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Grammaticalization
E-bok, 2021
510 kr
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This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalization …
Genesis of Grammar
A Reconstruction
E-bok, 2007
701 kr
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"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind."Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in …
Changing Languages of Europe
E-bok, 2006
621 kr
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The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe''s 150 or so languages including those of different families such as Basque and …
Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
E-bok, 2011
680 kr
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This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and …
Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
E-bok, 2015
2134 kr
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This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and …
Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
E-bok, 2015
2134 kr
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This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and …
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
E-bok, 2018
1680 kr
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of …
Grammar of Interactives
Av Bernd Heine
E-bok, 2023
1524 kr
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This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as ''interactive grammar'', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part of language, Bernd Heine …
The Grammar of Interactives
Av Bernd Heine
Inbunden, 2023
1789 kr
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This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part of language, Bernd Heine …
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
Häftad, 2021
880 kr
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This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and …
Auxiliaries
Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization
Av Bernd Heine
Inbunden, 1994
3910 kr
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Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the …
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar
Av Bernd Heine
Inbunden, 1998
1974 kr
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The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure …
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar
Av Bernd Heine
Häftad, 1998
1424 kr
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The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure …
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar
Av Bernd Heine
E-bok, 1997
784 kr
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The main function of language is to convey meaning. The question of why language is structured the way it is, Heine here argues, has therefore to be answered first of all with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations in terms of other exponents of language structure, e.g. of syntax, are …
Auxiliaries
Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization
Av Bernd Heine
E-bok, 1993
2568 kr
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Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the …
Grammaticalization
Inbunden, 2021
1880 kr
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This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalization …
Grammaticalization
Häftad, 2021
751 kr
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This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalization …
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Inbunden, 2018
2370 kr
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of …
The Genesis of Grammar
A Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2007
3910 kr
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in …
The Genesis of Grammar
A Reconstruction
Häftad, 2007
891 kr
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in …
The Changing Languages of Europe
Inbunden, 2006
1356 kr
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This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The unifying process …
The Changing Languages of Europe
Häftad, 2006
922 kr
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The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe's 150 or so languages including those of different families such as Basque and …
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
Inbunden, 2011
3040 kr
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This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and …
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Inbunden, 2015
2620 kr
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This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and …
Possession
Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization
Av Bernd Heine, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived. The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the …
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Häftad, 2011
738 kr
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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in …
Possession
Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization
Av Bernd Heine
Inbunden, 1997
1844 kr
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In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived. The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the …
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Av Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that …
African Languages
An Introduction
Inbunden, 2000
2029 kr
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This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and …
African Languages
An Introduction
Häftad, 2000
905 kr
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This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and …