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

Die menschliche Sprachfahigkeit wird in der modernen Linguistik zunehmend durch abstrakte Theorien beschrieben. Das Studienbuch bietet eine ubersichtliche Darstellung der gangigen theoretischen Konzepte und Analyseverfahren, zusatzlich vermittelt es die technischen Grundlagen der formalen Semantik. Aufgrund seines didaktisch klar strukturierten Aufbaus sowie vieler Beispiele und Ubungsaufgaben eignet es sich nicht nur fur das Selbststudium linguistischer Bedeutungstheorien und analytischer Philosophie, sondern auch als Leitfaden fur den universitaren Unterricht.

Tropen sind nicht nur rhetorische Mittel, die in der Dichtung und in der offentlichen Rede als kreative und/oder persuasive Sprachmittel Verwendung finden. Sie sind auch ein kognitives Instrumentarium, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Menschen die Welt verstandlich machen und durch das sich ihr Weltverstandnis ausdruckt. Indem sie unserer Weltwahrnehmung und auch schon unserem alltaglichen Sprechen zugrunde liegen, muss - spatestens seit Nietzsches grundsatzlicher Wahrheitsskepsis angesichts der Ubiquitat des sog. "ubertragenen Sprachgebrauchs" - die Frage nach der Moglichkeit der Wahrheit Tropen...

This work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object. The book offers a fresh, applied philosophical approach using original empirical evidence to show that deictic demonstratives hasten the recognition of core representational constructs. It presents a case where the comprehension of shifting points of view by means of deixis is paramount to a theory of mind and to a worldview that incorporates human components of discovering and extending spatial knowledge. The book supports...

In this volume, Delyth Morris surveys the use of the Welsh language in Wales today. Morris considers topics such as the spread of Welsh to the Internet, the use of the language by young people, bilingual education, emigration and its effect on the language, attitudes of immigrants towards the language, and language planning institutions and legislation. "Welsh in the Twenty-First Century" will be of interest both to academic audiences and the Welsh language community as a whole."

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.

The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.