Constituent Order In The Languages Of Europe

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Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

Author : Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110151527
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe written by Typology of Languages in Europe (Project) and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 856 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.

Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110812207
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe by : Anna Siewierska

Download or read book Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe written by Anna Siewierska and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World Atlas of Language Structures

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199255911
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.

Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

Author : Giuliano Bernini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110892227
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe written by Giuliano Bernini and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197081
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe by : Harry van der Hulst

Download or read book Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe written by Harry van der Hulst and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 1085 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.

Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe

Author : Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110157468
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe written by Typology of Languages in Europe (Project) and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of a series of nine volumes publishing the results of the research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP)--based on a 1988 workshop by the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the European Science Foundation, and involving participation by more than 100 linguists. The major goal of EUROTY was to study the cross-linguistic patterns and limitations of variation in nine focal areas: pragmatic organization of discourse, constituent order, subordination and complementation, adverbial constructions, tense and aspect, noun phrase structure, clitics, and word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe. This effort provided a testing ground for theoretical controversies and new theory development, as detailed here by a dozen contributors. Includes a language index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Author : Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110157512
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis Clitics in the Languages of Europe by : Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)

Download or read book Clitics in the Languages of Europe written by Typology of Languages in Europe (Project) and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1060 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.

Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe

Author : Frans Plank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110157489
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe written by Frans Plank and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.

Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe

Author : Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110802619
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe by : Johan van der Auwera

Download or read book Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe written by Johan van der Auwera and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 876 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.

Languages Across Boundaries

Author : Dik Bakker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110331128
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Languages Across Boundaries written by Dik Bakker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists who may be counted among the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic typology. All of these articles discuss a topic that is prominent in Anna's work, whose journal articles and monographs on the passive, on word order, and on the category of person are standard literature in these respective fields. Mindful of Anna's last monograph, Person, the majority of the contributions in this volume discuss free and bound person forms, argument indexing, reference tracking systems, impersonals, and related issues, such as suppletion and incompleteness in person paradigms, the origin of referential systems, dependent versus independent marking, and referential hierarchies. Other topics are grammatical alignment, grammatical voice, ditransitives, and word order. Most of the contributions take a broad, typological perspective. Others give a more in depth treatment, based on data from a specific language, notably Spanish, Russian, Mandinka, and Mohawk. The book contains a complete bibliography of Anna Siewierska's linguistic production.

The Languages and Linguistics of Europe

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110220261
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Europe written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open publicationThe Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.

Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999

Author : Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402017162
Total Pages : 1484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999 written by Mark Janse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.

Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311019709X
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe by : Östen Dahl

Download or read book Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe written by Östen Dahl and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 865 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.

Word-Formation

Author : Peter O. Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110246279
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Word-Formation written by Peter O. Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

Language, Biology and Cognition

Author : Prakash Mondal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303023715X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Language, Biology and Cognition written by Prakash Mondal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition. Challenging the assumption in biolinguistics and neurolinguistics that natural language and linguistic cognition can be reconciled with neurobiology, the author argues that reducing representation to cognitive systems and cognitive systems to neural populations is reductive, leading to inferences about the cognitive basis of linguistic performance based on assuming (false) dependencies. Instead, he finds that biological implementations of cognitive rather than the biological structures themselves, are the driver behind linguistic structures. In particular, this book argues that the biological roots of language are useful only for an understanding of the emergence of linguistic capacity as a whole, but ultimately irrelevant to understanding the character of language. Offering an antidote to the current thinking embracing ‘biologism’ in linguistic sciences, it will be of interest to readers in linguistics, the cognitive and brain sciences, and the points at which these disciplines converge with the computer sciences.

Multilingual Europe

Author : Guus Extra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110208350
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Multilingual Europe written by Guus Extra and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages. Although "celebrating linguistic diversity" is one of the key propositions in the European discourse on multilingualism and language policies, this device holds for these three types of languages in a decreasing order. All three types of languages, however, are constituent parts of a multilingual European identity and should be taken into account in any type of language policy. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The selection of case studies is based on a careful weighing of geographical spread of countries and languages across Europe on the one hand, and availability of established expert knowledge on the other. After an Introduction to the theme of the book (Guus Extra and Durk Gorter), Part I deals with official state languages with a focus on the spread of English as lingua franca across Europe (Juliane House), on French and France (Dennis Ager), on Polish in Poland and abroad (Justyna Lesniewśka), and on language constellations in the Baltic States (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun). Part II deals with regional minority languages with a focus on Catalan in Spain (Francesc Xavier Vila i Moreno), Frisian in the Netherlands (Durk Gorter et al.), Hungarian as a minority language in Central Europe (Susan Gal), and Saami in the Nordic countries (Mikael Svonni). Part III deals with immigrant minority languages in the United Kingdom (Viv Edwards), Sweden (Lilian Nygren-Junkin), Italy (Monica Barni and Carla Bagna) and Europe at large (Guus Extra and Kutlay Yağmur).

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Author : David Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199602530
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by David Willis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.