On Comitatives And Related Categories
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download On Comitatives And Related Categories PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get On Comitatives And Related Categories book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
On Comitatives And Related Categories
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Thomas Stolz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-08-22
On Comitatives And Related Categories written by Thomas Stolz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. This has important repercussions for a language-independent definition of the comitative. The supposed conceptual closeness of comitative and instrumental is discussed in some detail and a semantic map of the comitative is put forward. Markedness is the crucial concept for the evaluation of the relation that ties comitatives and instrumentals to each other. In a separate chapter, the diachrony of comitatives is looked into from the perspective of grammaticalisation research. Throughout the book, the argumentation is richly documented by empirical data. The book contains three case-studies of the comitative in Icelandic, Latvian and Maltese - each of which represents one of the three language types identified earlier in the text. For the purpose of comparing the languages of Europe, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of a large parallel literary corpus (covering 64 languages) which reveals that the parameters of genetic affiliation, areal location and typological classification interact in intricate ways when it comes to predicting whether or not two languages of the sample behave similarly as to the use to which they put their comitative morphemes. With a view to determining the degree of similarity between the languages of the European sub-sample, methods of quantitative typology are employed. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest. We regret that, due to a PDF problem, the figure on page 111 is partly shown in black. Please find the correct table here.
New Challenges In Typology
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Patience Epps
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
New Challenges In Typology written by Patience Epps and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities and surprises. The same can be said for linguistic typologies. Typological theories are critical tools for linguists, for exploring differences and similarities among languages, for learning about the cognitive factors and social practices that make languages the way they are, and for making predictions about other properties of languages that are members of a certain type. So what do we do when a typology leaks? This paper follows the spirit of such work as Aske (1989) on path types and Mithun and Chafe (1999) on grammatical relations types to understand the grammatical and functional motivations of language-internal typological diversity: that is, why and how a single language uses patterns and constructions of more than one type. .
The Finnish Case System
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Minna Jaakola
language : en
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Release Date : 2023-11-03
The Finnish Case System written by Minna Jaakola and has been published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents an up-to-date cognitive-linguistic account of the Finnish cases that would serve the interests of an international audience. As the Finnish linguistic tradition has always considered grammatical cases to be meaningful elements, this volume also addresses the extensive work by earlier scholars from different theoretical backgrounds. The volume consists of an introduction and eleven articles. The introduction presents the system of Finnish cases and provides a brief overview of the main tenets of cognitive linguistics, offering guidance for those readers who are not familiar with cognitive linguistics. Some articles focus on one case and present a unified account of its functions, others analyse a larger group of cases that form a system (the local cases), whereas yet others address the use of cases in certain constructions (such as expressions of change). This collection of articles also discusses more general topics, such as the notion of case, questions of polysemy, the traditional division of cases into grammatical and semantic, the relationship between inflection and derivation, and the role of inflection in the categories of adpositions and adverbs.
Case Animacy And Semantic Roles
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Seppo Kittilä
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-28
Case Animacy And Semantic Roles written by Seppo Kittilä and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.
Word
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Word written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language and languages categories.
Linguistics
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Linguistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Linguistics categories.
Folia Linguistica
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Folia Linguistica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Linguistics categories.
Universality In Language Beyond Grammar
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Hansjakob Seiler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Universality In Language Beyond Grammar written by Hansjakob Seiler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
The Making Of Mauritian Creole
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Philip Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Making Of Mauritian Creole written by Philip Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Concise Encyclopedia Of Grammatical Categories
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : K. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Pergamon
Release Date : 1999-10-22
Concise Encyclopedia Of Grammatical Categories written by K. Brown and has been published by Pergamon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Complementing Brown & Miller's recent Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories (1996), to which this is a companion volume, this encyclopedia is a collection of articles drawn from the highly successful Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. It presents a collection of 79 articles, all of which have been revised and updated. It also provides a number of newly commissioned articles, one of which has been substantially updated and extended. The volume is alphabetically organised and includes an introduction and a glossary. The Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories will provide a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of the building blocks of syntax: word classes, sentence/clause types, functional categories of the noun and verb, anaphora and pronominalisation, transitivity, topicalisation and work order.