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Grammatical Reconstruction

Author : Don Daniels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110616211
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Reconstruction written by Don Daniels and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.

Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages

Author : Katalin É Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110185508
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages by : Katalin É Kiss

Download or read book Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages written by Katalin É Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Grammatical Reconstruction

Author : Don Daniels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110616564
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Reconstruction written by Don Daniels and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.

Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon

Author : Constantin Freitag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725010
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon by : Constantin Freitag

Download or read book Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon written by Constantin Freitag and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.

Reconstructing Grammar

Author : Spike Gildea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298564
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Grammar written by Spike Gildea and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights.

On Reconstructing Grammar

Author : Spike Gildea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195109528
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book On Reconstructing Grammar written by Spike Gildea and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.

Reconstruction in Grammar

Author : Anita-Louise Cloutier de De la Garza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in Grammar written by Anita-Louise Cloutier de De la Garza and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Genesis of Grammar

Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527831
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Grammar written by Bernd Heine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal communication and human evolution. The questions they address include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that if language evolution is the result of language change then the reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists, cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.

Reconstruction in grammar

Author : Anita-Louise C. de DeLaGarza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in grammar written by Anita-Louise C. de DeLaGarza and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconstruction in Grammar

Author : Anita-Louise Cloutier De la Garza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in Grammar written by Anita-Louise Cloutier De la Garza and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconstructing Grammar

Author : Spike Gildea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229458
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Grammar written by Spike Gildea and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights.

Mixed Emotions and Indigenous Language Maintenance in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Communities

Author : Chun-Mei Chen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666934119
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Mixed Emotions and Indigenous Language Maintenance in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Communities by : Chun-Mei Chen

Download or read book Mixed Emotions and Indigenous Language Maintenance in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Communities written by Chun-Mei Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed Emotions and Indigenous Language Maintenance in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Communities examines the interplay between emotions and Indigenous language maintenance among Paiwan families after they relocated to post-disaster reconstruction communities in Taiwan. In the view of sociocultural theory, mixed emotions mediate social action by connecting language resources and family language maintenance experiences. Against the context of Indigenous families and reconstruction communities, the author utilizes orientation activities to investigate mixed emotions, language practices, and language socialization among Paiwan family members. This book also explores the multimodal space of emotions, language practices in Indigenous language, and the language repertoire from micro-level family practices to meso- and macro-level community mobilization. The results of this volume shed light on emotions in family language policy, family communication in the teaching of heritage knowledge in Indigenous societies, and most importantly, Indigenous language maintenance in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. This book contributes to the documentation of the Paiwan language in the reconstruction communities, language equality, and the maintenance of the Indigenous language in post-disaster reconstruction communities. It can be used to develop the conceptual underpinnings of Indigenous language policies, Indigenous education programs, and Indigenous language maintenance practices.

Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction (Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory)

Author : Michael Carter
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809389070
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction (Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory) written by Michael Carter and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages

Author : Katalin É. Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110902222
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages by : Katalin É. Kiss

Download or read book Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages written by Katalin É. Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Grammar (more precisely, in terms of a hypothetical model of UG). Their studies, discussing syntactic and morphosyntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit, demonstrate that descriptive problems which have proved unsolvable for the traditional, inductive approach can be reduced to the interaction of regular operations and constraints of UG. The proposed analyses also bear on linguistic theory. They provide crucial new data and new generalizations concerning such basic questions of generative syntax as discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case marking to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitival constructions, the structure of coordinate phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax. In addition to confirming or refuting certain specific hypotheses, they also provide empirical evidence of the perhaps most basic tenet of generative theory, according to which UG is part of the genetic endowment of the human species - i.e., human languages do not "develop" parallel with the development of human civilization. Some of the languages examined in this volume were spoken as much as 5000 years old, still their grammars do not differ in any relevant respect from the grammars of languages spoken today.

The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199376638
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar written by Thomas Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.

Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses

Author : Manfred Krifka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110380773
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses written by Manfred Krifka and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned. An often cited type of example is “The [relative of his] [which every man admires most] is his mother.”, where the pronoun “his” in the relative head appears to be bound by the quantified noun phrase “every man” in the relative clause – although the latter does not c-command the former, which is commonly required for binding. Several solutions have been developed in various theoretical frameworks. One interesting aspect about reconstruction effects in relative clauses is that they can be used as a benchmark for competing theories of grammar: Which architecture of the syntax-semantics interface can provide the most satisfying explanation for these phenomena? This volume brings together researchers working in different frameworks but looking at the same set of empirical facts, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.

Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110816504
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology written by Jacek Fisiak and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 381 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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.