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9 produkter
The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
Häftad, 2024
746 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the …
Language Contact in Amazonia
Inbunden, 2003
1083 kr
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This book considers how forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another and what the explanation is for this. The author aims (a) to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and (b) to discover the …
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2010
1093 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) …
Language Contact in Amazonia
Häftad, 2010
928 kr
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This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. The author explains the relationship between a real diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveals the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share …
I Saw the Dog
How Language Works
Inbunden, 2021
171 kr
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Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and …
I Saw the Dog
How Language Works
E-bok, 2021
191 kr
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Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can''t conceive of a world that isn''t split into un and une, male and …
Multi-verb Constructions
A View from the Americas
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, Pieter Muysken
Inbunden, 2010
2647 kr
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One of the most complex topics in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, and indeed in the study of any language set, is the complex behaviour of multi-verb constructions. In many languages, several verbs can co-occur in a sentence, forming a single predicate. This book contains a …
Language at Large
Essays on Syntax and Semantics
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon
Inbunden, 2011
4323 kr
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The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of …
Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, Anne Storch
Inbunden, 2013
2393 kr
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Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the world's languages, grammatical evidentials express means of perception. In some languages verbs of vision subsume cognitive meanings. In others, cognition is associated with a verb …
