Author: Lynn Gordon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520099654
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Lynn Martha Gordon
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Category : Maricopa language
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Author: Benjamin Franklin Elson
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Greville G. Corbett
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290180
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.

Author: F. K. Erhard Voeltz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.

Author: Anna Siewierska
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776691
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows how person forms vary in substance, in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey, in how they are used in sentences and discourse, and in the way they function to convey social distinctions. By looking at different types of person forms in the grammatical and social contexts in which they are used, this book documents an underlying unity between them, arguing against the treatment of person markers based on arbitrary sets of morphological and syntactic properties. Clearly organized and accessibly written, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those interested in grammatical categories and their use.

Author: Paul Newman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669375
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Topics include the linguist's attitude, the work session and the roles of native speakers.

Author: Mark Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107055229
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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This book develops a unified theory of structural case and applies it to data from more than twenty unrelated languages.

Author: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110395002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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The volume advances our understanding of the role of scales and hierarchies across the linguistic sciences. Although scales and hierarchies are widely assumed to play a role in the modelling of linguistic phenomena, their status remains controversial, and it is these controversies that the present volume tackles head-on.

Author: Michael Cysouw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199254125
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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This book investigates paradigms of person - both independent pronouns as well as bound person marking. Based on empirical and theoretical grounds, the author argues that the notion 'number' has to be redefined to deal with the cross-linguistic variation of person marking. Equipped with a new definition, a typology of the paradigmatic structure of person marking is presented, incorporating data from around 400 languages. Nothing appears to be impossible for the paradigmatic structure, although some patterns are clearly more probable than others are. Starting from the more commonly occurring patterns, the diachronic dynamics of paradigmatic structure are investigated by comparing close relatives that differ slightly in the structure of their person paradigms.