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| Author | : Martin Haspelmath |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2005-07-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199255911 |
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.
| Author | : Pamela Downing |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 606 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902722921X |
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
| Author | : Eva Koktova |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2011-06-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110803399 |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
| Author | : Bettelou Los |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2017-12-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027264848 |
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.
| Author | : Phil Williams |
| Publisher | : English Lessons Brighton |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2016-02-25 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1913468011 |
Want to master the basics of English structure? Do you fully understand 'subject-verb-object'? Can you rearrange clauses confidently? This book explains all. A complete foundation in word order and sentence structure for the English language, Word Order in English Sentences is a full self-study guide that takes you from the basic rules through to flexible structures. As well as learning the standard building blocks of English, you'll find the answers to positioning adverbial phrases building complex sentences, with exercises to test understanding. The rules and patterns are all demonstrated through easy-to-follow explanations with clear, engaging examples. This concise grammar guide is a must-have for starting students and language enthusiasts alike. Phil Williams takes you beyond the basics to make advanced English accessible for everyone - try it today.
| Author | : John A Hawkins |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2014-05-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1483296601 |
| Author | : Jae Jung Song |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2012-03-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107377277 |
Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based theories. It is the first book to bring these theoretical approaches together in one place and is therefore a one-stop resource covering the current developments in word order research. It explains word order patterns in different languages and at different structural levels and critically evaluates (and where possible, compares) the theoretical assumptions and word order principles used in the different approaches. Also highlighted are issues and problems that require further investigation or remain unresolved. This book will be invaluable to those investigating word order, and researchers and students in syntax, linguistic theory and typology.
| Author | : Ana Maria Martins |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198747306 |
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
| Author | : Research Associate Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Michelle Sheehan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2018-01-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783961100279 |
This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure
| Author | : Chaofen Sun |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780804724180 |
The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.
