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Author : Andrzej Głazek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of English Modifier-noun Combinations written by Andrzej Głazek and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christiane Bongartz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311094071X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Noun Combination in Interlanguage written by Christiane Bongartz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the effects of first language typology on the interlanguage of learners of English as a second language. Adapting William Rutherford's (1983) view of interlanguage as the typological intersection between the first language and the second language, the study demonstrates how first language effects subtly shape learner choices even at near native proficiency. Grounded in the tradition of transfer research and in the research program in generative grammar, the evidence presented shows the distribution of noun+noun compounds such as the love song and phrasal noun combinations such as the song about love in interlanguage data. These two patterns, it is argued, are systematically related by determiner properties and the process of noun incorporation. Obtained from a multi-task cross-sectional experiment, the data illustrates that learners with Czech as their first language use phrasal constructs (the song about love) significantly more often in production than learners with Mandarin Chinese as their first language, whose preferred choice are noun+noun compounds (the love song). The differences between the learner groups reflect the use of overt case marking in the first language Czech and the absence of overt case marking in the first language Mandarin Chinese.
Author : Iria Pastor Gómez
Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Nominal Modifiers in Noun Phrase Structure: Evidence from Contemporary English. written by Iria Pastor Gómez and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2010 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Réka Benczes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027223739
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Creative Compounding in English written by Réka Benczes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphorical and metonymical compounds novel and lexicalised ones alike are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical nounnoun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.
Author : Douglas Biber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316462404
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Complexity in Academic English written by Douglas Biber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.
Author : Carmen Silva-Corvalán
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024269
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Bilingual Language Acquisition written by Carmen Silva-Corvalán and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.
Author : Sam Glucksberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198027125
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Understanding Figurative Language written by Sam Glucksberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for ordinary, literal language. Glucksberg's research in this book is concerned with ordinary language: expressions that are used in daily life, including conversations about everyday matters, newspaper and magazine articles, and the media. Metaphor is the major focus of the book. Idioms, however, are also treated comprehensively, as is the theory of conceptual metaphor in the context of how people understand both conventional and novel figurative expressions. A new theory of metaphor comprehension is put forward, and evaluated with respect to competing theories in linguistics and in psychology. The central tenet of the theory is that ordinary conversational metaphors are used to create new concepts and categories. This process is spontaneous and automatic. Metaphor is special only in the sense that these categories get their names from the best examples of the things they represent, and that these categories get their names from the best examples of those categories. Thus, the literal "shark" can be a metaphor for any vicious and predatory being, from unscrupulous salespeople to a murderous character in The Threepenny Opera. Because the same term, e.g.,"shark," is used both for its literal referent and for the metaphorical category, as in "My lawyer is a shark," we call it the dual-reference theory. The theory is then extended to two other domains: idioms and conceptual metaphors. The book presents the first comprehensive account of how people use and understand metaphors in everyday life.
Author : Sri Endah Tabiati
Publisher : UMMPress
ISBN 13 : 9797962512
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (979 download)
Download or read book TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE written by Sri Endah Tabiati and published by UMMPress. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to translate needs patience. In addition, the learners must fulfill some requirements. They have to master the language of the original texts (SL) and the language into which the texts will be transferred or translated (TL) well. Knowledge of linguistics will also be of a great help. This textbook will equip the students of an English Department with theory and practice of translation. It starts with the quotations of the definitions of translation proposed by translation experts to make the translation learners know, understand and have deep insights of translation. It is then followed by the process, types and methods of translation to provide the translation learners with a guide of how to translate. Some problems commonly occurred in the case of the translation from English into Indonesian are also provided to make learners skillful in the translation dealing with the two languages. The exercises are provided to make the learners have a lot of practice in translation. The texts for the practice vary: taken from different sources and different registers or genres. The Book is completed with Course Outline or RPKPS (The Plan of the Semester learning Activities Program), Glossary, and he authors' CVs The Objectives of each chapter are presented at the beginning of each chapter.The authors want to express her appreciation and thanks to: Herdianti Nurmala, Fortunita, Febrianti, Rozi and Dian Putri who have given significant contribution in providing examples for the exercises. Last but not least the authors need criticisms and inputs about the textbook to make translation learners good translators in the shortest possible time.
Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319141023
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Semantics of Complex Words written by Laurie Bauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.
Author : Eve V. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514134
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book First Language Acquisition written by Eve V. Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Eve V. Clark takes a comprehensive look at where and when children acquire a first language. All the major findings and debates are presented in a highly readable form.
Author : Harold Pashler
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412950570
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Mind written by Harold Pashler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior. Studies of the mind and brain have crossed many exciting thresholds in recent years, and the study of mind now represents a thoroughly cross-disciplinary effort. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to such questions as: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness? This encyclopedia brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.
Author : Sandra Handl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110238195
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Windows to the Mind written by Sandra Handl and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time, the study of linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the key cognitive processes of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, which have proven to be highly influential in linguistic conceptualization. Theoretical and methodological issues, such as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding of metaphor, are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the explanatory potential of these theories, build bridges between them, link them with other approaches and notions (such as construction grammar, common ground and stance/evaluation), and uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments, analyses of data culled from authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches.
Author : Lobke Ghesquière
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110338750
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Directionality of (Inter)subjectification in the English Noun Phrase written by Lobke Ghesquière and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by tracing the development of identifying, noun-intensifying and subjective compound uses. By means of in-depth corpus study, the assumed unidirectionality of (inter)subjectification in the NP is verified and refined.
Author : James P. Blevins
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199547548
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Analogy in Grammar written by James P. Blevins and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar. What kinds of patterns do speakers select as the basis for analogical extension? What types of items are particularly susceptible or resistant to analogical pressures? At what levels do analogical processes operate and how do processes interact? What formal mechanisms areappropriate for modelling analogy? The novel synthesis of typological, theoretical, computational, and developmental paradigms in this volume brings us closer to answering these questions than ever before.
Author : Mario Brdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818011
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Approaches to English written by Mario Brdar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an international event organized to mark the 30th anniversary of English studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, which was held in Osijek on October 18–19, 2007. The participants were invited to discuss issues in cognitive accounts of English, ranging from fundamental to methodological to interdisciplinary and applied. The volume is accordingly divided into four parts. Part I, Motivation in grammar, deals with various phenomena in the grammar of English in the broadest sense of the term, all of which are shown to be motivated by metaphorical and/or metonymic operations. Part II, Constructing meaning (between grammar and lexicon), contains five chapters dealing with phenomena ranging from various peculiarities of form-meaning pairings (such as synonymy, polysemy, and figurative meanings) to concept formation. The four chapters that make up Part III are concerned with the phenomenon of interlinguistic and intercultural variation in the use of metaphorical and metonymic processes. The volume is concluded by Part IV, the three papers of which attempt to reconsider some TEFL issues from a cognitive linguistic point of view.
Author : C. L. Baker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521987
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)
Download or read book English Syntax, second edition written by C. L. Baker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995-03-27 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. The detailed revisions throughout this new edition are aimed at increasing its clarity and usefulness. There are changes in almost every chapter, including a large number of new exercises and several new subsections. In addition there are two new appendixes, the first sketching the relation of English syntax to the wider field of generative syntactic theory, the second summarizing the basic syntactic structures discussed in the body of the text. Specific changes include a fuller discussion, at the beginning of chapter 3, of the difference between complements and modifiers; a more systematic introduction to tree diagrams and what they express, at the end of chapter 3; a new subsection in chapter 4 on how to analyze complex structures; a new discussion of the general nature of missing-phrase constructions in chapter 9; a significant revision of the discussion of comparative clauses in chapter 12; a new discussion of the scope of negation in chapter 15; and, in chapter 16, a new discussion of practical strategies for analyzing conjoined structures.
Author : Martin Schäfer
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100306
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The semantic transparency of English compound nouns written by Martin Schäfer and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. All semantic annotations used in the book are freely available.
