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Connecting Grammaticalisation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Connecting Grammaticalisation

Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. It offers a broad general discussion of theoretical issues and three case studies

Coherence Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Coherence Theory

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.

Competing Models of Linguistic Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Competing Models of Linguistic Change

The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a 'generalized analysis of selection', whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. ...

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 647

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

This volume and its companion one"Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives" offer a selection of papers from the "Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization," held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization entails via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions. Some of the theoretical issues discussed in the sixteen articles included in the volume are the nature of grammaticalization and related processes such as anti-, re- and degrammaticalization, the relationship between grammaticalization and lexicalization, the role of frequency in grammaticalization and the interplay between information structure and grammaticalization. Other topics covered are the grammaticalization of composite predicates in English, the emergence of modal particles in German and particle clusters in Dutch and the grammaticalization of various modal auxiliaries in Spanish and in Swedish.

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 740

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-05-31
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

"Research on the function and semantics of the verbal system in Hebrew (and Semitics in general) has been in constant ferment since McFall’s 1982 work The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System. Elizabeth Robar's analysis provides the best solution to this point, combining cognitive linguistics, cross-linguistics, diachronic and synchronic analysis. Her solution is brilliant, innovative, and supremely satisfying in interpreting all the data with great explanatory power. Let us hope this research will be quickly implemented in grammars of Hebrew." Peter J. Gentry, Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. In The Verb...

Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1195

Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1

No detailed description available for "SLAVISCHE SPRACHEN (BERGER U.A.) HSK 32.1 E-BOOK".

Coherence Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Coherence Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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