Time And Tame In Language

Author : Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños,Karina Veronica Molsing
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443867962

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Time and TAME in Language by Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños,Karina Veronica Molsing Pdf

This book presents a collection of papers on various syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression in language. The articles included in this volume were presented at the I International Meeting on Syntax and Semantics and their Interfaces, with the main theme of the event being time. The authors include well-renowned researchers as well as new contributors to the field who present cutting-edge research on a variety of topics, ranging from the fundamental nature of time to formal approaches to specific tense-aspect structures as well as their interaction with other grammatical categories. This volume represents a valuable contribution to the field and will be of interest to scholars studying the representation of time in language as well as to syntacticians and semanticists in general.

Author : Rachel Leow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107148536

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Taming Babel by Rachel Leow Pdf

Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004292772

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Taming the TAME Systems by Anonim Pdf

This volume on TAME systems (Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality) stems from the 10th Chronos conference that took place in Aston University (Birmingham, UK) on 18th-20th April 2011. The papers collated here are therefore a chosen selection from a stringent peer-review process. They also witness to the width and breadth of the interests pursued within the Chronos community. Besides the traditional Western European languages, this volume explores languages from Eastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Russian) and much further afield such as Brazilian Portuguese, Korean or Mandarin Chinese. Little known languages from the Amazonian forest (Amondawa, Baure) or the Andes (Aymara) also come under scrutiny.

Author : Hannah Gibson,Rozenn Guérois,Gastor Mapunda,Lutz Marten
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540914

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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages by Hannah Gibson,Rozenn Guérois,Gastor Mapunda,Lutz Marten Pdf

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics. The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages. The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.

Author : Aaron D. Hornkohl,Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800641662

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New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew by Aaron D. Hornkohl,Geoffrey Khan Pdf

Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume is the published outcome of this initiative. It contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.

Author : Mark Frutkin
Publisher : Quattro Books
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781926802961

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Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously by Mark Frutkin Pdf

Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously is a collection of short essays that are pithy, aphoristic, and full of fresh insights and witticisms in the manner of Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes, Eduardo Galeano's Book of Embraces, or Pascal's Pensées. "Mark Frutkin has distilled his meditations on language, reason, myth and mystery into nuggets to tickle you into new ways of thinking." - Mark Fried, translator of Galeano.

Author : Nicholas Foulkes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781471170652

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Time Tamed by Nicholas Foulkes Pdf

'Downright fascinating...indispensable reading' Daily Telegraph 'Nicholas Foulkes' excellent...book is beautifully illustrated. Captivating' Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes' lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a workable train timetable across the vast, open expanse of the United States have inspired new developments. In Time Tamed, Nicholas Foulkes reveals how we have done this by focusing on some of the most significant developments in timekeeping across the ages. He also highlights the most stunning and lavish clocks and watches in history - from Big Ben to Rolex - for telling the time has never been purely about function, but also about design. The book is filled with remarkable tales, from the 14th century monk in St Albans who created one of the first mechanical clocks to the Holy Roman Emperor who built a clock into an automated ship that fired a cannon to summon guests to dinner. More recently, there was the Surrey woman who used a Napoleonic era watch to 'deliver' the accurate time to London shopkeepers in the wartime era of Churchill, or the Swiss denture maker who solved a tricky problem for the Indian Raj's polo players. Time Tamed is a book you'll want to spend many hours enjoying.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00098886

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Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Livia Kohn
Publisher : Three Pine Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1931483485

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Taming Time by Livia Kohn Pdf

Time, literally, is of the essence. It is a key feature in all cultures, determining human thought, expectations, actions, and developments. The great master of time studies, J. T. Fraser, describes it in terms of six major temporalities that move at different speeds in unique environments. Matching the evolution of the universe, they include (1) the atemporal or timeless state of primordial chaos; (2) the prototemporal realm of quantum simultaneity; (3) the eotemporal long-term rhythms of the stars; (4) the biotemporal dimensions of living creatures; (5) the noötemporal phenomena of brain and mind; and (6) the sociotemporal world of clocks and calendars, history and society, analysis and philosophy. This book examines Daoist ways of working with time in terms of these six temporalities, beginning with language, the "architect of time," located at a cross-point between society and brain. It then moves through the six types in reverse order, beginning with myths and philosophical concepts and concluding with mystical oneness in cosmic timelessness. To place the Daoist notions in context, each chapter presents the modern scientific understanding of time as well as comparative perspectives from other cultures. Daoists, it turns out, often match science in terms of basic concepts, but offer different practices to reverse entropy, overcome limitations, and ultimately tame time by going beyond it. Taming Time is encyclopedic in scope and global in outlook. It challenges preconceived notions and raises new perspectives in the study of time as it expertly clarifies Daoist visions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UOM:39015004485945

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Automata, Languages and Programming by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aldrich Chan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781324015987

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Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Aldrich Chan Pdf

Clinical musings on the nature of reality and “known experience.” Therapists must rely on their clients’ reporting of experience in order to assess, treat, and offer help. Yet we all experience the world through various filters of one sort or another, and our experiences are transformed through several nonconscious processes before reaching our conscious awareness. Science, philosophy, and wisdom traditions share the belief that our awareness is very restricted. How, then, can anyone accurately report their experience, let alone get help with it? Neuropsychologist Aldrich Chan examines how our experience of reality is assembled and shaped by biological, psychological, sociocultural, and existential processes. Each chapter explores processes within these domains that may act as “veils.” Topics in the book include: the default mode network, cognitive distortions, decision-making heuristics, the interconnected mind, memory, and cultural concepts of distress. By understanding the ways in which reality can be distorted, clinicians can more effectively help their clients reach their personal psychotherapeutic goals.

Author : Marcy Norton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737525

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The Tame and the Wild by Marcy Norton Pdf

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Isaac Kaufman Funk,Francis Andrew March
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN : PRNC:32101062930027

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A Standard Dictionary of the English Language by Isaac Kaufman Funk,Francis Andrew March Pdf

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11503847

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International Dictionary of the English language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Dorina C. Petriu,Nicolas Rouquette,Oystein Haugen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642161452

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Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems by Dorina C. Petriu,Nicolas Rouquette,Oystein Haugen Pdf

The MODELS series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of - novative technical ideas and experiences focusing on a very important new te- nical discipline: model-driven software and systems engineering. The expansion ofthisdisciplineisadirectconsequenceoftheincreasingsigni?canceandsuccess of model-based methods in practice. Numerous e?orts resulted in the invention of concepts, languagesand tools for the de?nition, analysis,transformation, and veri?cationofdomain-speci?cmodelinglanguagesandgeneral-purposemodeling language standards, as well as their use for software and systems engineering. MODELS 2010, the 13th edition of the conference series, took place in Oslo, Norway, October 3-8, 2010, along with numerous satellite workshops, symposia and tutorials. The conference was fortunate to have three prominent keynote speakers: Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) and Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, USA). To provide a broader forum for reporting on scienti?c progress as well as on experience stemming from practical applications of model-based methods, the 2010 conference accepted submissions in two distinct tracks: Foundations and Applications. The primary objective of the ?rst track is to present new research results dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art of the discipline, whereas the second aims to provide a realistic and veri?able picture of the current state-- the-practice of model-based engineering, so that the broader community could be better informed of the capabilities and successes of this relatively young discipline. This volume contains the ?nal version of the papers accepted for presentation at the conference from both tracks.