On the Rise of Grammatical Categories PDF Download

Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher:
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Category : Categorial grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Bernd Heine
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027227292
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language. This book contains arguments that even though Universal Grammar makes functional categories available, the language learner must decide whether or not to incorporate them in his or her grammar. For instance, it is shown that English has one (not two as often assumed) functional category between the complementizer and the Negation, but that languages such as Dutch, Swedish, German and Old and Middle English have none. The title of the book can be seen in terms of the direction current research is taking; it can also be seen in terms of the changes that have taken place in English.

Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.

Author: Maggie Tallerman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191557439
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. The chapters are written from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and reflect the idea that various cognitive, physical, neurological, social, and cultural prerequisites led to the development of full human language. Some of these evolutionary changes were preadaptations for language, while others were adaptive changes allowing the development of particular linguistic characteristics. The authors consider a broad spectrum of ideas about the conditions that led to the evolution of protolanguage and full language. Some examine changes that occurred in the course of evolution to Homo sapiens; others consider how languages themselves have adapted by evolving to be learnable. Some chapters look at the workings of the brain, and others deploy sophisticated computer simulations that model such aspects as the emergence of speech sounds and the development of grammar. All make use of the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has language. The book will interest a wide range of linguists, cognitive scientists, biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and experts in artificial intelligence, as well as all those fascinated by issues, puzzles, and problems raised by the evolution of language.

Author: Kouwenberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004358633
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 507

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This book offers an account of the role of gemination as a grammatical and lexical feature of Akkadian and a comprehensive treatment of the nominal and verbal categories that are characterized by it. It argues that gemination is basically an iconic phenomenon: its presence correlates with an extension in the meaning of the word vis-à-vis that of the corresponding word without gemination. This semantic extension is often realized as plurality; in other cases gemination has been subject to a process of grammaticalization, through which it has acquired a more abstract function, mostly that of underlining a high degree of salience or transitivity. Particular attention is paid to the D-stem, which is discussed exhaustively for the first time here. It is the most important and the most controversial of the verbal stems not only in Akkadian, but also in Semitic as a whole. It is shown that the use of the D-stems of transitive verbs is mainly determined by various kinds of verbal plurality. With regard to the "factitive" D-sems of intransitive verbs a new and more nuanced definition is given of the concepts of factitivity as opposed to causativity; this allows a more satisfactory account of the relationship between the D-stem and the causative S-stem. The book includes detailed discussions of many individual verbs and passages from Akkadian texts. Lists of words with gemination and extensive indexes provide valuable reference material.

Author: Elly van Gelderen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474420397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038111
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: linguistic Research
ISBN:
Category : Categorial grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521076340
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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First published in 1970, this book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar. It asks when the application of Latin grammar to English was made; how far it was made knowingly; whether anyone protested that English needed a a grammar of its own. The two hundred and seventy-two English grammars known up to 1800 are studied. Dr Michael shows that the old grammatical tradition is much less unanimous and authoritative than is often supposed, and describes a previously unknown movement to reform English grammar and make it more suited to English, which was expressed in about forty grammars during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book also provides much evidence about the relation between logic and language, especially in making definitions, and about methods of teaching during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.