Author: Warren Grice Yates
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Lao Basic Course: by Warren G. Yates and Souksomboun Sayasithsena
Author: Warren Grice Yates
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Lao Basic Course: [by] Warren G. Yates, Souksomboun Sayasithsena, and Malichanh Svengsouk
Author: Warren Grice Yates
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Lao Basic Course
Author: Warren Grice Yates
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Category : Lao language
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Lao language
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Lao, Basic Course
Author: United States Department of State
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Foreign Language, Area, and Other International Studies
Author: Julia A. Petrov
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
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Adapting and Writing Languauge Lessons, 1971
Author: United States. Department of State
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Adapting and Writing Language Lessons
Author: Earl W. Stevick
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Category : Langage et langues
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Langage et langues
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Foreign Language, Area, and Other International Studies
Author: John P. Brosseau
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Evolution of Grammar
Author: Joan Bybee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.