Markedness In Synchrony And Diachrony

Author : Olga Miseska Tomic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110862010

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Markedness in synchrony and diachrony by Olga Miseska Tomic Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Henning Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588110818

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Actualization by Henning Andersen Pdf

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning features. The Introduction to the volume and a chapter by Henning Andersen clarify the theoretical bases for this observation, which is exemplified and discussed in separate chapters by Kristin Bakken, Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein, Vit Bubenik, Ulrich Busse, Marianne Mithun, Lene Schosler, and John Charles Smith in the light of data from the histories of Norwegian, English, Hindi, Northern Iroquoian, and Romance. A final chapter by Michael Shapiro adds a philosophical perspective. The papers were first presented in a workshop on "Actualization Patterns in Linguistic Change" at the XIV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C. in 1999.

Author : Ivan Shing Chung Kwong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567439901

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The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke by Ivan Shing Chung Kwong Pdf

This work studies the word order of the Gospel of Luke and some of its prominent messages with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories. The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, dependent, infinitival, participial and embedded clause). The result gives some unmarked (typical or common) word order patterns and some marked word order patterns of all Lukan clauses. The second part traces the foregrounded messages of the Gospel based on their related marked word order patterns incorporated with functional linguistic phenomena. The result highlights the messages of Jesus' disciples and his parents' failure in understanding him, Pilate's crime of handing over Jesus and Jesus' predictions of his future sufferings and Peter's future failure. JSNTS and Studies in New Testament Greek series

Author : Francis Byrne,Thom Huebner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277824

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Development and Structures of Creole Languages by Francis Byrne,Thom Huebner Pdf

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.

Author : Ilja A. Serzant,Leonid Kulikov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271303

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The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects by Ilja A. Serzant,Leonid Kulikov Pdf

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567709868

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Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament by Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell Pdf

This volume examines and outlines a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was first introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell first introduce basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches towards it within New Testament studies. They then provide a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components – in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony – Porter and O'Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.

Author : Wally V. Cirafesi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004250277

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Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels by Wally V. Cirafesi Pdf

This source edition of Gessner’s private library contains those seventy eight books that Gessner read most carefully and annotated by hand. The majority have been reproduced from the rich holdings of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, while other important copies included in this edition are held by the University Library of Basle. The marginalia in these books are so numerous that they almost constitute a new set of sources, which are of interest not only to historians and philologists but also to those who study the history of early modern medicineand the natural sciences.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew W. Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234161

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Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew W. Pitts Pdf

In "Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture," Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004236400

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The Language of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.

Author : Hans-Wilhelm Dechert,Manfred Raupach
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Contrastive linguistics
ISBN : 3823340700

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Interlingual Processes by Hans-Wilhelm Dechert,Manfred Raupach Pdf

Author : Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004230460

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Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel by Beth M. Stovell Pdf

In Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel, Beth M. Stovell examines the metaphor of Jesus as king throughout the Fourth Gospel using an interdisciplinary metaphor theory incorporating cognitive and systemic functional linguistic approaches with literary approaches.

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195381979

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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by Robert I. Binnick Pdf

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Author : Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3183 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405184236

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The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set by Marc van Oostendorp Pdf

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2): Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series

Author : Raffaele Simone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285706

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Iconicity in Language by Raffaele Simone Pdf

Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism, naturalism, etc.) takes this position, which differentiates it very clearly from generative linguistics. One of the basic assumptions of such approaches is that language structure includes some non-arbitrary aspects, from the phonological through the textual level, and a great amount of research has occurred in the last decade regarding the “iconic aspects” of language(s). This volume focuses on generally neglected dimensions of language and semiotic activity, featuring contributions by philosophers, linguists, semioticians, and psychologists. After tracing the tradition of iconicity in the history of linguistic thought, the central section is devoted to specific analyses emphasizing the role of non-arbitrary phenomena in language foundation and linguistic structure. Specifically discussed are numeration systems, the gestural systems of communication among deaf people, the genesis of writing in children, and inter-ethnic communication.

Author : Anna Giacalone Ramat,Caterina Mauri,Piera Molinelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272072

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Synchrony and Diachrony by Anna Giacalone Ramat,Caterina Mauri,Piera Molinelli Pdf

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.