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This title considers the nature of pre and proto-linguistic communication, the internal and external triggers that led to its transformation into language, and whether and how language may be considered to have evolved after its inception.
Mountains represent one of the most inspiring and attractive natural features on the surface of the earth. Visually, they dominate the landscape. However, the increasing realization of the fragility of mountain areas because of changes in land use, management and climate, combined with an understanding of their importance for water and other natural resources, has resulted in a growing interest in mountain environments in recent years. Hence, Mountain Geomorphology represents a timely and unique contribution to the literature. Written by a team of international experts, this book is divided into three sections, which consider historical, functional and applied mountain geomorphology from bot...
Ellen Churchill Semple's groundbreaking work, 'Influences of Geographic Environment. On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography,' delves into the intricate relationship between human societies and their physical surroundings. Published in 1911, Semple's book explores how factors such as climate, topography, and resources shape cultural and historical developments. Drawing inspiration from Friedrich Ratzel's anthropo-geography, Semple employs a meticulous and scholarly approach, blending geography, anthropology, and history to provide a comprehensive examination of the subject. Through detailed case studies and analyses, she showcases how various civilizations have been profoundly ...
This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the functional-formal range. The topics researched in the contributions center around properties of verbal inflection as the morphological means to express temporal, aspectual and modal notions, and the implications of these morphological configurations to syntactic theory.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1912.
A clear account of the physical process of speech production and communication, which will be of interest to psycholinguists as well as phoneticians.