The Genesis Of A Language
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The Genesis Of Language
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Author : Marge E. Landsberg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-06-01
The Genesis Of Language written by Marge E. Landsberg 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 2011-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Genesis Of Grammar
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Author : Bernd Heine
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-10-05
The Genesis Of Grammar written by Bernd Heine and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal communication and human evolution. The questions they address include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that if language evolution is the result of language change then the reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists, cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.
The Genesis Of Language A Psycholinguistic Approach
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Author : Frank Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Genesis Of Language A Psycholinguistic Approach written by Frank Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Children categories.
The Genesis Of A Language
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Author : J. Clancy Clements
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1996-03-21
The Genesis Of A Language written by J. Clancy Clements 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 1996-03-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as well after 1740. This volume is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the formation, linguistic components, and rapidly changing situation of this exotic creole. The product of ten years of research, Korlai Creole Portuguese provides an exciting, in-depth diachronic look at a language that is now showing the strain of intense cultural pressure from the surrounding Marathi-speaking population. Framed in Thomason and Kaufman’s 1988 model of contact-induced language change, the author’s analysis is enriched by numerous comparisons with sister creoles, apart from medieval Portuguese and Marathi. This book contrastively examines the following areas: phonemic inventories, phonological processes, stress assignment, syllable structure, paradigm restructuring, paradigm use, lexicon, word formation, semantic borrowing, loan translations, grammatical relation marking, pre- and postnominal modification, negation, subject and object deletion, embedding, and word order.
On The Genesis Of Thought And Language
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Author : Alexey Koshelev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-18
On The Genesis Of Thought And Language written by Alexey Koshelev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with categories.
In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages. Chapter One introduces the fundamental dichotomy "visual (exogenous) vs. functional (endogenous)" cognitive units; these units are used to give non-verbal definitions of mental representations of various objects, actions, and situations. In particular, definitions of such concepts as GLASS, CHAIR, BANANA, TREE, LAKE, RUN, and some others are given. Chapter Two discusses how children form concepts, hierarchical relationships, and propositions (conceptual 'utterances'). It is shown that the initial units of the child's representation of the world are pre-conceptual cognitive units--mental representations of whole situations. In the course of two consecutive cycles in the child's cognitive development, these units transform into (a) primary notions--object and motor concepts, and (b) binary role relationships. Together, they constitute the elementary language of thought which, in the process of thinking, is used to build conceptual structures--propositions. It is further demonstrated that, immediately after the formation of thought, the child begins to develop his native language in which concrete and motor concepts become initial meanings of nouns and verbs, while propositions become the meanings of the child's expressions. The chapter concludes with a contrastive analysis of the proposed approach and Aristotle's and Chomsky's views on thought and language. Chapter Three analyzes how a community's culture affects its language. It is demonstrated that the progress of a community, the main constituent of the civilizational component of its culture, enhances the development of the content component of language by extending the range of its lexical and grammatical meanings. In the context of this analysis, Daniel Everett's (2008) hypothesis that culture affects language structure is discussed. In the subsequent sections, models of the development of human and social activity are offered. These models comprise three components: Activity (main component), Thought, and Language (auxiliary components that ensure the successful realization of activities). The models are illustrated with examples of some concrete societies.
The Genesis Of Language
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Author : Kenneth C. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
Release Date : 1979
The Genesis Of Language written by Kenneth C. Hill and has been published by Karoma Publishers, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Papers on Creolization, second language acquisition, contact stimulated marginal languages and theoretical orientations in Creole studies.
Creation Science And The Evolution Of Languages The Genesis Miracle Or The Lack Thereof
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Author : Marc Bohnes
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-08-17
Creation Science And The Evolution Of Languages The Genesis Miracle Or The Lack Thereof written by Marc Bohnes and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Allgemeines, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: While creation science has for many years relied on a public verification of the Genesis story with respect to cosmological arguments, less has been said about Genesis with respect to linguistics. Nonetheless, creation science offers a clear-cut contention about the way the languages of the world have come into existence: by a divine artificer. The rejection of Darwinian evolution as means of natural processes of linguistic evolution are subject to creation science. This paper tries to tackle this very assumption by presenting evidence in favor of evolution by natural selection as an impetus for change within languages. Even more so, the paper will briefly deal with the advent of language in human beings as such, providing evidence in favor of a materialistic explanation for why human beings have language.
Language Contact Continuity And Change In The Genesis Of Modern Hebrew
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Author : Edit Doron
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-09-18
Language Contact Continuity And Change In The Genesis Of Modern Hebrew written by Edit Doron 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 2019-09-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.
The Genesis Of Language
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Author : Frank Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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The Genesis Of Language
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Author : Frank Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Genesis Of Language written by Frank Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Children categories.