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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, …
Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders
Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, and Warrgamay
E-bok, 2015
440 kr
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This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon''s most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other …
Making New Words
Morphological Derivation in English
E-bok, 2014
672 kr
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Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today''s English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules. Why, for …
Are Some Languages Better than Others?
E-bok, 2016
302 kr
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This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara, spoken in the Amazonian jungle, …
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 …
Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
E-bok, 2004
717 kr
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This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs …
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 …
Semantic Approach to English Grammar
E-bok, 2005
672 kr
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This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of …
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 …
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 …
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1
Methodology
E-bok, 2009
493 kr
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In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most …
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2
Grammatical Topics
E-bok, 2009
487 kr
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In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most …
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 …
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3
Further Grammatical Topics
E-bok, 2012
722 kr
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Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In crystal-clear prose, R. M. W. Dixon describes how to go about doing linguistics. He show how grammatical structures and rules may be …
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 …
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, …
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 …
English Prepositions
Their Meanings and Uses
E-bok, 2021
537 kr
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This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional …
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 …
New Grammar of Dyirbal
E-bok, 2022
1507 kr
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R. M. W. Dixon''s landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and …
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 …
A New Grammar of Dyirbal
Inbunden, 2022
2044 kr
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R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and …
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 …
The Grammar of Knowledge
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
Inbunden, 2014
2658 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, …
Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders
Studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ, and Warrgamay
Inbunden, 2015
2490 kr
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This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical …
Making New Words
Morphological Derivation in English
Inbunden, 2014
2136 kr
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Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules. Why, for …
Making New Words
Morphological Derivation in English
Häftad, 2014
814 kr
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Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules. Why, for …
Possession and Ownership
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Av Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
Häftad, 2015
620 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 …
