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This is the Thing
A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’
Av Fortescue Michael Fortescue
E-bok, 2026
1642 kr
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This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words …
Abstraction Engine
Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Av Fortescue Michael Fortescue
E-bok, 2017
1343 kr
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The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way …
Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
Av Fortescue Michael Fortescue
E-bok, 1980
957 kr
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This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.
Content, Expression and Structure
Studies in Danish functional grammar
Av Jakobsen Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen, Heltoft Lars Heltoft m. fl.
E-bok, 1996
1897 kr
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This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or …
Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective
Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990
Av Kristoffersen Lars Kristoffersen, Harder Peter Harder m. fl.
E-bok, 1992
1830 kr
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This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is ''reference''. Some …
Historical Linguistics 2003
Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003
Av Schosler Lene Schosler, Mogensen Jens Erik Mogensen m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
1695 kr
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This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with …
Pattern and Process
A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics
Av Fortescue Michael Fortescue
E-bok, 2001
1581 kr
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The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of …
