wyszukanych pozycji: 47
Language Contact in Amazonia
ISBN: 9780199588244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. The author explains the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveals the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another.
Aikhenvald uses the example of Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the large area of the Vaupes river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a badge of identity: language mixing, interaction, and... This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. The author explains the relatio...
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301,14 zł |
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works
ISBN: 9781781257715 / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,32 zł |
The Art of Grammar: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780199683222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and...
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoke...
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266,74 zł |
Multi-verb Constructions: A View from the Americas
ISBN: 9789004194526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of the most complex topics in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, and indeed in the study of any language set, is the complex behaviour of multi-verb constructions. In many languages, several verbs can co-occur in a sentence, forming a single predicate. This book contains a first survey of such constructions in languages of North, Middle, and South America. Though it is not a systematic typological survey, the combined insights from the various chapters give a very rich perspective on this phenomenon, involving a host of typologically diverse constructions, including...
One of the most complex topics in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, and indeed in the study of any language set, is the complex b...
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614,79 zł |
The Art of Grammar: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780199683215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and...
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoke...
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706,55 zł |
Imperatives and Commands
ISBN: 9780199665556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics. The author discusses the role imperatives and commands play in human cognition and how they are deployed in different cultures, and in doing so offers fresh insights on patterns of human interaction and communication.
Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or command strategies, in languages that do not have... This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a significant and origina...
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315,88 zł |
Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
ISBN: 9780199556465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyze the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages belonging to different geographical areas and diverse types.
The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which se...
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249,49 zł |
Evidentiality
ISBN: 9780199263882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebody else. Of interest to any grammarian, the book discusses evidentiality, and the cognitive and sociolinguistic consequences of evidentiality in a language.
In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--wheth...
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927,68 zł |
How Gender Shapes the World
ISBN: 9780198723752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has three faces: Linguistic Gender-the original sense of 'gender'-is a feature of many languages and reflects the division of nouns into grammatical classes or genders (feminine, masculine, neuter, and so on); Natural Gender, or sex, refers to the division of animates into males and females; and Social...
This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of...
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559,13 zł |
Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
ISBN: 9780198701316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages. The book investigates twelve different languages, from families including Tibeto-Burman, Nakh-Dagestani, and Austronesian, all of which share the property of requiring the source of information to be specified in every sentence. In these languages, it may not be possible to say merely that 'the man went fishing'. Instead, the source of evidence...
The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, ass...
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620,55 zł |
The Languages of the Amazon
ISBN: 9780199593569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300 languages, comparing their common and unique features, setting out their main characteristics, and describing the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The languages abound in rare features and in most cases have been in contact with each other for...
This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in t...
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780,26 zł |
Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
ISBN: 9780198803225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with cultural stereotypes and practices, as well as their origins and development, especially in the light of language contact. The volume begins with an introduction outlining the marking and the meaning of imperatives and other ways of expressing commands and directives. Each of the chapters that follow then offers an in-depth...
This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective....
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546,84 zł |
Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
ISBN: 9780199233427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and similar structures in languages from Asia, Africa, North, Central and South America, and the Pacific. Chapters on well-known languages such as Cantonese and Thai are set alongside the languages of small hunter-gatherer and slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups. A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is...
This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and ...
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301,14 zł |
The Web of Knowledge: Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads
ISBN: 9789004466418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact. Some develop overtones of the others. Evidentials stand apart from other means in many ways, including their correlations with speech genres and social environment....
Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: gr...
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180,57 zł |
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics
ISBN: 9780199283088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another.
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim to ...
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335,54 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
ISBN: 9780198759515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a...
This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which...
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632,84 zł |
Languages of the Amazon
ISBN: 9780198723011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300 languages, comparing their common and unique features, setting out their main characteristics, and describing the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The languages abound in rare features and in most cases have been in contact with each other for...
This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in t...
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296,23 zł |
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780199539819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa: n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About 200-400 speakers live in the cities of Port Moresby, Wewak, Lae, and Madang; and a few live in Kokopo and Mount Hagen. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork.
After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology,... This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is...
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903,11 zł |
Serial Verbs
ISBN: 9780192855770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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178,24 zł |
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780199588237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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355,19 zł |