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Preferred Argument Structure
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodology to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations, and to examine special populations or particular genres. This volume will appeal to linguists interested in the relationship of pragmatics and grammar generally, in the typology of grammatical relations, and in explanations derived from data- and corpus-based approaches to analysis.
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Argument Realization
In this book, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King present seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages. In these papers, Butt, King, and other prominent linguists examine within the architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) the variety of ways in which arguments of a predicate may be realized in the syntax. Well-suited for this kind of examination, LFG allows for the complex interaction of arguments, syntactic positions, and grammatical functions. Case marking alternations and the overt realization of case marking within single clauses, including case stacking, have continued to engage the attention of linguists worki...
CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1987
Lists and briefly annotates published books, articles, collections, references, and audio-visual works; and doctoral theses that appeared in English in 1987. The sections cover bibliographies and checklists; theory and research; teacher education, administration, and social roles; curriculum; and testing, measurement, and evaluation. Primarily for college teachers. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática
A pesar de la relevancia que ha cobrado durante los últimos años el estudio de la "estructura informativa", hay a la fecha relativamente pocos volúmenes dedicados al tema disponibles para el público de lengua española. En particular, existe un nicho no explotado de estudios escritos en español, sobre el español pero que examinen también lenguas minoritarias. Con este volumen colectivo se pretende: (i) acercar el estudio de la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática desde perspectivas tipológicas al público de habla española. (ii) dar énfasis a enfoques de corte funcionalista, basados en la descripción de discurso natural, e independientes de las categorías y formalizaciones de modelos gramaticales particulares; (iii) extender el estudio de la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática más allá de la articulación oracional en tópico/foco para incluir estudios ligados a la continuidad tópica, al modelo de la Estructura Argumental Preferida, y otros. (iii) reunir investigaciones originales sobre interfaz sintaxis-pragmática, consolidando los estudios que desde esta área se dedican al español pero también apoyando el desarrollo de aquellos ligados a lenguas minoritarias de América.
My Lorraine Journal (1918)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Significance in Language
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad forms and varieties of language across such domains, such as everyday speech, advertising, humour, and academic writing. Supported by data from psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research, the book combines different approaches from scholarship in semantics, including formalist, structuralist, cognit...
