Evaluative Morphology From A Cross Linguistic Perspective

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443873413

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Evaluative Morphology from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Lívia Körtvélyessy Pdf

This book presents the results of the first interdisciplinary approach to evaluative morphology based on the intersection of evaluative morphology and areal typology, and provides the first large-scale typological research based on a sample of 200 languages. Furthermore, it also represents the first work dealing with evaluative morphology as a feature of Standard Average European by comparing the SAE and world samples. Methodologically, it introduces the parameter of Evaluative Morphology Saturation, which identifies the richness of evaluative morphology in individual languages by reflecting the semantic, word-class and word-formation aspects of evaluative morphology. As such, this book provides a new and innovative approach to studying the semantics of evaluative morphology and evaluative-formation, represented by two cognitively founded models, a radial model of EM semantics and a model of evaluative formation. It is also the first contrastive psycholinguistic work that studies phonetic iconicity in evaluative morphology by way of experimental research into five different age groups of informants speaking three different languages.

Author : Nicola Grandi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748681778

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Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology by Nicola Grandi Pdf

Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology

Author : Hanna Pishwa
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 3823350641

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The Development of Morphological Systematicity by Hanna Pishwa Pdf

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490290

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Complex Words by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

Author : Veronika Mattes,Sabine Sommer-Lolei,Katharina Korecky-Kröll,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258885

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The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology by Veronika Mattes,Sabine Sommer-Lolei,Katharina Korecky-Kröll,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Altaic) with different degrees of derivational complexity. Data collection, analysis and systematic comparison between child speech and parental child-directed speech are strictly parallel across the chapters. In order to identify the productivity of a derivational pattern, signalling the crucial developmental stage in its acquisition, the concept of the mini-paradigm criterion was applied. Similar developmental processes can be observed in all children, independent of the language they acquire, but the children’s courses of development also show obvious typological differences. This points towards an important impact of the structural properties of the specific language on emergence, use and the early course of development of derivational patterns.

Author : Hélène Vassiliadou,Marie Lammert
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527589094

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A Crosslinguistic Perspective on Clear and Approximate Categorization by Hélène Vassiliadou,Marie Lammert Pdf

In recent decades, research on clear and approximate categorizations and their manifestations in language has been generating a number of studies on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy, and logic. This is particularly interesting because these two operations have formally similar realizations even in languages belonging to different groups. The existence of a large number of type nouns testifies to their productivity. If these nouns serve to both categorize and approximate, the fundamental question is that of identifying the processes of interpretation concerned, since there is not always a consensus on interpretation. This book makes it clear that there are different ways to reach the category associated with a word by putting into perspective the issues surrounding the categorization and approximation and by comparing the ways of expression in languages belonging to different language groups. All in all, by investigating syntactic, morphological, and semantic correlations between type noun binominals and other constructions in various languages, this volume will provide an overview of the current state of research on the subject in order to help scholars and students to grasp the meaning and the cognitive foundations of approximation and categorization. The functioning of each language might clarify the links between categorization and approximation, two often opposed, yet essentially indissociable, operations.

Author : Lisa Matthewson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780080453507

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Quantification by Lisa Matthewson Pdf

This volume presents articles by formal linguists on quantification in (relatively) understudied languages. The ten contributions provide analysis of quantificational phenomena in languages from nine different families: Eskimo-Aleut, Algonquian, Na-Dene, Austronesian, Basque, Quechua, Otomanguean, Bantu, and Chadic. Approximately half of the papers present systematic overviews of quantificational phenomena in the respective languages; the remainder of the papers present theoretical analyses of specific quantificational constructions. The cross-linguistic focus of this volume enables standard theories of quantification to be challenged by languages other than those for which they were originally designed. The volume as a whole also uncovers a number of cross-linguistically common properties in the realm of quantification. The research presented here forms part of a growing trend towards formal study of understudied languages. This is a process which will ultimately lead us to a greatly enriched understanding of the universal human language faculty. The authors are all experts on their respective languages, most with many years field experience. All the authors have theoretical expertise in the area of quantification. This book will be of interest to semanticists and syntacticians working on quantification, to specialists in the languages discussed, and to semantic and syntactic fieldworkers. * This volume presents articles on quantification in (relatively) understudied languages * The authors are all experts on their respective languages

Author : Ursula Stephany,Maria D. Voeikova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110217117

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Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition by Ursula Stephany,Maria D. Voeikova Pdf

This book deals with the emergence of nominal morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective and is closely related to Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition (ed. by D. Bittner, W. U. Dressler, M. Kilani-Schoch) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the fundamental inflectionally expressed categories of the noun (number, case, gender) in one of the languages belonging to different morphological types (isolating, fusional-inflecting, agglutinating, root inflecting) and families (Germanic, Romance, Slavic/Baltic, Greek, Finnic, Turc, Semitic, Indian American). The analyses are based on parallel longitudinal observations of children in their second and early third year of life as well as their input. The focus lies on the transition from a pre-morphological to a proto-morphological stage in which grammatical oppositions and so-called "mini-paradigms" begin to develop. The point at which children start to discover the morphological structure of their language and the speed with which they develop inflectional distinctions of lexical items has been found to be dependent on the morphological richness of the input language on the paradigmatic as well as the syntagmatic axis of linguistic structure. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Natural Morphology, Usage-based theories).

Author : Yaron Matras,Jeanette Sakel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Guntars Dreijers,Agnese Dubova,Jānis Veckrācis
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732904297

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Bridging Languages and Cultures by Guntars Dreijers,Agnese Dubova,Jānis Veckrācis Pdf

Translation Studies already face new tasks in order to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment, in order to seek new approaches and tools for description, analysis and teaching activities. This volume of selected papers of the conference Bridging Languages and Cultures brings together current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; it provides both specific focus on certain aspects and developments and a more general overview of research landscape. Distinguished authors discuss translation of LSP texts, lexicological and lexicographic modules of bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic and interactional aspects of translation, and intercultural phenomena in the context of translation.

Author : Elena Fornasiero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110783506

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Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) by Elena Fornasiero Pdf

The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way they encode evaluative features. It follows that investigating evaluative morphology in sign languages (SLs) can enrich the literature and offer new insights. This book provides descriptive and theoretical contributions by considering Italian Sign Language (LIS) as empirical ground of investigation. At the descriptive level, the analysis of corpus and elicited data improves the description of morphological processes in LIS, as well as typological studies on evaluative morphology by adding the patterns of a visuo-gestural language. At the theoretical level, the study shows the benefit of combining different approaches (Generative Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics) for the exploration of evaluative constructions in SLs, as it allows to identify both modality-specific and modality-independent properties. In sum, this book encourages the readers to rely on different data types, analyses and theoretical perspectives to investigate linguistic phenomena in SLs.

Author : Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432442

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Word Knowledge and Word Usage by Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

Author : Guntars Dreijers,Jānis Sīlis,Silga Sviķe,Jānis Veckrācis
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732907052

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Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication by Guntars Dreijers,Jānis Sīlis,Silga Sviķe,Jānis Veckrācis Pdf

Translation Studies are facing new tasks to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment with new approaches and new tools for description, analysis, and teaching activities. Bridging Languages and Cultures II combines current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication. The volume provides both specific foci on certain aspects and developments, and a more general overview of research landscape in Latvia, and internationally. The authors discuss translation of Language for Special Purposes (LSP) and literary texts, various interdisciplinary linguistic modules by bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic, and interactional aspects of translation, as well as intercultural phenomena in the context of translation and linguistics.

Author : Swintha Danielsen,Katja Hannss,Fernando Zúñiga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269669

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Word Formation in South American Languages by Swintha Danielsen,Katja Hannss,Fernando Zúñiga Pdf

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan, as well as language isolates, such as Yurakaré and Cholón, reflect the linguistic diversity of South America. Equally diverse are the topics addressed, relating to word formation processes like reduplication, nominal and verbal compounding, clitic compounding, and incorporation. The traditional notions of the processes are discussed critically with respect to their implementation in minor indigenous languages. The book is therefore not only of interest to readers with an Amerindian background but also to typologists and historical linguists, and it is a supplement to more theory-driven approaches to language and linguistics.

Author : Kunio Nishiyama,Hideki Kishimoto,Edith Aldridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263292

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Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics by Kunio Nishiyama,Hideki Kishimoto,Edith Aldridge Pdf

Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics, acquisition, processing and phonology, from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives, this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree’s research interests, which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages.