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| Author | : Ranko Matasović |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2018-05-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 110836909X |
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Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings about the distribution of agreement patterns in the world's languages. Focussing primarily on agreement in gender, number and person, but with reference to agreement in other smaller categories, Ranko Matasović aims to discover which patterns of agreement are widespread and common in languages, and which are rather limited in their distribution. He sheds new light on a range of important theoretical questions such as what agreement actually is, what areal, typological and genetic patterns exist across agreement systems, and what problems in the analysis of agreement remain unresolved.
| Author | : Guus Kroonen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2024-05-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3111338134 |
Download Sub-Indo-European Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
| Author | : Natalie Operstein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2021-11-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009003305 |
Download The Lingua Franca Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label 'Lingua Franca' conceal? These and related questions are explored in this new book on an enduringly important topic. The book presents a typologically informed analysis of Mediterranean Lingua Franca, as documented in the Dictionnaire de la langue franque ou petit mauresque, which provides an important historical snapshot of contact-induced language change. Based on a close study of the Dictionnaire in its historical and linguistic context, the book proposes hypotheses concerning its models, authorship and publication history, and examines the place of the Dictionnaire's Lingua Franca in the structural typological space between Romance languages, on the one hand, and pidgins, on the other. It refines our understanding of the typology of contact outcomes while at the same time opening unexpected new avenues for both linguistic and historical research.
| Author | : Bernd Kortmann |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2008-08-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110197324 |
Download Dialectology meets Typology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : F. K. Erhard Voeltz |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2006-03-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027293570 |
Download Studies in African Linguistic Typology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
| Author | : Mark Donohue |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 483 |
| Release | : 2008-01-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191528781 |
Download The Typology of Semantic Alignment Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This collection of new typological and case studies is the first book-length investigation of semantically aligned languages for three decades. Leading international typologists explore the differences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, the areas where semantically aligned languages are concentrated. This book will interest typological and historical linguists at graduate level and above.
| Author | : Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2003-11-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027295565 |
Download Explaining Language Structure through Systems Interaction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology. The framework is based on the notion of formal coding means; the principle of functional transparency; the notion of functional domains; and the notion of systems interaction in the coding of functional domains. The study is based on original analyses of cross-linguistic data.The fundamental finding of the study is that different languages may code different functional domains, which must be discovered by analyzing the formal means available in each language. The first part of the book proposes a methodology for discovering functional domains and the second part describes the properties of various functional domains. The book presents new cross-linguistic analyses of theoretical issues including agreement; phenomena attributed to government; nominal classification; prerequisites for and implications of linear order coding; and defining characteristics of lexical categories. The study also contributes new analyses of specific problems in individual languages.
| Author | : Anousha Sedighi |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2018-08-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191056413 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research. Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split into six thematic parts. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume begins by placing Persian in its historical and typological context in Part I. Chapters in Part II examine topics relating to phonetics and phonology, while Part III looks at approaches to and features of Persian syntax. The fourth part of the volume explores morphology and lexicography, as well as the work of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Part V, language and people, covers topics such as language contact and teaching Persian as a foreign language, while the final part examines psycho- neuro-, and computational linguistics. The volume will be an essential resource for all scholars with an interest in Persian language and linguistics.
| Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199283088 |
Download Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.
| Author | : Richard K. Larson |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260931 |
Download Advances in Iranian Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of linguistic analysis of Iranian languages have expanded over the years. The contributions collected in this volume address advancing research and complex methodological explorations in a broad range of topics in Persian syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, typology and classification, as well as historical linguistics. Some of the papers also investigate less-studied and endangered Iranian languages such as Tat, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Sorani and Kurmanji Kurdish, and Zazaki. The volume will be of value to scholars in theoretical frameworks as well as those with typological and diachronic perspectives, and in particular to those working in Iranian linguistics.
