Time, Tense, and the Verb
Author: William Emerson Bull
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780520001893
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Author: William Emerson Bull
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Foster Warren Blaisdell (Jr.)
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Published: 1959
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J.R. Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1009284975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSystemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.
Author: Carmen Mellado Blanco
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 3110518600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new book series Formelhafte Sprache / Formulaic Language offers an integrative platform for innovative publications aiming at all forms of formulaicity (German: Vorgeformtheit, Musterhaftigkeit, Formelhaftigkeit) - linguistic, cognitive, conceptual - at all levels of language system and in language use as well as in not purely linguistic areas such as cultural heritage or knowledge creation and storage. Possible research directions are patterns/prefabs in lexicon and grammar, word formation and phraseology, written texts and oral conversations, discourses and text corpora, stereotype building and stigmatization, cognition and cultural memory, verbal and visual knowledge formation and language acquisition. The series covers monographs and conference volumes devoted to theoretical and empirical questions of linguistic, conceptual and cognitive pattern/prefab functioning in modern and historical times. Another central question is the practical role of formulaic patterns/prefabs in language acquisition and teaching. Theoretical and methodological studies from the area of usage-based linguistic frameworks, grammaticalization, lexicalization, Construction Grammars, Corpus / Computer Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities are welcome. Languages of publication are German and English. All submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed by the Advisory Board prior to publication. Advisory Board Harald Burger (Zurich, Switzerland) Joan L. Bybee (New Mexico, USA) Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij (Moscow, Russia) Stephan Elspaß (Salzburg, Austria) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton, USA) Raymond Gibbs (Santa Cruz, USA) Annelies Häcki Buhofer (Basel, Switzerland) Claudine Moulin (Trier, Germany) Jan-Ola Östman (Helsinki, Finland) Stephan Stein (Trier, Germany) Martin Wengeler (Trier, Germany) Alison Wray (Cardiff, UK)
Author: Warren D. TenHouten
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0791483452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime-consciousness—long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought—is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality—emphasizing equality and community—leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality—based on inequality and agency—leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.
Author: Paul J. Hopper
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9027228655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies.The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including in addition to the traditional semantics also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.
Author: Emanuel Vasiliu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3111729095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Dessì Schmid
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 3110564106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with those pieces of information, which, in their interplay, constitute the aspectual value of states of affairs. The focus is on Romance Languages, although the model can be applied just as well to other languages, in that it is underpinned by a principle grounded in a fundamental cognitive ability: the delimitation principle. Unlike traditional approaches, which generally have a semasiological orientation and strictly adhere to a semantic differentiation between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Aktionsart), this study makes no such differentiation and understands these as merely different formal realisations of one and the same content category: aspectuality.