Reciprocals And Semantic Typology
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Reciprocals And Semantic Typology
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Author : Nicholas Evans
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Reciprocals And Semantic Typology written by Nicholas Evans 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 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Is there a single, Platonic 'reciprocal' meaning found in all languages, or is there a cluster of related concepts which are nonetheless impossible to characterize in any single way? This title develops and explains techniques for tackling this question. It confronts a general problem facing semantic typology.
Reciprocals And Reflexives
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Author : Ekkehard König
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-11-06
Reciprocals And Reflexives written by Ekkehard König 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 2008-11-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection of original papers is a representative survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity. Its most remarkable feature is its combination of formal approaches, case studies on individual languages and broad typological surveys in one volume, showing that the interaction of formal approaches to grammar and typology may lead to new insights and results for both fields. Among the major issues addressed in this volume are the following: How can our current knowledge about the space and limits of variation in the relevant domain be captured in a structural typology of reciprocity? What light can such a typology shed on the facts of particular languages or groups of languages (e.g. Austronesian)? How can recent descriptive and typological insights be incorporated into a revised and more adequate version of the Binding Theory? How do verbal semantics, argument structure and reciprocal markers interact? How can we explain the pervasive patterns of ambiguity observable in these two domains, especially the use of the same forms both as reflexive and reciprocal markers? What are the major sources in the historical development of reciprocal markers? This combination of large-scale typological surveys with in-depth studies of particular languages provides new answers to old questions and raises important new questions for future research.
Loss And Renewal
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Author : Felicity Meakins
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-04-11
Loss And Renewal written by Felicity Meakins 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 2016-04-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.
Reciprocals And Reflexives
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Author : Ekkehard König
language : en
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Release Date : 2008
Reciprocals And Reflexives written by Ekkehard König and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection of original papers presents a survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity, as well as the relationship between these two domains of grammar. It combines formal approaches, case studies on ind
Tool Intelligence As An Explanation Of Cross Linguistic Variation And Family Resemblance
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Author : Anneliese Kuhle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-11-28
Tool Intelligence As An Explanation Of Cross Linguistic Variation And Family Resemblance written by Anneliese Kuhle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.
The Lexical Semantics Of The Arabic Verb
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Author : Peter John Glanville
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Lexical Semantics Of The Arabic Verb written by Peter John Glanville and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book explores Arabic derivational morphology, focusing on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic forms from a lexical semantic perspective. It explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words containing the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction.
The Np Strategy For Expressing Reciprocity
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Author : Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-03-15
The Np Strategy For Expressing Reciprocity written by Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal 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 2020-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic literature, namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations. Instead, they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In effect, it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of these constructions. More broadly, this book introduces new ways of bringing together historical linguistics and formal semantics, demonstrating how, on the one hand, the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how, on the other hand, an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions serves as a key for understanding their historical origins.
Grammatical Voice
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Author : Fernando Zúñiga
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Grammatical Voice written by Fernando Zúñiga 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 2019-03-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.
Transitivity Valency And Voice
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Author : Denis Creissels
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-10-29
Transitivity Valency And Voice written by Denis Creissels and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms transitivity, valency, and voice. These three concepts are at the heart of the most basic aspects of clausal structure in any language; however, there is considerable cross-linguistic variation in the constraints on how verbs combine with noun phrases that refer to participants in the event that they denote or to the circumstances of the event. In this book, Denis Creissels explores and accounts for the extent of this cross-linguistic variation, capturing its regularities and examining the historical phenomena that have resulted in the emergence of constructions and markers. The novel framework developed in the book allows similar phenomena to be identified across typologically diverse languages, and facilitates systematic comparison of the manifestations of these phenomena in the grammars of individual languages.
Typological Hierarchies In Synchrony And Diachrony
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Author : Sonia Cristofaro
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-07-15
Typological Hierarchies In Synchrony And Diachrony written by Sonia Cristofaro 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 2018-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.