Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia


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Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia


Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia
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Author : Walter Bisang
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-09-21

Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia written by Walter Bisang 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 2020-09-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.



Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia


Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia
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Author : Walter Bisang
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-09-21

Grammaticalization Scenarios From Europe And Asia written by Walter Bisang 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 2020-09-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.



Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios


Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios
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Author : Walter Bisang
language : en
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Release Date : 2020-10-09

Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios written by Walter Bisang and has been published by Saint Philip Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with categories.


The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on "Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios" held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan", Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.



The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia


The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Author : Paul Sidwell
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-08-23

The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell 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 2021-08-23 with History categories.


The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.



A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory Of Grammaticalization


A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory Of Grammaticalization
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Author : Riccardo Giomi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-01-30

A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory Of Grammaticalization written by Riccardo Giomi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in grammaticalization is that it never results in a decrease in the semantic or pragmatic scope of the construction.



The Languages And Linguistics Of Northern Asia


The Languages And Linguistics Of Northern Asia
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Author : Edward Vajda
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-03-04

The Languages And Linguistics Of Northern Asia written by Edward Vajda 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 2024-03-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.



Proceedings Of The 32nd Annual Ucla Indo European Conference


Proceedings Of The 32nd Annual Ucla Indo European Conference
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Author : David M. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
Release Date : 2023-02-06

Proceedings Of The 32nd Annual Ucla Indo European Conference written by David M. Goldstein and has been published by Helmut Buske Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-06 with Literary Criticism categories.


The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. These Proceedings include papers presented at the Thirty-Second Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, held in an online format.



Paradigms Regained Theoretical And Empirical Arguments For The Reassessment Of The Notion Of Paradigm


Paradigms Regained Theoretical And Empirical Arguments For The Reassessment Of The Notion Of Paradigm
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Author : Gabriele Diewald
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
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Paradigms Regained Theoretical And Empirical Arguments For The Reassessment Of The Notion Of Paradigm written by Gabriele Diewald and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The volume discusses the breadth of applications for an extended notion of paradigm. Paradigms in this sense are not only tools of morphological description but constitute the inherent structure of grammar. Grammatical paradigms are structural sets forming holistic, semiotic structures with an informational value of their own. We argue that as such, paradigms are a part of speaker knowledge and provide necessary structuring for grammaticalization processes. The papers discuss theoretical as well as conceptual questions and explore different domains of grammatical phenomena, ranging from grammaticalization, morphology, and cognitive semantics to modality, aiming to illustrate what the concept of grammatical paradigms can and cannot (yet) explain.



Applicative Constructions In The World S Languages


Applicative Constructions In The World S Languages
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Author : Fernando Zuniga
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-01-29

Applicative Constructions In The World S Languages written by Fernando Zuniga 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 2024-01-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).



The Perfect Volume


The Perfect Volume
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Author : Kristin Melum Eide
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-07-15

The Perfect Volume written by Kristin Melum Eide and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.