Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics
Author: Bohumil Trnka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-03-10
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 3110816636
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Historical Linguistics 2017
Author: Bridget Drinka
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9027261679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change.
A Short History of Structural Linguistics
Author: Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-23
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521625685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists a language is a self-contained and tightly organised system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This idea has its origin in the nineteenth century and was developed in the twentieth by Saussure and his followers, including the school of Bloomfield in the United States. Through the work of Chomsky, especially, it is still very influential. Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyses the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the 'Chomskyan revolution' in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
Author: Eva Hajicová
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1999-10-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9027254435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the third one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.
The Language of the New Testament
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9004234772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
Author: Eva Haji?ová
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781556196737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and F. ?ermak, those of quantitative linguistics by M. T? itelova, of sentence structure by H.-H. Lieb, Y. Tobin, J. Panevova, T. Gross and J. abr ula, discourse patterns are dealt with by J. Hoffmannova, S. ?mejrkova and F. ticha, phonology and graphemics by E. Battistella, A. Svoboda and P.A. Luelsdorff with S.V. Chesnokov, and the lexicon by L. Waugh and V. Strakova.
Historical Linguistics
Author: Charles Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1317899008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.
Principles and Methods in Contemporary Structural Linguistics
Author: Jurij D. Apresjan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 3110877902
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Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
Author: Eva Hajicova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9027254419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first one of the revived series of Travaux, which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics; 3. Sentence structure; 4. Discourse patterns; 5. Theory of literature. In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.
War and Its Ideologies
Author: Annabelle Lukin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9811309965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room. Drawing on Halliday’s linguistic theory – in particular, his account of the “semiotic big-bang” - this book explains the latent semiotic machinery of language on which ideology depends. The book illustrates the ideological power of language through a study of perhaps the most significant and consequential of our ideologies: those that enable us to legitimate, celebrate, even venerate war, at the same time that we abhor, denounce and proscribe violence. To do so, it makes use of large multi-register corpora (including the British National Corpus), and the reporting of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Australian, US, European, and Asian news sources. Combining detailed text analysis with corpus linguistic methods, it provides an empirical analysis showing the astonishing reach of our ideologies of war and their profoundly covert and coercive power.
