Multiple Perspectives In Linguistic Research On Baltic Languages

Author : Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
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Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443836852

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Multiple Perspectives in Linguistic Research on Baltic Languages by Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene Pdf

The ten contributions to this volume present original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. They reflect the diversity of approaches in linguistic research on Baltic languages that has developed in recent years, after a period where these languages were studied almost exclusively from the perspective of historical-comparative linguistics. Current research perspectives include, among others, perspectives from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition research, corpus linguistics, contrastive studies, and linguistic typology. The studies in this volume explore new ways of describing the system and use of Latvian or Lithuanian from a synchronic, non-normative point of view. They focus on grammatical categories and constructions (modality, evidentiality, case, existential clauses), grammatical characteristics of lexical classes (reflexive verbs, numerals), the characteristics of certain forms of discourse (academic discourse, food discourse), and the effects of an ideology of “correct language” on language users.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110343953

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author : Päivi Pietilä
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Applied linguistics
ISBN : 9519388451

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Multiple Languages, Multiple Perspectives by Päivi Pietilä Pdf

Author : Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297273

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Circum-Baltic Languages by Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Author : A. Utka,J. Vaičenonienė,J. Kovalevskaitė
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781643681177

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Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective by A. Utka,J. Vaičenonienė,J. Kovalevskaitė Pdf

Human language technology is the study of the methods by which computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech. It consists of natural language processing and computational linguistics on the one hand, and speech technology on the other. This book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2020), organised in Kaunas, Lithuania on 22 and 23 September 2020. This biennial conference offers researchers a platform to share knowledge on recent advances in human language processing for the Baltic languages, as well as promoting interdisciplinary and international cooperation in human language-technology research within and beyond the Baltic States. In addition to the traditional topics of natural language processing and language technologies, this year’s conference featured a special session on resource and tool development for teaching and learning the less resourced Baltic languages. This year, 42 submissions were received, each of which was evaluated by two reviewers, resulting in a total of 34 papers being accepted for presentation and publication. The book is divided into four sections: speech and text analysis (9 papers); machine translation and natural understanding (6 papers); tools and resources (14 papers); and language learning resources (5 papers). Providing a fascinating overview of current research in the field from a primarily Baltic perspective, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves human language technology.

Author : Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230579

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The Circum-Baltic Languages by Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267955

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Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Author : Sanita Lazdiņa,Heiko F. Marten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781137569141

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Multilingualism in the Baltic States by Sanita Lazdiņa,Heiko F. Marten Pdf

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States. It presents a wide range of methods and research paradigms including folk linguistics, discourse analysis, narrative analyses, code alternation, ethnographic observations, language learning motivation, languages in education and language acquisition. Grouped thematically, its chapters examine regional varieties and minority languages (Latgalian, Võro, urban dialects in Lithuania, Polish in Lithuania); the integration of the Russian language and its speakers; and the role of international languages like English in Baltic societies. The editors’ introductory and concluding chapters provide a comparative perspective that situates these issues within the particular history of the region and broader debates on language and nationalism at a time of both increased globalization and ethno-regionalism. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language discourses and language policy, and provide a valuable resource for researchers focusing on Baltic States, Northern Europe and the post-Soviet world in the related fields of history, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Andra Kalnaca
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110426984

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A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar by Andra Kalnaca Pdf

Theoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most widely studied Baltic language in diachronic and synchronic linguistics alike, Latvian has a number of distinctive features that can prove valuable both for historical, and perhaps even more so, for synchronic language research. Therefore, at the very least, contemporary typological, areal, and language contact studies involving Baltic languages should account for data from Latvian. Typologically, Latvian grammar is a classic Indo-European (Baltic) system with well-developed inflection and derivation. However, it also bears certain similarities to the Finno-Ugric languages, which can be reasonably explained by its areal and historical background. This applies, for example, to the mood system and its connections with modality and evidentiality in Latvian, also to the correlation between aspect and quantity as manifested in verbal and nominal (case) forms. The relations between debitive mood, certain constructions with reflexive verbs, and voice in Latvian are intriguing examples of unusual morphosyntactic features. Accordingly, the book focuses on the following topics: case system and declension (with emphasis on the polyfunctionality of case forms), gender, conjugation, tense and personal forms, aspect, mood, modality and evidentiality, reflexive verbs, and voice. The examples included in this book have been taken from the Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian (Lidzsvarots musdienu latviešu valodas tekstu korpuss, available at www.korpuss.lv), www.google.lv, mass media, and fiction texts (see the List of language sources) without regard to relative frequency ratios.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466021

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

Author : Steve Oswald,Thierry Herman,Jérôme Jacquin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319739724

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Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations by Steve Oswald,Thierry Herman,Jérôme Jacquin Pdf

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the following three issues: the range of linguistic resources language users draw on as they argue; how cognitive processes of meaning construction may influence argumentative practices; and which discursive devices can be used to fulfil a number of argumentative goals. The volume includes theoretical and empirical or applied stances, providing the reader both with state-of-the-art reflections on the relationship between argumentation and language, and with concrete examples of how this relationship plays out in naturally occurring argumentative practices, such as classroom interaction, and political, parliamentary or journalistic discourse. This is a very original, timely and welcome contribution to the study of argumentation conducted with the tools of the language sciences. The collection of papers relevantly tackles key linguistic, discursive and cognitive aspects of argumentative practices whose treatment is underrepresented in mainstream argumentation studies by offering new and exciting linguistically-grounded theoretical accounts. As such, the volume testifies both to the vigour of the linguistic current within the discipline and to the high standards of scholarly commitment and quality that the younger generation is pushing forward. Without question, this book marks an important milestone in the relationships between linguistics and argumentation theory. Christian Plantin, Professor Emeritus

Author : Jozina Vander Klok,Núbia Ferreira Rech,Simone Guesser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110721478

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Modality in Underdescribed Languages by Jozina Vander Klok,Núbia Ferreira Rech,Simone Guesser Pdf

Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.

Author : Osten Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1588113213

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Circum-Baltic Languages by Osten Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background.In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267535

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Argument Realization in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Author : Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263902

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Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality by Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari Pdf

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.