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Author: Viveka Velupillai
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9027211981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.
Author: Luca Alfieri
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9027259941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).
Author: Paolo Ramat
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-05-02
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 3110859122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 1661
ISBN-13: 1316790665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-07-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780226114330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Jae Jung Song
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 0199677093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.
Author: Timothy Shopen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-07-25
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780521318990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author: Lindsay J. Whaley
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780803959637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.
Author: Paolo Ramat
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783110106787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author: Edith A. Moravcsik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0521193400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.
