On the Rise of Grammatical Categories
Author: Bernd Heine
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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Categorial Features
Author: Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1107038111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.
English Grammatical Categories
Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780521143264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.
The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts
Author: Els Elffers-Van Ketel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9004653228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammatical Categories
Author: M. Rita Manzini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1139500430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply. Their rule-governed combination creates words, phrases and sentences - structured by the 'categories' that are the object of the present inquiry. They argue that the distinction between functional and non-functional categories, between content words and inflections, is not as deeply rooted in grammar as is often thought. In their argumentation they lay the emphasis on empirical evidence, drawn mainly from dialectal variation in the Romance languages, as well as from Albanian.
The Development of Word Meaning
Author: Stan Kuczaj
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1461248442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like a conserva tive estimate. Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive development is especially appropriate at this time. The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several autbors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors. The flagship for the Springer Series is a serial publication of the "advances" types, carrying the sub title Progress in Cognitive Development Research. Each volume in the Progress sequence is strongly thematic, in that it is limited to some well-defmed domain of cognitive-developmental research (e. g. , logical and mathematical development, development of learning). All Progress volumes will be edited collections. Editors of such collections, upon consultation with the Series Editor, may elect to have their books published either as contributions to the Progress sequence or as sepa rate volumes. All books written by one author or a small group of authors are being published as separate volumes within the series. A fairly broad defmition of cognitive development is being used in the selec tion of books for this series.
The Genesis of Grammar
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-10-04
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0199227764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.
The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
Author: Yuzhi Shi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 1108924301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.
Grammaticalization
Author: Katerina Stathi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9027205868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, subjectification, and the relation between grammaticalization and analogy. Other papers shed a critical light on grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter in language change. New case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization complete the selection. The empirical evidence for (and against) grammaticalization comes from diverse domains: subject control, clitics, reciprocal markers, pronouns and agreement markers, gender markers, auxiliaries, aspectual categories, intensifying adjectives and determiners, and pragmatic markers. The languages covered include English and its varieties, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, Slavonic languages, and Turkish. The book will be valuable to scholars working on grammaticalization and language change as well as to those interested in individual languages.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Author: Joan L. Bybee
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-10-15
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9027298033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people’s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.
