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Author: Riccardo Giomi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9004520589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on typological arguments, the volume challenges the widespread assumption that morphosyntactic and phonological change are fundamental aspects of grammaticalization and replaces it by a definition of grammaticalization as an essentially functional (semantic and pragmatic) process of language change.
Author: Riccardo Giomi
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Published: 2023
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Riccardo Giomi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-01-30
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9004520570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in grammaticalization is that it never results in a decrease in the semantic or pragmatic scope of the construction.
Author: Evelien Keizer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0199571872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological level. It focuses principally on English and provides extensive exercises for students to use and evaluate the theory.
Author: Kees Hengeveld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0199278105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-13
Total Pages: 948
ISBN-13: 0199586780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created. Leading scholars discuss its core theoretical and methodological bases, report on work in the field, and point to directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach.
Author: Lucia Contreras-García
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 3110711591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume explore the interface relations between different levels of linguistic representation in Functional Discourse Grammar as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and Keizer (2015). This theory analyses linguistic expressions at four linguistic levels: interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological. The articles address issues such as the possible correspondences and mismatches between those levels as well as the conditions which constrain the combinations of levels in well-formed expressions. Additionally, the theory is tested by examining various grammatical phenomena with a focus both on the English language and on typological adequacy: anaphora, raising, phonological reduction, noun incorporation, reflexives and reciprocals, serial verbs, the passive voice, time measurement constructions, coordination, nominal modification, and connectives. Overall, the volume provides both theoretical and descriptive insights which are of relevance to linguistics in general.
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108995888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, a problem that has plagued this research is that these markers exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to interpret based on existing methodologies, such as grammaticalization. This study argues that it is possible to explain such characteristics in a meaningful way. It presents a cross-linguistic survey of the development of discourse markers, their important role in communication, and their relation to the wider context of sociocultural behaviour, with the goal of explaining their similarities and differences across a typologically wide range of languages. By giving a clear definition of discourse markers, it aims to provide a guide for future research, making it essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics, and anyone interested in exploring this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9004436723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents current work on discourse structuring from a theoretical as well as a processing perspective. The main objectives are the investigation of appropriate levels of analysis for discourse segmentation and criteria for the identification of basic discourse units.
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 1217
ISBN-13: 0199677077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.
