Time, Tense, and the Verb
Author | : William Emerson Bull |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780520001893 |
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Author | : William Emerson Bull |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Applied linguistics |
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Author | : Joan Bybee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1994-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226086658 |
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author | : J.R. Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1009284975 |
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.
Author | : Carmen Mellado Blanco |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110518600 |
The new book series Formelhafte Sprache / Formulaic Language offers an integrative platform for innovative publications aiming at all forms of formulaicity (German: Vorgeformtheit, Musterhaftigkeit, Formelhaftigkeit) - linguistic, cognitive, conceptual - at all levels of language system and in language use as well as in not purely linguistic areas such as cultural heritage or knowledge creation and storage. Possible research directions are patterns/prefabs in lexicon and grammar, word formation and phraseology, written texts and oral conversations, discourses and text corpora, stereotype building and stigmatization, cognition and cultural memory, verbal and visual knowledge formation and language acquisition. The series covers monographs and conference volumes devoted to theoretical and empirical questions of linguistic, conceptual and cognitive pattern/prefab functioning in modern and historical times. Another central question is the practical role of formulaic patterns/prefabs in language acquisition and teaching. Theoretical and methodological studies from the area of usage-based linguistic frameworks, grammaticalization, lexicalization, Construction Grammars, Corpus / Computer Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities are welcome. Languages of publication are German and English. All submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed by the Advisory Board prior to publication. Advisory Board Harald Burger (Zurich, Switzerland) Joan L. Bybee (New Mexico, USA) Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij (Moscow, Russia) Stephan Elspaß (Salzburg, Austria) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton, USA) Raymond Gibbs (Santa Cruz, USA) Annelies Häcki Buhofer (Basel, Switzerland) Claudine Moulin (Trier, Germany) Jan-Ola Östman (Helsinki, Finland) Stephan Stein (Trier, Germany) Martin Wengeler (Trier, Germany) Alison Wray (Cardiff, UK)
Author | : Warren D. TenHouten |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791483452 |
Time-consciousness—long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought—is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality—emphasizing equality and community—leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality—based on inequality and agency—leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.
Author | : Paul J. Hopper |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027228655 |
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies.The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including in addition to the traditional semantics also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.