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Aspectuality across Languages

Author : Alan Cienki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263698
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspectuality across Languages by : Alan Cienki

Download or read book Aspectuality across Languages written by Alan Cienki and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and Russia, including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States. Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages, i.e. French, German, and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French, German, and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense, bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience. The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect, reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken, interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.

The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages

Author : Astrid De Wit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198759533
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages by : Astrid De Wit

Download or read book The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages written by Astrid De Wit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.

Aspectuality

Author : Sarah Dessì Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110564106
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspectuality by : Sarah Dessì Schmid

Download or read book Aspectuality written by Sarah Dessì Schmid and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with those pieces of information, which, in their interplay, constitute the aspectual value of states of affairs. The focus is on Romance Languages, although the model can be applied just as well to other languages, in that it is underpinned by a principle grounded in a fundamental cognitive ability: the delimitation principle. Unlike traditional approaches, which generally have a semasiological orientation and strictly adhere to a semantic differentiation between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Aktionsart), this study makes no such differentiation and understands these as merely different formal realisations of one and the same content category: aspectuality.

Perspectives on Aspect

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402032323
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Aspect by : Henk J. Verkuyl

Download or read book Perspectives on Aspect written by Henk J. Verkuyl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research. The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics

Author : Tania Ionin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003823505
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics by : Tania Ionin

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics written by Tania Ionin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides innovative and comprehensive coverage of research on the second language acquisition (SLA) of morphosyntax, semantics, and the interface between the two. Organized by grammatical topic, the chapters are written by experts from formal and functional perspectives in the SLA of morphosyntax and semantics, providing in-depth yet accessible coverage of these areas. All chapters highlight the theoretical underpinnings of much work in SLA and their links to theoretical syntax and semantics; making comparisons to other populations, including child language acquirers, bilinguals, and heritage speakers (links to first language acquisition and bilingualism); dedicating a portion of each chapter to the research methods used to investigate the linguistic phenomenon in question (links to psycholinguistics and experimental linguistics); and, where relevant, including intervention studies on the phenomenon in question (links to applied linguistics). The volume will be indispensable to SLA researchers and students who work on any aspect of the SLA of morphosyntax or semantics. With its coverage of a variety of methodologies and comparisons to other populations (such as child language acquirers, early bilinguals, heritage speakers, and monolingual adults), the handbook is expected to also be of much interest to linguists who work in psycholinguistics, first language acquisition, and bilingualism.

Aspect and Actionality in Homeric Greek

Author : Maria Napoli
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
ISBN 13 : 9788846478368
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspect and Actionality in Homeric Greek by : Maria Napoli

Download or read book Aspect and Actionality in Homeric Greek written by Maria Napoli and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited

Author : Joanna Blaszczak
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636366X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by : Joanna Blaszczak

Download or read book Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited written by Joanna Blaszczak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it’s time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” and “modality” truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid—and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

Aspectuality and Temporality

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267618
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspectuality and Temporality by : Zlatka Guentchéva

Download or read book Aspectuality and Temporality written by Zlatka Guentchéva and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages – Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck – Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.

Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure

Author : Jakob Egetenmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111453898
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure by : Jakob Egetenmeyer

Download or read book Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure written by Jakob Egetenmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tense and aspect are crucial devices of sentence meaning. They interact with Aktionsart, but also with verb types and adverbs when indicating temporal relations and building temporal discourse structure. On the discourse level, they are co-determined by narrative functions, enhancing the complexity of their description. The volume depicts this vast field. It unites twelve contributions which elaborate on three thematic cores: 1) the context-sensitivity of tense and aspect and their relationships with neighbouring categories, 2) their interaction with adverbs, 3) their functioning in discourse. The volume advances our knowledge of the matters at hand in different respects. It discusses the onomasiological status of categories such temporality and aspectuality critically. It addresses the functioning of tense in discourse from various angles. A further focus is placed on the imperfective past tense-aspect form, its uses and meaning potentials. Its analysis ranges from marking evidentiality to indicating perspectives. The volume combines papers with various theoretical approaches and methodologies, notably, formally oriented linguistics and data-driven accounts. The multiplicity of subjects and methods may resonate beyond the field of Romance linguistics.

Verbal Periphrases in Romance

Author : Mario Squartini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805294
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Verbal Periphrases in Romance by : Mario Squartini

Download or read book Verbal Periphrases in Romance written by Mario Squartini and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195381971
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by : Robert I. Binnick

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect written by Robert I. Binnick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart

Author : Francis G. H. Pang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310886
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart by : Francis G. H. Pang

Download or read book Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart written by Francis G. H. Pang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart, Francis G.H. Pang employs a corpus approach to analyze the relationship between Greek aspect and Aktionsart. Recent works have tried to predict the meanings that emerge when a certain set of clausal factors and lexical features combine with one of the grammatical aspects. Most of these works rely heavily on Zeno Vendler's telicity distinction. Based on empirical evidence, Pang argues that telicity and perfectivity are not related in a systematic manner in Koine Greek. As a corollary, Aktionsart should be considered an interpretive category, meaning that its different values emerge, not from the interaction of only one or two linguistic parameters, but from the process of interpreting language in context.

Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition

Author : Emmanuelle Labeau
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401207186
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition by : Emmanuelle Labeau

Download or read book Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition written by Emmanuelle Labeau and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tense, aspect and mood have attracted much attention in the areas of both first and second language acquisition, but scholars in the two disciplines often fail to learn from each other. Western European languages have also been the focus of most studies, but there would be lessons to learn from less studied languages. This volume offers new insights on tense, aspect and mood by bringing together the findings of first and second language acquisition, and comparing child and adult, monolingual and multilingual learning processes that are approached from various theoretical points of view. In addition, it spans over a wide range of less studied languages (Bulgarian, Hebrew, Korean, Russian), and Western European languages are studied from new angles.

Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080552935
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface by : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Download or read book Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface written by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized.

Interactional Humor

Author : Béatrice Priego-Valverde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110983281
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Interactional Humor by : Béatrice Priego-Valverde

Download or read book Interactional Humor written by Béatrice Priego-Valverde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction in which it is embedded is face-to-face, computer-mediated, with a human or a robot, oral or written. The aim is to analyze both the linguistic resources of the participants (such as their lexicon, prosody, gestures, gazes, or smiles) and the semiotic resources that social networks and instant messaging platforms offer them (such as memes, gifs, or emojis).

Aspect and Valency in Nominals

Author : Maria Bloch-Trojnar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505432
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspect and Valency in Nominals by : Maria Bloch-Trojnar

Download or read book Aspect and Valency in Nominals written by Maria Bloch-Trojnar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.

Brazilian Sign Language Studies

Author : Ronice Müller de Quadros
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501507818
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Brazilian Sign Language Studies by : Ronice Müller de Quadros

Download or read book Brazilian Sign Language Studies written by Ronice Müller de Quadros and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language linguists, and the community of Libras scholars have documented this language and built robust resources for linguistic research. This book provides a selection of studies by these scholars, representing work in a variety of areas from phonology to creative literature.