The Paradigmatic Structure Of Person Marking

Author : Michael Cysouw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191564994

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The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking by Michael Cysouw Pdf

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says "Mummy is going to say goodnight now", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.

Author : Michael Alexander Cysouw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Homophonie
ISBN : 9037305466

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The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking by Michael Alexander Cysouw Pdf

Author : Horst J. Simon,Heike Wiese
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722773X

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Pronouns by Horst J. Simon,Heike Wiese Pdf

The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions. They come from different theoretical approaches and methodological backgrounds and take into account data from a wide range of Indoeuropean and non-Indoeuropean languages. Bringing together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, the volume offers a kaleidoscope of studies united by the common topic of pronouns as a domain of language that exemplarily shows the interaction of different components responsible for computational (syntactic and semantic), lexical, and discourse-pragmatic processes.

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677092

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Linguistic Typology by Jae Jung Song Pdf

This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Author : JIANMING WU
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781631819650

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THE FUNCTION OF PRONOMINAL EXPRESSIONS IN PUXIAN by JIANMING WU Pdf

Puxian is one of the Min dialects in China. This book investigates the function of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonal reference, self-forms and person effects on word order. The investigation of impersonality deals with a group of constructions in Puxian that have pronominalized subjects but crucially with impersonal reference. By means of careful examination, these subjects are, for the first time, projected onto five semantic domains on a connected loop. The discussion on self-forms in Puxian focuses on their interrelated functions along the pathway of grammaticalization, such as reflexivity, intensification, viewpoint markings, verbal manner, etc. Significantly, this discussion is based on the latest functional-typological perspectives, which is different from previous approaches to Mandarin ziji. The attention to word order and person effect is related to the polyfunctional morpheme k?21, which plays a part in several constructions, ranging from the monotransitives, ditransitives, causatives, passives and even to the intransitives. The main concern is how the grammatical category of person as a whole may affect the placement of syntactic constituents as well as encodings of argument roles by means of the morpheme k?21. Since Puxian has been relatively unknown in linguistics, a sketch of Puxian grammar and language situation is also offered in this book.

Author : Matti Miestamo,Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198904

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New Challenges in Typology by Matti Miestamo,Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. The papers cover grammatical phenomena from phonology, morphology up to the syntax of complex sentences. The linguistic phenomena scrutinized include the following: foot and stress, tone, infixation, inflection vs. derivation, word formation, polysynthesis, suppletion, person marking, reflexives, alignment, transitivity, tense-aspect-mood systems, negation, interrogation, converb systems, and complex sentences. More general methodological and theoretical issues, such as reconstruction, markedness, semantic maps, templates, and use of parallel corpora, are also addressed. The contributions in this volume draw from many traditional fields of linguistics simultaneously, and show that it is becoming harder and maybe also less desirable to keep them separate, especially when taking a broadly cross-linguistic approach to language. The book is of interest to typologists and field linguists, as well as to any linguists interested in theoretical issues in different subfields of linguistics.

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723082X

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Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood Pdf

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the determination of meaning in typological studies; a refined understanding of diachronic processes by including intentional, social, statistical, and level-determined phenomena; the reconsideration of categories such as sentence, evidential or adposition, and structures such as compounds or polysynthesis; the tension between formal simplicity and functional clarity; the inclusion of unusual systems in theoretical debates; and fresh approaches to Chinese classifiers, possession in Oceanic languages, and English aspect. This is a careful selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the Symposium was to confront fundamental issues in language structure and change with the rich variation of forms and functions observed across languages.

Author : George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133704994

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Language by George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch Pdf

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197327

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Dialectology meets Typology by Bernd Kortmann Pdf

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114636215

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Studies in African Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simeon Floyd,Elisabeth Norcliffe,Lila San Roque
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265548

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Egophoricity by Simeon Floyd,Elisabeth Norcliffe,Lila San Roque Pdf

Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.

Author : Suzanne Pauline Aalberse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132583084

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Inflectional Economy and Politeness by Suzanne Pauline Aalberse Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Norcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211374942

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Head Marking in Usage and Grammar by Elisabeth Norcliffe Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025908224

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132666962

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Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae by Anonim Pdf