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The cultural net: early modern drama as a paradigm
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of national culture and literature,…
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- 9783110536638
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- vi, 328p.
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- 800 KUP t
Interdisciplinary approaches to multilingualism
This research topic stems from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism" conference, which was hosted by the Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary. It was the first conference of its kind, which brought together the work of researchers, educators, and policy makers in the areas of first and second language acquisition from psycholinguistic and pedagogical perspective…
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- 9782889195183
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- 89 p.; 23 cm.
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- 401.43 CUR i
The Impact of sensory; linguistic and social deprivation on cognition
Early experience plays a crucial role in determining the trajectory of cognitive development. For example, early sensory deprivation is known to induce neural reorganization by way of adaptation to the altered sensory experience. Neville and Bavelier’s “compensatory theory’’ hypothesizes that loss of one sense may bring about a sensory enhancement in the remaining modalities. Sensory de…
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- 9782889453542
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- 183 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 372.6 IMP i
A grammar of Papuan Malay
This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversations between Papuan Malay speakers, recorded in the Sarmi area on the northeast coast of West Papua.…
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- 9783944675862
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- 735 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 899.295 KLU g
Thoughts on grammaticalization
After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which i…
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- 3rd edition 2015
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- 9783946234074
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- xiii, 214 p.; 22 cm
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- 410 LEH t
Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain’s literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each…
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- 9781107128163
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- 400 SCh l
Modeling the Pāṇinian system of Sanskrit grammar
The present work is a study of the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini from a new perspective. It attempts to explore the Pāṇinian system of Sanskrit grammar from a formal point of view and investigate the possibilities of representing it in a logical, explicit and consistent manner. It puts forward an appropriate framework for such a representation. Differing from the formulation of Aṣṭādhy…
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- 9783946054535
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- 268 p.; 22 cm.
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- 499.2345 MIS m
Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches
"This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how…
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- 9783944675213
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- 831 p.; 23 cm.
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- Textbooks in Language Sciences
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- 410.1 MUL g
Language by mouth and by hand
While most natural languages rely on speech, humans can spontaneously generate comparable linguistic systems that utilize manual gestures. This collection of papers examines the interaction between natural language and its phonetic vessels - human speech or manual gestures. We seek to identify what linguistic aspects are invariant across signed and spoken languages, and determine how the choice…
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- 9782889194872
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- 188 p.; 23 c,.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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Gemination and degemination in English affixation
In English, phonological double consonants only occur across morphological boundaries, for example, in affixation (e.g. in unnatural, innumerous). There are two possibilities for the phonetic realization of these morphological geminates: Either the phonological double is realized with a longer duration than a phonological singleton (gemination), or it is of the same duration as a singleton cons…
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- 9783961101894
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- Studies in Laboratory Phonology
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- 424 BEN g
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