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Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar

Author : J.F. Staal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027705495
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar by : J.F. Staal

Download or read book Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar written by J.F. Staal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1967-01-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph owes its existence to certain puzzles in universal grammar and the theory of language which led the author to an investigation of word order in Sanskrit and its possible analyses and descriptions. Not unexpectedly, the raw material was found to be too vast for a first-hand treatment even to be attempted. Rather surprisingly, however, its inter pretations by Indian and Western theorists and grammarians turned out to be so greatly at variance, that an analysis of these interpretations seemed rewarding. Accordingly, theoretical issues within the framework of generative grammar had to be faced anew, and alternative solutions suggested them selves. In this connexion the Sanskrit grammarians proved not only in spiring but positively helpful. This book may invite the accusation that it wilfully mixes disciplines. There were alternatives: one could try to write a history of the subject; or construct a merely formal edifice, leaving it to others to test its adequacy; or else one could make the notorious attempt to stick to the facts, which is not only unilluminating but also bound to fail. Any such self-imposed restrictions seemed to conflict with the original intent. And so it was decided not only to make available the results of the investigation into Sanskrit word order, but also to introduce a theory of universal grammar to account for these and other results.

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.

Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions

Author : Paul Kent Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235171
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions by : Paul Kent Andersen

Download or read book Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions written by Paul Kent Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology; 3) Word order within comparative constructions; 4) Word order in the comparative construction in the Rigveda; 5) Diachronic aspects of word order withing comparative constructions.

Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027227349
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation by : Artemis Alexiadou

Download or read book Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

Constituent Order in Functional Grammar

Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110875837
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Constituent Order in Functional Grammar by : John H. Connolly

Download or read book Constituent Order in Functional Grammar written by John H. Connolly and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or structural properties of ordering but also the part which CO plays in linguistic communication.

Contrastive Analysis in Language

Author : D. Willems
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023052463X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contrastive Analysis in Language written by D. Willems and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question 'Does the analytical apparatus used by linguists allow comparisons to be made across languages?' Four major domains are considered in turn: derivational morphology, syntax, semantics & pragmatics, and discourse. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of linguistic disciplines, ranging from contrastive linguistics and linguistic typology to translation studies and historical linguistics.

A Semantic Analysis of Word Order

Author : Waugh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004655379
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Semantic Analysis of Word Order written by Waugh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

Author : Hadumod Bussmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134630387
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics by : Hadumod Bussmann

Download or read book Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics written by Hadumod Bussmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.

The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present

Author : Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816609837
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present by : Aldo D. Scaglione

Download or read book The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present written by Aldo D. Scaglione and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The uniquely systematic character of German word order and sentence structure has long been recognized as an important feature of the language and of its literary uses. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the way theorists and stylists have interpreted these features through the centuries. Aldo Scaglione contends that the story of this theoretical awareness is part of the emerging cultural and literary consciousness of the German nation, as well as a testing ground for contemporary linguistic typology. German speculation on the nature of a national language is, to Scaglione, best understood as a dialogue with the prevailing models of Latin, Italian, French, and English. His account of the debates over German word order is thus grounded in the complex historical circumstances from which they emerge: Renaissance grammarians took stock of German divergencies from the Latin cultural model, and those in the seventeenth century faced the challenges of French rationalism, nineteenth-century Romanticism and the many linguistic movements of the twentieth century have all cast new light upon the peculiarities of German sentence structure. Readers interested in historical syntax, rhetorical traditions, and the history of the German language will value both Scaglione's wide-ranging knowledge and his lively style.

The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia

Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423308
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia written by Hans Henrich Hock and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Grammatical Literature

Author : Hartmut Scharfe
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447017060
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammatical Literature by : Hartmut Scharfe

Download or read book Grammatical Literature written by Hartmut Scharfe and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sense and Syntax in Vedic

Author : Joel Peter Brereton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004093560
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (935 download)

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Book Synopsis Sense and Syntax in Vedic by : Joel Peter Brereton

Download or read book Sense and Syntax in Vedic written by Joel Peter Brereton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All volumes of the print edition will become available in individual e-books: 9789004539303 (volume 1) - 9789004539341 (volume 2).

Clitics

Author : Joel A. Nevis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727665X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Clitics written by Joel A. Nevis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay “What is a Clitic?” by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.

Bhartrhari

Author : Mithilesh Chaturvedi
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120833996
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Bhartrhari written by Mithilesh Chaturvedi and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the outcome of the international seminar on Bhartrhari: Thought, Language and Reality held in New Delhi on 12-14 December 2003 as part of the centenary celebrations of Motilal Banarasidass. In this seminar, scholars from all over the world presented their interpretations of Bhartrhariês philosophy, some of the light of the modern trends in philosophy and linguistics, others in the backdrop of Indian tradition. This volume contains almost all the papers presented at the seminar along with some other papers invited from scholars who could not participate in the seminar to make it comprehensive. The papers discuss the metaphysics of Bhartrhari and his ideas about questions concerned language and reality. Some of the papers compare Bhartrhari with Western Philosophers and linguists like Wittgenstein, Grice, Searle, Humboldt, Chomsky and Goldbert, thus showing his relevance to problems in contemporary philosophy and linguistics. It is clear that after the initial efforts in the fourth to sixth decades of the twentieth century, Bhartrhari studies have now gained a significant momentum.

The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy

Author : Jaysankar Lal Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474245072
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy written by Jaysankar Lal Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy. By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully constructed, this volume of his collected writings, shows the parallels Shaw draws between core topics in both traditions, such as proper names, definite descriptions, meaning of a sentence, knowledge, doubt, inference and testimony. It captures how Shaw uses the techniques and concepts of Indian philosophers, especially the followers of the Navya-Nyaya, to address global problems like false belief, higher order knowledge and extraordinary perception. Exploring timeless ideas from Indian thought alongside major issues in contemporary philosophy, Shaw reveals how the two traditions can interact and throw light on each other, providing better solutions to philosophical problems. He has also reflected on modern issues such as freedom, morality and harmony from the classical Indian thought. Featuring a glossary and updates to his writings,The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy also includes new work by Shaw on the relationship between Indian and analytic philosophy today.

Horizons of the Mind. A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden

Author : Franck van Breugel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319068806
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Horizons of the Mind. A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden written by Franck van Breugel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift volume contains papers presented at a conference, Prakash Fest, held in honor of Prakash Panangaden, in Oxford, UK, in May 2014, to celebrate his 60th birthday. Prakash Panangaden has worked on a large variety of topics including probabilistic and concurrent computation, logics and duality and quantum information and computation. Despite the enormous breadth of his research, he has made significant and deep contributions. For example, he introduced logic and a real-valued interpretation of the logic to capture equivalence of probabilistic processes quantitatively. The 25 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed. They cover a large variety of topics in theoretical computer science.

The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume 5

Author : Harold G. Coward
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872707
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume 5 by : Harold G. Coward

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume 5 written by Harold G. Coward and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the monumental reference series being prepared under the general editorship of Karl Potter provides summaries of the main works in the Grammarian tradition of Indian philosophy. Describing the functions of language on different levels, from ordinary empirical speech to the poetic intuition of the divine, the Grammarians sought to demonstrate that the correct grammatical use of language and the devotional chanting of mantras are ways of moving from lower to higher stages of knowledge and self-realization. This work gives special emphasis to the thought of Bhartrhari, the great systematizer of the Grammarian philosophy. For those unacquainted with Indian philosophy, the editors' introduction provides an explanation of the basic concepts found in the Grammarian texts. Grammarian thought is based on the Vedas, and the writings of Panini, Patanjali, Bhartrhari, and others develop implicit Vedic ideas about language and its function. Their works combine a grammatical analysis of Sanskrit language with a philosophy that takes language as divine. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.