Form And Function In Language Research

Author : Johannes Helmbrecht,Yoko Nishina,Yong-Min Shin,Stavros Skopeteas,Elisabeth Verhoeven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110216134

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Form and Function in Language Research by Johannes Helmbrecht,Yoko Nishina,Yong-Min Shin,Stavros Skopeteas,Elisabeth Verhoeven Pdf

Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective.

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262640449

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Language Form and Language Function by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided direct confrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goals is to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stresses the limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interest might have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.

Author : Johannes Helmbrecht
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110216127

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Form and Function in Language Research by Johannes Helmbrecht Pdf

Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on this assumption, the volume presents theoretical and empirical studies that explore the explanatory power of functional-typological linguistics for the investigation of the world's languages.

Author : Magdalena Walenta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030046996

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Form-Function Mapping in Content-Based Language Teaching by Magdalena Walenta Pdf

This book presents a form-function mapping (FFM) model for balancing language and content gains within content-based language teaching (CBLT). It includes a theoretical part, which outlines the FFM model and, drawing on the analysis of eclectic teaching methods and interlanguage restructuring, proposes pedagogical tools for its implementation. These tools, which encourage mapping of language forms onto content knowledge, are hypothesized to facilitate interlanguage restructuring, thus helping CBLT learners in their struggle with L2 morpho-syntax. The empirical section presents the results of a quantitative–qualitative study conducted among adult L1 Polish learners of English in a CBLT context. It then goes on to translate the findings, which reveal that the FFM model has a positive and significant influence on interlanguage restructuring as well as a favorable reception among CBLT learners, into a set of pedagogical guidelines for practitioners.

Author : Lois Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:251792875

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Language development by Lois Bloom Pdf

Author : Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Functionalism (Linguistics)
ISBN : 1904768415

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Describing Language by Ruqaiya Hasan Pdf

Using the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics, the chapters of this book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning and society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis.

Author : Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0805814981

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Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language by Dan Isaac Slobin Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Werner Abraham,Larisa Leisiö
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229809

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Passivization and Typology by Werner Abraham,Larisa Leisiö Pdf

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative, perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, modern structuralist approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, cognitive semantics, Distributed Morphology, and case grammar have been applied by the different authors.

Author : Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724796X

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Simultaneity in Signed Languages by Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn Pdf

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.

Author : Ann Weatherall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134701926

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Gender, Language and Discourse by Ann Weatherall Pdf

Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages? Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be from the sociolinguistic perspective and have focused on one of two issues - sexism in language or gender differences in speech. This book considers both issues and develops the idea that they shouldn't be viewed as mutually exclusive endeavours but rather as part of the same process - the social construction of gender. Ann Weatherall highlights the fresh insights that a social constructionist approach has made to these debates, and presents recent theoretical developments and empirical work in discursive psychology relevant to gender and language. Gender, Language and Discourse provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the gender and language field from a psychological perspective. It will be invaluable to students and researchers in social psychology, cultural studies, education, linguistic anthropology and women's studies.

Author : Albert Rijksbaron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004386129

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Form and Function in Greek Grammar by Albert Rijksbaron Pdf

This volume brings together twenty papers by Albert Rijksbaron, a leading scholar of Ancient Greek, dealing with central topics in Greek linguistics such as tense-aspect, mood, voice, particles, negation, the article, questions, discourse analysis and the views of ancient grammarians.

Author : Ludmila Veselovská
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024454900

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Form and Functions in English Grammar by Ludmila Veselovská Pdf

The monograph illustrates the language specific realization of plausibly universal principles of language structure. The study attempts to cover the most basic (regular) parts of English grammar as a whole consistently, within a single compatible framework, but at the same time to present empirically based arguments in favour of specific analyses. She utilizes as often as possible standard scientific argumentation leading to the most generally accepted and best supported analysis of the chosen phenomena. The study is intended for Czech academic audience and therefore it also contains several typologically relevant comparison of English and Czech structures.

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229427

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Demonstratives by Holger Diessel Pdf

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.

Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194371891

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The Study of Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis Pdf

An up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Formalization (Linguistics)
ISBN : OCLC:278499377

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Language Form and Language Function by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf