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Author : Philip Oder Lumban Tobing
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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Structure of the Toba-Batak Belief in the High God written by Philip Oder Lumban Tobing and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110730952
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages written by Fernando Zuniga and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).
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Total Pages : 1144 pages
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Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016544
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Analyzing Syntax written by Paul Kroeger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach is a comprehensive and accessible 2004 textbook on syntactic analysis, designed for students of linguistics at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Working within the 'Lexical Functional Grammar' (LFG) approach, it provides students with a framework for analyzing and describing grammatical structure, using extensive examples from both European and non-European languages. Topics covered include: tests for constituency, passivization and other relation-changing processes, reflexive pronouns, the control relation, Topic and Focus, relative clauses and Wh-questions, causative constructions, serial verbs, 'quirky case', and ergativity. As well as building on what linguists have learned about language in general, particular attention is paid to the unique features of individual languages. While its primary focus is on syntactic structure, the book also deals with aspects of meaning, function and word-structure that are directly relevant to syntax. Clearly organised into topics, this textbook is ideal for one-semester courses in syntax and grammatical analysis.
Author : Martin Everaert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405178418
Total Pages : 3285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Syntax written by Martin Everaert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 3285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Pre-Order The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, second edition, publishing December 2017. Find out more at www.companiontosyntax.com *** This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world’s leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others. A unique collection of 70 newly-commissioned case studies, offering access to research completed over the last 40 years. Brings together the world’s leading syntacticians to provide a large and diverse number of case studies in the field. Explores a comprehensive range of syntax topics from an historical perspective. Investigates empirical domains which have been well-documented and which have played a prominent role in theoretical syntax at some stage in the development of generative grammar. Serves as a research tool for not only theoretical linguistics but also the various forms of applied linguistics. Contains an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume featuring keywords and key figures. Each multi-volume set is also accompanied by a CD Rom of the entire Companion. Like the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this multi-volume work, in the new The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics series, can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list is associated.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037338
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Languages of East and Southeast Asia written by Cliff Goddard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains wide-ranging and accessible discussions of every important aspect of the languages of the region, including word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, and communicative styles. Students of linguistics will welcome the book's treatments of celebrated East Asian features such as classifiers, serial verb constructions, tones, topic-prominence, and honorifics. It shows students of particular Asian languages how their language fits structurally and culturally into the regional language mosaic. With its exercises, solutions, glossary, and many fascinating cases and insights, the book is an ideal introduction to descriptive and field linguistics. Cliff Goddard writes with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples. His book will appeal to all those with a serious interest in the languages and cultures of the region.
Author : Clifford S. Burgess
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9781575860039
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Relations written by Clifford S. Burgess and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of discussions of grammatical relations and related concepts using current syntactic theory.
Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635660
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Syntax written by Robert D. Van Valin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax.
Author : Carlotta Viti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268932
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Historical Syntax written by Carlotta Viti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.
Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521378673
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (786 download)
Download or read book A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency written by John A. Hawkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major new work arguing that grammars are profoundly shaped by language processing.
Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811798
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface written by Robert D. Van Valin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages.
Author : Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198793553
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Niuean written by Diane Massam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing ground for this claim: it displays verb-subject-object word order, in which the subject interrupts the predicate, and has an ergative case system, in which subjects are not clearly distinguished from objects in their marking for grammatical case. Diane Massam uses the framework of generative grammar to carry out a detailed analysis of the internal structure of Niuean predicates and arguments, as well as the relations between them, touching on many other topics including the nature of displacement, word formation, determiners, and thematic roles. The proposal is that Niuean complex predicates are formed via successive inversion, prior to the merge of all arguments (high argument merge), and that the predicate undergoes fronting to initial position across the arguments, with the same structure found also in nominal clauses. The conclusion is that Niuean does not have a subject in the usual sense, and this is related to the fact that the language has isolating morphology, lacking all tense and agreement inflection and nominative case. Instead, the language exhibits low absolutive predication, applicative ergative agents, and predicate fronting in lieu of subject extraction. The book extends our understanding of cross-linguistic sentence structure and grammatical case, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, typology, and theoretical linguistics.
Author : Susanna Cumming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110864541
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Functional Change written by Susanna Cumming and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petra Campe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228116
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations written by Petra Campe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a remarkable feature of the project is the use of computer corpora of authentic material. This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in research into case and case-related phenomena. This includes not only morphological case markers, but also the crossconstituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations. In addition, the bibliography reflects the implications of case research for other disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence. More than 6000 publications are listed. An extensive Subject Index provides easy access to all the topics and major concepts covered. A Language Index and a Guide to Languages/Language Families conclude the book. The other volumes in the series include The Dative (2 vols), The Genitive, The Nominative and Accusative, and Non-nuclear Cases.
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110847280
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatics of Word Order written by Doris L. Payne and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 312 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.
Author : Pamela A. Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027284946
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order in Discourse written by Pamela A. Downing and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
Author : N.E. Collinge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977166
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Language written by N.E. Collinge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history * Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names * Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text `This rich repository of information on all aspects of language is a must for all libraries in higher education, schools and larger public libraries.' - Library Review `Each article has an excellent bibliography. In addition, there are comprehensive indexes of topics and technical terms and names. Highly recommended for all college and general public libraries.' - Choice `This important book is in many ways a state-of-the -art survey of current conceptions of, and approaches to, language, with generous references to more detailed sources. Each chapter has a good bibliography.' - Language International `A comprehensive guide ... with very thorough bibliographies ... Collinge's Encyclopedia is recommended to academic libraries.' - Reference Reviews `The bibliographies are an invaluable aid ... the editor is to be congratulated for having done an excellent job ... there are virtually no areas of language and linguistics that do not get a look in somewhere, and there is good signposting in the text itself.' - Nigel Vincent, Times Higher Education Supplement
