Number In The World S Languages

Author : Paolo Acquaviva,Michael Daniel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110619546

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Number in the World's Languages by Paolo Acquaviva,Michael Daniel Pdf

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317290490

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The World's Major Languages by Bernard Comrie Pdf

The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.

Author : Paolo Acquaviva,Michael Daniel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110560690

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Number in the World's Languages by Paolo Acquaviva,Michael Daniel Pdf

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.

Author : R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317851080

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Atlas of the World's Languages by R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley Pdf

Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

Author : Anna Mahtani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198847892

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The Objects of Credence by Anna Mahtani Pdf

The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

Author : Justyna Olko,Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108485753

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Revitalizing Endangered Languages by Justyna Olko,Julia Sallabank Pdf

Written by leading international scholars and activists, this guidebook provides ideas and strategies to support language revitalization.

Author : Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027279545

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Language and Logic by Johan van der Auwera Pdf

In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856497011

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Planet Dialectics by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

Here for the first time, his most seminal writings, including several hitherto unpublished articles, are brought together in a single volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert Philips Greg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCAL:$C125650

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Comparative Philology of the Old and New Worlds in Relation to Archaic Speech by Robert Philips Greg Pdf

Author : Alex Mullen,Patrick James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107013865

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Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds by Alex Mullen,Patrick James Pdf

This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.

Author : Anatole Lyovin,Brett Kessler,William Ronald Leben
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195149883

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An Introduction to the Languages of the World by Anatole Lyovin,Brett Kessler,William Ronald Leben Pdf

Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the book's companion website.

Author : Daniel Recasens,Full Professor Department of Catalan Philology Daniel Recasens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198845010

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Phonetic Causes of Sound Change by Daniel Recasens,Full Professor Department of Catalan Philology Daniel Recasens Pdf

This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies have been concerned with the typology of sound inventories and of the processes of palatalization and assibilation, this volume not only deals with the typological patterns but also outlines the articulatory and acoustic causes of these sound changes. In his articulation-based account, Daniel Recasens argues that the affricate and fricative outcomes of these changes developed via an intermediate stage, namely an (alveolo)palatal stop with varying degrees of closure fronting. Particular emphasis is placed on the one-to-many relationship between the input and output consonant realizations, on the acoustic cues that contribute to the implementation of these sound changes, and on the contextual, positional, and prosodic conditions that most favour their development. The analysis is based on extensive data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic, and draws on a variety of sources, such as linguistic atlases, articulatory and acoustic studies, and phoneme identification tests.

Author : Alexandra Pavlova,Mina Young Pedersen,Raffaella Bernardi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031506284

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Selected Reflections in Language, Logic, and Information by Alexandra Pavlova,Mina Young Pedersen,Raffaella Bernardi Pdf

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The papers cover vastly dierent topics, but each fall in the intersection of the three primary topics of ESSLLI: Logic, Language and Computation. The 13 papers presented in this volume have been selected among 81 submitted papers over the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The ESSLLI Student Session is an excellent venue for students to present their work and receive valuable feedback from renowned experts in their respective fields. The Student Session accepts submissions for three different tracks: Language and Computation (LaCo), Logic and Computation (LoCo), and Logic and Language (LoLa).

Author : Christian Agrillo,Michael Beran
Publisher : Frontiers E-books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889191437

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Number without language: comparative psychology and the evolution of numerical cognition by Christian Agrillo,Michael Beran Pdf

Despite once being reserved as perhaps a unique human ability, and one reliant on language, comparative and developmental research has shown that numerical abilities predate verbal language. Human infants and several non-human species have been shown to represent numerical information in varied contexts, and the capacity to discriminate both small and large numerosities has been reported in mammals, birds, amphibians, and fish. The similar performances often observed across such diverse species have led to the hypothesis that there may be shared core systems underlying number abilities of non-human species and human non-verbal numerical abilities. Thus, animal models could provide useful insight on our comprehension of numerical cognition, and in particular the evolution of non-verbal numerical abilities. Several aspects need be clarified. For instance the ontogeny of numerical competence in animals has been rarely investigated. It is unclear whether all species can represent numerical information or, on the contrary, use non-numerical continuous quantities that co-vary with number (such as cumulative surface area, density and space). In addition, the existence of a specific mechanism to process small numbers (<4), traditionally called ‘subitizing’, is highly debated. Neuro-anatomical correlates of numerical competence need also to be clarified, as well as brain lateralization of non-verbal numerical abilities. We solicit contributions in a variety of formats, from empirical research reports, to methodological, review and opinion papers that can advance our understanding on the topic. We particularly invite papers exploring the following issues: 1. Do non-human numerical abilities improve in precision across development as observed in human infants? 2. Can animals discriminate between quantities by using numerical information only? Is number a ‘last resort’ strategy adopted when no other continuous quantity is available? 3. To what extent do animals show similar numerical abilities? Do they show evidence of a subitizing-like process? 4. What kinds of things can be represented numerically by animals? What evidence is there for cross-modal numerical judgments, or judgments of sub-sets of stimuli, or perhaps even counting-like behavior in non-human species? 5. Do comparative studies help us to shed light on the neuro-anatomical correlates of number? By bringing together different studies on these issues we aim to contribute to a more complete picture of numerical competence in the absence of language.

Author : Christopher Moseley
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789231040962

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger by Christopher Moseley Pdf

Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.