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| Author | : Danielle Gilberte Mathieu-Reeves |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Yimas language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Laura J. Speed |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2019-02-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027263043 |
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and relatively concrete—should be an ideal source domain in metaphor, and a less likely target. But is this the case across diverse languages? And are some sensory modalities perhaps more concrete than others? This volume presents critical new data on perception metaphors from over 40 languages, including many which are under-studied. Aside from the wealth of data from diverse languages—modern and historical; spoken and signed—a variety of methods (e.g., natural language corpora, experimental) and theoretical approaches are brought together. This collection highlights how perception metaphor can offer both a bedrock of common experience and a source of continuing innovation in human communication.
| Author | : Carol Diane Lord |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Africa, West |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mark Sebba |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 1987-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027279020 |
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of Sranan, a creole language of Surinam with an English lexical base, are examined in detail.
| Author | : William A. Foley |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780804715829 |
A "study of the Yimas language, its grammar and lexicon, the social and cultural contexts of the use of the language, its history and genetic relations, and its interactions with neighbouring languages." -- Pref.
| Author | : Tom Güldemann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 747 |
| Release | : 2020-02-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107003687 |
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
| Author | : Nicklas N. Bahrt |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961103194 |
This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.
| Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1661 |
| Release | : 2017-03-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316790665 |
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
| Author | : Andrea D. Sims |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2015-11-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 131635203X |
Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.
| Author | : Timothy Shopen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2007-10-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521588553 |
Third in a three-volume survey exploring the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages.
