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This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: Altaic ) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected -- leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative changes in phonology, the accidence of nouns and plurals, pronouns and adverbs, and verbs are also examined in detail, along with a general overview of the features Middle English and a brief outline...

Die Beitrage des Bandes thematisieren an phonologischen und morphologischen Beispielen des Deutschen Regularitats- bzw. Irregularitatsphanomene aus diachroner, kontrastiver und typologischer Perspektive. Zentrale Fragestellungen sind dabei:

Welche Faktoren tragen zu Entstehung und Erhalt von Irregularitat bei, welche zu ihrem Abbau? Welche Rolle spielen Sprachkontakt, Variation und Wandel bei der Etablierung irregularer Teilsysteme? Konnen Typen von Irregularitat ebenenspezifisch unterschieden werden? Wie wirken sich Produktivitat, Gebrauchsfrequenz und Ahnlichkeitsrelationen...

The essays in this volume explore the role of morphosemantic categories such as gender and number in the development and transformation of declension and distinction classes as well as grammatical and pragmatic congruence systems in German. Based on empirical data and facts about language change and language acquisition, they show the relevance of these issues for morphological theory development.

Grammatische Variation ist der Sprache inharent und auch aus dem Standarddeutschen nicht wegzudenken. Man beobachtet, dass ein und dieselbe grammatische, semantische oder pragmatische Funktion mit unterschiedlichen grammatischen Mitteln realisiert wird, und umgekehrt, dass eine grammatische Struktur unterschiedliche Funktionen ausuben kann. Die Variation kann mit grammatikinternen Faktoren, grammatikexternen Parametern wie Medium oder Textsorte und auersprachlichen Dimensionen wie Zeit oder Raum korrelieren. In diesem Band werden zunachst verschiedene Perspektiven auf Variation fokussiert...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to phonological theory and analysis, A Critical Introduction to Phonology introduces the key aspects of the discipline. Departing from the mainstream tradition, Daniel Silverman argues that the nature of linguistic sound systems can only be understood in the context of how they are used by speakers and listeners.

By proposing that linguistic sound systems are the product of an interaction among sound (acoustics), mind (cognition), and body (physiology), Silverman focuses on the functional consequences of their interaction. Now with each...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to phonological theory and analysis, A Critical Introduction to Phonology introduces the key aspects of the discipline. Departing from the mainstream tradition, Daniel Silverman argues that the nature of linguistic sound systems can only be understood in the context of how they are used by speakers and listeners.

By proposing that linguistic sound systems are the product of an interaction among sound (acoustics), mind (cognition), and body (physiology), Silverman focuses on the functional consequences of their interaction. Now with each...

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at Tocharian in relationship to other Indo-European languages.Contents of volume 17: Douglas Q. Adams, "Tocharian B arkaN...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...