Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa
Author: Adams Bodomo
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9783962031183
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Idiomatic Creativity
Author: Andreas Langlotz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006-04-15
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9027293767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity – the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define the scope and limits of systematic idiom-variation in actual discourse? The book approaches these problems by means of a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic architecture of meaning and language and analyses them on the basis of corpus-data from the British National Corpus (BNC). Therefore, Idiomatic Creativity should be of great interest to cognitive linguists, phraseologists, corpus linguists, advanced students of linguistics, and all readers who are interested in the fascinating interplay of language and cognitive processing.This book has a companion website: www.idiomatic-creativity.ch.
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Author: Ilse Wischer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9789027229557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of the relevance of contexts for grammaticalization; the description of grammaticalization paths. Much of the current work concentrates on such categories, as discourse markers, honorifics or classifiers, which have not previously been central to works on grammaticalization. Other studies take a new perspective on known grammaticalization paths by applying concepts adopted from other linguistic fields, such as prototype theory, morphocentricity, or by discussing their findings from a comparative or typological angle, presenting data from a large number of languages, often based on extensive empirical investigations of written and spoken text corpora.
Bilingual Sentence Processing
Author: Roberto R. Heredia
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780444508478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an overview of the literature on bilingual sentence processing from a psycholinguistic and linguistic perspective. Research focuses on both the visual and spoken modalities including specific areas ofresearch interest including an integrated review of methods and the utility of those methods which allows readers to have the appropriate background and context for the chapters that follow.
Morphological Mechanisms
Author: Rudolf P. Botha
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition
Author: Fabio Alves
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 1351712454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in the fledgling sub-discipline of Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS), from foundational to applied aspects. With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to translational activity from a cognitive perspective. Looking at different types of cognitive processes, this volume also ventures into emergent areas such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive ergonomics and human–computer interaction. With an editors’ introduction and 30 chapters authored by leading scholars in the field of Cognitive Translation Studies, this handbook is the essential reference and resource for students and researchers of translation and cognition and will also be of interest to those working in bilingualism, second-language acquisition and related areas.
Bilingualism in the Community
Author: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1108415822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
The Syntax of Words
Author: Elisabeth O. Selkirk
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780262690799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph examines complex words -- compounds and those involving derivational and inflectional affixation -- from a syntactic standpoint that encompasses both the structure of words and the system of rules for generating that structure.The author contends that the syntax of words and the more familiar syntax involving relations among words must be defined by two discrete sets of principles in the grammar, but nevertheless that word structure has the same general formal properties as the larger syntactic structure and is generated by the same sort of rule system.This investigation of word structure and rule systems is based for the most part on the word syntax of English and related languages. One of its major conclusions is that English word structure can be "properly characterized solely in terms of a context-free grammar." Selkirk points out that the Semitic languages, for example, must be characterized in terms of a more elaborate schema.The first chapter presents a general theory of word structure, and discusses a context-free grammar for words, X theory in word structure, and word structure rules. The second chapter is concerned with compounding, and probes the structure and "headedness" of compounds, verbal compounds, and the category type of English compounds. The third and final chapter, on affixation, investigates the nature of affixes, inflectional affixation, and English derivational morphology.This book is the seventh in the Linguistic Inquiry Monograph series.
Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Author: John M. Mugane
Publisher: Cascadilla Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains 26 papers selected from the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 35), which was held at Harvard University in 2004. The theme of the conference, "African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective," was an open invitation to go beyond traditional linguistic theorizing and to discuss issues of greater sociolinguistic and cultural meaning, outside of Africa as well as on the continent. The selected papers of this volume represent a broad range of papers selected for their significance, breadth of coverage, and depth of analysis, written by scholars from around the globe.
Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on
Author: Tony Berber Sardinha
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9027270155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and spoken registers, such as movies, music, magazine texts, student writing, social media, letters to the editor, and reports, in different languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and contexts (engineering, journalism, the classroom, the entertainment industry, the Internet, etc.). The book also includes a personal account of the development of the method by its creator, Doug Biber, an introduction to MD statistics, as well as an application of MD analysis to corpus design. The book should be essential reading to anyone with an interest in how texts, genres, and registers are used in society, what their lexis and grammar look like, and how they are interrelated.
