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027282277
In the last decade, computational linguistics has produced a revival of the interest in the mathematical study of the various levels of human language. This volume contains a selection of recent research papers approaching mathematical and computational topics in natural languages, with a special attention being paid to syntax and semantics. According with their main focus, the papers are distributed into four parts: Syntax, Semantics, Natural language processing and Varia, which cover a vast range of problems. The book may be of interest to all those who intend to know which kind of mathematics is used when giving account of natural language, as well as to people working on computational issues involving human-machine interaction.
Author : British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853594274
The 31st BAAL Annual Meeting, held in September 1997 at the University of Birmingham, had as its theme Language at Work. The papers in this collection, although they relate to a wide variety of different contexts, all deal with people using language as part of their working life, and they are all concerned with how language functions to construct participant relationships and institutions. In short, these papers demonstrate how people at work make language for them.
Author : Eva Hajicová
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254435
This volume is the third one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.
Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004234772
In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.
Author : Jason Kandybowicz
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961100365
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.
