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A Grammar of Responsibility

Author : Gabriel Moran
Publisher : Crossroad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Responsibility written by Gabriel Moran and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Grammar of Responsibility is an interesting, provocative, and careful study of the way to speak about responsibility. The term is everywhere these days but is seldom examined in any detail. And yet, responsibility is a complicated idea with a peculiar history." "The book starts from the way people speak, using hundreds of examples from contemporary discussions. It explains the need for a grammar, that is, a consistent and comprehensive way to use the term. It goes on to analyze a host of ethical dilemmas. In each case, a "grammar of responsibility" provides a fresh look at seemingly intractable problems. The result is a book of clear ideas to help us deal intelligently with the sense of moral crisis that is widespread today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Language of Responsibility

Author : Wendell Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Responsibility written by Wendell Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)

Author : Harold J. Laski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317586778
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski) written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laski’s magnum opus, this volume outlines the history and functions of state institutions which (in the author’s view) are desirable for the effective functioning of a democracy. Topics discussed include: The necessity of government; state and society; rights and power; liberty and equality; property as a theory of industrial organisation; the nature of nationalism; law as a source of authority; the functions of international organisations.

Language and Responsibility

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Language and Responsibility written by Noam Chomsky and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished linguist and controversial political critic combines both aspects of his life and work in this wide-ranging and informative discussion that presents his political, moral, and linguistic views on current issues.

Requesting Responsibility

Author : Jörg Zinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190210737
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Requesting Responsibility written by Jörg Zinken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. Requests for carrying out little jobs-passing some object or fetching items from the next room -are pervasively relevant in contexts such as preparing and consuming food, caring for and playing with children. Requests therefore provide a useful window onto general qualities of human sociality as well as on aspects of cultural diversity. Jörg Zinken describes features of interactional context that people across cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request. In particular, the other person's locally observable commitment to a shared task emerges as a quality of context that systematically enters into the way a speaker builds a request. He then analyses the relationship between diversity across the grammatical resources of languages, and diversity in the action affordances provided by these structures. Focusing on grammatical structures that exist in Polish but not in English (impersonal deontic statements, a certain type of double imperative, and a grammaticalized distinction between perfective and imperfective verbal aspect), the analyses show that language-specific turn formats can index and project social orientations within the on-going interaction in culture-specific ways. By examining social actions at a fine level of grain, the book points a way toward an understanding of cultural diversity that avoids the pitfalls of cultural relativism.

A Grammar of Lao

Author : N.J. Enfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110207532
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Lao written by N.J. Enfield and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.

A Grammar of Warrongo

Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110238772
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Warrongo written by Tasaku Tsunoda and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrongo is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that used to be spoken in northeast Australia. This volume is largely based on the rich data recorded from the last fluent speaker. It details the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. In particular, it provides a truly scrutinizing description of syntactic ergativity - a phenomenon that is rare among the world's language. It also shows that, unlike some other Australian languages, Warrongo has noun phrases that are configurational. Overall this volume shows what can be documented of a language that has only one speaker.

A Grammar of Hup

Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199076
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Hup written by Patience Epps and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with particular reference to areal contact and grammaticalization. The grammar begins with an introduction to the cultural and linguistic background of Hup speakers, gives an overview of the phonology, and follows this with chapters on morphosyntax (nominal morphology, verbs and verb compounding, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, etc.); it concludes with discussions of negation, the simple clause, and clause combining. A number of features of Hup grammar are typologically significant, such as its strategy of inversion in question formation, its system of Differential Object Marking, and its treatment of possession. Hup also exhibits several highly unusual paths of grammaticalization, such as the development of a verbal future suffix from the noun ‘stick, tree’. The book also includes a selection of texts and a CD-ROM with audio files.

A Grammar of Rapa Nui

Author : Paulus Kieviet
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234755
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.

A Grammar of Akabea

Author : Raoul Zamponi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192597809
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Akabea written by Raoul Zamponi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.

A Grammar of Trio

Author : Eithne Carlin
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Trio written by Eithne Carlin and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil. Typologically interesting features of Trio include a basic word order Object-Verb-Subject and a system of evidentiality that expresses whether or not the speaker was eye-witness to an event. Trio has several grammatical morphemes that mirror the group's conceptualization of the world of the visible and the invisible in which they live; one is a facsimile marker that expresses that the denotee of a noun is manifestly but not intrinsically that denotee; the role of the individual in contributing to a harmonious collective, recognized by anthropologists as a salient aspect of Amazonian life, is expressed by two responsibility clitics. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists, anthropologists, and everyone interested in the finer points of Guianan-Amazonian languages.

A Grammar of Mangghuer

Author : Keith W. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135790809
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mangghuer written by Keith W. Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. The book's primary importance is thus as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. The book also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. In addition to the synchronic description of Mangghuer, extensive comparison with other Mongolic languages is included, demonstrating the genetic relationship of Mangghuer within that family. In the course of describing Mangghuer linguistic structures, the book also examines issues of interest to linguistic typologists.

A Grammar of Late Modern English: the elements of the sentence

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English: the elements of the sentence written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Author : Alexander Clark
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347188
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing by : Alexander Clark

Download or read book The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing written by Alexander Clark and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Features contributions by the top researchers in the field, reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forward Includes an introduction to the major theoretical issues in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has produced Presents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologies Serves as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers developing NLP applications in industrial research and development labs of software companies

A Grammar of Late Modern English

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of Guìqióng

Author : Li Jiang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004293043
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Guìqióng written by Li Jiang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.

A grammar of Yakkha

Author : Diana Schackow
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234119
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A grammar of Yakkha written by Diana Schackow and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.