Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English
Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English

Author: Karl Reichl

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3110943204

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The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Word-Formation
Word-Formation

Author: Peter O. Müller

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-30

Total Pages: 933

ISBN-13: 3110393204

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This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation
Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation

Author: Jacek Fisiak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3110850176

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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.

Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

Author: Hadumod Bussmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02-20

Total Pages: 1336

ISBN-13: 1134630387

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The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.

Categorial Grammars (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Categorial Grammars (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

Author: Mary McGee Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1317933761

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In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical alternative to the phrase-structure paradigm, with deep roots in the philosophy of language, logic and algebra. Mary McGee Wood outlines their historical evolution and discusses their formal basis, starting with a quasi-canonical core and considering a number of possible extensions. She also explores their treatment of a number of linguistic phenomena, including passives, raising, discontinuous dependencies and non-constituent coordination, as well as such general issues as word order, logic, psychological plausibility and parsing. This introduction to categorial grammars will be of interest to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in current theories of grammar, including comparative, descriptive, and computational linguistics.

English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan
English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan

Author: Jacek Fisiak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 3110808773

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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.

The French Influence on Middle English Morphology
The French Influence on Middle English Morphology

Author: Christiane Dalton-Puffer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3110822113

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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

The Directionality of Conversion in English
The Directionality of Conversion in English

Author: Isabel Balteiro

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9783039112418

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Isabel Balteiro describes the three main problems that the word-formation process know as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delimitation, and its directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of the study.