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Author : Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783985540358
Author : Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103393
In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chadic and Indo-European. A number of articles focus on the micro-variation and attested historical developments within smaller groups and clusters such as Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nanaic. Finally, variation and historical developments in specific languages are discussed for Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Moksha-Mordvin (Uralic), Bashkir (Turkic), Kalmyk (Mongolic), three Pama-Nyungan languages, O’dam (Southern Uto-Aztecan) and Tacana (Takanan, Amazonian Bolivia). The book is concluded by two chapters devoted to modeling cyclical processes in language change from different theoretical perspectives. Key notions discussed throughout the book include affirmative and negative existential constructions, the expansion of the latter into verbal negation, and subsequently from more specific to more general markers of negation. Nominalizations as well as the uses of negative existentials as standalone negative answers figure among the most frequent pathways whereby negative existentials evolve as general negation markers. The operation of the Negative Existential Cycle appears partly genealogically conditioned, as the cycle is found to iterate regularly within some families but never starts in others, as is the case in Bantu. In addition, other special negation markers such as nominal negators are found to undergo similar processes, i.e. they expand into the verbal domain and thereby develop into more general negation markers. The book provides rich information on a specific path of the evolution of negation, on cyclical processes in language change, and it show-cases the historical-comparative method in a modern setting.
Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192566270
In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.
Author : Daniel J. Wilson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260963
This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative semantics. Approaching this subject from the framework of Distributed Morphology provides an elegant and comprehensive explanation for both the syntactic and semantic variation in these sentences. This book also presents a theoretical model for analyzing copular sentences in other languages included related phenomena– such as pseudo-copulas. It is also a demonstration of what can be gained by applying modern linguistic analyses to dead languages. Citing and building off previous studies on this topic, this book will be of interest to those interested in the theoretical examination of copular and existential sentences and to those interested in Classical Hebrew more specifically.
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000912227
Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles. Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. With coverage of a variety of micro cycles and the more controversial macro cycles, incorporating cutting-edge work on grammaticalization, and drawing on examples from many languages and language families, this book accessibly guides readers through the state of the art in the field. With practical methodological guidance on how to identify and investigate linguistic cycles, and an array of useful pedagogical features, the book provides a coherent framework for approaching, understanding, and furthering research in linguistic cycles. This text will be an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in historical and diachronic linguistics, language typology, and linguistic and grammatical theory.
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267436
This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles take, the interactions between different cycles, the typical stages and their stability, and the areal factors influencing cycles. The languages and language families that are considered in depth are Central Pomo, Cherokee, Chinese, English, French, Gbe, German, Hmong-Mien, Maipurean, Mayan, Mohawk, Mon-Khmer, Niger-Congo, Nupod, Quechuan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai , Tuscarora, Ute, and Yoruboid. One paper covers several of the world’s language families. Cyclical change connects linguists working in various frameworks because it is exciting to find a reason behind this fascinating phenomenon.
Author : Matti Miestamo,Anne Tamm,Beáta Wagner-Nagy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268648
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004410732
This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. It provides an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible, an essay on the development of Hebrew and thematic studies.
Author : Sing Sing Ngai
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512483
This is the first comprehensive grammar of Shaowu, a Min language spoken in Shaowu city and its environs in northwestern Fujian province, China. The book offers first-hand linguistic data collected over four years in the field, now placed at the disposal of researchers and students working in language documentation, comparative linguistics and Sinitic typology. It can serve as a reference grammar for those interested in learning the Shaowu language, thereby helping to preserve it. In addition, the book provides insights into Shaowu's classification which has been widely debated, thus elucidating its genetic affiliation. The book first presents Shaowu's geography, demography and history. It then profiles the language's phonology and lexicon, before providing a detailed description of its syntax, notably on its nominal, predicate, clausal and complex sentence structures, which are the focus of the book. The typological profile of Shaowu is also treated with the conclusion that the language has Gan, Hakka, Mandarin and even some Wu overlays on its Min base. The Shaowu language serves an excellent example to illustrate the degree of hybridity a language can attain due to intensive language contact over time.
Author : Matthew W. Crocker,Gerhard Jäger,Gina Kuperberg,Hannah Rohde,Elke Teich,Rory Turnbull
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889747658
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Finno-Ugrians
ISBN : UCLA:L0100129477
Author : Arja Hamari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Finno-Ugric languages
ISBN : UOM:39015075649965
Author : Even Hovdhaugen,Ulrike Mosel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015049722559
Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman,Jan Blommaert,Chris Bulcaen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UIUC:30112067384757
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access -- for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language -- to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. It is also available online.
Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198830528
In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.
