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83 produkter
Grammar of Knowledge
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2014
473 kr
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The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages. The book investigates twelve different languages, …
Languages of the Amazon
E-bok, 2012
869 kr
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This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world''s leading experts on the region, …
How Gender Shapes the World
E-bok, 2016
462 kr
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This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has …
Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
E-bok, 2018
1443 kr
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This volume 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 event, heard it, inferred …
Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
E-bok, 2018
1443 kr
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This volume 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 event, heard it, inferred …
Art of Grammar
A Practical Guide
E-bok, 2014
668 kr
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This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars …
Grammars in Contact
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2007
473 kr
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Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are …
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance
Problems in Comparative Linguistics
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2006
739 kr
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Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the borrowing by one language of …
Complementation
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
E-bok, 2006
457 kr
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A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages lack a complement clause …
Evidentiality
E-bok, 2004
755 kr
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In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called …
Adjective Classes
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
E-bok, 2004
655 kr
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This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation. Thirteen chapters …
Serial Verb Constructions
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2005
554 kr
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This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and similar structures in languages …
Classifiers
A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
E-bok, 2000
806 kr
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Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages, on the other, are the …
Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
E-bok, 2008
831 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. 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) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About …
Semantics of Clause Linking
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
E-bok, 2009
604 kr
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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a …
Semantics of Clause Linking
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
E-bok, 2009
604 kr
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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a …
Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
E-bok, 2010
831 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. 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) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About …
Possession and Ownership
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2012
550 kr
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Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly …
Serial Verbs
E-bok, 2018
495 kr
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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, …
Commands
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2017
440 kr
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This book focuses on the form and the function of commands—directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders—from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with cultural stereotypes and practices, …
Genders and Classifiers
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Elena I. Mihas, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
E-bok, 2019
1416 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world''s languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical …
Guide to Gender and Classifiers
E-bok, 2025
1613 kr
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This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages use some type of noun …
Phonological Word and Grammatical Word
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Nathan M. White, R. M. W. Dixon m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1333 kr
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This volume examines the concept of ''word'' in its many guises and across many languages. ''Word'' is a cornerstone for the understanding of any language: it is a pronounceable phonological unit; it has a meaning and a morphological structure and syntactic function; and it exists as a dictionary …
Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Hannah S. Sarvasy
E-bok, 2025
2695 kr
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The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East …
Integration of Language and Society
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Nerida Jarkey, R. M. W. Dixon m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1541 kr
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The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers'' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the world, as well as other …
The Integration of Language and Society
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1825 kr
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The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the world, as well as other …
Serial Verbs
Häftad, 2021
563 kr
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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, …
The Yalaku Language of Papua New Guinea in Typological Perspective
Inbunden, 2027
2451 kr
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This book provides a typologically-informed grammatical analysis of Yalaku, a language spoken by about 900 people in three villages in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The language has many striking features, including an 'impeditive' modality to describe something hard to do; a five-way …
Classifiers
A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
Inbunden, 2000
6056 kr
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Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European languages, on the other, are the …
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance
Problems in Comparative Linguistics
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
Inbunden, 2001
1865 kr
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Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the borrowing by one language of …
