Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics
| Author | : Bohumil Trnka |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2015-03-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110816636 |
Selected Papers In Structural Linguistics
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Historical Linguistics 2017
| Author | : Bridget Drinka |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261679 |
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change.
A Short History of Structural Linguistics
| Author | : Peter Hugoe Matthews |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2001-04-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521625685 |
This concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists a language is a self-contained and tightly organised system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This idea has its origin in the nineteenth century and was developed in the twentieth by Saussure and his followers, including the school of Bloomfield in the United States. Through the work of Chomsky, especially, it is still very influential. Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyses the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the 'Chomskyan revolution' in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning.
Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After
| Author | : Teodora Radeva-Bork |
| Publisher | : Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Slavic languages |
| ISBN | : 9783631676738 |
Selected papers from Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11), syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, experimental work, Slavic languages, Slavic linguistics, guest paper Noam Chomsky.
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
| Author | : Tom Bartlett |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 707 |
| Release | : 2017-01-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1315413884 |
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar, Martin’s discourse semantics and Fawcett’s Cardiff Grammar. In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising: the ontology and epistemology of SFL; SFL as a clause grammar; lexicogrammar below the clause, and SFL’s approach to constituency; SFL’s vibrant theory of language above the clause; and SFL as a theory of praxis with real-world applications. With a wide range of language examples, a comprehensive editors’ introduction and a section on further reading, The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics is an essential resource for all those studying and researching SFL or functional grammar.
On Grammar
| Author | : M.A.K. Halliday |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2005-10-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1441120572 |
For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday. This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new chapter entitled 'A Personal Perspective', in which Halliday offers his own current perspective on language and linguistic theory. The first part of the book presents early papers (1957-66) on basic concepts such as system, structure, class and rank. The second part highlights how, over the span of two decades (the 1960s to mid-1980s), Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The last part, 'Construing and Abstracting', includes more recent work, in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who study linguistics, using Firth's description of linguistics - 'language turned back on itself'.
Computer Science
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2004-10-06 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0309165636 |
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of computer science (CS) research. The book offers a description of CS research recognizing the richness and diversity of the field. It brings together two dozen essays on diverse aspects of CS research, their motivation and results. By describing in accessible form computer science's intellectual character, and by conveying a sense of its vibrancy through a set of examples, the book aims to prepare readers for what the future might hold and help to inspire CS researchers in its creation.
Strategies and Structures
| Author | : Gary Dean Prideaux |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 1986-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027235406 |
In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a hypothesis of how they interact with linguistic structures has been reached, it will be explored how such strategies are employed by examining experiments which address the role played by certain of these strategies in the comprehension and production of sentences. The authors draw a distinction between a strategy on the one hand and a grammatical structure on the other. They argued that, in principle, strategies ought to be formulated as language-independent, cognitively based operations which are involved in cognitive domains other than language, but which, in language processing, interact with language-specific structures to facilitate processing. Moreover, strategies are not linguistic rules, since, unlike rules, they permit exceptions and express tendencies rather than firm yes-no choices.
Reference Grammars and Modern Linguistic Theory
| Author | : Gottfried Graustein |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2011-11-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3111354598 |
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics
| Author | : Josef Vachek |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2003-06-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027296545 |
This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs, by well over 30 representatives of the school (Mathesius, Trnka, Skalička, Daneš, Dokulil, Mukařovský, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Isachenko, and others). The dictionary both captures the pioneering efforts and achievements of the school from its foundation in 1926, and provides a framework for assessing the current state of affairs, attesting to its originality and serving as a preventive to treading paths already explored. The headword concepts are provided with French, German and Czech equivalents and Vachek's original preface is supplemented by a foreword which traces the development of the school up to the present date and puts it into perspective.
