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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II: world-wide comparative studies
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple…
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- 9783961101818
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 410 GRA g
Methods in contemporary linguistics
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative na…
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- 9783110284669
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- 410 END m
Context-dependence, perspective and relativity
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the relevant issues and positions.
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- 9783110227772
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- 362 p.; 22 cm.
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- Mouton series in pragmatics; 6
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- 401.43 CON c
Voicing in contrast. Acquiring a second language laryngeal system
Drawing on both rule-based and constraint-based approaches, Voicing in Contrast examines typological differences in the laryngeal systems of Dutch and English and investigates the extent to which native speakers of Dutch acquire English obstruent voicing. The analysis is based on a substantial new data collection of conversational Dutch and English speech by speakers of different varieties of D…
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- 9789038215624
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- 272 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 SIM v
Sign languages in village communities : anthropological and linguistic insights
The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation of a substantial number of different village sign languages.Written by leading ex…
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- 9781614511496
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- VIII, 420 p.
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- Sign Language Typology [SLT]
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- 419 ZES s
René de Saussure and the theory of word formation
This volume presents two works elaborating a general theory of words and their structure written by René de Saussure, younger brother of Ferdinand de Saussure. Although originating in René de Saussure's concerns for the structure of Esperanto, these essays are clearly intended to articulate a general account of word formation in natural language. They appear here in the French original with f…
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- 9783961100972
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- Classics in Linguistics
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- 410 REN r
New directions in corpus-based translation studies
Corpus-based translation studies has become a major paradigm and research methodology and has investigated a wide variety of topics in the last two decades. The contributions to this volume add to the range of corpus-based studies by providing examples of some less explored applications of corpus analysis methods to translation research. They show that the area keeps evolving as it constantly o…
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- 9783944675831
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- 174 p.; 22 cm.
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- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing; Volume 1
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- 418 NEW n
Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparatives in a cr…
This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-in…
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- 9783961100842
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- 252 p.; 22 cm.
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- Open Generative Syntax; Volume 3
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- 417.7 BAC d
Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation
This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community creat…
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- 9783961101290
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- V, 1198 p.
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- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
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- 497.6882 BUE i
The mythology in our language
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s “Golden Bough.". At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by an anthropologist, …
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- 9780990505068
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- IX, 250 p.
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- 201.3 WIT m
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