Diminutives Across Languages Theoretical Frameworks And Linguistic Domains

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Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains

Author : Stela Manova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110792877
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains written by Stela Manova and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation, such as the role of phonology in diminutives and hypocoristics and consequently its place in the overall architecture of grammar, i.e. phonology-first versus syntax/morphology-first theoretical analyses, diminutives in the L1 acquisition of typologically diverse languages, and the borrowing of non-diminutive morphology for the expression of diminutive meanings, among others. Among the peculiarities of diminutive morphology discussed are the relation between diminutives and mass nouns, the avoidance of diminutives in plural contexts in some languages, and the relatively frequent semantic bleaching and reanalysis of diminutive forms cross-linguistically. Special attention is paid to the debate on the head versus modifier status of diminutive affixes (corresponding to high versus low diminutives in alternative analyses), with data from spoken and sign languages. Overall, the volume addresses a number of topics that will be of interest to scholars of almost all linguistic subfields and per

Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains

Author : Stela Manova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311079294X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains written by Stela Manova and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation, such as the role of phonology in diminutives and hypocoristics and consequently its place in the overall architecture of grammar, i.e. phonology-first versus syntax/morphology-first theoretical analyses, diminutives in the L1 acquisition of typologically diverse languages, and the borrowing of non-diminutive morphology for the expression of diminutive meanings, among others. Among the peculiarities of diminutive morphology discussed are the relation between diminutives and mass nouns, the avoidance of diminutives in plural contexts in some languages, and the relatively frequent semantic bleaching and reanalysis of diminutive forms cross-linguistically. Special attention is paid to the debate on the head versus modifier status of diminutive affixes (corresponding to high versus low diminutives in alternative analyses), with data from spoken and sign languages. Overall, the volume addresses a number of topics that will be of interest to scholars of almost all linguistic subfields and per

Lexicography and Language Variation

Author : Philipp Stöckle
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847016954
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Lexicography and Language Variation by : Philipp Stöckle

Download or read book Lexicography and Language Variation written by Philipp Stöckle and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicography is one of the oldest linguistic sub-disciplines and began to compile extensive corpora early on as the basis for dictionary work. Surprisingly, these corpora and the dictionary articles have not been used very frequently for the study of language variation, although most dictionaries do not only contain information about word meanings and grammar, but also on regional distribution or style level. This volume explores the value of lexicographical data in the study of language variation. The contributions focus on different types of dictionaries for different languages as well as on various linguistic research questions ranging from the dictionaries' approach to loan words or morphology to practical issues regarding digital frameworks for lexicographic work.

Number Categories

Author : Deborah Arbes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110986604
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Number Categories written by Deborah Arbes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and Wagi (Beria, Saharan). For each language, the focus lies on a different aspect of number marking: In the Wagi dialect of Beria, different tonal patterns are discovered. The extinct Kamas language is analysed in terms of language contact with Russian. Number categories can also serve as a measure of loanword integration, as the study about spoken Welsh shows. The combination of articles in this volume illustrates the potential of number marking and offers insights that contribute our understanding of how grammatical number is applied and categorised in languages.

Diminutives in English

Author : Klaus P. Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110929554
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Diminutives in English written by Klaus P. Schneider and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That English has no diminutives is a common myth. The present study shows, however, that English does possess diminutives, and not only analytic but also synthetic diminutive markers. Analytic markers include, first and foremost, little, as well as other adjectives from the same word field, whereas the inventory of synthetic markers comprises suffixes as, for instance, -ie, -ette, -let, -kin, -een, -s, -er, -poo and -pegs. These markers are examined from a grammatical and a pragmatic perspective in an integrative formal-functional framework. The grammatical perspective involves phonological, morphological and semantic features, while the pragmatic perspective involves pragmalinguistic as well as sociopragmatic features on the levels of the speech act and larger interactive units in dialogue. The findings reveal that English diminutive suffixes are, in fact, among the most productive suffixes of the English language. While the suffixes share a number of features, each has developed its own profile, specifically regarding semantic and pragmatic features. In everyday conversation, there is a division of labour between the synthetic and the analytic type of formation concerning the communicative functions of diminutives and their distribution in discourse. The choice of formal device and its function depend crucially on pragmatic factors, notably on the illocution, the interactive status, the realisation strategy, and the politeness value of the utterances in which diminutives are employed, and also on the relationship between the interlocutors.

Morphopragmatics

Author : Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110140415
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Morphopragmatics written by Wolfgang U. Dressler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1994 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Affix Ordering Across Languages and Frameworks

Author : Stela Manova
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190210435
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Affix Ordering Across Languages and Frameworks written by Stela Manova and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances our understanding of how words structure in terms of affix ordering is organized. It contributes novel data from typologically diverse well-studied and lesser-studied languages and original analyses. Discussed are, among others, affix repetition, variable ordering, and interaction of prefixes and suffixes such as parasynthesis and mobile affixation.

The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

Author : Andrew Hippisley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316712451
Total Pages : 1442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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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.

Exploring Intensification

Author : Maria Napoli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265127
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Intensification written by Maria Napoli and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is still a need for the characterization of intensification as a distinct functional category in the domain of modification. The eighteen papers of the volume contribute to this aim with a new approach (mainly corpus-based). They focus on intensification from different perspectives (both synchronic and diachronic) and theoretical frameworks, concern ancient languages (Hittite, Greek, Latin) and modern languages (mainly Italian, German, English, Kiswahili), and involve different levels of analysis. They also identify and examine different types of intensifiers, applied to different forms and structures, such as adverbs, adjectives, evaluative affixes, discourse markers, reduplication, exclamative clauses, coordination, prosodic elements, and shed light on issues which have not been extensively studied so far.

The Price of Linguistic Productivity

Author : Charles Yang
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262035324
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Linguistic Productivity written by Charles Yang and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages. All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and demand, the price of linguistic productivity arises from the quantitative considerations of rules and exceptions. The learner postulates a productive rule only if it results in a more efficient organization of language, with the number of exceptions falling below a critical threshold. Supported by a wide range of cases with corpus evidence, Yang's Tolerance Principle gives a unified account of many long-standing puzzles in linguistics and psychology, including why children effortlessly acquire rules of language that perplex otherwise capable adults. His focus on computational efficiency provides novel insight on how language interacts with the other components of cognition and how the ability for language might have emerged during the course of human evolution.

Words and Meanings

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199668434
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Words and Meanings written by Cliff Goddard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics

Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316800717
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics by : Kimberly L. Geeslin

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics written by Kimberly L. Geeslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.

Universals in Comparative Morphology

Author : Jonathan David Bobaljik
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262304597
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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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.

Morphology and Pragmatics of the Diminutive: Evidence from Macedonian

Author : Lupco Spasovski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783659844317
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Morphology and Pragmatics of the Diminutive: Evidence from Macedonian written by Lupco Spasovski and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Morphology

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134645961
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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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.

Linguistic Inquiry

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Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Inquiry written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on current topics in linguistic theory, including new theoretical developments based on the latest international discoveries.

The Lexicon

Author : Elisabetta Ježek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191667110
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Lexicon written by Elisabetta Ježek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizing principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify a wide range of lexical phenomena, including polysemy, meaning variation in composition, and the interplay with ontology, syntax, and pragmatics. Elisabetta Ježek uses empirical data from digitalized corpora and speakers' judgements, combined with the formalisms developed in the field of general and theoretical linguistics, to propose representations for each of these phenomena. The key feature of the book is that it merges theoretical accounts with lexicographic approaches and computational insights. Its clear structure and accessible approach make The Lexicon an ideal textbook for all students of linguistics—theoretical, applied, and computational—and a valuable resource for scholars and students of language in the fields of cognitive science and philosophy.