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Author : Mary Catherine O'Connor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Switch Reference in Northern Pomo written by Mary Catherine O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Stirling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521402298
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation written by Lesley Stirling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory, proposing instead an account for them which is formalised in Discourse Representation Theory.
Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027280266
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Switch Reference and Universal Grammar written by John Haiman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for referential tracking. Formally, switch-reference is almost always a verbal category, similar to the familiar category of verbal concord. In most languages switch-reference marking is indicated by a verbal affix, however in some languages it may be marked by an independent morpheme. The contributions to this volume are concerned with questions of form, function, and genesis of canonical switch-reference systems.
Author : Rik van Gijn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266778
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Switch Reference 2.0 written by Rik van Gijn and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person or number marking. In the 50 years since William Jacobsen’s coinage of the term, switch reference has evolved from an exotic phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages to a widespread feature found in geographically and linguistically unconnected parts of the world. The growing body of information on the topic raises new theoretical and empirical questions about the development, functions, and nature of switch reference, as well as the internal variation between different switch-reference systems. The contributions to this volume discuss these and other questions for a wide variety of languages from all over the world, and endevaour to demonstrate the full functional and morphosyntactic range of the phenomenon.
Author : William A. Foley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110872838
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Role of Theory in Language Description written by William A. Foley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 477 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.
Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621304
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Presumptive Meanings written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-04-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. Levinson outlines a theory of presumptive meanings, or preferred interpretations, governing the use of language, building on the idea of implicature developed by the philosopher H.P. Grice. Some of the indirect information carried by speech is presumed by default because it is carried by general principles, rather than inferred from specific assumptions about intention and context. Levinson examines this class of general pragmatic inferences in detail, showing how they apply to a wide range of linguistic constructions. This approach has radical consequences for how we think about language and communication.
Author : Joan Bresnan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119099218
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Lexical-Functional Syntax written by Joan Bresnan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity
Author : Knud Lambrecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587044
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Information Structure and Sentence Form written by Knud Lambrecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. This relationship between speaker assumptions and formal sentence structure is governed by rules and conventions of grammar, in a component called 'information structure'. Four independent but interrelated categories are analysed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.
Author : Victor Golla
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520389670
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521660394
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Download or read book Changing Valency written by Robert M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.
Author : Neil Alexander Walker
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496217659
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Southern Pomo written by Neil Alexander Walker and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people’s staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
Author : David P. Rising
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Switch Reference in Koasati Discourse written by David P. Rising and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a brief sociolinguistic note, a phonological description and a grammar outline of Koasati (Muskogean, TX).
Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415270823
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Morphology: Morphology: its relation to syntax written by Francis Katamba and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.
Author : Dingfang Shu
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118861
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West written by Dingfang Shu and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of papers on contrastive semantics and pragmatics has developed out of talks given at the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at the ... Hongkou Campus of Shanghai International Studies University ... in 2005."--
Author : Carmen Dagostino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712741
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America written by Carmen Dagostino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198235286
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Anaphora written by Yan Huang and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Publisher-supplied data) Yan Huang is Reader in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading.
