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Author : Kasper Boye,Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219173
Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure
Author : Kasper Boye,Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219173
Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure
Author : Rik De Busser,Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268730
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
Author : Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582565
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide concrete descriptions of the research methods and advantages of corpus-based techniques. Ten methodology boxes provide clear and concise explanations of the issues in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based studies and there is a useful appendix of resources for corpus-based investigation. This lucid and comprehensive introduction to the subject will be welcomed by a broad range of readers, from undergraduate students to professional researchers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004334410
The papers published in this volume were originally presented at the Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching held on 23-25 March 2001 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Each paper analyses some aspect of language use or structure in one or more of the many linguistic corpora now available. The number of different corpora investigated in the book is a real testament to the progress that has been made in recent years in developing new corpora, particularly spoken corpora, as over half of the papers deal either wholly or partially with the analysis of spoken data. This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students and scholars interested in corpus, socio and applied linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and language teaching.
Author : Lars Heltoft,Iván Igartua,Brian D. Joseph,Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh,Lene Schøsler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262639
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
Author : Kasper Boye,Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219180
During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory. The dominant view, propagated in particular by generative grammar, was that there are structural facts and usage facts, and that in principle the former are independent of, and can be described in complete isolation from, the latter. With the appearance of functional-cognitive approaches on the scene, this view has been challenged. The view of structure as usage-based has had two consequences that make time ripe for a focused study of the interaction between usage and structure. Within the generative camp it has inspired a more explicit and precise description of the status of usage. Within the functional-cognitive camp it has blurred the status of structure. Perhaps because functionalists and cognitivists have had to position themselves in relation to generative grammar, some have emphasized the role of usage facts to the extent that structure is largely ignored. Accounts of language usage, language acquisition and language change are impossible without an assumption about what it is that is being used, acquired, or subjected to change. And more moderate functionalists and cognitive functionalists recognize both structural facts and usage facts as genuine facts central to the understanding of language. Still, the linguistic literature that shares this position does not abound with explicit, precise characterizations of the relationship between usage and structure. The present volume brings together scholars from different theoretical positions to address theoretical and methodological aspects of the relation between language usage and structure. The contributors differ with respect to how they conceive of this relation and, more basically, with respect to how they conceive of linguistic structure. What they have in common, however, is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena and take seriously the challenge to describe the relation between them.
Author : Stanley Hussey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317893516
The 'correct' use of English has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years. But what defines 'correctness' in our use of language? And how has this altered over time? In this authoritative survey of the history of the English language, the author examines how linguistic traditions have changed and developed over the centuries to produce the language that we are familiar with today. Taking present-day usage as its starting point, the book uses a topic-based approach to explore the historical development of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, sounds and spellings, thus providing both a firm sense of the structure of the language and an outline of its history.
Author : Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270092
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.
Author : Nick C. Ellis,Diane Larsen-Freeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444334005
Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108498814
Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
Author : Rachel Grenon
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802743587
In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true? Rhetoric asks: Which is the right sentence? Grammar purely asks: When is a sentence correct? In Grammar, Rachel Grenon defines the rules governing the construction of words, phrases, sentences, and extended text or speech. Beginning with the rules behind ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, she then focuses on how the rules of English have developed-from nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, to tenses, the passive voice, questions, imperatives, and much more. With diagrams, engravings, and witty cartoon illustrations, this original take on a classic subject is essential for anyone interested in language.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487023
Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.
Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134335893
Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader is able to gain a good understanding of its speakers and the environment in which it is used. The book covers a range of topics on Korean including its genetic affiliation, historical development, sound patterns, writing systems, vocabulary, grammar and discourse. The text is designed to be accessible, primarily to English-speaking learners of Korean and scholars working in disciplines other than linguistics, as well as serving as a useful introduction for general linguists. The book complements Korean language textbooks used in the classroom and will be welcomed not only by readers with a wider interest in Korean studies, but also by Asian specialists in general.
Author : Kees Hengeveld,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199278107
This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.