Opera Universitatis Purkynianae Brunensis Facultas Philosophica

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The study of languages

Author : Einar Haugen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111684970

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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Varieties of Czech

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004657243

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On Subjects and Predicates in Russian

Author : Alona Soschen
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781581123425

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On Subjects and Predicates in Russian by Alona Soschen Pdf

This research integrates cognitively based lexical semantics and formal syntactic analyses with relation to philosophy and logic of language. It deals with a broad range of issues and contributes relevant observations and analysis by offering a new approach to lexical and syntactic representations. Different theoretical frameworks are employed within the compass of generative syntax/ semantics. Data from Russian and other languages (Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romance languages, English, Hebrew) are analyzed to bring out the nature of the categories each language possesses. To answer the question of how semantically empty elements are interpreted by conceptual system, special attention is paid to null categories in Russian (pro of impersonal sentences, pro of existential sentences). Two subject positions on the verb's argument grid are examined, and the conclusion is drawn concerning the existing parallelism of lexical (micro-) and syntactic (macro-) models. The 'indirect', or 'null', subject position is considered more general and encompassing in both cases. The latter (macro-)model associates semantic generic/ non-generic distinction of sentences with two functional heads Tense and Agreement in English, Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish. The notion of genericity now includes a personal level, e.g. when a certain property holds in all situations possible for an individual. The study employs predication theory to relate semantic components to formal syntactic descriptions; as an example, certain adjectival predicates that do not participate in generic formation are represented as unsaturated functions of states. The research closely relates the issue of syntactic predication to a cognitive approach to lexical units as sets of categorial features, in order to enhance our understanding of categorization and the way words are combined in lexical units. Following Chomsky (2000, 2001), predication is viewed as an operation of Merge on two syntactic elements, which supports the idea of a direct connection between certain syntactic representations (e.g. small clauses) and the initial stages of language acquisition. Predication relations are re-examined as the set of ordered functions where not only their number but direction is of importance, as they apply both on the sentence level and within modified NPs. The structures of transitive vs. intransitive verbs and their arguments are investigated as a way of exploring the minimal links of predication. According to the results of this research, these models, analyzed as 'layered' in the sense that they can be projected into syntax by parts, exhibit cross-linguistic consistency. The conclusion is that lexical arguments must be assessed from the point of view of their place in the hierarchy of events/ states. A detailed analysis of the properties of the 'result' layer leads one to the issue of reflexivity. The analysis of reflexive structures in Slavic and Romance languages is followed to establish a link between the syntactic properties of reflexive verbs and the cognitive notion of our access to ourselves (following Chierchia 1989). The ultimate goal of this research is to stimulate further work towards the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of language, and to contribute to our knowledge of natural language universals.

Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors

Author : D. Gary Miller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614512950

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Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of: the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.

Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines

Author : Jean S. Wellington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313072550

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Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines by Jean S. Wellington Pdf

Trying to identify abbreviated titles of journals and standard bibliographic works is a major difficulty facing researchers and librarians in the field of Classical Studies. This revised edition has been greatly expanded, with nearly twice the abbreviations (17,000) and bibliographic entries (12,400) as the first edition. Also, the Greek and Cyrillic abbreviations have increased by seven and four fold respectively. Abbreviations for internet sites are now included, as are those for associations in the broad area of Classical Studies. There are also more entries for Eastern European and regional archaeological publications. This revised volume is divided into two parts. Part One consists of an alphabetical listing of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines. Meanwhile, Part Two is an alphabetically arranged bibliographic descriptions for the works published in classical studies and related disciplines. Special efforts were made to increase the coverage in peripheral areas, making this new edition a useful reference tool for scholars in all subjects of study in the ancient and medieval world.

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Author : Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261288

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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz Pdf

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

A Geography of Case Semantics

Author : Laura A. Janda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110126729

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The Prosody of Greek Speech

Author : A.M. Devine,Laurence D Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199724130

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The Prosody of Greek Speech by A.M. Devine,Laurence D Stephens Pdf

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on crosslinguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data, and reconstruct the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing, and intonation of classical Greek speech. Sophisticated statistical analyses are employed to support an impressive range of new findings which relate not only to phonetics and phonology, but also to pragmatics and the syntax-phonology interface.

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783744367

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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.

Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics

Author : Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247681

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Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics by Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 16 (2011)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wydawnictwo UJ
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788323331476

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The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek

Author : Vit Bubenik
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983-12-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781442651029

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This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of unproductive and mostly pan-Hellenic shifts. Professor Bubeník presents a phonetic description and structural phonemic analysis of the best-known variant—Classical Attic of the 5th century B.C.—and displays and contrasts the vocalic and consonantal inventories of all the other dialects classified according to their major groups. Derivational histories of individual dialects are examined in their juxtaposition, to ascertain which rules are shared by various dialects and which are dialect-specific. The pandialectal framework enables Bubeník to capture various relationships among genetically related dialects which are missed in atomistic and static treatments, and to show more convincingly the extent of their similarity and their systemic cohesion. This volume makes a significant contribution to both classical scholarship and current theory of language change by offering new analyses of a variety of phonological and morphophonemic problems presented by a dead language and its dialects.

A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz

Author : Yoël L. Arbeitman
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9068311433

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Bono Homini Donum

Author : Yoël L. Arbeitman,Allan R. Bomhard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280954

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Bono Homini Donum by Yoël L. Arbeitman,Allan R. Bomhard Pdf

The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.