Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Cambridge University Press A History of the Japanese Language
Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record. Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language, Old Japanese (approximately the eighth century AD), and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese (800â1200), Late Middle Japanese (1200â1600) and the Modern Japanese (1600âonwards) periods, a complete internal history of the language is examined and discussed. This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted, providing a much needed resource for scholars. A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to all those interested in the Japanese language and also students of language change generally.
£38.52
Cambridge University Press The Syntax of Welsh
Book SynopsisA concise and accessible 2007 overview of the major syntactic characteristics of Welsh, covering topics such as finite and infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agreement and tense, word order, subjects, clause structure, dialect variation, and the language's historical Celtic background. Will be welcomed by syntactic theorists, typologists, historical linguists and Celticists alike.Trade Review"This volume is a wonderful addition to linguistic work on Welsh that may serve to draw much-deserved attention to this highly complex and fascinating but little-known language. One of the beauties of the book is that even for readers less interested in the mechanics of syntactic analysis, the descriptive material on the various topics covered lays out interesting and nuanced detail, some of which is rarely or never found elsewhere in print." --Anthropological LinguisticsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Simple finite clauses; 3. Infinitival clauses; 4. Wh-constructions; 5. Noun phrases; 6. More on agreement; 7. Syntax and mutation; 8. More on verbal syntax; 9. Historical syntax; 10. Welsh as a VSO language.
£39.89
Cambridge University Press Early Modern English Dialogues
Book SynopsisUsing the Corpus of English Dialogues 15601760, in this book Culpeper and Kytö offer a unique account of the linguistic features in speech-related genres of writing. Through this, they are able to provide a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction in Early Modern English might have been like.Trade Review'This new book by Culpeper and Kytö is an important and outstanding contribution to historical linguistics. It provides rich insights into the spoken language of the past, and these insights are based on solid empirical evidence. The authors demonstrate what can be achieved through the analysis of a carefully designed corpus even if it is relatively small … The book will inspire a lot of work in this area, both because of its exciting insights and because of the novel research tools that it introduces and exemplifies.' English Language and LinguisticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Dialogic genres and their contexts; 3. The multiple contexts and multiple discourses of dialogic genres; 4. The structures of spoken face-to-face interaction and writing; 5. Lexical bundles; 6. Lexical repetitions; 7. Cohesion: the case of AND; 8. Grammatical variation; 9. An introduction to pragmatic noise; 10. Pragmatic noise: a survey of functions and contexts in Early Modern English comedy plays; 11. Pragmatic noise: variation and change in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760; 12. Pragmatic noise: meanings and their development; 13. Social variation in interaction: representing identities; 14. The distribution of talk: social roles in trial proceedings and play-texts; 15. Pragmatic markers; 16. Summary and concluding remarks; Appendix I; Appendix II; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1915, this book was intended to encourage students of medieval history to take up palaeography. Jenkinson details the various types of 'court hand' that may be seen on medieval records, and emphasises that the study of palaeography must necessarily be accompanied with an equal emphasis on the history of administration.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Palaeography as an essential preliminary to research on medieval history; Part I. Court Hand: 1. The curia; 2. The courts of chancery and exchequer; 3. The purely judicial courts; 4. The growth of administration; 5. The three varieties of record making; 6. The close of the medieval period; 7. The real court hand; 8. Summary; Part II. The Scientific Study of Court Hand: 1. Early schools of handwriting; 2. The work of administrative history; 3. What is palaeography; 4. Palaeography as an exact science; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press American and British English
Book SynopsisIs British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the 1930s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, to track the most important ways that both varieties are changing over time, and compares the extent to which they are following similar paths using a mixture of computer and human analysis. The analysis is carried out across several levels, including spelling differences (such as colour vs color), vocabulary (truck vs lorry), and a range of morphological, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic features. Baker explores the changing aspects of American and British society which help to explain the findings.Trade Review'An engaging, in depth look at British and American English. In addition, Baker demonstrates a range of methods for analyzing language at many levels, and for contextualizing the results.' Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University'American and British English: Divided by a Common Language provides a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and interesting description of how American and British English have changed from the 1930s through the 2000s, focusing on such topics as spelling differences, word frequency variations between the varieties, and the use of profanity and discourse markers.' Charles Meyer, University of Massachusetts, BostonTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Spelling differences; 3. Letter sequences and affixation; 4. Higher frequency words; 5. Lower frequency words; 6. Part of speech categories; 7. Semantic categories; 8. Swearing, identity and discourse markers; 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Heritage Languages and their Speakers
Book SynopsisThis book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, and shows easy familiarity with approaches ranging from formal grammar to typology, from sociolinguistics to child language acquisition and other relevant aspects of psycholinguistics. The book offers analysis of resilient and vulnerable domains in heritage languages, with a special emphasis on recurrent structural properties that occur across multiple heritage languages. It is explicit about instances where, based on our current knowledge, we are unable to reach a clear decision on a particular claim or analytical point, and therefore provides a much-needed resource for future research.Trade Review'Maria Polinsky has written a comprehensive and authoritative work that will be an indispensable point of reference for future research on heritage languages. Her book takes a very detailed look at heritage languages, but it never loses sight of a central question for all linguists: what does it mean to be a speaker of a language?' Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego'This volume is thorough, comprehensive, and multifaceted, capturing the uniqueness, complexities and subtleties that characterize heritage language. A plethora of concrete research evidence from numerous languages is provided to illustrate the points made.' Mitsuyo Sakamoto, LINGUIST ListTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Heritage English; 3. How to study heritage speakers: some observations on the methodologies and approaches; 4. Phonetics and phonology; 5. Morphology and morphosyntax; 6. Syntax; 7. Semantics and pragmatics; 8. Heritage speakers in unexpected places; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Colloquial and Literary Latin
Book SynopsisHow did the Latin of casual conversation differ from that of formal writing? How much colloquial Latin appears in surviving literature, and how can we tell? Twenty-six of the world's leading Latin scholars discuss these and other questions, making a major scholarly debate accessible in English for the first time.Trade Review'If, in a postmodern academy, the old 'Vulgar Latin' project of trying to recover the ways the Roman really spoke now seems hopelessly passé, this collection is unsurpassed for its studies of how they represented their speech. Something at least in this book will be required reading for everyone researching both Latin literature and Latin linguistics.' Philip Burton, The Classical Review'… this volume is worthy of the great scholar and expert on 'colloquial' Latin to whom it has been dedicated.' Gerd Haverling, Journal of Roman Studies'… represents a clearly delineated and sustained enquiry into the nature of colloquial Latin that makes a substantial contribution to scholarship, with a series of incisive studies of Latin style that partly break down previous easy assumptions and misleading claims about the distinctions between 'colloquial' and 'literary' as different registers of the Latin language. … [The reader] comes away with a much sharper understanding of stylistic variations in Latin literature, and the collection should be of as much interest to literary critics (we need to sit up and take notice!) as to philologists.' Rebecca Langlands, Greece and RomeTable of ContentsPreface David Langslow; 1. Introduction Eleanor Dickey; 2. Colloquial language in linguistic studies James Clackson; 3. Roman authors on colloquial language Rolando Ferri and Philomen Probert; 4. Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism Anna Chahoud; 5. Preliminary conclusions Eleanor Dickey; 6. Possessive pronouns in Plautus Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo; 7. Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts Paolo Poccetti; 8. Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy Hilla Halla-aho and Peter Kruschwitz; 9. The fragments of Cato's Origines John Briscoe; 10. Hyperbaton and register in Cicero J. G. F. Powell; 11. Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus Harm Pinkster; 12. Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius Tobias Reinhardt; 13. Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar Andreas Willi; 14. The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution of Roman historiography Jan Felix Gaertner; 15. Grist to the mill: the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5 Richard F. Thomas; 16. Sermones deorum: divine discourse in Virgil's Aeneid Stephen Harrison; 17. Petronius' linguistic resources Martti Leiwo; 18. Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae Kathleen Coleman; 19. Colloquial Latin in Martial's Epigrams Nigel Kay; 20. Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius Leofranc Holford-Strevens; 21. Forerunners of Romance -mente adverbs in Latin prose and poetry Brigitte Bauer; 22. Late sparsa collegimus: the influence of sources on the language of Jordanes Giovanbattista Galdi; 23. The tale of Frodebert's Tail Danuta Shanzer; 24. Colloquial Latin in the insular Latin scholastic colloquia? Michael Lapidge; 25. Conversations in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Michael Winterbottom.
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Cambridge University Press Categories Constructions and Change in English
Book SynopsisA pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction: analysing English syntax past and present Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann; Part I. Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change: 1. What is special about pronouns? John Payne; 2. What for? Bas Aarts; 3. Whatever happened to 'whatever'? Dan Mccolm and Graeme Trousdale; 4. Are comparative modals converging or diverging in English? Different answers from the perspectives of grammaticalisation and constructionalisation Elizabeth Closs Traugott; 5. The definite article in Old English: evidence from Ælfric's Grammar Cynthia L. Allen; Part II. Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change: 6. How patterns spread: the to-infinitival complement as a case of diffusional change, or 'To-infinitives, and beyond!' Bettelou Los; 7. 'Me Liketh/Lotheth' but 'I Loue/Hate': impersonal/non-impersonal boundaries in old and Middle English Ayumi Miura; 8. 'That's luck, if you ask me': the rise of an intersubjective comment clause Laurel J. Brinton; 9. Misreading and language change: a foray into qualitative historical linguistics Sylvia Adamson; 10. The conjunction and in phrasal and clausal structures in the Old Bailey Corpus Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg; Part III. Comparative and Typological Approaches: 11. The role played by analogy in processes of language change: the case of English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que Olga Fischer and Hella Olbertz; 12. Modelling step change: the history of will-verbs in Germanic Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent; 13. Possessives world-wide: genitive variation in varieties of English Benedikt Heller and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; 14. American English: no written standard before the twentieth century? Christian Mair.
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Cambridge University Press A History of African Linguistics
Book SynopsisFor scholars and advanced students of African languages and linguistics and African studies, this volume presents the first global history about the teaching and linguistic study of African languages that began as a 'colonial science' in Western Europe, tracing the spread of African linguistics across all inhabited continents.Trade Review'The twenty-six authors found in this volume, who come from every inhabited continent on the planet, should be recognized for their valuable contribution to the broader field of African linguistics, as the reader now has access to a richer understanding of the synchronic and diachronic 'big picture' as it concerns language usage and the study of language usage on the African continent.' Troy E. Spier, LinguistTable of Contents1. The history of African linguistics H. Ekkehard Wolff; 2. Western Europe: African linguistics and the colonial project Roland Kießling; 3. African linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic countries Roland Kießling, Nina Pawlak, Alexander Zheltov and Arvi Hurskainen; 4. African linguistics in North Africa Abderrahman el Aissati and Yamina el Kirat el Allame; 5. African linguistics in North-Eastern Africa Ronny Meyer, Maria Bulakh, Angelika Jakobi, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Wolbert Smidt and Rainer Voigt; 6. African linguistics in Southern Africa Sonja E. Bosch and Inge M. Kosch; 7. African linguistics in Eastern Africa Amani Lusekelo; 8. African linguistics in official English-speaking West Africa Bruce Connell and Akinbiyi Akinlabi; 9. African linguistics in official French-speaking West and Central Africa Philip Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka; 10. African linguistics in official Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Africa Anne-Maria Fehn; 11. African linguistics in the Americas G. Tucker Childs and Margarida Petter; 12. African linguistics in Asia and Australia Shigeki Kaji, Sun Xiaomeng, Yang Chul-Joon and John Hajek.
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Cambridge University Press Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul interacted with the ancient Mediterranean world during a period of constantly evolving cultural configurations. Using sociolinguistics and archaeology, this book investigates evidence for multilingualism and multiple identities from the foundation of Greek Marseille in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power.Trade Review'Scholarly studies of Gaul are not readily available in English, so this work provides a plethora of material (also detailed in tables and appendixes) for students to digest.' ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities: Interdisciplinary Methodologies: 1. Multiple voices; 2. Language contact and community dynamics; 3. Bilingual texts and community dynamics; 4. Scripts as indicators of contact; 5. Names as indicators of contact; Part II. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in Southern Gaul: 6. Gallia in Graeciam translata? Investigating Gaulish-Greek linguistic contacts; 7. 'La Celtique méditerranéenne'? Investigating the influence of the Mediterranean koine; 8. 'D'où rayonna en Occident la civilisation'? Investigating the loci of cultural change; 9. Being Greek, becoming Roman, staying Celtic? Ethnolinguistic vitality from the Augustan period; 10. Conclusions; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and
Book SynopsisWith contributions from world-renowned experts, this is a pioneering survey of heritage languages, focusing on issues ranging from individual language knowledge to broader societal, educational and policy concerns in a global context. It will be welcomed by researchers and language professionals in a wide range of fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction – heritage languages, heritage speakers, heritage linguistics Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky; Part I. Heritage Languages Around the World: 1. Slavic heritage languages around the globe Bernhard Brehmmer; 2. Heritage languages in Europe Tanja Kupisch; 3. Heritage languages in Southeastern Europe Natalia Pavlou and Kleanthes K. Grohmann; 4. Heritage languages in China Linda Tsung and Lubei Zhang; 5. Heritage languages in Japan and Korea Hyun-Sook Kang and James Hye Suk Yoon; 6. Heritage languages in Israel Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronald Shabtaev, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem; 7. Heritage languages in New Zealand and Australia Corinne Seals; 8. Heritage languages in Canada Naomi Nagy; 9. Asian heritage languages in the United States – Chinese and Hindi language communities Shereen Bhalla, Na Liu and Terence G. Wiley; 10. The vitality of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States Maria M. Carreira; 11. Germanic heritage varieties in the Americas – social and linguistic perspectives Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph Salmons; 12. Arabic in North America Abdulkafi Albirini; 13. Heritage languages in South America John M. Lipski; 14. Language attrition and heritage language reversal in returnees Cristina Flores and Neal Snape; Part II. Research Approaches to Heritage Languages: 15. Heritage language research and theoretical linguistics Elabbas Benmamoun; 16. The emergence of heritage language – a case study from Korean William O'Grady and Chae-Eun Kim; 17. Sociolinguistic approaches to heritage languages Andrew Lynch and Netta Avineri; 18. The psycholinguistics of heritage languages Jill Jegerski and Irina Sekerina; 19. Contact linguistics and heritage languages Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez and Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda; 20. A narrative-ethnographic approach to research on heritage language development Agnes Weiyun He; 21. Corpus-based methodologies in the study of heritage languages Olesya Kisselev; 22. Current trends and emerging methodologies in charting heritage language grammars Fatih Bayram, Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman and Roumyana Slabakova; Part III. Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages: 23. Phonetics and phonology Charles B. Chang; 24. Morphology Michael Putnam, Lara Schwarz and Andrew Hoffman; 25. Syntax Terje Lohndal; 26. Semantics of heritage languages Tania Ionin; 27. Discourse and information structure in heritage languages Oksana Laleko; 28. Pragmatics in heritage languages Irina Dubinina; Part IV. Heritage Language Education: 29. Elementary school heritage language educational options and outcomes Kim Potowski; 30. Community-organized heritage language programs Jin Sook Lee and Huay Chen; 31. Curricular and programmatic language development opportunities for university-level heritage language learners Sara Beaudrie; 32. Instructed heritage language acquisition Melissa A. Bowles and Julio Torres; 33. Issues and practices in community-based experiential learning for heritage speakers in the United States Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez, Adriana Ojeda and Diego Pascual y Cabo; 34. Developing Spanish heritage language biliteracy María Cecilia Colombi; 35. Heritage language assessment Kimi Kondo-Brown; 36. Embracing opportunity in heritage language revitalization Maria Schwedhelm, Kate Stemper and Kendall King; 37. Heritage language planning and policy Terrence G. Wiley.
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Cambridge University Press An Anthology of Informal Latin 200 BCAD 900
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the changing character of Latin over 1000 years, through detailed linguistic commentaries on fifty passages. Aimed at students of Latin interested in diachronic change and sociolinguistic variation, and at Latin and Romance historical linguists, it will also interest social and cultural historians and students of Biblical and Christian Latin.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Abbreviations; Texts; 1. Ennius Euhemerus III (Vahlen); 2. Plautus Miles Gloriosus 5-27; 3. Plautus Miles Gloriosus 416-35; 4. Cato De agricultura 33.5-35; 5. Cato De agricultura 157.3-7; 6. One of the Johns Hopkins defixiones ('Plotius'), of republican date (c. 100 BC?); 7. Rhetorica ad Herennium 4.14: a specimen of the 'simple style'; 8. Rhetorica ad Herennium 4.16: a 'debased' variant of the 'simple style'; 9. Letter of Marcus Caelius Rufus to Cicero (Fam. 8.15.1-2); 10. Some jokes recorded by Cicero, Quintilian and Macrobius, mainly of republican date; 11. Vitruvius on the larch (2.9.14-16); 12. From a letter of Augustus (Suetonius Aug. 76.2); 13. Soldier's letter of the late first century BC (Augustan period) from Qasr Ibrîm Egypt (P. Rainer Cent. 164, CEL 9); 14. Letter from Oxyrhynchus, possibly of Augustan date (Brown 1970, P. Oxy. XLIV.3208); 15. Legal document from the archive of the Sulpicii (TPSulp. 51: Camodeca 1999), dated 18 June AD 37 at Puteoli; 16. Sexual verses from Pompeii (CIL IV.2360, 4008, 8229); 17. Passage from a letter of Seneca (12.1-3); 18. Freedman's speech from the Satyrica of Petronius (37.1-38.2); 19. Curse tablet from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna at Mainz (Blänsdorf 2010a: 173-5, text no. 8), of the second half of the first century AD; 20. Letter from the Myos Hormos road (Egypt), end of first century/first quarter of second (Cuvigny 2003: II.409, M689); 21. Letter of Claudia Severa from Vindolanda (Tab. Vindol. 292), of the early second century; 22. Letter of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII.471, CEL 146), of the early second century; 23. Letter from Mons Claudianus (Egypt), of the second century (O. Claud. 367); 24. Another letter from the Myos Hormos road (Egypt), of the period of Hadrian (Cuvigny 2003: II.405, M1107); 25. Surveyor's inscription from Algeria (CIL VIII.2728 = 18122 = ILS 5795), commemorating the construction of an aqueduct, c. 153; 26. Soldier's letter from Wâdi Fawâkhir (Egypt), possibly of the second century (O. Faw. 2, CPL 304, CEL 74); 27. Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis 10, of the early third century; 28. The Magerius Mosaic (third century); 29. Pelagonius Ars ueterinaria 34 (fourth century); 30. Parts of Pelagonius Ars ueterinaria 404, from two different manuscripts; 31. Letter of Publicola to Augustine (Aug. Epist. 46, CSEL 34); 32. Curse tablet from London Bridge (Hassall and Tomlin 1987: 360-1 no. 1); 33. Curse tablet from the Hamble Estuary, Hampshire (Tomlin 1997: 455 no. 1); 34. Curse tablet from Uley, Gloucestershire (Hassall and Tomlin 1996: 440 no. 1); 35. Another curse tablet from Uley, Gloucestershire (Hassall and Tomlin 1992: 311 no. 5); 36. Curse tablet from Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire (Hassall and Tomlin 1993: 312 no. 2); 37. Curse tablet from Leicester (Tomlin 2008, 2009: 327 no. 21); 38. Gospel of John (6.51-69) from the Vetus Latina (Codex Palatinus, e), and the corresponding passage from the Vulgate; 39. Patrick Confessio 42-3 (fifth century); 40. Patrick Confessio 48-9; 41. From one of the Albertini Tablets (Tablettes Albertini XIV.1-9), of the late fifth century; 42. Two versions of a passage from the Physica Plinii; 43. Two versions of Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 40.1-15; 44. Itinerarium Antonini Placentini 36-7, with different versions; 45. Passage from the Dialogues of Gregory the Great (1.2.2-3); 46. Visigothic slate tablet (Velázquez Soriano 2004, 40.II), of the first half of the seventh century; 47. Passage from the Vita sanctae Euphrosynae (17); 48. Selected passages from the Annales regni Francorum, in two versions; 49. A description of the Basilica of Saint-Denis of 799; 50. A tenth-century treatise on falcon medicine from northern Italy; Final conclusions; Bibliography; Subject index; Index verborum.
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Cambridge University Press Aegean Linear Scripts
Book SynopsisWhen does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Table of Contents1. Introduction and theoretical framework; 2. What does Linear A look like?; 3. What does Linear B look like?; 4. Interpretative models; 5. Overall Conclusions
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Cambridge University Press Arabic Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisWritten by four leading experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic variation and linguistic change in Arabic. It introduces sociolinguistic theory, methods, and data step-by-step, using accessible language and extensive examples throughout. Topics covered include sociolinguistic methodology, social variables, language change, spatial variation, and contact and diffusion. Each topic is explained and illustrated using empirical data drawn from a wide array of Arabic-speaking communities in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as other parts of the world where Arabic is or was spoken, to provide a rich resource of individual dialects, as well as a comparative view of variation in Arabic. Each chapter also contains annotated suggestions for further reading and elaborate exercises. It is an essential resource for students studying Arabic in its social context, as well as anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of variation in Arabic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Transcription, symbols and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology – principles and practice; 3. Gender; 4. Education; 5. Social stratification; 6. Religion and ethnicity; 7. Language change; 8. Spatial variation; 9. Contact and diffusion; References; Index of subjects; Index of places; Index of names.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology
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Pearson Education (US) Advanced Grammar
Book SynopsisAdvanced Grammar is a new, advanced-level grammar course that prepares English language learners for academic work. Its unique approach helps students master written grammar with the use of authentic academic sources and prepares them to read extensive academic texts, write and present using academic language, and process complex academic content. Advanced Grammar focuses on the academic forms and uses of grammatical structures without oversimplifying either the content or the grammar structures. This approach is made possible by the authentic textbook content upon which each chapter is based. Features In-depth exposure to authentic academic language via textbook excerpts. Students become accustomed to and use authentic academic language as it is spoken and written. Rigorous and authentic readings from a variety of academic disciplines. Students are exposed to rich content that illustrates examples of gramTable of ContentsPart 1: The Verb Tense System: Using Academic Verb Tense Patterns (Academic Discipline: Computer Science)Chapter 1: Review of Verb TensesChapter 2: Passive VerbsChapter 3: Modal Auxiliary VerbsPart 1: Putting It All Together Part 2: Noun and Noun Phrases: Adding Variety and Detail (Academic Discipline: Sociology)Chapter 4: Noun FunctionsChapter 5: Elements of Noun Phrases: PremodifiersChapter 6: Elements of Noun Phrases: PostmodifiersPart 2: Putting It All Together Part 3: Adjective Clauses and Phrases: Adding Description, Prediction, Historical Explanation, and Emphasis (Academic Discipline: History)Chapter 7: Review of Adjective ClausesChapter 8: Reduced Adjective Clauses and Adjective PhrasesChapter 9: Academic Uses of Adjective Clauses, Phrases, and Cleft ReferencesPart 3: Putting It All Together Part 4: Adverb Clauses, Adverb Phrases and Other Structures that Express Complex Relationships (Academic Discipline: Anthropology)Chapter 10: Adverb Clauses and Other Structures that Express Time, Cause/Effect, Purpose, and MannerChapter 11: Adverb Clauses and Other Structures that Express Concession, Contrast, and ConditionChapter 12: Reduced Adverb Clauses and Absolute ConstructionsPart 4: Putting It All Together Part 5: Noun Clauses (Academic Discipline: Physics)Chapter 13: Noun Clauses Used as ObjectsChapter 14: Noun Clauses Used as Subjects, Complements, and AppositivesChapter 15: Noun Clauses Used for Academic PurposesPart 5: Putting It All Together ReferencesBibliographyAppendix A: Vocabulary PracticeAppendix B: Writing and Speaking GuidelinesAppendix C: Answer Keys for Appendix AAppendix D: Answer Keys for "What Did You Learn?"Glossary of Grammar and Writing Terms
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The University of Chicago Press Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in
Book SynopsisExploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this book features contributors who identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today's state of linguistic diversity in Latin America.Trade Review"Together the chapters in this book give a well-thought-out overview of the complexity of the social ecologies and linguistic development within Latin America, of the differences between the Portuguese and the Spanish empires, and of those within the Spanish viceroyalties. With this volume, Mufwene brings to English-language readers the missing piece in the discussion of language ecologies in excolonial regions." (Anna Maria Escobar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
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The University of Chicago Press Grammars of Approach Landscape Narrative and the
Book SynopsisA very close look at language and landscape design in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, looking at how the word approach changed from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive up to an estate.
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MIT Press Gesture and Speech October Books
Book SynopsisCombines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive theory of human behavior and cultural developmentAndré Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) was an anthropologist and paleontologist whose theoretical endeavors extended well beyond those realms to encompass the culture of the twentieth century and its most advanced developments. His bold and coherent revision of both analytic and archaeological methods revolutionized the study of prehistoric culture. His adoption of the structuralist method for the analysis of prehistoric art enabled a radical rethinking and clearer understanding of its nature, with resulting implications for the understanding of the art of our own times, and for a broad range of contemporary issues.Leroi-Gourhan was, for example, concerned with questions of communication, particularly the ways in which new techniques of communication reshape our understanding of language and writing. His wo
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MIT Press Ltd Historical Linguistics Fourth Edition An
Book SynopsisThe new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout.This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to think about the issues. Abundant examples from a broad range of languages and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historical linguistics. The book is distinctive for its integration of the standard topics with others now considered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguistic contributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguistic prehistory.
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University of Washington Press Haa Leelkw Has Aani Saaxu Our Grandparents Names
Book SynopsisPresents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names.Trade Review". . . a remarkable contribution to a growing scholarship on the importance of place in Native American communities . . . and should serve as a model for future research concerning the preservation of indigenous place names." -- Shawn Bailey * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *". . . a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. . . . the most comprehensive study of its kind." * SitNews *"A rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live." -- Amy Fletcher * Juneau Empire *Table of ContentsA Note to the Reader / Harold P. Martin Foreword: People of the Land / Rosita Worl Introduction, by Thomas F. Thornton 1. Yaakwdaat Kwaan, Galyax Kwaan, and Gunnaaxoo Kwaan 2. Xunaa Kaawu 3. Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan 4. Aak’w Kwaan and T’aaku Kwaan 5. Sheet’ka Kwaan 6. Xutsnoowu Kwaan 7. Keex’ Kwaan, Kooyu Kwaan, and S’awdaan Kwaan 8. Shtax’heen Kwaan 9. Hinyaa Kwaan 10. Taant’a Kwaan and Sanyaa Kwaan 11. K’aykaani References
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Majority Text Greek New Testament Interlinear
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Zondervan New Testament Greek Syntax
Book SynopsisNo more hunting through textbooks, laboring over self-made study cards, or fumbling with sticky notes. This summary laminated sheet of Greek Grammar beyond the Basics and Basics of New Testament Syntax is perfect for students to review categories of uses and look over possibilities when doing exegesis of the New Testament.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Voices of Experience
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of strategies and tips collected through a survey of 80 practicing ESL professionals, as well as a series of conversations with the author's colleagues. The book reveals teachers' motivations for choosing certain techniques. A unique feature of the book is the thinking that underlies teachers' choices in terms of how they manage their classroom.
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Research & Education Association ESL Beginner English as a Second Language
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Rowman & Littlefield A Pun My Word A Humorously Enlightened Path to
Book Synopsis"...a superb guide to the intricacies of the language....provides clear distinctions between and among confusing words but does so in a light and often humorous manner. Such a book is especially useful to journalism students, and even practicing journalists." s John C. Merrill, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, University of MissouriTrade ReviewSure to be a word-lover's delight, Shipman's contribution to popular lexicology is a book-length variation upon that curiously gratifying chapter of Strunk and White's infamous ^RElements of Style, Misused Words and Expressions^I. * Booklist *Shipman has an easy way of explaining word usage. -- Donald F. Brod, Chair, Department of Journalism, Northern Illinois University^RA Pun My Word^I, a simple and practical word guide to English, is the way to review-and have some fun along the way....'Now I understand,' you'll say, reading the clever, tongue-in-cheek examples. You'll recognize words and expressions you've used interchangeably-and wrongly! * Writer's Digest Book Club Bulletin *...a superb guide to the intricacies of the language....provides clear distinctions between and among confusing words but does so in a light and often humorous manner. Such a book is especially useful to journalism students, and even practicing journalists... -- John C. Merrill, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, University of Missouri...a sophisticated yet practical guide to the many common confusions of English usage, leavened with uncommon wit.... -- Joan Konner, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University^RA Pun My Word^I educates with humor and charm.... -- Jane F. Earley, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Mankato State UniversityThis reference should be on the desks of journalists, students, and all of us who remain concerned with the nuances of language. -- James R. Boylan, University of Massachusetts...useful for writers who want a quick, conservative, ready-reference source to help them choose the right word from confusables of various kinds. * American Reference Books Annual *The book consists of hundreds of clear explanations of the most troubling of English uses and misuses....explanations aren't easily found in dictionaries without looking up at least two words and then combing through multiple definitions. ^RA Pun My Word^I makes quick work of such forays into accuracy. * Quill and Scroll *
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WW Norton & Co How Language Began
Book SynopsisHow Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet."Trade Review"An ambitious text.... Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes from his field studies in the Amazonian rain forests, will help the neophyte get along. It’s worth it in the end to get a glimpse of conversation through his eyes, as humanity’s most impressive collective invention." -- Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book Review"Very few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe that Daniel L. Everett’s How Language Began will be one of them." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University"When I first became interested in cultural evolution, cognitive revolutionaries would say that Noam Chomsky had proved that an innate language acquisition device was the key to linguistics. Daniel Everett is a leader of the counterrevolution that is putting culture and cultural evolution back at the center of linguistics, and cognition more generally, where I think it belongs. How Language Began is an accessible account of the case for a culture-centered theory of language." -- Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis"Moving far outside historical linguistics, Everett credits Homo erectus with having invented language nearly two million years ago. This communicative invention came not—in Everett’s view—in one revolutionary breakthrough but, instead, at the slow pace typical of evolution, as early hominids gradually organized themselves in ever-more-complex social groupings, eventually learning to fashion culturally weighted symbols and then to manipulate such symbols in communicative strings, so setting the evolutionary stage for the planet’s only loquacious species: Homo sapiens. . . . Certain to spark that liveliest form of language—debate!" -- Bryce Christensen - Booklist"[Everett] mixes esoteric scholarly inquiry with approachable anecdotal interludes to surmise how humans developed written and spoken language and why it became vital for survival and dominance. As in his previous books, Everett energetically attacks the long-accepted theory of Noam Chomsky that humans are born with the language instinct, including innate rules of structure....That Everett is skilled at leavening an intellectually challenging treatise with humor is evident on the first page of the introduction." -- Kirkus Reviews"Provocative and ambitious. . . . Applying semantics, linguistic theory, cultural history, and popular culture, [Everett] makes a convincing case for the multimodal nature of language--a phenomenon that engages 'the whole person--intellectual emotions, hands, mouth, tongue, brain.' . . . This volume will be of interest to linguists, cultural critics, and anthropologists as well as informed readers interested in the evolution of language." -- Herbert E. Shapiro - Library Journal"How Language Began occupies a rare literary space that explains complex issues clearly to general readers while being an original contribution to scholarship...the arguments he marshals and insights he provides are impressive...anyone interested in language would gain from reading this book." -- Oliver Kamm - Times"Ambitious...the subject-matter is completely enthralling...Everett is at the very top of his intellectual game." -- Harry Ritchie - Spectator"Important and fascinating." -- Adrian Woolfson - Prospect
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Georgetown University Press A Course in Romance Linguistics Vol 1 A
Book SynopsisPresents a strictly descriptive - or synchronic - approach to romance linguistics.
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AMG Publishers Complete Word Study Old Testament KJV Edition
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Chicago Review Press Splendiferous Speech
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I read about language every day, and I was still delighted and surprised by almost every page. You'll find new, splendiferous ways of looking at the men (and occasionally women) of American historyas creators of a new language as well as a new country." Mignon Fogarty , podcaster and author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing" Splendiferous Speech is the compelling and engaging story of American English's tumultuous adolescence, and every page will give you new appreciation of the words and expressions that make American English so vibrant." Erin McKean , founder of Wordnik and author of Totally Weird and Wonderful Words and The Secret Lives of Dresses"A delightful tour of how America claimed English for itself, weaving together into a vibrant lexical tapestry contributions from knickerbockers and Yankees, cattle ranchers and gold prospectors, the jargon of Wall Street and the floor of Congress, and the patter of the bars and the streets." Arika Okrent , author of In the Land of Invented Languages
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of
Book SynopsisThe Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking world.
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LifeWay Christian Resources GreekEnglish Interlinear CSB New Testament
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Picador USA The Greatest Invention
Book SynopsisIn this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverancepublished all around the worlda trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrestall around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at howand how many timeshuman beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Temporality
Book SynopsisTemporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person as different types of grammatical centering systems' Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xiii Glosses xv Introduction 1 Part I Semantic Universals 13 1 Direct Semantic Composition 15 1.1 Simple Type Logic (TL0) 16 1.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English 17 1.3 Dynamic Type Logic (DL0) 23 1.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English 27 1.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of English-Based Logics 34 2 Nominal Reference with Centering 41 2.1 Center v. Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists 42 2.2 Kalaallisut Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 48 2.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as Top-Level Anaphora 53 2.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora 57 2.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0) 61 3 Tense as Temporal Centering 67 3.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora 68 3.2 Polish Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 69 3.3 English Tenses as Temporal (In)definites 73 3.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference 78 3.5 UC0 with Temporal Centering (UCτ) 85 4 Aspect as Eventuality Centering 93 4.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections 94 4.2 Mandarin Aspect Features v. Particles 101 4.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries 108 4.4 UCτ with Mereology (UCτ+) 112 5 Quantification as Reference to Sets 118 5.1 Nominal Quantification and Anaphora 119 5.2 Nominal Quantification and Temporal Reference 127 5.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora 130 5.4 UCτ+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCτ?a) 134 6 Mood as Illocutionary Centering 142 6.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative Recentering 143 6.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference 146 6.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents 150 6.4 Dependent Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering 157 6.5 UCδ?a with Illocutionary Referents (UCε!?a) 160 7 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports 166 7.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited 167 7.2 At-Issue Reports with Finite Complements 174 7.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite Complements 179 7.4 UC: Combining UCτ?a and UCε!?a 185 Part II Temporal Variation 191 8 Tense-Based Temporality in English 193 8.1 Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 194 8.2 Indexical Non-Past with(out) Recentering Aspect 200 8.3 Reports: Speaker’s View of Subject’s (Non-)Past 203 8.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts 206 8.5 A CG.UC Fragment of English 209 9 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish 219 9.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective 220 9.2 Relative Non-Past (Im)perfective 226 9.3 Reports: Subject’s (Non-)Past 230 9.4 Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives 233 9.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Polish 237 10 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin 246 10.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Topic State 247 10.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment 253 10.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment 257 10.4 Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment 260 10.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Mandarin 262 11 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut 272 11.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities 273 11.2 Future: Verifiable Eventualities with Future c-Points 278 11.3 Reports: Verifiability from Agent's Perspective 282 11.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits 287 11.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut 290 Conclusion 298 Bibliography 308 Author Index 319 Subject Index 323
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DK English For Everyone Gramática Inglesa. El libro
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History Press Utahisms
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Basic Books The Language Game: How Improvisation Created
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of
Book SynopsisThrough rigorous study of historical texts, field research in communities throughout France and the U.S., and in-depth analysis of the cultural groups responsible for the lexicon, authors Shaw and Delaporte present for the first time a compelling and detailed account of the origins of over 500 ASL signs, including regional variations. Organized alphabetically by equivalent English glosses, each sign is accompanied by a succinct description of its origin and an LSF sign where appropriate.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG
Book SynopsisThis collection of work in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar focuses on interfaces between different grammatical components; its 15 papers explore interface phenomena such as auxiliary contraction in English, analysis of illocutionary force in HPSG, syntactic and semantic aspects of Korean relative clause formation, negation in Welsh and several others.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG
Book SynopsisThis collection of work in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar focuses on interfaces between different grammatical components; its 15 papers explore interface phenomena such as auxiliary contraction in English, analysis of illocutionary force in HPSG, syntactic and semantic aspects of Korean relative clause formation, negation in Welsh and several others.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami
Book SynopsisWith unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of case inflection on nouns to signal a broad variety of relations that in almost all other languages require additional words. Phonologically, as another example, the phenomenon of "consonant gradation" is of particular interest to linguists. This volume is the first to examine the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Finnish and Saami languages within current generative linguistic frameworks. Collected here is research on these less-studied languages, some of which now face extinction.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 19
Book SynopsisJapanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The collections in this volume include essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages.
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Did You Burp?: How to Ask Questions (or Not!)
Book SynopsisAsking questions may seem like it comes naturally, but it''s actually a learned social skill. How do questions and answers work? What makes a good question--and what makes a rude one? Who cares about questions?This helpful how-to guide teaches kids what a question is, when to ask one, and how to form one. Friendly tips and pointers ("Keep it short!" "Show interest!") help kids keep their questions appropriate and on point. Above all, the book encourages readers to keep on asking questions--the beginning of learning about the world.
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Did You Burp?: How to Ask Questions (or Not!)
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The New York Review of Books, Inc When The World Spoke French
Book SynopsisA New York Review Books OriginalDuring the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. These men and women, despite their differences, were all irresistibly attracted to the ideal of human happiness inspired by the Enlightenment, whose capital was Paris and whose king was Voltaire. Whether they were in Paris or far away, speaking French connected them in spirit with all those who desired to emulate Parisian tastes, style of life, and social pleasures. Their stories are testaments to the appeal of that famous “sweetness of life” nourished by France and its language.
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University of Utah Press,U.S. Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction
Book SynopsisKinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous societies, which have been a source of fascination in kinship studies. One key argument in the book is that linguistic evidence for reconstruction of ancient terminologies can provide strong independent evidence to complement anthropologists’ notions of structural kinship transformations, and ground them in actual historical and geographical contexts. There are principles that we all share, no matter what kind of society we live in, and these provide a common “language” for anthropology and linguistics. With this language we can accurately compare how family relations are organised in different societies, as well as how we talk about such relations. Because this concept has often been denied by the trajectories in anthropology over the last few decades, Kinship Systems represents a reassertion of, and advances on, classical kinship theory and methods. Innovations and interdisciplinary methods are described by the originators of the new approaches and other leading regional experts.Trade Review“A much-needed volume in the revival of kinship analysis and of great importance to all that specialize in this field. I was very impressed with the high level of scholarship.”—Bojka Milicic, coeditor of Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies (The University of Utah Press, 2010)Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Introduction: Kinship Change in Anthropology and Linguistics - Patrick McConvell2. Kinship Terms: Typology and History - David B. Kronenfeld3. Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship - Fiona Jordan4. Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology: Kinship Terminologies as Evolving Logical Structures - Dwight Read5. On Husband-Borrowing: The Linguistic Reconstruction of Ancient Yukatekan Marriage Practices - Eve Danziger6. Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes: The Socio-ecological Contexts of Close versus Distant Marriage Patterns in Indigenous Amazonia - Alf Hornborg7. The Evolution of the Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies: Models of Cumulative Transformations - Ian Keen8. The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia - Harold Koch9. Desertification of an Arandic Dialect - Barry Alpher10. Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AUSTKIN Project: Reconstructing Terms for Proto-Mother’s Father and their Transformations - Patrick McConvell11. Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia - Rachel Hendery and Patrick McConvell12. Comparing Recordings of Warumungu Kinship Systems - Jane SimpsonList of ContributorsIndex
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Hattanns
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Capstone Classroom The Guide to Grammar: A Student Handbook for
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