Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition, Michael Fortescue
Автор: Katrien Dora Verveckken Название: Binominal Quantifiers in Spanish: Conceptually-driven Analogy in Diachrony and Synchrony ISBN: 3110403714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110403718 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 148700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluvionN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.
Автор: Martine Robbeets Название: Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages ISBN: 311037823X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110378238 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 161100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 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 approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. 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.
Автор: Watanabe Kazuha Название: Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese ISBN: 1793614423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793614421 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 80190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Manyoshu, an eighth-century poetry collection.
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history—e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel colonization of the Americas by Portugal and Spain; the long-term transformation from a feudal to a democratic system—in which crucial moments in the diachrony of address took place. To give one example, empirical data show that the puzzling late spread of Sp. usted ‘you (formal, polite)’ and Pt. voce ‘you’ across America can be explained for both languages by the role of the political and military colonial administration. To explore these new insights, the volume relies on an innovative methodology, as it links traditional downstream diachrony with upstream diachronic reconstruction based on synchronic variation. Including theoretical reflections as well as fine-grained empirical studies, it brings together the most relevant authors in the field.
Автор: Jose Gonzalez Название: Diachrony: Diachronic Studies of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture ISBN: 3110422972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110422979 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 283890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Diachrony showcases the importance of diachronic models for the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. These models study the evolution of culture as a system. Contributors to this volume seek to be methodologically explicit as they build a variety of diachronic approaches to a wide range of subjects. The period covered stretches from Homer to Babrius and the topics range from ancient Greek agriculture to Athenian pederasty.
Автор: Guglielmo Inglese Название: The Hittite Middle Voice: Synchrony, Diachrony, Typology ISBN: 9004425438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004425439 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 237760.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In The Hittite Middle Voice Guglielmo Inglese offers a new treatment of the middle voice in Hittite. The book features two main parts. In the first part, the author provides an updated synchronic description of the Hittite middle based on the existing typology of voice systems and valency changing operations. Moreover, based on a careful analysis of a chronologically ordered corpus of original Hittite texts, the book offers the first ever diachronic account of the Hittite middle. As Inglese argues, the findings of this book greatly enrich our general knowledge of the diachronic typology of middle voice systems. The second part of the book features a thorough description of more than 100 Hittite verbs in original texts.
Автор: Carola Trips Название: English Syntax in Three Dimensions: History ?€“ Synchrony ?€“ Diachrony ISBN: 3110289849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110289848 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 37130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Day English, and in part III with diachronic aspects of English. The most prominent linguistic terms and phenomena are discussed in their historical context and are taken up again in the synchronic and diachronic parts. In this way they can be viewed from different perspectives. At the end of each chapter a summary and recommendations for further reading is provided as well as exercises in parts II and III. There is also a webpage for this book with more material, a glossary, and model answers of the exercises. The aims of the book are 1) to provide an introduction to the history of grammatical theory in order to show how and why generative grammar evolved (alongside other theories); in this way, generative grammar is presented in its historical context, and the motivation for the ideas and assumptions of this theory becomes clear; 2) to show that the terms and phenomena discussed are still applicable and interesting today; 3) to investigate phenomena of Present-Day English and their development in the history of English by means of authentic data, and to find explanations for the developmental paths they took by applying theory. This book primarily aims at undergraduate students of English or linguistics who have already acquired some knowledge of syntax and generative syntactic theory. It is also well suited for students specialising in syntax, syntactic theory, and language change. It can further be used as a study aid for final exams.
Автор: Klaus Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner Название: Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing ISBN: 3110587246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110587241 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 43330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.
Автор: Joseph Название: The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive ISBN: 0521105331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521105330 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of one of the characteristics shared to some degree by the languages of the Balkan peninsula - Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Romanian - namely the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms.
Автор: Eun-Woo Lee Название: Crossing the Jordan: Diachrony Versus Synchrony in the Book of Joshua ISBN: 0567657167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567657169 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presents a test case for diachronic and synchronicapproaches in the book of Joshua - one of the most complex texts in the OldTestament
