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Author : Andrew Richard Wykes Baxter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Competing Factors in Morphophonological Change written by Andrew Richard Wykes Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henning Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276498
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics 1993 written by Henning Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.
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Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Formal Parameters of Generative Grammar written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David L Fertig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748684220
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Analogy and Morphological Change written by David L Fertig and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense. This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognit
Author : Patrick Honeybone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199232814
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology written by Patrick Honeybone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Author : Eva Zehentner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311063385X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Competition in Language Change written by Eva Zehentner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation. The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution. The book not only provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the history of one of the most-discussed syntactic phenomena in English, but by fusing two frameworks and employing two different methodologies also presents a highly innovative approach to a problem of relevance to historical linguistics in general.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134645961
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Understanding Morphology written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
Author : Teresa Limpo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889711188
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Spelling Across Orthographies written by Teresa Limpo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478931
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Morphology of English Dialects written by Lieselotte Anderwald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justified historically in using these verbs, systematically these non-standard forms actually make more sense. By constituting a simpler system, they are generally more economical than their Standard English counterparts. Drawing on data collected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195301560
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language written by Joan Bybee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of three decades of articles by the linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure.
Author : Andrew Hippisley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316712451
Total Pages : 1442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology written by Andrew Hippisley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in morphology; for linguists generally, it presents current thought on the interface of morphology with other grammatical components and on the significance of morphology for understanding language change and the psychology of language; for students of linguistics, it is a guide to the present-day landscape of morphological science and to the advances that have brought it to its current state; and for readers in other fields (psychology, philosophy, computer science, and others), it reveals just how much we know about systematic relations of form to content in a language's words - and how much we have yet to learn.
Author : Ekaitz Santazilia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900451306X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Animacy and Inflectional Morphology across Languages written by Ekaitz Santazilia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How relevant is the distinction between living and non-living entities in the grammar of languages? This first typological comprehensive study of animacy will immerse you into the realm of this category, its theoretical implications and pervasive effects on inflectional morphology.
Author : Joseph L. Malone
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020154
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb written by Joseph L. Malone and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E. Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, is closely related to Hebrew and the other Canaanite languages; together, the two subfamilies of Aramaic and Canaanite constitute the northwest branch of the Semitic phylum. In this study, Joseph L. Malone focuses on thirteen dialects of Aramaic, chosen from a candidate list of approximately twice that number. The specific varieties of Aramaic examined here are chosen to provide an optimal chronological and geographical range. In a similar vein, the finite verb serves as the subject of this study, based on the assumption that a thorough treatment of the verb will asymptomatically involve most of the patterns and processes that hold for the grammar as a whole. The tools of this study are drawn from standard generative linguistics, though care is taken to explicate these in more traditional terms where it is deemed necessary. This book is essential reading for linguists who study the Semitic language families, and in particular those interested in Northwest Semitic languages.
Author : Elżbieta Adamczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264414
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic written by Elżbieta Adamczyk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical interdeclensional shifts of nouns affiliated with historical minor classes. The wide scope and comparative nature of the study facilitate identifying the major patterns of inflectional restructuring, both language-specific and those of a more general character, demonstrating that the process was far from random. By framing the investigated phenomena quantitatively, the study affords insight into the dynamics of the changes, their scope in individual languages, the mechanisms underlying the restructuring process and the factors conditioning it. The book may be of interest to both historical linguists who may appreciate its descriptive aspects as well as morphologists concerned with the mechanisms of morphological processes, especially analogy.
Author : Jonathan David Bobaljik
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262304597
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Universals in Comparative Morphology written by Jonathan David Bobaljik and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for the status of linguistic universals. The major topics discussed include suppletion, comparative and superlative formation, deadjectival verbs, and lexical decomposition. Bobaljik's primary focus is on morphological theory, but his argument also aims to integrate evidence from a variety of subfields into a coherent whole. In the course of his analysis, Bobaljik argues that the assumptions needed bear on choices among theoretical frameworks and that the framework of Distributed Morphology has the right architecture to support the account. In addition to the theoretical implications of the generalizations, Bobaljik suggests that the striking patterns of regularity in what otherwise appears to be the most irregular of linguistic domains provide compelling evidence for Universal Grammar. The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail. The phenomenon that is the main focus of the argument, suppletion in adjectival gradation, is rare enough that Bobaljik is able to present an essentially comprehensive description of the facts; at the same time, it is common enough to offer sufficient variation to explore the question of universals over a significant dataset of more than three hundred languages.
Author : Bethwyn Evans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027246319
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics 2019 written by Bethwyn Evans and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference, with each chapter representative of a workshop or themed session. A striking aspect of ICHL24 was the three-day workshop on computational and quantitative approaches to historical linguistics and two of the chapters represent different aspects of this workshop. A number of chapters present research that explores mechanisms and processes of change within specific domains of language, while others explore interactions of change across linguistic domains. Two chapters represent a common theme at the conference and consider the role of historical linguistics in explaining non-linguistic histories of language diversification.
Author : Peter Indefrey
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889450112
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Accessing Conceptual Representations for Speaking written by Peter Indefrey and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For speaking, words in the lexicon are somehow activated from conceptual representations but we know surprisingly little about how this works precisely. Which of the attributes of the concept DOG (e.g. BARKS, IS WALKED WITH A LEASH, CARNIVORE, ANIMATE) have to be activated in a given situation to be able to select the word ‘dog’? Are there things we know about dogs that are always activated for naming and others that are only activated in certain contexts or even never? To date, investigations on lexical access in speaking have largely focused on the effects of distractor nouns on the naming latency of a target noun. We have learned that distractors from the same semantic category (e.g. ‘cat’) hinder naming, but associatively related distractors (‘leash’) may facilitate or hinder naming. However, associatively related words can have all kinds of semantic relationships to a target word, and, with few exceptions, the effects of specific semantic relationships other than membership in the same category as the target concept have not been systematically investigated. This special issue aims at moving forward towards a more detailed account of how precisely conceptual information is used to access the lexicon in speaking and what corresponding format of conceptual representations needs to be assumed.
