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Author : Instituut voor Dialectologie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113376136
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123410073
Author : Gunther Vogelaer,Dietha Koster,Torsten Leuschner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110669466
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.
Author : Kristin Davidse,Béatrice Lamiroy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297792
This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing descriptive studies of ten different languages, not only Romance and Germanic languages, but also Polish and Basque, as well as Cora, Warrwa and Ewe. These studies show that the formal devices used to mark the two nuclear cases may be quite diverse (including non-overt and ‘configurational’ coding), but that all the languages studied crucially display a subject-object asymmetry, even languages such as Basque and Ewe for which this had been questioned. One of the most striking subthemes to emerge from this collection is the complexity of the object-zone, both with regard to formal and functional diversity. Various studies in the volume also contribute reflections, couched mainly in broadly cognitive-functional terms, about the semantic function of the subject-object contrast and why it is so central across languages.
Author : Liesbet Heyvaert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110903706
The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail. The main theoretical motif is that nominalization strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach. The book goes more deeply into a number of functional constructs needed to model nominalization (drawn from Cognitive Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar) and it elaborates on the internal functional organization of nominal and clausal structure [e.g. the notions of type specification, instantiation and grounding (Langacker 1991) are discussed in detail and shown to be crucial for the analysis of deverbal nominalization]. It is argued that deverbal nominalizations are basically re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. This re-classification either applies at word rank or it involves the rank shift (Halliday 1966) of a clause-like unit, with its internal structure preserved (e.g. signing the contract quickly). The re-classified unit then adopts a specific nominal strategy, with some form of nominal determination and quantification (e.g. her signing the contract quickly). The descriptive part of the book zooms in on nominalizations that are derived at word rank (deverbal -er nominals) and on nominalizations applying to 'a temporal clausal heads' (e.g. John's playing the piano) and finite clauses. Of the gerundive and finite types of nominalization, those that function in factive contexts are focused on. In the analysis of deverbal -er nominals a case is made for a 'subject' analysis of the system and an elaborate discussion of the clausal middle construction (e.g. this book reads easily) - which is argued to show systematic resemblances with non-agentive -er nominals - is included. Of the remaining nominalization types (John's playing the piano; playing the piano; the fact that he plays the piano; that he plays the piano ), especially the nominal behaviour (e.g. proper name vs. common noun strategy) and (in the case of gerundive nominals) the various structural and semantic subtypes that can be distinguished among them are discussed.
Author : A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen,Miriam Taverniers,Louise Ravelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247483
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical metaphor, and to foreground the potential of further study in the field. There is a need to highlight the SFL perspective on metaphor; other traditions focus on lexical aspects, and from cognitive perspectives, while SFL focuses on the grammatical dimension, and socio-functional aspects in the explanation of this phenomenon.
Author : Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110626452
The chapters provide comprehensive surveys of the major subfields of Cognitive Linguistics. Apart from phonology, construction grammar and lexical semantics, the areas of language use, language acquisition and literary discourse are comprehensively presented.
Author : Ewa Dabrowska,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110292022
Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on the assumptions that our linguistic abilities are firmly rooted in our cognitive abilities, that meaning is essentially conceptualization, and that grammar is shaped by usage. The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides state-of-the-art overviews of the numerous subfields of cognitive linguistics written by leading international experts which will be useful for established researchers and novices alike. It is an interdisciplinary project with contributions from linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and computer scientists which will emphasise the most recent developments in the field, in particular, the shift towards more empirically-based research. In this way, it will, we hope, help to shape the field, encouraging methodologically more rigorous research which incorporates insights from all the cognitive sciences. Editor Ewa Dąbrowska was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2018.
Author : Monika Rathert,Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226546
The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.
Author : Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Kazuhiro Teruya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317382997
This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and used for purposes of reference. The reading section maps out and mediates the key SFL literature. The application guides show how SFL has been and can be applied to various domains, from translation to healthcare communication. The term guides demystify the core terminology and the vocabulary guides aid readers in dealing with the most commonly used terms in text analysis. Systemic Functional Linguistics is an invaluable guidebook for all those studying functional grammar and SFL within linguistics, applied linguistics and related courses.
Author : Kristin Kopf,Thilo Weber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249333
Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or whether there is a certain amount of unpredictable – or ‘free’ – grammatical variation. Second, the question of what implications the (in-)existence of free variation would hold for our theoretical models and the empirical study of grammar. The volume provides the first dedicated book-length treatment of this long-standing topic. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, it contains ten case studies on potentially free variation in morphology and syntax drawn from Germanic, Romance, Uralic and Mayan.
Author : Ad Foolen,Frederike van der Leek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236845
This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of 'objective construal', the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions.
Author : Petra Sleeman,Freek Van de Velde,Harry Perridon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270689
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?
Author : Renaat H. C. Declerck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134732869
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
Author : Kyoko Masuda,Carlee Arnett,Angela Labarca
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514442
By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners. Through in-depth studies exploring eight different languages, this book offers insights generated through the synergy between cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories that can be readily incorporated into teaching.