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The History of Languages
An Introduction
Av Tore Janson
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
479 kr
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This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to …
A Practical Introduction to Phonetics
Häftad, 2001
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589 kr
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An understanding of phonetics - of the mechanisms of speech, of how the sounds of language are produced, and of how they can be analysed and classified - is an essential acquirement for all those who have to deal with language and languages either theoretically or practically.This book is an …
Linguistic Reconstruction
An Introduction to Theory and Method
Av Fox
Häftad, 1995
1205 kr
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How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical lingustics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and …
Principles and Parameters
An Introduction to Syntactic Theory
Av Culicover
Häftad, 1997
1091 kr
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Principles and Parameters is a new textbook intended for the advanced undergraduate or postgraduate student of linguistics. In this readable and authoritative survey of the theory, incorporating much of Government and Binding (GB) theory, Peter Culicover summarizes the major proposals and results …
Cognitive Grammar
Häftad, 2002
866 kr
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'Cognitive Grammar' is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's. Underlying the theory is the assumption that language is inherently symbolic in nature and that a language provides its speakers with a set of resources for relating phonological structures with semantic …
Speech Acts and Clause Types
English in a Cross-Linguistic Context
Inbunden, 2018
2003 kr
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This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance …
Speech Acts and Clause Types
English in a Cross-Linguistic Context
Häftad, 2018
805 kr
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This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance …
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 …
An Introduction to Multilingualism
Language in a Changing World
Inbunden, 2017
2063 kr
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This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms …
An Introduction to Multilingualism
Language in a Changing World
Häftad, 2017
513 kr
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This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms …
Diachronic Syntax
Av Ian Roberts
Häftad, 2021
843 kr
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This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - …
Natural Language Syntax
Inbunden, 2009
1739 kr
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In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, …
Natural Language Syntax
Häftad, 2009
1318 kr
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In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, …
A Semantic Approach to English Grammar
Häftad, 2005
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880 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 …
Linguistic Categorization
Häftad, 2003
1054 kr
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This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics. It explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to …
A Semantic Approach to English Grammar
Inbunden, 2005
3615 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 …
Meaning in Language
An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Av Alan Cruse
Häftad, 2010
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589 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language, covering not only semantic matters but also topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics. Above all, the book displays and explains the richness and subtlety of meaning, with the aid of …
Semantic Analysis
A Practical Introduction
Häftad, 2011
931 kr
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This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artefacts, motion, activity verbs, …
A Functional Discourse Grammar for English
Inbunden, 2015
2234 kr
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This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly …
A Functional Discourse Grammar for English
Häftad, 2015
687 kr
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This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly …
Pragmatics
Av Yan Huang
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include …
The Lexicon
An Introduction
Inbunden, 2016
2051 kr
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The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizing principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify a wide range of lexical phenomena, including polysemy, …
The Lexicon
An Introduction
Häftad, 2016
584 kr
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The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizing principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify a wide range of lexical phenomena, including polysemy, …
The History of Languages
An Introduction
Av Tore Janson
Inbunden, 2011
2234 kr
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This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to …
Linguistic Typology
Inbunden, 2018
2283 kr
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This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology, the study of structural variation in human language and of the limits on that variation. Jae Jung Song draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic …
Compositional Semantics
An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface
Inbunden, 2014
1600 kr
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This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct …
Compositional Semantics
An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface
Häftad, 2014
545 kr
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This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct …
Linguistic Typology
Häftad, 2018
602 kr
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This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology, the study of structural variation in human language and of the limits on that variation. Jae Jung Song draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic …
The Grammar of Words
An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology
Av Geert Booij
Häftad, 2012
563 kr
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Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of words. It is the only introductory text to explore the role of morphology in language processing and language change, …
