Trends In Soviet Theoretical Linguistics

Author : F. Kiefer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401025362

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Trends in Soviet Theoretical Linguistics by F. Kiefer Pdf

o. Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. The terms 'structural linguistics', 'mathematical linguistics', 'applied lin guistics' (which, incidentally, has another meaning here than in other parts of the world) all may cover theoretical work in linguistics. In older days serious theoretical work was done under the heading 'machine translation'. Very often the need for a special term for theoretically oriented studies in linguistics does not even arise. Does this mean that there is no real theoretical linguistics in the Soviet Union? This would be, of course, a completely false conclusion. Some lin guists tend to identify theoretical linguistics with generative grammar. Though it might be true - and I am myself very much inclined to subscribe to this view - that generative grammar has been the most fruitful linguistic theory up to now, this does not justify, however, the above identification. Incidentally, as we shall see later on, generative grammar has not been left unnoticed in the Soviet Union either. There are different trends within theo retical linguistics, one of which is generative grammar. While generative grammar (though one can worry about the content of this notion for many. internal and external reasons) seems to be the mean theoretical trend in the United States and in Western Europe, it represents only one of the main trends in Soviet linguistics.

Author : Ferenc Kiefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
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Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401025371

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Trends in Soviet Theoretical Linguistics by Ferenc Kiefer Pdf

Author : Milka Ivic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110890754

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Trends in Linguistics by Milka Ivic Pdf

Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015008601018

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Recent Trends in Soviet Psycholinguistics by James V. Wertsch Pdf

Author : Mary McGee Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
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Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933762

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Categorial Grammars (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by Mary McGee Wood Pdf

In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical alternative to the phrase-structure paradigm, with deep roots in the philosophy of language, logic and algebra. Mary McGee Wood outlines their historical evolution and discusses their formal basis, starting with a quasi-canonical core and considering a number of possible extensions. She also explores their treatment of a number of linguistic phenomena, including passives, raising, discontinuous dependencies and non-constituent coordination, as well as such general issues as word order, logic, psychological plausibility and parsing. This introduction to categorial grammars will be of interest to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in current theories of grammar, including comparative, descriptive, and computational linguistics.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
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Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199571093

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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3 by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.

Author : W. John Hutchins
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 413 pages
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Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283719

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Early Years in Machine Translation by W. John Hutchins Pdf

Machine translation (MT) was one of the first non-numerical applications of the computer in the 1950s and 1960s. With limited equipment and programming tools, researchers from a wide range of disciplines (electronics, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) tackled the unknown problems of language analysis and processing, investigated original and innovative methods and techniques, and laid the foundations not just of current MT systems and computerized tools for translators but also of natural language processing in general. This volume contains contributions by or about the major MT pioneers from the United States, Russia, East and West Europe, and Japan, with recollections of personal experiences, colleagues and rivals, the political and institutional background, the successes and disappointments, and above all the challenges and excitement of a new field with great practical importance. Each article includes a personal bibliography, and the editor provides an overview, chronology and list of sources for the period.

Author : Martin Everaert,Erik-Jan van der Linden,Andr‚ Schenk,Rob Schreuder,Robert Schreuder
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 378 pages
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Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317780731

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Idioms by Martin Everaert,Erik-Jan van der Linden,Andr‚ Schenk,Rob Schreuder,Robert Schreuder Pdf

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions are written by psycholinguists and theoretical and computational linguists who take mutual advantage of progress in all disciplines. Linguists supply the facts and analyses psycholinguists base their models and experiments on; psycholinguists in turn confront linguistic models with psycholinguistic findings. Computational linguists build natural language processing systems on the basis of models and frameworks provided by theoretical linguists and, sometimes psycholinguists, and set up large corpora to test linguistic hypotheses. Besides the fascination for idioms that make up such a large part of our knowledge of language, interdisciplinarity is one of the attractions of investigations in idiomatic language and language processing.

Author : Alexej V. Gladkij,Igor A. Melcuk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810806

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Elements of Mathematical Linguistics by Alexej V. Gladkij,Igor A. Melcuk Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 15061 pages
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Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136158322

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Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics by Various Pdf

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Applied Linguistics and Language Learning to Experimental Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
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Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226114333

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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology by Bernard Comrie Pdf

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
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Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110702538

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Figurative Language by Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon (conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language in two points: Firstly, they are conventionalized. That is, they are elements of the mental lexicon – in contrast to freely created figurative expressions. Secondly, they consist of two conceptual levels: they can be interpreted at the level of their literal reading and at the level of their figurative meaning – which both can be activated simultaneously. New insights into the Theory of Figurative Lexicon relate, on the one hand, to the metaphor theory. Over time, it became increasingly clear that the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the sense of Lakoff can only partly explain the conventional figurativeness. On the other hand, it became clear that “intertextuality” plays a far greater role in the CFUs of Western cultures than previously assumed. The book’s main target audience will be linguists, researchers in phraseology, paremiology and metaphor, and cultural studies. The data and explanations of the idioms will provide a welcome textbook in courses on linguistics, culture history, phraseology research and phraseodidactics.

Author : Andrea Ender,Adrian Leemann,Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110275681

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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics by Andrea Ender,Adrian Leemann,Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative nature, the volume is a valuable source for students and researchers of a broad range of linguistic interests.

Author : Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230263

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Causatives and Transitivity by Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky Pdf

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394986

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.