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Author | : Shiqiao Li |
Publisher | : Applied Research & Design |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781951541712 |
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This book documents the impact of the Chinese culture on the development of city types in China in the past four decades, leading to surprising urban realities that often escape normative urban theories. The book uses the concept of drift, which, together with mutation, adaptation, and migration, contributes to the rudimentary patterns of biological change; drift of phenotypes takes place when chance events randomly terminate some features and allow other features to flourish in ways that are unrelated to other patterns. The Chinese culture has exerted a set of forces that may be seen to have functioned as "unexpected events" in the normative processes of urban change. Through thirteen case studies, more than 60 original maps and drawings, and extensive photographic documentation, the book reveals how three "drift triggers"--ten thousand things, figuration, and group action--have altered typological development in Chinese cities in the past four decades.
Author | : Alexander Haselow |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110238217 |
Download Typological Changes in the Lexicon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.
Author | : Yaron Matras |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311019919X |
Download Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).
Author | : Theresa Biberauer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521886953 |
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Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.
Author | : Jacek Fisiak |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2010-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110824035 |
Download Historical Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.
Author | : Toril Swan |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311088657X |
Download Language Change and Language Structure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.
Author | : Björn Hansen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110531437 |
Download Diachronic Slavonic Syntax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.
Author | : Bela Brogyanyi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027235260 |
Download Germanic Dialects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume seeks to present 'Germanic philology' with its main linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as a whole, and to call into question the customary pedagogical division of the discipline.
Author | : Mary Ellen Nyquist |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442643927 |
Download Milton and Questions of History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Milton and Questions of History considers the contribution of several classic studies of Milton written by Canadians in the twentieth century. It contemplates whether these might be termed a coherent 'school' of Milton studies in Canada and it explores how these concerns might intervene in current critical and scholarly debates on Milton and, more broadly, on historicist criticism in its relationship to renewed interest in literary form. The volume opens with a selection of seminal articles by noted scholars including Northrop Frye, Hugh McCallum, Douglas Bush, Ernest Sirluck, and A.S.P. Woodhouse. Subsequent essays engage and contextualize these works while incorporating fresh intellectual concerns. The Introduction and Afterword frame the contents so that they constitute a dialogue between past and present critical studies of Milton by Canadian scholars.
Author | : Barbara Unterbeck |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110162417 |
Download Gender in Grammar and Cognition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.