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Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 755

Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance

Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive theories of the synchronic linguistic system as such, of the use of language in communication, and of language change. From the very beginning, linguists working on Romance languages have been at the forefront of research on discourse markers. Including among its contributors many of the foremost experts in the field, this volume not only offers substantial state-of-the-art introductions to the diverse facets of contemporary research on discourse markers, with a focus on Romance, but it achieves added value by including in each chapter original and ...

Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics

This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields.

Spontaneous Spoken English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Spontaneous Spoken English

This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.

English Coordinate Constructions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

English Coordinate Constructions

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds, binomials, and more complex phrases. The author uses empirical analyses to explore a wide range of factors and also offers readers a processing perspective on the results obtained.

The Grammar of Interactives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

The Grammar of Interactives

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part of language, Bernd Heine describes it here as a distinct category that contrasts with sentence grammar both in its functions and its structural behavior. He identifies ten types of interactives - i.e. extra-clausal expressions of linguistic discourse: attention signals, directives, discourse markers, evaluatives, ideophones, interjections, response elicitors, response signals, social formulae, and vocatives. The analysis reveal...

Intensifiers in Late Modern English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Intensifiers in Late Modern English

The first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English, combining a range of different theoretical perspectives on courtroom discourse.

Syntactic Structures after 60 Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Syntactic Structures after 60 Years

This volume explores the continuing relevance of Syntactic Structures to contemporary research in generative syntax. The contributions examine the ideas that changed the way that syntax is studied and that still have a lasting effect on contemporary work in generative syntax. Topics include formal foundations, the syntax-semantics interface, the autonomy of syntax, methods of data analysis, and detailed discussions of the role of transformations. New commentary from Noam Chomsky is included.

The Rise of Discourse Markers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

The Rise of Discourse Markers

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c. 1050-1700
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c. 1050-1700

This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Paradigm uniformity in inflectional stems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Paradigm uniformity in inflectional stems

What happens phonetically in the production of stems in words such as days and daze? Do inflectional stems differ phonetically from monomorphemic words? Can these differences be perceived? This volume aims to answer these questions in a replication project by investigating data from two corpora and a production experiment, as well as by extending this research with two perception experiments. It investigates what happens phonetically in the stems of words that end in homophonous suffixes, and whether listeners can perceive these subtle phonetic differences. Two potential effects were termed; categorical paradigm uniformity, in which stems of words ending in [s, z] are expected to have longer durations if these words are morphologically complex (e.g. days is longer than daze), as well as gradient paradigm uniformity, in which the frequency of related words is expected to have an influence on paradigm members (e.g. day influences days). Findings from these studies contribute to a growing body of research in the field of morphophonetics.