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Author : Anna Siewierska
Release : 2010-12-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe by : Anna Siewierska
Download or read book Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe written by Anna Siewierska. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johan van der Auwera
Release : 2011-05-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe by : Johan van der Auwera
Download or read book Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe written by Johan van der Auwera. This book was released on 2011-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Release : 2005-07-21
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 911/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The World Atlas of Language Structures by : Martin Haspelmath
Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath. This book was released on 2005-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giuliano Bernini
Release : 2011-12-22
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe by : Giuliano Bernini
Download or read book Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe written by Giuliano Bernini. This book was released on 2011-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.
Author : Harry van der Hulst
Release : 2008-08-22
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 081/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe by : Harry van der Hulst
Download or read book Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe written by Harry van der Hulst. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
