The Turkish Nominal Phrase in Spoken Discourse
Author : Christoph Schroeder
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Turkish language
ISBN : 9783447041652
Adverbial Relations in Turkish-German Bilingualism
Author : Seda Yilmaz Wörfel
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3830995423
Book Description
The Turkish language in diaspora is in process of change due to different language constellations of immigrants and the dominance of majority languages. This led to a great interest in various research areas, particularly in linguistics. Against this background, this study focuses on developmental change in the use of adverbial clause-combining constructions in Turkish-German bilingual students' oral and written text production. It illustrates the use of non-finite constructions and some unique alternative strategies to express adverbial relations with authentic examples in Turkish and German. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how bilingual competencies vary in expressing adverbial relations depending on language contact and extra-linguistic factors. Dr. Seda Yilmaz Wörfel completed a Ph.D. in German linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She works as a research associate at the Mercator-Institute for Literacy and Language Education at the University of Cologne. Her research interests are Turkish-German Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Multiliteracy and Language Contact.
A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact
Author : Evangelia Adamou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501500651
Book Description
This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it presents an analysis of spoken corpora from Europe and Mexico using a combination of criteria. The aim of this approach is to establish patterns of multilingual speech prevailing in different communities and allow for crosslinguistic comparison.
Turkish
Author : Aslı Göksel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415114943
Book Description
A complete reference guide to modern Turkish grammar, this work presents a full and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use.
Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
Author : Giuliano Bernini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110892227
Book Description
The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.
Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages
Author : Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311022397X
Book Description
This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.
The World of Languages and Literatures
Author : Nataša Bakić-Mirić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 152756441X
Book Description
This book offers contemporary perspectives on different registers of instruction, media language, the effectiveness of a multi-literacies program for introducing English as a Foreign Language, promoting religious tolerance through literature and music, teaching drama, intercultural communication, gender studies and literature studies. By using contemporary research methods, the contributors here offer insights into the ways in which the world of languages and literatures changes and evolves to face the constant challenges resulting from new instructional practices and research investigations, allowing educators, researchers and students alike to keep up with, and stay current in, all areas relating to language and literature. These illuminating essays highlight the dynamic global prism through which contemporary scholars view these issues and surpass any strict set of rules, which would otherwise lead them to ignore the ever-shifting changes in language and literature and the accompanying cultural spaces and realities.
The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements
Author : Fatih Bayram
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832546935
Book Description
Over the past three decades studies investigating heritage speaker (HS) linguistic competencies have shown, time and again that, despite being L1 or 2L1 native speakers of their home language(s), HS outcomes display variation across a wide spectrum of differences as compared to each other, other types of bilinguals as well as their monolingual peers. Studies have traditionally used—mostly behavioral—methodologies rooted in adjacent established fields (e.g., L1 acquisition, adult L2 acquisition) offering, in addition to documenting and describing HS performance, important insights for linguistic theory and challenges related to (home/minority) language maintenance, contact, policy and more. A birds-eye view makes it clear that the methodologies one uses to tap into HSs’ linguistic knowledge areas, if not more, are important than the phenomena under investigation, especially in light of how their unique experiences with their heritage and other languages are present across a continuum.
(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism
Author : Natascha Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729657X
Book Description
The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are compared, the existence of multiple grammars in L1 acquisition, simultaneous L2 acquisition (balanced and unbalanced bilingualism) and successive L2 acquisition (child and adult L2 acquisition). Evidence from the language pairs French-German, Italian-Swedish, Spanish-English, Spanish-German, Spanish-Basque, Portuguese-Japanese-English, Portuguese-German, English-German, Turkish-German is brought to bear on grammatical issues pertaining to the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase, pronoun use and the null-subject property, clause structure, verb position, non-finite clauses, agreement at the clause level, and on issues like code mixing and language dominance.
Articles in the World’s Languages
Author : Laura Becker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110724421
Book Description
This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclusive-specific, nonspecific, inclusive-specific, and referential articles. All 10 types are described in detail with examples from various languages of the world. The book also addresses crosslinguistic trends concerning the distribution and the development of different article types, and it proposes a typology of article systems. The aim of this study is to provide a general crosslinguistic overview concerning the attested properties and distributions of articles. It is geared towards readers with interests in language typology and the nominal domain, and it can serve as a point of reference for language-specific studies of articles or determiners.
