wyszukanych pozycji: 73
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
ISBN: 9780521296694 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part of South America, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. For some we still have no more than a partial description, often in an obscure source. Professor Suarez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference. The approach is primarily descriptive, and a major part of the volume is concerned with synchronic descriptions...
At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, the cultural area that includes most of Mexico and part o...
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208,94 zł |
Foundations of French Syntax
ISBN: 9780521388054 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Designed for students, this analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. The book offers a comprehensive discussion of the French language, including verbs and verb phrases, voice, tense and aspect, the noun phrase, and prepositions; there are exercises, and useful guides to further reading. Foundations of French Syntax assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics, and will appeal to students and teachers of linguistics, French and other Romance languages.
Designed for students, this analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more tra...
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244,62 zł |
Lexical Phonology and the History of English
ISBN: 9780521034487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book analyzes some differences among English, Scottish and American accents of English, and shows how they developed and why they have their current form. Although the revised version of lexical phonology presented here is intended to describe present-day patterns, it can also show how historical sound changes gave rise to these patterns.
This book analyzes some differences among English, Scottish and American accents of English, and shows how they developed and why they have their curr...
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259,91 zł |
The Syntax of Icelandic
ISBN: 9780521597906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much theoretical interest and debate in recent years. This is an informative and accessible guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing in particular on those characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research. Each chapter is divided into two main sections - providing both a descriptive overview and a discussion of the theoretical and comparative issues involved - and a wide range of topics are covered, including case, agreement,...
Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much ...
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208,94 zł |
The Korean Language
ISBN: 9780521369435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation to other languages of the world, historical development, dialects (including the differences between South and North Korean), writing systems, the composition and structure of words, and sound patterns and syntax. It provides a wealth of examples and user-friendly descriptions that do not presuppose advanced knowledge of either linguistic theory or Korean on the part of the reader.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents essential facts about the language: its speakers, its relation...
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249,71 zł |
Person
ISBN: 9780521776691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on data from over five hundred languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying variation. Siewierska demonstrates how person forms vary in substance (how large they are), in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey (e.g., gender, number, case), and in their use in sentences and discourse. The textbook covers the grammatical category of person, which includes the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer).
Drawing on data from over five hundred languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the f...
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208,94 zł |
The Dravidian Languages
ISBN: 9780521025126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million people in South Asia and in diaspora communities around the world. They include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a linguistic overview of the Dravidian language family. He describes its history and writing system, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also covered.
The Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million people in South Asia and in diaspora communities around the world. They include Tamil, Malaya...
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463,80 zł |
Phonology and Language Use
ISBN: 9780521583749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change that produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account...
Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in wh...
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463,85 zł |
The Syntax of Negation
ISBN: 9780521023481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this new book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima and Lasnik, Haegeman demonstrates the parallelism between negative sentences and interrogative sentences, and gives a unified analysis in terms of a well-formedness condition on syntactic representations: the AFFECT criterion, instantiated as the WH criterion in interrogative sentences and as the NEG criterion in negative sentences. It is shown that in the same way that in many languages the WH criterion gives rise to WH movement, the NEG...
In this new book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima ...
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132,48 zł |
Restrictiveness in Case Theory
ISBN: 9780521026550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, he draws out pervasive patterns in the relationship between morphosyntax "linking" and grammatical function. Beginning with a detailed study of dative substitution in Icelandic, the author moves on to examine a wide array of synchronic and diachronic data and to construct a typology of case.
Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, he draw...
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208,94 zł |
Conditions on Phonological Government
ISBN: 9780521024051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first extended study written within the framework of phonological government. Following the presentation of main aspects of this theory, the process of vowel-zero alternations is addressed and analyzed together with the idea that phonological processes are determined by principles of Universal Grammar along with parameters that distinguish languages. Vowel-zero alternations are investigated in terms of proper government of empty nuclei, which receive no phonetic interpretation when properly governed. Dr. Charette also considers the constraints on proper government, and argues for...
This is the first extended study written within the framework of phonological government. Following the presentation of main aspects of this theory, t...
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178,35 zł |
Binding Theory
ISBN: 9780521012225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study explores how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns develop anaphoric relations among each another that have reference to physical elements. Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern binding theory, this book introduces a variety of nominal and, especially, pronominal expressions from the world's languages. Including numerous exercises and examples, the textbook will be invaluable to graduate and advanced undergraduate students of syntax and semantics.
This study explores how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns develop anaphoric relations among each another...
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188,55 zł |
Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation
ISBN: 9780521402293 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent, syntactically-related clause. In central cases of logophoricity, a special pronoun form is used within a reported speech context to indicate coherence with the source of reported speech. Lesley Stirling argues that these types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory. Her detailed examination of the two phenomena, including a case study of the Papuan...
In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference f...
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616,76 zł |
Intonation
ISBN: 9780521591829 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When published in 1986, this book was the first to survey intonation in all its aspects, both in English and universally. In this updated edition, while the basic descriptive facts of the form and use of intonation are presented in the British nuclear tone tradition, there is nevertheless extensive comparison with other theoretical frameworks, in particular with the ToBI framework, which has become widespread in the United States. The author has expanded the sections on historical background, different theoretical approaches and sociolinguistic variation. Intonation remains a basic reference...
When published in 1986, this book was the first to survey intonation in all its aspects, both in English and universally. In this updated edition, whi...
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525,01 zł |
Second Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9780521317023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his...
This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition resea...
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Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 9780521291880 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a dynamic phenomenon, whose character can be at best only partly understood by a static, and necessarily idealized, synchronic approach. In Part I she establishes the theoretical framework by providing a systematic survey of the three main models of language development - the neogrammarian,...
Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a socia...
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188,55 zł |
A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories
ISBN: 9780521034210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). The author proposes a notation based on semantic features that accounts for the syntactic behavior of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification--again in a rather traditional vein--to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences.
This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to...
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132,48 zł |
Explanations in the Study of Child Language Development
ISBN: 9780521285933 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A systematic examination of the major theories surrounding language acquisition.
A systematic examination of the major theories surrounding language acquisition.
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132,48 zł |
Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation
ISBN: 9780521023436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent, syntactically-related clause. In central cases of logophoricity, a special pronoun form is used within a reported speech context to indicate coherence with the source of reported speech. Lesley Stirling argues that these types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory. Her detailed examination of the two phenomena, including a case study of the Papuan...
In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference f...
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219,12 zł |
Principles of Phonetics
ISBN: 9780521456555 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This major new textbook is designed for readers who wish to pursue the study of phonetics from an initial to an advanced stage. It moves from a discussion of general concepts to a total of eleven chapters on phonetic classification, and it includes discussion of other issues such as the relationship between phonetics and phonology. There are illustrations from over 500 of the world's languages. Principles of Phonetics will be required reading for all serious students of speech and language.
This major new textbook is designed for readers who wish to pursue the study of phonetics from an initial to an advanced stage. It moves from a discus...
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305,78 zł |