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Life Cycle of Adpositions
E-bok, 2021
1248 kr
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Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In …
Coherence
E-bok, 2020
1393 kr
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Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint, …
Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes
Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament - A new English translation
E-bok, 2019
1157 kr
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This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament - Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). The two books slipped into the Jewish - and eventually Christian - Canon by a series of …
On Understanding Grammar
Revised edition
E-bok, 2018
1349 kr
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In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "e;I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge...a book about understanding done with deep understanding - of language and its place in Nature …
Story of Zero
E-bok, 2017
1393 kr
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The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional equivalent, obligatory pronominal agreement, zero is both extremely widespread cross-linguistically …
Ute Dictionary
E-bok, 2016
1544 kr
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This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute …
Diachrony of Grammar
E-bok, 2015
2069 kr
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The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit …
English Grammar
A function-based introduction. Volume II
E-bok, 1993
1300 kr
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The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and …
English Grammar
A function-based introduction. Volume I
E-bok, 1993
1393 kr
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The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and …
Functionalism and Grammar
E-bok, 1995
1830 kr
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This book is Prof. Givón''s long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both ''function'' and …
Grammatical Relations
A functionalist perspective
E-bok, 1997
1830 kr
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This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility …
Conversation
Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives
E-bok, 1997
1762 kr
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The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our …
Coherence in Spontaneous Text
Av Givon T. Givon, Gernsbacher Morton Ann Gernsbacher
E-bok, 1995
1695 kr
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The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic …
Voice and Inversion
E-bok, 1994
1897 kr
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This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse”. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions — direct-active, inverse, passive, …
Topic Continuity in Discourse
A quantitative cross-language study
E-bok, 1983
1981 kr
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The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major …
Discourse, Grammar and Typology
Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
Av Thompson Sandra A. Thompson, Givon T. Givon m. fl.
E-bok, 1995
1642 kr
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This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors'' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in …
Genesis of Syntactic Complexity
Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution
E-bok, 2009
1544 kr
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Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian …
Syntactic Complexity
Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Av Shibatani Masayoshi Shibatani, Givon T. Givon
E-bok, 2009
1544 kr
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Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive …
Context as Other Minds
The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication
E-bok, 2005
1628 kr
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Givon''s new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has …
Bio-Linguistics
The Santa Barbara lectures
E-bok, 2002
1830 kr
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Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work, …
Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Av Malle Bertram F. Malle, Givon T. Givon
E-bok, 2002
1897 kr
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The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave …
Syntax
An Introduction. Volume II
E-bok, 2001
1695 kr
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This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and …
Syntax
An Introduction. Volume I
E-bok, 2001
1707 kr
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This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and …
