Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Historical Syntax
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Null Subjects in Generative Grammar
This book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specific contexts. It explores novel empirical data and new theoretical analyses covering the major approaches to null subjects in generative grammar, and examines a wide range of languages from different families.
Infinitive im R̥gveda: Formen, Funktion, Diachronie
Infinitive im R̥gveda is an in-depth study of infinitives in Early Vedic, the language of the R̥gveda. Infinitives in Vedic have been studied from various perspectives. This book, however, is the first to give a detailed account of the full range of the attested morphological, syntactic, and semantic types. Based on insights from formal semantics and syntactic theory, the author gives explicit analyses for each type, paying special attention to the grammatical functions involved and to the control relations which govern the reference of subjects in infinitive phrases. On a more general level, the book provides a framework for historical syntax and heuristics for studying syntactic categories in ancient languages. Infinitive im R̥gveda wirft einen frischen Blick auf die umstrittene Kategorie Infinitiv im frühen Vedisch, der Sprache des R̥gveda. Unter Berücksichtigung von Methoden und Erkenntnissen der Syntaxtheorie und der formalen Semantik wird die gesamte Bandbreite der belegten morphologischen Kodierungen, der syntaktischen Verwendungen und ihrer Semantik herausgearbeitet und ausführlich dokumentiert.
Communications de la Cinquieme Conference Internationale de Linguistique Historique
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 610 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.
Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.
Optimality Theory and Language Change
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
Advanced Grammar
Advanced Grammarintroduces basic concepts of English grammar by reinforcing the fact that the infinite variety of sentences produced by every speaker is governed by a small set of rather simple rules. It presents information about history to emphasize that English is a constantly changing language, a subject that readers will find intriguing.The book provides great detail about a broad array of constructions (passive, negative, questions, tag questions, existentials, clefts, fronting, left and right dislocation, emphasis, contrast, subordination, and conjoined sentences) and gives more information about sentence structure (especially the auxiliary system) than any other book on the market. It combines all subfields of linguistics and presents them in an integrated manner so that readers can easily see how all of language is an interconnecting system.Excellent as a reference source for employees in fields where writing effectively for business is necessary.
Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms only introduced recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast languag...
Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel: Ancient languages and philology
John A. C. Greppin: For an Indo-Europeanist, Upon His RetirementFrancoise Bader: Voix Divines?Reflexions Metalinguistiques Indo-EuropeennesWalter L. Brennemann, Jr.: The Drunken and the Sober?A Comparative Study of Lady Sovereignty In Irish and Indic ContextsMiriam Robbins Dexter: Born of the Foam?Goddesses of River and Sea in the `Kingship in Heaven? MythDorothy Disterheft: Irish Evidence for Indo-European Royal ConsecrationAngelique Gulermovich Epstein: The Morrigan and the ValkyriesStephanie W. Jamison: A Gandharva Marriage in the Odyssey?Nausicaa and her Imaginary HusbandLinda A. Malcor: First Bath?The ?Washing of the Child? Motif in Christian ArtC. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor: Did the Alans Reach Ireland? A Reassessment of the Scythian References in the Lebor Gabala ErennDean A. Miller: In Search of Indo-European Inter-Functional WarEdgar C. Polome: Some Reflections on the Vedic Religious VocabularyWilliam Sayers: Psychological Warfare in Vinland (Eriks saga rauda) The Sins of SiegfriedUdo Strutynski: Echoes of Indo-European War Crimes in the Nibelungenlied and its Analogues.
