Author : Veronika Mattes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110393123
The book systematically discusses the formal and functional properties as well as the rules of the manifold productive reduplication types of Bikol, an Austronesian language of the Philippines. Based on the author's own fieldwork, this case study demonstrates the highly complex and grammaticized status of reduplication. In addition, the formal and semantic properties of unproductive reduplicative forms of the language are also investigated.
Author : Paul de Lacy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139462059
Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.
Author : Bernhard Hurch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110911469
For several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of publications have dealt with reduplication in the past 20 years. Reduplication lends itself perfectly as a test field for theories that opt for a non-segmental organization of phonology and morphology. As it happens frequently, then, the discussion centers around a rather small set of data for which alternative analysis are offered, and which themselves are intended to contribute to the foundation of new theoretical developments. The present volume (which goes back to a conference on reduplication at the University of Graz, Austria) offers a broader approach to reduplication not only from different theoretical viewpoints, but especially for its phenomenology. Across theories a number of highly qualified authors deal with formal and functional perspectives, with typological properties, with semantics, comparative issues, the role of reduplication in language acquisition, the acquisition of reduplicative systems, sign languages, creoles and pidgins, general grammatical and cognitive principles; the picture is completed by a series of language or language-family specific studies as on Uto-Aztecan, Salish, Tupi-Guarani, Moroccan and Cairene Arabic, various African languages, Chinese, Turkish, Indo-European, languages from India, etc. The overall scope of the conference was to contribute to a new level of discussion of the phenomenon, across theories and across specializations and interests. Update on Contributor's addresses (PDF)
Author : Martin Everaert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110198746
This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. Such a systematic body of data is essential in order to gain a proper understanding of what is truly universal in language and what is determined by specific cultural settings. Moreover, it is increasingly needed as a tool to systematically evaluate contrasting theoretical claims. The book includes a chapter on general problems of using databases to handle language data and chapters on a number of individual projects. Note: This title was originally announced as including a CD-Rom with databases. The CD-Rom, however, was replaced by a list of URLs within the book. More information as well as links to the databases can also be found here.
Author : Andrew Spencer
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2001-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631226949
Interest in morphology has undergone rapid growth over the past two decades and the area is now seen as crucially important, both in relation to other aspects of grammar and in relation to other disciplines.
Author : Sharon Inkelas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110732016X
This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic, not the phonological level, and present a new model of reduplication - Morphological Doubling Theory - that derives the full range of reduplication patterns. This approach shifts the focus away from the relatively small number of cases of phonological overapplication and underapplication, which have played a major role in earlier studies, to the larger class of cases where base and reduplicant diverge phonologically. The authors conclude by arguing for a theoretical shift in phonology, which entails more attention to word structure. As well as presenting the authors' pioneering work, this book also provides a much-needed overview of reduplication, the study of which has become one of the most contentious in modern phonological theory.
Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052176534X
Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languages reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages.
Author : Anvita Abbi
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004439153
This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.
Author : Allan Bäck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004105393
"On Reduplication" is a study of the logical properties of reduplicative propositions, that is, of propositions having qualifications, like 'Christ "qua" God is a creature' and 'being "qua" being is the subject of metaphysics'. The focus is on what ways qualifications change the truth value and the inference patterns of simple, categorical propositions. The central class of reduplications is that in which the qualifications are introduced by a qua connective like '"qua"', 'insofar as', 'under the concept of', or 'in virtue of the fact that'. Reduplicative propositions occur frequently and importantly in both traditional and contemporary philosophical works, but there has been little modern analysis of them. This study presents, compares and analyzes the different theories of reduplication that have arisen in Western philosophy. Texts are presented and explicated, and their significance is weighed relative to modern logical theory. Throughout this study, some important applications of theories of reduplication are noted, such as Leibniz's qualification of the principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, Ockham's reduction of abstract entities, and Aquinas's view on the Incarnation.
