Language Universals And Linguistic Typology

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226114330
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Universals and Linguistic Typology written by Bernard Comrie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787301146156
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 语言共性和语言类型 written by Bernard Comrie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书区别于一般导论性教科书的特点是并非面面俱到,而是对某些有趣的论题作较为深入的探讨,因此可读性比较强,并从中可以学到很多实质的分析和研究思路。

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110194260
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the history, methodology and the theory of typology, as well as the relationship between language typology and other disciplines. The authors of the individual sections and chapters are for the most part internationally known experts on the relevant topics. The vast majority of the articles are written in English, some in French or German. The handbook is not only intended for the expert in the fields of typology and language universals, but for all of those interested in linguistics. It is specifically addressed to all those who specialize in individual languages, providing basic orientation for their analysis and placing each language within the space of what is possible and common in the languages of the world.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004992
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Typology and Universals written by William Croft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.

Author : Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383096689X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Linguistics Campus written by Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961101477
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explanation in typology written by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. On this view, recurrent pathways of reanalysis and grammaticalization can lead to uniform synchronic results, obviating the need to postulate global forces like ambiguity avoidance, processing efficiency or iconicity, especially if there is no evidence for such motivations in the genesis of the respective constructions. On the other hand, the recent typological literature is equally ripe with talk of "complex adaptive systems", "attractor states" and "cross-linguistic convergence". One may wonder, therefore, how much room is left for traditional functional-adaptive forces and how exactly they influence the diachronic trajectories that shape universal distributions. The papers in the present volume are intended to provide an accessible introduction to this debate. Covering theoretical, methodological and empirical facets of the issue at hand, they represent current ways of thinking about the role of diachronic sources in explaining grammatical universals, articulated by seasoned and budding linguists alike.

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198238669
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Language Typology written by Masayoshi Shibatani and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language typology is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. This text offers accounts of the theoretical foundations and findings of leading scholars in this field.

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Language Universals and Linguistic Typology written by Bernard Comrie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clark Hess
Publisher : States Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781639893225
Total Pages : 245 pages
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Download or read book Language Universals and Linguistic Typology written by Clark Hess and published by States Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A language universal is a pattern that occurs systematically in natural languages. It focuses on the study of generalizations across languages, related to perception, cognition and other abilities of the brain. Studies in this field of linguistics are closely associated with the field of linguistic typology, which studies and categorizes languages according to their structural characteristics. Its goal is to describe and explain the shared properties and the structural diversity of the languages in the world. Sub-disciplines of linguistic typology include qualitative typology, quantitative typology, theoretical typology, syntactic typology and lexical typology. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches of language universals and linguistic typology. Its objective is to give a general view of the different areas of these fields, and their applications. This book attempts to assist those with a goal of delving into the field of linguistics.

Author : Wendy Sandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521483957
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sign Language and Linguistic Universals written by Wendy Sandler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this pioneering and original study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share. Drawing on general linguistic theory, they describe and analyze sign language structure, showing linguistic universals in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of sign language, while also revealing non-universal aspects of its structure that must be attributed to its physical transmission system. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions of signs and facial expressions accessible to readers. Engaging and informative, Sign Language and Linguistic Universals will be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, and all those interested in sign languages, linguistic theory and the universal properties of human languages.