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Category : Dakota language
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Category : Dakota language
Languages : en
Pages : 1688

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Author: Joan Bybee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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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.

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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 853

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Thomas W. Foley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803269255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A balanced history of Father Francis M. Craft, a key figure in Sioux missionary history, who ministered to the Sioux in the turbulent decades following Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.

Author: Eugene Buechel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262690
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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The most complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota available, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains over thirty thousand entries and will serve asøan essential resource for everyone interested in preserving, speaking, and writing the Lakota language today. This new comprehensive edition has been reorganized to follow a standard dictionary format and offers a range of useful features: both Lakota-to-English and English-to-Lakota sections; the grouping of principal parts of verbs; the translation of all examples of Lakota word usage; the syllabification of each entry word, followed by its pronunciation; and a lucid overview of Lakota grammar. This monumental new edition celebrates the vitality of the Lakota language today and will be a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.

Author: Soteria Svorou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027229120
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages. It is shown that languages are similar in the way spatial grams emerge and evolve, and also in the way specific types of spatial grams are used to express not only spatial but also temporal and other non-spatial relations. Motivation for these similarities may lie in the way we, as human beings, experience the world, which is constrained by our physical configuration and neurophysiological apparatus, as well as our individual cultures.

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Category : Descriptive cataloging
Languages : en
Pages : 1490

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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