The Study of Word Stress and Accent

The Study of Word Stress and Accent
Author: Rob Goedemans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107164036

Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.

Turcologica

Turcologica
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Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 212
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Causatives and Causation

Causatives and Causation
Author: Jae Jung Song
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131788843X

Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study.

Here – Hither – Hence and Related Categories

Here – Hither – Hence and Related Categories
Author: Julia Nintemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110672723

As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here – hither – hence and there – thither – thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.

Syntax and Semantics

Syntax and Semantics
Author: C L Ebeling
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2023-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004656774

Macedonian Review

Macedonian Review
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Total Pages: 376
Release: 1982
Genre: Macedonia
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