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Author : Marge E. Landsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110847531
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Language written by Marge E. Landsberg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262630214
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Language : a Psycholinguistic Approach written by Frank Smith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lantolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development written by James Lantolf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates theory, research, and practice on the learning of second and foreign languages as informed by sociocultural and activity theory. It familiarizes students, teachers, and other researchers who do not work within the theory with its principal claims and constructs in particular as they relate to second language research. The book also describes and illustrates the use of activity theory to support practical and conceptual innovations in second language education.
Author : Kenneth C. Hill
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780897200257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Language written by Kenneth C. Hill and published by Karoma Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers on Creolization, second language acquisition, contact stimulated marginal languages and theoretical orientations in Creole studies.
Author : J. Clancy Clements
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276188
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of a Language written by J. Clancy Clements and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as well after 1740. This volume is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the formation, linguistic components, and rapidly changing situation of this exotic creole. The product of ten years of research, Korlai Creole Portuguese provides an exciting, in-depth diachronic look at a language that is now showing the strain of intense cultural pressure from the surrounding Marathi-speaking population. Framed in Thomason and Kaufman’s 1988 model of contact-induced language change, the author’s analysis is enriched by numerous comparisons with sister creoles, apart from medieval Portuguese and Marathi. This book contrastively examines the following areas: phonemic inventories, phonological processes, stress assignment, syllable structure, paradigm restructuring, paradigm use, lexicon, word formation, semantic borrowing, loan translations, grammatical relation marking, pre- and postnominal modification, negation, subject and object deletion, embedding, and word order.
Author : Matthieu Pageau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781981549337
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (493 download)
Download or read book The Language of Creation written by Matthieu Pageau and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of Creation is a commentary on the primeval stories from the book of Genesis. It is often difficult to recognize the spiritual wisdom contained in these narratives because the current scientific worldview is deeply rooted in materialism. Therefore, instead of looking at these stories through the lens of modern academic disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, or the physical sciences, this commentary attempts to interpret the Bible from its own cosmological perspective.By contemplating the ancient biblical model of the universe, The Language of Creation demonstrates why these stories are foundational to western science and civilization. It rediscovers the archaic cosmic patterns of heaven, earth, time, and space, and sees them repeated at different levels of reality. These fractal-like structures are first encountered in the narrative of creation and then in the stories of the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, and the flood. The same patterns are also revealed in the visions of Ezekiel, the book of Daniel, and the miracles of Moses. The final result of this contemplation is a vision of the cosmos centered on the role of human consciousness in creation.
Author : Edit Doron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262438
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew written by Edit Doron and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.
Author : Kenneth C. Hill
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Language written by Kenneth C. Hill and published by Karoma Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers on Creolization, second language acquisition, contact stimulated marginal languages and theoretical orientations in Creole studies.
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527831
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
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.
Author : Michael TOMASELLO
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044398
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Constructing a Language written by Michael TOMASELLO and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.
Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674363366
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author examines gossip as a form of 'verbal grooming', and as a means of strengthening relationships. He challenges the idea that language developed during male activities such as hunting, and that it was actually amongst women that it evolved.
Author : Frank Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262690225
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Language written by Frank Smith and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923282
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book On the Origin of Language written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.
Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521025386
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar written by Claire Lefebvre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. The author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
Author : Sebastian Nordhoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242252
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay written by Sebastian Nordhoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a truly global analysis of one of the most extreme cases of language contact, where the Malays changed the whole morphosyntax of their language in as little as just over three centuries. The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.
Author : Frederick Bodmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393300345
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Loom of Language written by Frederick Bodmer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
Author : Robert M. Seyfarth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140088814X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Social Origins of Language written by Robert M. Seyfarth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
