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Cambridge University Press The Syntax of Welsh A Transformational Study of the Passive 18 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The SyntaxMorphology Interface A Study of Syncretism 109 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 109
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Cambridge University Press The Future in Thought and Language Diachronic Evidence from Romance 36 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press ReferentialSemantic Analysis Aspects of a Theory of Linguistic Reference 28 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 28
Book SynopsisDr Thrane makes an original contribution to one of the central topics in syntax and semantics: the nature and mechanisms of reference in natural language. He makes a fundamental distinction between syntactic analyses that are internal to the structure of a language and analyses of the referential properties that connect a language with the 'outside world' - and therefore derive in some sense from common human capacities for perceptual discrimination. Dr Thrane argues that the failure to make this distinction and to attend separately to both kinds of analysis has vitiated previous general accounts of linguistic structure. The book focuses particularly on pronouns and on the role of determiners, quantifiers and other components of the noun phrase. Most of the data come from the modern Germanic languages, especially English, but Dr Thrane considers also the structural peculiarities of 'classifier languages' like Vietnamese. The book will be important for students of English language as weTable of ContentsPart I. The Preliminaries: 1. The linguistic preliminaries; 2. The philosophical preliminaries; Part II. The Theory: 3. Some fundamental notations; 4. The basis of RS-analysis; 5. Referential-semantic features; 6. Subjunction and adjunction; Part III. The Application: 7. Referential functives; 8. Indefinite expressions; 9. Definite expressions; 10. The pronouns.
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Cambridge University Press Yiddish
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Cambridge University Press Mass Terms and ModelTheoretic Semantics 42 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 42
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Cambridge University Press Phonological Variation and Change
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Cambridge University Press Young Peoples Dyirbal An Example of Language Death from Australia Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press The Acquisition of Complex Sentences 105 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 105
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Cambridge University Press Syntactic Chains 40 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition
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Cambridge University Press Accent and Rhythm Prosodic Features of Latin and
Book SynopsisIn Vox Latina and Vox Graeca Professor Allen was concerned primarily with the pronunciation of the individual vowels and consonants of classical Latin and Greek. In this major work he analyses in depth and in detail all the prosodic features of these languages: length of vowels and quantity of syllables, accent, pitch, stress and 'rhythm', with special attention to their manifestations in verse. The description and explanation of such features raise theoretical problems of very general importance and Professor Allen devotes the first part of the book to the establishment of the phonetic principles required as a frame of reference for the specific discussions of Latin and Greek. Parallels are cited from a number of other languages, including English. This is a book of permanent importance for students of classical languages and literatures and also for metricians, phoneticians and general linguists.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. The General and Theoretical Background: 1. 'Prosody' and 'prosodies': the historical setting; 2. Grammatical considerations; 3. The Syllable: vowels and consonants; 4. Length and quantity; 5. Stress; 6. Pitch; 7. Accent; 8. Rhythm; 9. Metre; Part II. The Prosodies of Latin: 10. Syllable structure: quantity and length; 11. Word juncture; 12. Accent; Part III. The Prosodies of Greek: 13. Syllable structure: quantity and length; 14. Word juncture; 15. Accent; 16. Stress; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Peirces Theory of Signs
Book SynopsisIn this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on debates of Fodor and Millikan, among others. His theory of inquiry avoids foundationalism and subjectivism, while his account of reference anticipated views of Kripke and Putnam. Peirce's realism falls between 'internal' and 'metaphysical' realism and is more satisfactory than either. His pragmatism is not verificationism; rather, it identifies meaning with potential growth of knowledge. Short distinguishes Peirce's mature theory of signs from his better-known but paradoxical early theory. He develops the mature theory systematically on the basis of Peirce's phenomenological categories and concept of final causation. The latter is distinguished from recent and similar views, such as Brandon's, and is shown to be grounded in forms of explaTrade Review'Peirce's Theory of Signs offers a wealth of philosophical riches just waiting to be mined.' Journal of PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Antecedents and alternatives; 2. The development of Peirce's semeiotic; 3. Phaneroscopy; 4. A preface to final causation; 5. Final causation; 6. Significance; 7. Objects and interpretants; 8. A taxonomy of signs; 9. More taxa; 10. How symbols grow; 11. Semeiosis and the mental; 12. The structure of objectivity.
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Cambridge University Press Parallel Structures in Syntax Coordination Causatives and Restructuring 46 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Universal Grammar and Language Learnability 61 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 61
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Cambridge University Press Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages
Book SynopsisIn this study Michael Covington considers the origins and development of the theories of sentence structure formulated by the Modistae, a group of grammarians and logicians who flourished in Paris between about 1270 and 1310.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Before the Modistae; 3. Modistic grammar; 4. Syntactic structure; 5. Modistic treatments of particular syntactic problems; 6. Subsequent developments; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press SocioHistorical Linguistics Its Status and Methodology 34 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press Principles of Dependency Phonology 47 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 47
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Cambridge University Press Patterns of Sounds Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication
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Cambridge University Press On Conditionals
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Cambridge University Press MemoryBased Language Processing Studies in Natural Language Processing
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Cambridge University Press Reduplication Doubling in Morphology 106 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 106
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Cambridge University Press A History of AfroHispanic Language
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Cambridge University Press SinoTibetan A Conspectus 2 PrincetonCambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Dictionary of Jamaican English
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Cambridge University Press Diglossia and Language Contact Language Variation and Change in North Africa Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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Cambridge University Press Callimachus
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Cambridge University Press A Grammar of Kham
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Cambridge University Press Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution
Book SynopsisThis book takes an exciting new perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Nikolaus Ritt shows how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or 'memes', which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and language acquisition take place.Trade Review'… addresses what may be legitimately regarded as one of the most fundamental questions a linguist can ask: why does language take the form it does? Ritt's answer is refreshingly novel, stimulating as well as astounding …' Thomas Berg, University of Hamburg'… refreshingly novel, stimulating as well as astounding …' Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The historical perspective; 3. Approaching 'language change'; 4. The Darwinian approach; 5. Generalising Darwinism; 6. Towards an evolutionary theory of language; 7. What does all this imply for the study of language change?; 8. How to live with feet, if one happens to be a morph-meme; 9. The prosodic evolution of English word forms or the great trochaic conspiracy; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Latin Language and Literature 23 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Sociolinguistic Variation in SeventeenthCentury France
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Cambridge University Press Discourse and Context
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Cambridge University Press Applications of Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press The Russian Language
Book SynopsisIn this 1971 text, Professor Vinokur (18961947) discusses each of the stages in the development of Russian from its Common Slavonic source, and the growing dominance of the dialect of Moscow from the sixteenth century, to the ninenteenth century when the language had virtually reached its present form and into the twentieth century.Table of ContentsList of maps and illustrations; Symbols used; 1. The Slavonic languages; 2. Russian dialects; 3. The origin of the Russian literary language; 4. Texts in the history of Russia; 5. The structure of Old Russian; 6. The Russian literary language in the earliest period; 7. The literary language in the 15th–17th centuries; 8. Towards a single Russian language; 9. The literary language of the Age of Classicism; 10. The creation of the national standard language; 11. The literary language in the 19th and 20th centuries; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Hakka Dialect A Linguistic Study of its Phonology Syntax and Lexicon 5 PrincetonCambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Acoustical Studies of Mandarin Vowels and Tones 6 PrincetonCambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Lexical Reconstruction
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Cambridge University Press Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with CohMetrix
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Cambridge University Press A Grammar of Yidin 19 Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press PrajaparamitaratnagunaSamcayagatha Sanskrit Recension A
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Cambridge University Press Analyzing Sound Patterns
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Cambridge University Press Operators and Nucleus
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Cambridge University Press Arguments in Syntax and Semantics Key Topics in Syntax
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Cambridge University Press The Phonetics of Russian
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatic Impairment
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Cambridge University Press Reporting Talk
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Cambridge University Press Kudrun A Critical Appreciation Anglica Germanica Series 2
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