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- Theoretical linguistics [184] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-theor
- Pragmatics [128] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-prag
- Syntax [116] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-syntax
- Discourse studies [96] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-disc
- Cognition and language [69] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogn
- Semantics [66] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-seman
- Corpus linguistics [54] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-corp
- Historical linguistics [54] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hl
- Sociolinguistics and Dialectology [53] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-socio
- Germanic linguistics [47] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-germ
- Language acquisition [43] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-la
- English linguistics [40] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-eng
- Generative linguistics [37] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gener
- Cognitive linguistics [32] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogpsy
- Romance linguistics [28] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-rom
- Philosophy [27] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-gen
- Communication Studies [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/comm-cgen
- Bilingualism [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-bil
- Theoretical literature & literary studies [23] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-theor
- Translation studies [22] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/tran-transl
- Consciousness research [21] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/cons-gen
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- Applied linguistics [20] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-appl
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- Cognitive psychology [19] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-cogpsy
- Creole studies [18] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-creo
- Functional linguistics [18] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-funct
- Contact Linguistics [17] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cont
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- Comparative linguistics [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-comp
- Language teaching [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-educ
- Interpreting [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/tran-interp
- Sino-Tibetan languages [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sitib
- Writing and literacy [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-writ
- Anthropological Linguistics [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-anthr
- Slavic linguistics [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-slav
- Romance literature & literary studies [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-rom
- Computational & corpus linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-comput
- Afro-Asiatic languages [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-afas
- History of linguistics [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hol
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- Semiotics [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sem
- Sociology [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/soc-gen
- Language disorders & speech pathology [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ladis
- Industrial & organizational studies [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-indroc
- Semiotics [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-sem
- Neuropsychology [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-neuro
- Lexicography [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-lex
- Forensic linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-for
- Japanese linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-japanese
- Neurolinguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-neuro
- Interaction Studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/is-gis
- Altaic languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-alta
- Australian languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-austral
- Dialogue studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dial
- Language policy [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-lapo
- Other African languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othaf
- Uralic languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ural
- Comparative literature & literary studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-comp
- Bibliographies in linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-biblio
- Caucasian languages [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cauc
- Classical linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-class
- Dictionaries [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dict
- Evolution of language [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-evo
- Natural language processing [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-nlp
- English literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-engl
- German literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-germli
- Medieval literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-med
- Terminology [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-term
- General studies in art & art history [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/art-gen
- Austro-Asian languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-austast
- Celtic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-celt
- Linguistics of isolated languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-isol
- Language documentation [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-landoc
- Languages of North America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-noam
- Other Indo-European languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othie
- Phonetics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-phot
- Signed languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sign
- Languages of South America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-soam
- Miscellaneous [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-gen
- Classical philosophy [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-class
- Anthropology [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/soc-anthr
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C-ORAL-ROM
Editor(s): Emanuela Cresti and Massimo MonegliaPublication Date May 2005More LessThe C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. Each corpus is built to the same design using identical sampling techniques, and each corpus is presented in multimedia format, allowing simultaneous access to aligned acoustic and textual information. Texts are headed with information about provenance, participants, etc. and the transcriptions show changes of speaker. Speech acts are tagged according to the evidence of prosodic criteria. Each corpus totals 300,000 words and presents formal and informal speech in a variety of contexts of use, dialogue structure and text genres, semantic domains and speech act typologies. The corpora have great statistical relevance for spoken language structures and can address key issues in human language technology such as speech recognition in unrestricted discourse, the suitability of speech synthesis in natural prosody, and multilingual applications of the spoken language interface. The work provides new data and innovative theoretical perspectives that are relevant for corpus linguistics, romance linguistics, syntactic theory, speech and prosody research, and second language acquisition.
The original C-ORAL-ROM DVD was made to run under Windows XP when Windows 7 and 8 were not yet in existence. A new version of WINPITCH-C-ORAL-ROM makes it possible to run the C-ORAL-ROM DVD under Windows 7 and 8. It can be downloaded from www.winpitch.com/
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Caging the Beast
Author(s): Paula DroegePublication Date June 2003More LessA major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness offers to explain what these conscious sensory states have in common, by virtue of being conscious as opposed to unconscious states. After arguing against accounts of consciousness in terms of higher-order representation of mental states, the theory claims that sensory consciousness is a special way we have of representing the world. The book also introduces a way of thinking about subjectivity as separate and more fundamental than consciousness, and considers how this foundational notion can be developed into more elaborate varieties. An appendix reviews the connection between consciousness and attention with an eye toward providing a neuropsychological instantiation of the proposed theory. (Series A)
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Calderón y el Barroco
Author(s): María Alicia Amadei-PulicePublication Date January 1990More LessAmadei-Pulice examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands of Calderon merged dramatic poetry with visual and auditory effects (comedia de teatro). The author places the Spanish baroque theater within the wider context of a revolution in the theory of representation, signs, and meanings that took place at the beginning of the seventeenth century and marked the appearance of a new dramatic style: the stile rappresentativo. Special attention is given to the techniques and applications of perspectival scenery, stagecraft, optics, and the creation of visual and sound effects contributed by the Florentine melodramma. The highlighting of Italian dramatic theory and practice reveals that Calderon was an innovator and creator of a new concept in theater.
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The Caldron of Consciousness
Editor(s): Ralph D. Ellis and Natika NewtonPublication Date November 2000More LessThese new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function. Computationally registering/processing sensory signals (e.g. in the occipital lobe or area V4) by itself does not result in perceptual consciousness, which requires subcortical structures such as amygdala, hypothalamus, and brain stem. This interdisciplinary anthology attempts to understand the complexity of emotional intentionality; why the role of motivation in self-organizing processes is crucial in distinguishing conscious from unconscious processes; how emotions account for ‘agency’; and how an adequate approach to emotion-motivation can address the traditional mind-body problem through a holistic understanding of the conscious, behaving organism.
(Series B)
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Calling for Help
Editor(s): Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan FirthPublication Date October 2005More LessTelephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original studies by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars seeks to improve upon this state of affairs. It does so by offering some of the first systematic investigations of naturally-occurring spoken interaction in telephone helplines. Using the methods of Conversation Analysis, each of the contributors offers a detailed investigation into the skills and competencies that callers and call-takers routinely draw upon when engaging one another within a range of helplines. Helplines in the US, the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Ireland, dealing with the provision of healthcare, emotional support and counselling, technical assistance and consumer rights, tourism and finance, make up the studies in the volume. Collectively and individually, the research provides fascinating insight into an under-researched area of modern living and demonstrates the relevance and potential of helplines for the growing field of institutional interaction.
This book will be of interest to students of communication, applied linguistics, discourse and conversation, sociology, counselling, technology and work, social psychology and anthropology.
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Cambodian
Author(s): John HaimanPublication Date September 2011More LessCambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about. Like many of the languages of its genetic (Austroasiatic) family, its basic root vocabulary seems to consist largely of sesquisyllabic or iambic words, although there are an enormous number of unassimilated borrowings from Indic languages (which seem to play the same role in Cambodian that Latinate borrowings do in English). Morphologically, Cambodian has a fairly elaborate system of derivational affixes, and it is possible that the genesis of many of the most common of these affixes is related to (and undoes) the constant reduction of unstressed initial syllables in sesquisyllabic words. Again like many of the languages of Southeast Asia, Cambodian exhibits in its lexicon a penchant for symmetrical decorative compounding, a phenomenon which is so marginally attested in Western languages that the phenomenon has received little attention in the typological literature.
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Cameroon
Author(s): Loreto ToddPublication Date January 1982More LessThis volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its history; and on idiosyncratic aspects of this variety of English. The second section is the text part of the volume consisting of sixteen printed texts (mostly modern but also five extracts of historical significance), eleven written texts (essays on pedagogical subjects, personal letters, a folk history, an academic paper, and literary extracts) and 13 oral texts (interviews, radio). These texts have been selected because of their linguistic interest and because of the information they provide on Cameroonian life and culture.
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Cameroon Pidgin English
Author(s): Miriam Ayafor and Melanie GreenPublication Date December 2017More LessCameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral presence in Cameroon, and the linguistic examples illustrating this description are drawn from a spoken corpus consisting of a range of text types, including oral narratives, radio broadcasts and spontaneous conversation. The authors’ typologically-framed investigation of the features of the language, from its phonetics, phonology and lexicon to its syntax and discourse structure, allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of CPE, offering a comprehensive description of the language that will be of interest to creolists as well as linguists interested in African languages, contact linguistics and comparative linguistics.
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Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century
Author(s): C.H.W. Remie and J.-M. LacroixPublication Date August 1991More LessThis collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague, October 24-27, 1990. This unique meeting took place for the first time in the history of Canadian Studies. The focus of the papers is on the future rather than the past and it took place at a moment in time when Canada went through major crises that raised serious doubts about the country’s future. The papers of this volume explore the main issues and problems that Canada faces. The volume contains sections on demography, environmental problems, economic transformations, Canadian identity, political power structure, aboriginal issues and Canada’s international relations. As a whole the book takes stock where Canada stands and where it is going.
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Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction
Author(s): Andy Chi-on ChinPublication Date June 2022More LessGIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This monograph reports on the study of GIVE and its associated functions and syntactic constructions in Cantonese from diachronic, synchronic, and typological perspectives. Drawing on cross-linguistic data, and 19th century Cantonese dialect materials, this study first traces the chronological development of the various functions played by GIVE in Cantonese. It then examines the double-object construction. Besides the typological features of this construction in Cantonese, this study investigates the use of the northern pattern in Cantonese as a result of the increasing influence of Putonghua and Modern Standard Chinese by means of a sociolinguistic survey with 40 native speakers of Cantonese.
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Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Editor(s): Hans-Ingo RadatzPublication Date May 2020More LessThe multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of Identity Studies, but from a clearly linguistic perspective. It unites several contributions which analyze discourses centered on national or regional identities – as for instance the Catalanity of the frontier city of Lleida, the connection between the natural environment and the conceptualization of deictic space, or the dialectics between center and periphery. Other chapters try to shed light on problems arising from the particular situation of Catalan as a non-state language. The contributions thus range from aspects of Cultural Studies on identities and their constituting discourses to Catalan linguistics and sociolinguistics.
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Un cançoner català del Renaixement a Roma
Author(s): Albert Rossich and Pep ValsalobrePublication Date November 2018More LessThis book contains an edited and contextualized collection of poetry that is preserved, without an author's name, in a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The internal and external analysis of the manuscript has made it possible to attribute it to Joan Salom (or Salon), a Franciscan monk who, in addition to being a noted hebraist and astronomer, had an important role in reforming the Gregorian calendar, and who is here also revealed as a poet. Beyond the interest of adding previously unknown lyrics to the Catalan literary production of the 1500s, this songbook is important because it is situated at the time when the new Italian poetic forms of the Renaissance were being introduced in Catalan poetry.
Aquest llibre edita i contextualitza un petit recull de poesies que avui es conserva, sense nom d’autor, dins un manuscrit de la Biblioteca Apostòlica Vaticana. L’anàlisi interna i externa del manuscrit ha permès atribuir-lo amb tota seguretat a Joan Salom (o Salon), un frare franciscà que, a més d’hebraista i astrònom reconegut –va tenir un paper important en la reforma del calendari gregorià–, se’ns revela, doncs, també com a poeta. A les composicions hi ha elogis a alguns contemporanis, algunes peces de caràcter devot i unes quantes poesies adreçades a un amor frustrat envers una monja barcelonina. Més enllà de l’interès que té augmentar la producció literària catalana del Cinc-cents amb uns textos desconeguts, aquest cançoner és important perquè se situa en el moment en què les noves formes poètiques italianes del renaixement s’introdueixen en la poesia catalana.
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Carlyle and Jean Paul: Their Spiritual Optics
Author(s): J.P. VijnPublication Date January 1982More LessIt has always been thought difficult, if not impossible, to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834, the view that Carlyle had a theistic conception of the universe has been defended as well as opposed. At a time, therefore, when Carlyle’s work as a whole is being reappraised, his philosophy should first and foremost be dealt with. Carlyle’s life-philosophy is based on the inner experience of a process of ‘conversion’, which set in with an incident that occurred to him at Leith Walk, Edinburgh. This study – which settles the old question of the date of the incident – demonstrates that the inner struggle, the dynamics of which are described most fully in Sartor, is analogous to the Jungian process of individuation. For the first time in critical literature, the basic ideas of Carlyle’s philosophy are thus linked to depth psychology and shown to be analogous to the fundamental concepts of Analytical Psychology.
In recent criticism, it has been asserted that the crisis recorded in Sartor is akin to the crisis of doubt said to underlie Jean Paul’s “Rede des todten Christus” (1796), which is probably the first poetic expression of nihilism in European literature and has become a classic. Apart from demonstrating that, in the last fifty years at least, the “Rede” has erroneously been interpreted as a dream of annihilation, this book invalidates the view of Jean Paul as victim of the skepticism of his age, and argues that, contrary to what is usually maintained, the “Rede” is not the document of a crisis, but of a belief which had become antiquated and obsolete for Carlyle.
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The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic
Author(s): Robert Mailhammer and Theo VennemannPublication Date October 2019More LessThis book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of the Germanic strong verbs, the development of the Germanic word order, and etymologies for key elements of the Germanic lexicon. The book proposes that all four problems can be solved if it is hypothesized that over 2,000 years ago the ancestor of all Germanic languages, Proto-Germanic, was in intensive contact with Punic, a Semitic language from the Mediterranean. This scenario is explored by focusing on linguistic data, supported by an interdisciplinary mosaic of evidence. This book is of interest to anyone working on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic languages.
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Case and Grammatical Relations
Editor(s): Greville G. Corbett and Michael NoonanPublication Date December 2008More LessThe papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.
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A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases
Editor(s): Gabriela Appel and Hans W. DechertPublication Date October 1991More LessThis volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production, comprehension, and acquisition of languages from various empirical and theoretical points of view. This volume is case-based in that it does not claim to cover the full range of present-day psycholinguistic enquiry. It attempts, though, to make a case out of a representational variety of psycholinguistic phenomena, which might provide a window on a unified theory of language production, comprehension, and acquisition. From this perspective this volume aims at the presentation and discussion of various cases which, through analogical reasoning, may serve to shed light on and to solve new cases.
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Case in Russian
Author(s): Alexandra BeytenbratPublication Date September 2015More LessThis volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative tool shaped by human behavior.In this study, case is viewed as a semantic entity. Each case is assigned an invariant meaning within a larger semantic system, which is validated through numerous examples from spoken language and literary texts to illustrate that the distribution of cases is semantically motivated and defined by communicative principles that can be associated with human behavior.
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Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar
Editor(s): Luc Steels and Katrien BeulsPublication Date October 2019More LessConstruction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to conceive and implement operational parsing and production systems, which could be used as a basic component of a wide range of Artificial Intelligence applications, such as dialog systems, language tutoring applications, or translation assistants. The book focuses on a particular formalism, Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), that has emerged recently as a solid platform for writing and testing grammars from a constructional point of view. It introduces the basics of FCG and illustrates its use through a number of case studies all centering around the verb phrase. The case studies consider the verb phrase in different languages (Dutch, English, Spanish, Russian) and examine different challenging linguistic phenomena, ranging from word order flexibility, language change, and language acquisition, to the complex semantics of the verb phrase, particularly for aspect. The book is intended for those who want a first contact with FCG and see how different non-trivial analyses of language phenomena can be expressed. It is also an excellent first step for those who want to explore FCG to build language applications.
Originally published as special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017).
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Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French
Author(s): Julia HerschensohnPublication Date February 1996More LessAdopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that both accusative and dative are structural cases in French and that this duality is reflected in a parallel limit on argument projection. Larson’s single complement hypothesis, which allows a maximum of two internal arguments, provides the theoretical justification for this proposal. The testing ground for the binary hypothesis is a group of nonthematic subject constructions involving undative as well as unaccusative verbs, linking, according to Burzio’s generalization, case suspension and lack of an internal argument. The investigation of these constructions and those involving partitive case provides not only a theoretically significant contribution to our understanding of grammar, but also a motivated explanation for a number of empirical problems in French.
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Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Editor(s): Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi YlikoskiPublication Date September 2011More LessThe chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.
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