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A Brief History Of The Verb To Be
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Author : Andrea Moro
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-01-12
A Brief History Of The Verb To Be written by Andrea Moro and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's “era of syntax,” in search of a dangerous verb and its significance. Beginning with the early works of Aristotle, the interpretation of the verb to be runs through Western linguistic thought like Ariadne's thread. As it unravels, it becomes intertwined with philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and even with mathematics—so much so that Bertrand Russell showed no hesitation in proclaiming that the verb to be was a disgrace to the human race. With the conviction that this verb penetrates modern linguistic thinking, creating scandal in its wake and, like a Trojan horse of linguistics, introducing disruptive elements that lead us to rethink radically the most basic structure of human language—the sentence—Andrea Moro reconstructs this history. From classical Greece to the dueling masters of medieval logic through the revolutionary geniuses from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment, and finally to the twentieth century—when linguistics became a driving force and model for neuroscience—the plot unfolds like a detective story, culminating in the discovery of a formula that solves the problem even as it raises new questions—about language, evolution, and the nature and structure of the human mind. While Moro never resorts to easy shortcuts, A Brief History of the Verb To Be isn't burdened with inaccessible formulas and always refers to the broader picture of mind and language. In this way it serves as an engaging introduction to a new field of cutting-edge research.
A Brief History Of The Verb To Be
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Author : Andrea Moro
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
A Brief History Of The Verb To Be written by Andrea Moro and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's “era of syntax,” in search of a dangerous verb and its significance. Beginning with the early works of Aristotle, the interpretation of the verb to be runs through Western linguistic thought like Ariadne's thread. As it unravels, it becomes intertwined with philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and even with mathematics—so much so that Bertrand Russell showed no hesitation in proclaiming that the verb to be was a disgrace to the human race. With the conviction that this verb penetrates modern linguistic thinking, creating scandal in its wake and, like a Trojan horse of linguistics, introducing disruptive elements that lead us to rethink radically the most basic structure of human language—the sentence—Andrea Moro reconstructs this history. From classical Greece to the dueling masters of medieval logic through the revolutionary geniuses from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment, and finally to the twentieth century—when linguistics became a driving force and model for neuroscience—the plot unfolds like a detective story, culminating in the discovery of a formula that solves the problem even as it raises new questions—about language, evolution, and the nature and structure of the human mind. While Moro never resorts to easy shortcuts, A Brief History of the Verb To Be isn't burdened with inaccessible formulas and always refers to the broader picture of mind and language. In this way it serves as an engaging introduction to a new field of cutting-edge research.
A Brief History Of English Syntax
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Author : Olga Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-08
A Brief History Of English Syntax written by Olga Fischer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.
A Brief History Of The English Language
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Author : Oliver Farrar Emerson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
A Brief History Of The English Language written by Oliver Farrar Emerson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with English language categories.
A Brief History Of The Mind
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Author : William H. Calvin
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2004
A Brief History Of The Mind written by William H. Calvin and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Traces the evolution of the mind, from apes, Neanderthals, and human ancestors to a burst of creativity that began about fifty thousand years ago, suggesting that the mind will continue to evolve, with enhanced reasoning abilities, ethics, and other changes.
Terence And The Verb To Be In Latin
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Author : Giuseppe Pezzini
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
Release Date : 2015
Terence And The Verb To Be In Latin written by Giuseppe Pezzini and has been published by Oxford Classical Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.
"Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This phenomenon is largely unknown since classical texts have undergone a long process of transmission over the centuries, which has altered or deleted its traces. Although they are often neglected by scholars and puzzling to students, the use of contracted forms is shown to be widespread and significant. These forms expose the clitic nature of esse, which also explains other properties of the verb, including its participation in a prosodic simplification with a host ending in -s (sigmatic ecthlipsis), a phenomenon which is also discussed in the volume. After an introduction on methodology, the volume discusses the linguistic significance of such phenomena, focusing in particular on analysis of their behaviour in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence.0Combining traditional scholarship with the use of digital resources, the volume explores the orthographic, phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of the verb esse, revealing that cliticization is a key feature of the verb 'to be' in Latin, and that contractions deserve a place within its paradigm."-- dust jacket
A Brief History Of The German Language
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Author : Jakob Sverdrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
A Brief History Of The German Language written by Jakob Sverdrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with German language categories.
A Short History Of English
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Author : Henry Cecil Wyld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
A Short History Of English written by Henry Cecil Wyld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with English language categories.
Ancient Greek Verb Initial Compounds
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Author : Olga Tribulato
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-06-16
Ancient Greek Verb Initial Compounds written by Olga Tribulato and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides a brand new treatment of Ancient Greek (AG) verb-first (V1) compounds. In AG, the very existence of this type is surprising: its left-oriented structure goes against the right-oriented structure of the compound system, in which there also exists a large class of verb-final (V2) compounds (many of which express the same agentive semantics). While past studies have privileged either the historical dimension or the assessment of semantic and stylistic issues over a systematic analysis of V1 compounds, this book provides a comprehensive corpus of appellative and onomastic forms, which are studied vis-à-vis V2 ones. The diachronic dimension (how these compounds developed from late PIE to AG and then within AG) is combined with the synchronic one (how they are used in specific contexts) in order to show that, far from being anomalous, V1 compounds fill lexical gaps that could not, for specified morphological and semantic reasons, be filled by more ‘regular’ V2 ones. Introductory chapters on compounding in morphological theory and in AG place the multi-faceted approach of this book in a modern perspective, highlighting the importance of AG for linguists debating the properties of the V1 type cross-linguistically.
The Difficulties Of English Grammar And Analysis Simplified With A Brief History Of The Language
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Author : W J. Dickinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Difficulties Of English Grammar And Analysis Simplified With A Brief History Of The Language written by W J. Dickinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with English language categories.
