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Para Conhecer Semântica
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 208

Para Conhecer Semântica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-28
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Escritos por especialistas e voltados principalmente para estudantes, os volumes que compõem a coleção "Para Conhecer" são introduções atualizadas e bem cuidadas, redigidas em linguagem clara e acessível, acompanhadas de exercícios práticos. A Semântica Formal estuda o significado linguístico das línguas naturais. Ela se dedica a explicar como qualquer falante nativo produz e compreende sentenças com significado formadas na sua língua. Esta obra aborda os conceitos básicos da Semântica Formal e sua aplicação na descrição do português do Brasil. Com este livro, os leitores terão a oportunidade de um primeiro contato, básico e estimulante, com as questões da investigação científica do significado, além de ampliar seu conhecimento sobre o português brasileiro pelo viés semântico.

Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one hand, a complex sentence can be studied as a mini-unit of discourse consisting of two or more elements describing events, situations, or processes, with its own internal information-structural and referential organization. On the other hand, complex sentences can be studied as parts of larger discourse structures, such as narratives or conversations, in terms of how their information-structural characteristics relate to this wider context. The book offers new perspectives for the study of the interaction between complex sentences and information management, and moreover adds typological breadth by focusing on lesser studied languages from several parts of the world.

SULA 9: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

SULA 9: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-14
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume contains the proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, held at University of California, Santa Cruz, on May 6-8, 2016. Contents: Illocutionary mirativity: the case of Yucatec Maya bak�an (Scott Anderbois), Modality in Ktunaxa (Heather Burge), The nominal temporal marker -pe in Kuikuro (Bruna Franchetto & Guillaume Thomas), Presuppositional negation in Wapishana (Marcelo Giovannetti & Renato Miguel Basso), Marcelo Giovannetti & Renato Miguel Basso (Kaden Holladay), Temporal implicatures and possessive time in Brazilian Portuguese (Filipe H. Kobayashi), Modeling obviation in Algonquian (Carol-Rose Little & Mary Morone...

Verbal Plurality and Distributivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Verbal Plurality and Distributivity

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

The Roots of Verbal Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

The Roots of Verbal Meaning

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, with semantic and grammatical properties determined not just by templates, but also by roots.

The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.

Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 483

Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.

Modality in Underdescribed Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Modality in Underdescribed Languages

Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics

This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spok...

Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-28
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In recent years, the increasing number of tourists traveling to specific urban and resort destinations has caused challenges for the effective management of tourism in these areas, with a resulting negative impact on towns, cities, and host communities. Such issues have included placing undue pressure on infrastructure; destruction of the physical, economic, and socio-cultural environment; and affecting the quality of residents’ daily lives by impacting their mobility and, in some cases, the price and rent of resident accommodation, goods, and services. To achieve a certain level of balance between the interests of local residents and visitors, new regulatory measures and legislation in hi...