Constructions In Contact

Author : Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259974

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Constructions in Contact 2 by Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder Pdf

The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.

Author : Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263308

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Constructions in Contact by Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder Pdf

The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages, the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.

Author : Samuel L. Boyd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004448766

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Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel by Samuel L. Boyd Pdf

In Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel, Boyd offers the first book-length incorporation of language contact theory with data from the Bible. It allows for a reexamination of the nature of contact between biblical authors and the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Achaemenid empires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Telephone
ISBN : UIUC:30112119913801

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Telephone System Construction Contact (labor and Materials) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101412

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Bridging constructions by Valérie Guérin Pdf

Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.

Author : Hendrik De Smet,Lobke Ghesquière,Freek Van de Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268006

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On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change by Hendrik De Smet,Lobke Ghesquière,Freek Van de Velde Pdf

In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).

Author : Micah Corum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514626

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Substrate and Adstrate by Micah Corum Pdf

This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514091

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Converging Grammars by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars

Author : Anthony P. Grant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199945092

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact by Anthony P. Grant Pdf

"In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world."-- Jaquette.

Author : Rena Torres Cacoullos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298706

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Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact by Rena Torres Cacoullos Pdf

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate as spatial expressions; their grammaticization involves gradual loss of locative features of meaning. Semantic generalization among parallel evolutionary paths results in the competition among different constructions in the domain of progressive aspect. Patterns of synchronic variation follow from both the retention of meaning differences and the routinization of frequent collocations, as well as sociolinguistic factors. Register considerations turn out to be crucial in evaluating the effects of language contact. Purported changes in Spanish — English bilingual varieties are largely a feature of oral, informal language rather than a manifestation of convergence.

Author : Julius Ludwig Weisbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : NYPL:33433090898515

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A Manual of the Mechanics of Engineering and of the Construction of Machines by Julius Ludwig Weisbach Pdf

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Machine design
ISBN : NYPL:33433066371380

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Elements of Machine Construction and Drawing by Samuel Edward Warren Pdf

Author : Barbara J. Jackson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780782143362

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Construction Management JumpStart by Barbara J. Jackson Pdf

Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core information you need, whether you're considering a new career or expanding your responsibilities: Understanding the functions of construction management Understanding the design and construction process Working with contracts documents Estimating project costs Administering contracts Managing the job site Creating and maintaining a project schedule Measuring project performance Controlling quality Ensuring project safety

Author : William Harvey Birkmire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Building, Iron and steel
ISBN : UOM:39015039330074

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The Planning and Construction of High Office-buildings by William Harvey Birkmire Pdf

Author : Joseph Haywood Watson Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Shafts (Excavations)
ISBN : WISC:89078540614

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The Construction of Large Tunnel Shafts by Joseph Haywood Watson Buck Pdf