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The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems
Much focus in research on alphabetic writing systems has been on correspondences between graphemes and phonemes. The present study sets out to complement these by examining the linguistic denotation of markers of word division in several ancient Northwest Semitic (NWS) writing systems, namely, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Moabite, and Hebrew, as well as alphabetic Greek. While in Modern European languages words on the page are separated on the basis of morphosyntax, I argue that in most NWS writing systems words are divided on the basis of prosody: ‘words’ are units which must be pronounced together with a single primary accent or stress, or as a single phrase. After an introduction providing t...
Writing Systems and Their Use
Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of dive...
Transitivity
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity," the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation."
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography
Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.
The Grammar of Expressivity
This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker. While the expressive function of natural language has been widely studied in recent years, the role that grammar plays in the interpretation of expressive items has been largely neglected in the semantic and pragmatic literature. Daniel Gutzmann demonstrates that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of these utterances, and argues that expressivity is in fact a syntactic feature on a par with other established features such as tense and gender. Evidenc...
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Visual Prosody
According to well-established views, language has several subsystems where each subsystem (e.g. syntax, morphology, phonology) operates on the basis of hierarchically organised units. When it comes to the graphematic structure of words, however, the received view appears to be that linear structure is all that matters. Contrary to this view, a sub-field of writing systems research emerges that can be called non-linear or supra-segmental graphematics. Drawing on parallels with supra-segmental phonology, supra-segmental graphematics claims the existence and relevance of cross-linguistically available building blocks, such as the syllable and the foot, in alphabetical writing systems, such as t...
Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik
Mit Fragestellungen und kritischen Diskussionen zu Paradigmen, Methoden und Zielen stellt der Sammelband eine Positionsbestimmung zur Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik dar. Die Beiträge umfassen ein breites Spektrum an Themen zwischen deskriptiver Vollständigkeit und grammatischer Modellierung, die seit einiger Zeit die Diskussion bestimmen, Entwicklungen aufzeigen und aus Forschungsdesideraten heraus für das Fach neue Perspektiven eröffnen.
Linguistik
Dieses Buch führt Sie in die Welt der Linguistik ein. Anhand des Deutschen sowie mit Bezügen zu den Sprachen Spanisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Englisch lernen Sie, wie in der Linguistik methodisch vorgegangen wird, wie Sprachen lautlich und grammatisch strukturiert sind, sowie welche Bedeutungsphänomene auftreten. In weiteren Kapiteln lernen Sie regionale sowie soziale Variationen einer Sprache kennen, die historische Entwicklung von Sprachen, die Analyse von Texten sowie die Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Schrift. Über ihre Sprache(n) haben Menschen schon immer nachgedacht. Man versteht die Methodik und Ziele der heutigen Linguistik besser, wenn die geschichtliche Entwicklung dieser Disziplin in Grundzügen bekannt ist. Im letzten Kapitel lernen Sie daher anhand von Biographien ausgewählter Koryphäen der Linguistik, welche Entwicklungen die Linguistik geprägt haben. In jedem Kapitel befinden sich Selbstfragen sowie Übungsaufgaben, mit denen Sie die gelernten Inhalte einüben und vertiefen können.
Le Mans 100
"Packed with photography, narrative, and race results, Le Mans 100 is the definitive illustrated centennial history of this iconic motorsport event"--
