Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Morphology

Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages.

Using corpus research, Graeme Kennedy cuts to the heart of what is important in the teaching of English. The book provides pedagogically- relevant information about English at the levels of sounds, words, sentences and texts. It draws attention to those linguistic items and processes which research has shown are typically hard for learners and which lead to errors.

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The new revised introduction to French morphology comprises three main parts: Part I develops the basic concepts and the descriptive methods of structural morphology, Part II deals with the inflection of nouns, adjectives and verbs, while Part III provides a survey of the different means of word formation of the French language (suffixation, prefixation, parasynthesis, composition), covering both oral and written language in equal measure. A glossary rounds off the work with important linguistic terms in German and their French counterparts.

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both by studying complex ways in which the tones of a given language engage in the expression of grammatical meaning. The book includes chapters on both general issues concerning tone and inflection as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Mesoamerica, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages.

Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.

This volume provides in-depth exploration of the issues of labeling and roots, with a balance of empirical and conceptual/theoretical analyses. The papers explore key questions that must ultimately be addressed in the development of generative theories: how do theories of labels and roots relate to syntax-internal computation, to semantics, to morphology, and to phonology?

A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in universities where English is taught as a foreign language

Schon seit dem Beginn einer Grammatikographie des Mittelhochdeutschen im 19. Jahrhundert ist die Kritik formuliert worden, die Grammatiken lieferten eine nur unvollstandige oder gar mangelhafte Kenntnis der mittelhochdeutschen Sprache, da sie sich auf Texte der sog. "hochhofischen Zeit'' und das Konstrukt eines in den Textausgaben aufscheinenden ''unwandelbaren Hochdeutschen'' konzentrierten.

Die hier vorgelegte neue, wissenschaftliche Grammatik des Mittelhochdeutschen will diese Forschungslucke schlieen und methodologisches Neuland betreten. Sie ist vollstandig aus...

Die auf die Wortbildung des Franzosischen ausgerichtete Einfuhrung behandelt neben der synchronen Analyse auch innovative Aspekte des Themenbereichs. Berucksichtigt sind die bisher nicht systematisch dargestellte Spezifik der fachsprachlichen Wortbildung sowie die Deonomastik, die Gegenstand umfangreicher Forschungsprojekte in der Romanistik ist. Daruber hinaus wird die Wortbildung in ihrer diatopischen und diastratischen Variation untersucht. Die angefuhrten Beispiele entstammen der Auswertung aktueller lexikographischer und korpuslinguistischer Quellen zum Franzosischen. Entsprechend...