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

In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is so fundamental to everyday life that we take it for granted. But as David Crystal makes clear in this work of unprecedented scope, language is an extremely powerful tool that defines the human species.

Crystal offers general readers a personal tour of the intricate workings of language. He moves effortlessly from big...

Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities. Taken together, these contributions elegantly show how theoretical tools can propel our understanding of language beyond pretheoretical descriptions, especially...

Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie die Kompetenz im Ubersetzen modaler Semantik als ubersetzerische Teilkompetenz, hier vom Danischen ins Deutsche, gesteigert werden kann. Auf einem ubersetzungstheoretischen und -didaktischen Hintergrund werden die hermeneutisch gepragten Arbeitsformen 'unterstutzte Selbstkorrektur' und 'Workshop mit Recherche' entwickelt und im Ubersetzungsunterricht zweier vergleichbarer Studentengruppen angewendet. Nach der Diskussion verschiedener deutscher und danischer Modalitatsmodelle wird eine interne modale Typologie fur diese Arbeit definiert.

Die qualitative...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

What do biologists mean when they say that to live is to react? Why was the term abreaction invented and later abandoned by the first generation of psychoanalysts? What is meant by reactionary politics? These are but a few of the questions the internationally renowned scholar Jean Starobinski answers in his conceptual history of the word pair, action and reaction.Not simply a history of ideas, Action and Reaction is also a semantic and philological history, a literary history, a history of medicine, and a history of the biological sciences. By concentrating on the moment when scientific...

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies...

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies...

Der Band befat sich mit der typologischen Beschreibung der Wortbildung am Beispiel denominaler Verben. Dabei wird hier Typologie als Erkenntnismethode allgemeiner und besonderer Eigenschaften konkreter Sprachen und menschlicher Sprache im Ganzen verstanden. Diese Methode wird zur Erforschung einzelner Subsysteme einer Sprache angewandt. Sie ermoglicht Schlufolgerungen, aus denen sich eine allgemeine Sprachtheorie formulieren lat. Diese Forschungsrichtung jedoch lat die Beschreibung vieler konkreter sprachlicher Erscheinungen vermissen, sie fehlt praktisch ganzlich in der Wortbildung.

Die Semantik raumlicher Ausdrucke gehort zu den zentralen Untersuchungsfeldern kognitiv orientierter Linguistik. Mit der Kombinatorik von Distanz- und Lokationsausdrucken existiert allerdings ein Bereich sprachlicher Phanomene, der bislang wenig und vor allem nicht adaquat behandelt worden ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt diesen Phanomenbereich als Ausgangspunkt fur eine interdisziplinar angelegte kognitionswissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur Semantik raumlicher Ausdrucke. Es wird gezeigt, da bisherige Ansatze aus den beteiligten Disziplinen (u.a. Linguistik, Psychologie,...

The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. This includes all forms of text handling activity, not only interlingual translations, but also conversions carried out in response to different communicative tasks. Among the major topics are problems of text transfer and the interplay between human and machine activities.

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.

Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle...

The handbook provides an overview of the current status of research in this field. The second volume begins with a comprehensive description of grammatical phenomena as seen from dependency and valency viewpoints. This is followed by chapters on the application of dependency and valency concepts in computer-based language processing. The remaining chapters deal with contrastive linguistics, grammaticography, lexicography, historical linguistics and other areas of linguistic research in which dependency and valency play a significant role.

Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a...