New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics, Barbara Meisterernst
Название: The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages: Tense, Aspect, Evidentiality, Mood and Modality ISBN: 9004361782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004361782 Издательство: Brill Цена: 154080.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Caucasus is the place with the greatest linguistic variation in Europe. The present volume explores this variation within the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality systems in the languages of the North-East Caucasian (or Nakh-Daghestanian) family. The papers of the volume cover the most challenging and typologically interesting features such as aspect and the complicated interaction of aspectual oppositions expressed by stem allomorphy and inflectional paradigms, grammaticalized evidentiality and mirativity, and the semantics of rare verbal categories such as the deliberative (‘May I go?’), the noncurative (‘Let him go, I don’t care’), different types of habituals (gnomic, qualitative, non-generic), and perfective tenses (aorist, perfect, resultative). The book offers an overview of these features in order to gain a broader picture of the verbal semantics covering the whole North-East Caucasian family. At the same time it provides in-depth studies of the most fascinating phenomena.
Автор: Werner Abraham Название: Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics ISBN: 1107021227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107021228 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 105600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A state-of-the-art survey exploring the linguistic questions of modality and mood. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in the fields of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and the interfaces between them.
Автор: Daniel Schmidt-Bruecken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Название: Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics: Current Perspectives and New Approaches ISBN: 3110442221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110442229 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 115060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.
Название: Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European ISBN: 9004414509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004414501 Издательство: Brill Цена: 146110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology. Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjorn, Jose L. Garcia Ramon, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorso, Michael Weiss.
Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay public as archaeology and glyphic decipherment reveal more of its secrets. In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred in the core of Mayan grammar from the earliest, reconstructed ancestral language down through the colonial languages to the modern languages that are spoken today.
Building on groundwork already laid in phonological studies and in the study of the pronominal system, Robertson's examination of tense/ aspect/ mood/voice is the next logical step in the general linguistic study of Mayan. Robertson offers careful consideration of all the major subgroups of Mayan, from Yucatecan to Quichean, as they are spoken today. He also draws extensively on colonial documents assembled by bilingual Spanish-Mayan speaking clerics. These documents provide a check on the accuracy of both the reconstructed ancient language, Common Mayan, and the theoretical evolution of the modern languages from this ancestor. The study will also be of value to students of the Maya glyphs, since it discusses the grammatical system that most probably underlies the glyphic representations.
Beyond its obvious interest for Mayan linguistics, the study proposes a theory of language change that will be important for all students of comparative linguistics. Robertson's work sets forth the basic, universal assumptions that provide for an appropriate description of the grammatical systems of all languages. It will be a significant reference for future researchers.
Автор: Lilo Moessner Название: The History of the Present English Subjunctive: A Corpus-based Study of Mood and Modality ISBN: 1474437990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474437998 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 110880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Traces the development of subjunctive use across the Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English periods
Uses descriptive data and data from three comparable chronological corpora
Employs both synchronic and diachronic analyses to evaluate quantitative and qualitative data
Illustrates results using authentic examples, accompanied by modern English translations
Includes new insights into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics
Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.
This essentially academic book and its author are daring companions of poetry translators in their dance on a rope while searching for the best solutions and shifting boundaries between the possible and impossible, and the insights have at least three main directions: first, the artistic and aesthetic nature of the activity; second, those specific skills which are necessary to complete the task; and third, the pre-requisites of failure or acclaim.
The artistic and complex nature of both poetry and its translation suggests the necessity of specific inclusive approaches though, whatever the technique, there always remain some blurred, inaccessible zones of inexplicable elements. The book aims at studying the linguistic aspects of poetry translation theories and practice in order to define the main theoretical principles of an integrated approach to poetry translation.
Practical insights are based on an analysis of the translation of Joseph Brodsky’s poems into English and Latvian. While under way, we experience all the cause-effect aspects of poetic texts representing author’s intention both to express and to hide, to intensify/highlight and to disguise. At times, we really feel – similarly to poetry translators themselves – like investigators either in the complex networks of theoretical insights or in even more risky endeavours to discuss and outline the practical aspects of poetry translation. A balance of theoretical and practical aspects is one of the main features and main benefits of the study. A detailed analysis of Brodsky’s poetic and philosophical heritage is another contribution. A unique opportunity for the international audience to gain insights into the Western/Russian/Latvian approaches to poetry translation theories and practices by also observing their mutual impacts and interaction, provides more added value.
Автор: Sjo?rs, Ambjo?rn Название: Historical aspects of standard negation in Semitic / ISBN: 9004348549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004348547 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 160720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic Ambjorn Sjors investigates the grammar of standard negation in a wide selection of Semitic languages. The bulk of the investigation consists of a detailed analysis of negative constructions and is based on a first-hand examination of the examples in context.The main issues that are investigated in the book relate to the historical change of the expression of verbal negation in Semitic and the reconstruction of the genealogical relationship of negative constructions. It shows how negation is constantly renewed from the reanalysis of emphatic negative constructions, and how structural asymmetries between negative constructions and the corresponding affirmative constructions arise from the linguistically conservative nature of negative vis-a-vis affirmative clauses.
Название: Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of speech actions ISBN: 3631641567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631641569 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 78710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics initiated by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics of the University of ??d? (Poland) in 2011 and held annually. The necessarily heterogeneous field of research into speech actions is approached by the contributors from various perspectives and with focus on different types of data. The papers have been grouped into four sections which subsequently emphasise theoretical linguistics issues, lexical pragmatics, speech act-theoretic problems, and cognitive processes.
This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"-the deviation from some norm or convention-in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the "historic present", a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation. He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view.
This volume is a collection of papers read at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2017, in two sessions organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and four sessions organized by the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics. Contributions consist of poetry, prose, interlinear glosses, syntax, semantics, lexicology, and medievalism. The contributors employ a wealth of different approaches. The general theme of the IMC 2017 was ‘otherness’, and some papers fit this theme very well. Even when two researchers deal with a similar topic and arrive at different conclusions, the editors do not try to harmonize them but present them as they are for further discussion.
Автор: Nadine Rentel, Elisabeth Venohr Название: Text-Bruecken zwischen den Kulturen: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Bernd Spillner ISBN: 3631619375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631619377 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 116430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Diese Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Professor Bernd Spillner enthalt Beitrage zu den Themenbereichen Fachsprachen- und Stilforschung, Sprachvergleich, Medienkommunikation und Fremdsprachenerwerb. Der Band bietet weiterhin ein breites Spektrum an Aufsatzen zur relativ neuen linguistischen Teildisziplin der Kulinaristik. Die Frage der Anwendbarkeit der Forschungsergebnisse steht dabei im Zentrum der einzelnen Aufsatze. Es wird deutlich, dass die Ergebnisse der Forschungen der sprachvergleichenden Perspektive einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Herausbildung interkultureller Kompetenz leisten. Diese stellt eine wichtige Grundlage dar, Brucken zwischen Sprach- und Kulturraumen zu bauen – eine Fahigkeit, die Bernd Spillners Werk in exemplarischer Weise auszeichnet. Zu den Autoren gehoren Freunde, Kollegen, Mitarbeiter und Schuler von Bernd Spillner, die die vielseitigen Forschungsinteressen des Jubilars teilweise auch interdisziplinar aufgreifen.
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