Germanic Languages And Linguistic Universals

Author : John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita,Hiroshi Hasegawa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
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Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287687

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Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals by John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita,Hiroshi Hasegawa Pdf

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as English, German, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which are descended from the so-called Proto-Germanic language, and their clarification with regard to linguistic universals provided by the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar. In order to fulfill this aim, the project has to be responsive to theoretical advances in a variety of linguistic domains and approaches, such as language acquisition, pragmatics and corpus linguistics as well as philological and historical contributions on Germanic languages in various stages of their development. The present book seeks to advance these goals in ten chapters exemplifying work on a wide range of Germanic languages and linguistic universals. It is divided into three parts: Part 1. Old English and Germanic languages; Part 2. Generative Grammar; and Part 3. Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals will be of general interest to linguists who seek to understand the nature of the Germanic languages and the relationships obtaining between them.

Author : Ekkehard Konig,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
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Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317799580

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The Germanic Languages by Ekkehard Konig,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Author : John Ole Askedal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027210685

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Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals by John Ole Askedal Pdf

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Author : Wayne Harbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
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Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139461528

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The Germanic Languages by Wayne Harbert Pdf

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.

Author : John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285119

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Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions by John Ole Askedal,Ian Roberts,Tomonori Matsushita Pdf

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as English, German and Norwegian, and of works on and in the tradition of Generative Grammar founded by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s. The central idea of Generative Grammar, that the nature of natural-language syntax can be captured by a finite set of rules which are able to produce an infinite set of well-formed structures has been highly evaluated and influential even in related fields such as biolinguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science. Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions is a collection of articles that focus on the earliest but essential linguistic theory proposed by Noam Chomsky and articles that discuss specific topics pertaining to the study Germanic languages, in particular English and German. It is divided into two parts: Part 1. Genesis of Generative Grammar; and Part 2. Current Issues in Language Descriptions. The present book will be of general interest to linguists who seek to understand the original idea of Generative Grammar and nature of the Germanic languages.

Author : Nils Langer,Winifred Davies
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
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Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110901351

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Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages by Nils Langer,Winifred Davies Pdf

Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.

Author : Terje Lohndal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
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Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272430

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In Search of Universal Grammar by Terje Lohndal Pdf

This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized thematically with two chapters on each topic: The grammar of the Scandinavian languages (Tor A. Åfarli and Christer Platzack); language policies and sociolinguistics (Unn Røyneland and Peter Trudgill); French (Hans Petter Helland and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen); language change (Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen); lesser-studied languages (Alice Harris and Jerry Sadock); language acquisition (David Lightfoot and Marit Westergaard); and language evolution (Erika Hagelberg and Salikoko Mufwene). This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students to scholars working on any of the areas covered.

Author : Höskuldur Thräinsson,Samuel David Epstein,Steve Peter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1402002947

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by Höskuldur Thräinsson,Samuel David Epstein,Steve Peter Pdf

O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).

Author : Fred Weerman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110250442

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The V2 Conspiracy by Fred Weerman Pdf

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Author : Martin Haspelmath,Ekkehard König,Wulf Oesterreicher,Wolfgang Raible
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194265

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Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband by Martin Haspelmath,Ekkehard König,Wulf Oesterreicher,Wolfgang Raible Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the history, methodology and the theory of typology, as well as the relationship between language typology and other disciplines. The authors of the individual sections and chapters are for the most part internationally known experts on the relevant topics. The vast majority of the articles are written in English, some in French or German. The handbook is not only intended for the expert in the fields of typology and language universals, but for all of those interested in linguistics. It is specifically addressed to all those who specialize in individual languages, providing basic orientation for their analysis and placing each language within the space of what is possible and common in the languages of the world.

Author : H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401584166

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner Pdf

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

Author : John Ole Askedal,Hans Frede Nielsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268235

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Early Germanic Languages in Contact by John Ole Askedal,Hans Frede Nielsen Pdf

This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on themes pertaining to the aim and scope of the symposium. All papers cover central aspects of the early contact between Germanic and some of its Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistic neighbours; and, in certain cases, aspects involving internal Germanic language contact.

Author : Hansjakob Seiler
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Linguistic universals
ISBN : 3823347802

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Language Universals Research by Hansjakob Seiler Pdf

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110171549

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Language Typology and Language Universals by Martin Haspelmath Pdf

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.

Author : Brian Butterworth,Bernard Comrie,Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110868555

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Explanations for Language Universals by Brian Butterworth,Bernard Comrie,Östen Dahl Pdf