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Gender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century
Female Spirituality; Courtly Romance; Use of images; Fiction; Exegesis; Vernacular Literature; Chrétien de Troyes; Wolfram von Eschenbach
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- 9781641893787
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- XII, 419 p.
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- ARC - Medieval Media Cultures
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- 809.393581 POW g
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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- 420 p.; 22 cm.
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- Sign Language Typology [SLT]; Vol. 4
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- 419.94 SIG s
The Use of signing space in a shared sign language of Australia
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - f…
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- 9781614515470
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- 303 p.; 22 cm.
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- Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; Vol. 5
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- 419.94 BAU u
A grammar of Mauwake
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language and the only published grammar of the Kumil subgroup to date. Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author sh…
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- 9783946234272
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- 498 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics 4
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- 499.12 BER g
Problem solving activities in post-editing and translation from scratch : a m…
Translation and post-editing can often be categorised as problem-solving activities. When the translation of a source text unit is not immediately obvious to the translator, or in other words, if there is a hurdle between the source item and the target item, the translation process can be considered problematic. Conversely, if there is no hurdle between the source and target texts, the translat…
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- 9783961101320
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- xiii, 306 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing 12
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- 410 NIT p
Order and structure in syntax II: subjecthood and argument structure
This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood …
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- 9783961100286
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- 376 p.; 22 cm.
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- Open Generative Syntax 2
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- 415 ORD o
Computational cognitive modeling and linguistic theory
This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This…
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- 9783030318468
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- 294 p.; 22 cm.
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- Language, Cognition, and Mind ; Volume 6
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- 401.9 BRA c
Information-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow
This volume seeks to infer large phylogenetic networks from phonetically encoded lexical data and contribute in this way to the historical study of language varieties. The technical step that enables progress in this case is the use of causal inference algorithms. Sample sets of words from language varieties are preprocessed into automatically inferred cognate sets, and then modeled as informat…
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- 9783961101443
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- 335 p.; 22 cm.
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- Information-theoreticcausal inference oflexical flowJohannes DellertlanguagesciencepressLanguage Variation 4
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- 410 DEL i
Natural causes of language: Frames, biases, and cultural transmission
What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist if it has been diffused and kept in circulation through social interaction in the history of a community. This book makes the case that a proper understanding of the ontology o…
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- 9783944675503
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- 97 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 ENF f
The evolution of case grammar
There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today. However, despite centuries worth of research, case has yet to reveal its most important secrets. This book offers breakthrough explanations for the understanding of case t…
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- 9783946234333
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- 252 p.; 22 cm.
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- Computational Models of LanguageEvolution 4
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- 410 VAN e
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