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Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries
Häftad, 2015
821 kr
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This book is a report of an investigation into the meanings of the modal auxiliaries in modern British English. The investigation took the form of a large-scale corpus-based project, looking at modal auxiliaries in both written and spoken language, and taking into account stylistic variation. The …
Elementary Grammar of Old Icelandic (RLE Linguistics E: Indo-European Linguistics)
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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The first available Elementary Grammar of Old Icelandic in the English language, this book is primarily intended for the beginner. To this end, the greater part of the space is devoted to a detailed treatment of the inflexions and of such points of syntax as are likely to cause difficulties.
Chomsky Update
Inbunden, 2013
1530 kr
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Noam Chomsky has been described as ‘arguably the most important intellectual alive’. His revolutionary work in linguistics has aroused intense scholarly interest, while his trenchant critique of United States foreign policy and his incisive analysis of the role of intellectuals in modern society …
Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic thinking, the author offers us one of the truly serious efforts since Vygotsky to deal with this question. A unifying theme is the …
Foundations of General Linguistics
Av Martin Atkinson, Iggy Roca m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
3173 kr
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The first edition of this major introduction to linguistics rapidly established itself as an important student textbook, and a reference tool for those who already have some acquaintance with linguistics. This second edition has been updated and revised and includes new chapters on syntax and on …
Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Av John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous?One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with …
Learning about Linguistics
Av F.C. Stork, J.D.A. Widdowson
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject.Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader …
Lexical Phonology and Morphology
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a …
Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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The study of opacity falls under the general programme of showing how the meaning of any complex sentence is composed from the meanings of its constituent clauses, phrases and words. Opaque constructions are special from this point of view because the compositional principles that determine their …
Linguistic Meaning
Av Keith Allan
Inbunden, 2013
4380 kr
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Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to …
Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Av Hayley G. Davis, Talbot J. Taylor
Inbunden, 2013
2466 kr
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The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain why a redefinition …
Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing …
Universal Grammar (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Inbunden, 2013
3173 kr
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This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan’s long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal ‘foundation’ articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition …
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents
Av Mira Ariel
Inbunden, 2013
2904 kr
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Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Mira Ariel defines referring expressions as markers signalling the degree of Accessibility in memory of the …
Basic Word Order (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Functional Principles
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization.From a database of nearly …
Categorial Grammars (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
2208 kr
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In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical …
Categorial Morphology (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the proper analysis of synthetic compounds. Are …
Existential Sentences (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Their Structure and Meaning
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study …
Formal Grammar of Switch-Reference (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
2904 kr
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This book studies the syntax of switch-reference and its implications for the theory of grammar. Switch-reference, found in many genetically and geographically diverse languages, is a phenomenon whereby referential identity between subjects of hierarchically adjacent clauses is encoded by the …
Foundations of Linguistic Theory (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Selected Writings of Roy Harris
Av Nigel Love
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of ‘decontextualising’ our own verbal behaviour. A whole interlocking system of doctrines about forms, meanings and communication has arisen designed to support …
Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
1759 kr
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According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it – a generative grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set of sentences. This forms the speaker’s linguistic competence, which represents a distinct faculty of the mind, called …
Meanings and Prototypes
Studies in Linguistic Categorization
Inbunden, 2013
3173 kr
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There are fewer distinctions in any language than there are distinct things in the universe. If, therefore, languages are ways of representing the universe, a primary function of their elements must be to allow the much more varied kinds of elements out of which the universe is made to be …
Pragmatics of Style (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Av Leo Hickey
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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In the general area of style study or stylistics there is no shortage of ideas, definitions or published works. It is hoped, in the present volume, to contribute to the prosperity of the discipline mainly by clarifying and exemplifying how pragmatic considerations may be relevant to any study of …
Semantic Structures (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Advances in Natural Language Processing
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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Natural language understanding is central to the goals of artificial intelligence. Any truly intelligent machine must be capable of carrying on a conversation: dialogue, particularly clarification dialogue, is essential if we are to avoid disasters caused by the misunderstanding of the intelligent …
Production and Comprehension of Utterances (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
1759 kr
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In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on language performance and proposes a model of production and comprehension. Although recent developments in linguistics are taken into account, consideration of other requirements of a performance model leads to the conclusion that the …
Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of …
Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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This book is a report of an investigation into the meanings of the modal auxiliaries in modern British English. The investigation took the form of a large-scale corpus-based project, looking at modal auxiliaries in both written and spoken language, and taking into account stylistic variation. The …
Situated Theory of Agreement (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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Typical cases of agreement are easy to identify, but where the boundaries of agreement lie depend on what aspects of the agreement relation are considered to be defining properties. It is a short step from viewing agreement in the traditional way, as a matching of features, to defining agreement as …
Studies in Discourse Analysis (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Av Malcolm Coulthard, Martin Montgomery
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in particular considers how successive utterances cohere together in continuous spoken discourse. Beginning with an earlier model of discourse analysis elaborated to deal …
Theoretical Linguistics and Disordered Language (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Av Martin Ball
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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The rapid increase of interest in disordered speech and language among linguists over the past decade or so has resulted in many books of practical help to speech pathologists in terms of assessment and remediation. Little, however, has appeared to examine the theoretical implications of the …
