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| Author | : William A. Croft |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1990-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027278040 |
Download Studies in Typology and Diachrony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the past three decades has been in the fusion of these two approaches to linguistic explanation into one, diachronic typology, the cross-linguistic analysis of languages as dynamic systems.This volume honors Greenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It opens with an introduction discussing Greenberg's work at length and a full bibliography of his publications. It contains ten papers in typology, diachronic theory and diachronic typology by some of the leading linguists working in the research tradition inspired by Greenberg's work.
| Author | : Sonia Cristofaro |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2018-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027264457 |
Download Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.
| Author | : Klaus Heusinger |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110587327 |
Download Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Ilja A. Serzant |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2013-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027271305 |
Download The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.
| Author | : Katarzyna Janic |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 655 |
| Release | : 2021-03-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260265 |
Download Antipassive Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construction and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the individual contributions.
| Author | : William Croft |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 1990-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027228973 |
Download Studies in Typology and Diachrony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the past three decades has been in the fusion of these two approaches to linguistic explanation into one, diachronic typology, the cross-linguistic analysis of languages as dynamic systems.This volume honors Greenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It opens with an introduction discussing Greenberg's work at length and a full bibliography of his publications. It contains ten papers in typology, diachronic theory and diachronic typology by some of the leading linguists working in the research tradition inspired by Greenberg's work.
| Author | : Ilja A. Seržant |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 563 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 3961100853 |
Download Diachrony of differential argument marking Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.
| Author | : Terttu Nevalainen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027230862 |
Download Types of Variation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise the awareness of these linguistic subdisciplines of each other and to encourage their cross-fertilization to their mutual benefit. If linguistic typology is to unify the study of all types of linguistic variation, this variation, both diatopic and diachronic, will enrich typological research itself. With the aim of capturing the relevant dimensions of variation, the studies in this volume make use of new methodologies, including electronic corpora and databases, which enable cross- and intralinguistic comparisons dialectally and across time. Based on original research and unified by an innovative theme, the volume will be of interest to both students and teachers of linguistics and Germanic languages.
| Author | : Folke Josephson |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2013-07-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902727181X |
Download Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages. The analyses of the structural changes and the interchange between the different grammatical categories that cause them which are presented in the chapters of this volume yield astonishing results. The diachronic perspective combined with a comparative approach provides profound knowledge of the typology of the verb and other typological issues and will serve researchers, as well as advanced and beginning of linguistics students in a way that has rarely been encountered before.
| Author | : William Croft |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521004992 |
Download Typology and Universals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.
