Binominal Lexemes In Cross Linguistic Perspective

Author : Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110673494

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Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola Pdf

The typological, contrastive, and descriptive studies in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements, together with the kinds of semantic relation they involve, and their acquisition by children. The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun compounds and a range of other naming strategies, including prepositional compounds, relational compounds, construct forms, genitival constructions, and more. Overall, the volume suggests a new, cross-linguistic approach to the study of complex lexeme formation that cuts across the traditional boundaries between syntax, morphology, and lexicon.

Author : Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110673524

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Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola Pdf

The typological, contrastive, and descriptive studies in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements, together with the kinds of semantic relation they involve, and their acquisition by children. The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun compounds and a range of other naming strategies, including prepositional compounds, relational compounds, construct forms, genitival constructions, and more. Overall, the volume suggests a new, cross-linguistic approach to the study of complex lexeme formation that cuts across the traditional boundaries between syntax, morphology, and lexicon.

Author : Michel Kefer,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110851656

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Meaning and Grammar by Michel Kefer,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466021

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

Author : Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110778021

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Applicative Morphology by Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga Pdf

This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evidence, it challenges received wisdom on applicatives in several ways. First, in many of the surveyed languages, applicatives are the sole means to introduce a non-Actor semantic role into a clause. When there is an alternative way of expression, the applicative counterpart often has no valence-increasing effect on the targeted root. Second, applicative morphology can introduce constituents which are not syntactic objects and/or co-occur with obliques. Third, functions such as conveying aspectual nuances to the predicate (intensity, repetition, habituality) or its arguments (partitive P, highly individuated P), narrow-focusing constituents, and functioning as category-changing devices are attested in geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Further, this volume reveals that spatial-related morphology is prone to developing applicative functions in disparate languages and phyla. Finally, several contributions discuss the diachrony of applicative constructions and their (non-syntactic) attested functions, including a case of applicatives-in-the-making.

Author : Lena Terhart
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104352

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A grammar of Paunaka by Lena Terhart Pdf

This book offers the first detailed grammatical description of Paunaka, an Arawakan language spoken (in 2023) by eight people in the Chiquitania region in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia. The grammar builds on material collected during several fieldwork trips between 2009 and 2020 by the team of the Paunaka Documentation Project, which was funded by the ELDP from 2011–2013. This material includes roughly 120 hours of audio and video recordings, which have been archived at ELAR. In 2022, the dissertation on which this book is based received the annual Research Award at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The grammar provides a description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Paunaka, including numerous comparative remarks to closely related languages. It includes over 1500 examples, most of them accompanied by a brief description of their original linguistic or extralinguistic context.

Author : Patience Epps,Lev Michael
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110419405

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Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra by Patience Epps,Lev Michael Pdf

This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.

Author : Yaron Matras,Jeanette Sakel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199192

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Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Yaron Matras,Jeanette Sakel Pdf

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).

Author : Hanna Pishwa
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 3823350641

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The Development of Morphological Systematicity by Hanna Pishwa Pdf

Author : Franz Müller-Gotama
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCSC:32106011621916

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Grammatical Relations by Franz Müller-Gotama Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi,Ivan Fónagy,Tsunekazu Moriguchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293466

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Prosody and Syntax by Yuji Kawaguchi,Ivan Fónagy,Tsunekazu Moriguchi Pdf

This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the field that studies various phonological properties connected to utterances involving pitch, intensity, and length. These phonetic features almost always appear within complex combinations such as word and sentence accents and intonation. The subtitle, Cross-Linguistic perspectives, does not imply mere, cross-linguistic comparison and contrast of the prosodic phenomena. Rather, it implies that there are a variety of approaches which are unique to each language for prosodic analysis. In fact, the volume consists of prosodic analyses in 12 different languages : French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Makonde, Indonesian, Tagalog and Turkish.

Author : C-T James Huang,Robert May
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401134729

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Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure by C-T James Huang,Robert May Pdf

In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary linguistic data, to determine the grammars of particu lar languages. The papers presented in this volume are also concerned with language variation understood in this way. Their goals, however, do not strictly fall under the rubric of comparative syntax, but form part of what is more properly thought of as a comparative semantics. Semantics, in its broadest sense, is concerned with how linguistic structures are associated with their truth-conditions. A comparative semantics, therefore, is concerned with whether this association can vary from language to language, and if so, what is the cause of this variation. Taking comparative semantics in this way places certain inherent limitations on the search for the sources of variability. This is because the semantic notion of truth is universal, and does not vary from language to language: Sentences either do or do not accurately characterize what they purport to describe. ! The source of semantic variability, therefore, must be somehow located in the way a language is structured.

Author : Susan C. Herring
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250544

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Computer-mediated Communication by Susan C. Herring Pdf

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as chat, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), is the first to bring empirical evidence from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear on questions raised by the new medium.The first section, linguistic perspectives, addresses the question of how CMC compares with speaking and writing, and describes its unique structural characteristics. Section two, on social and ethical perspectives, explores conflicts between the interests of groups and those of individual users, including issues of online sex and sexism. In the third section, cross-cultural perspectives, the advantages and risks of using CMC to communicate across cultures are examined in three studies involving users in East Asia, Mexico, and students of ethnically diverse backgrounds in remedial writing classes in the United States. The final section deals with the effects of CMC on group interaction: in a women s studies mailing list, a hierarchically-organized workplace, and a public protest on the Internet against corporate interests.

Author : Franz Müller-Gotama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0311013732

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Grammatical Relations by Franz Müller-Gotama Pdf

Author : Giuliano Bernini,Marcia L. Schwartz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892222

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Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe by Giuliano Bernini,Marcia L. Schwartz Pdf

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.