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Kisangani Swahili : Choices and Variation in a Multilingual Urban Space
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ISBN: 9783862886678 3862886670 Year: 2015 Publisher: Muenchen LINCOM GmbH

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Cours de grammaire française
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ISBN: 2200612621 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Dunod Editeur,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Une grammaire pour l'étudiant dès la première année en lettres modernes qui trouvera l'essentiel dans les fiches, et pour les candidats aux concours de recrutement de l'enseignement qui approfondiront leurs connaissances."

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Thoughts on grammaticalization
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ISBN: 9783946234074 9783946234050 9783946234067 3946234054 3946234062 3946234070 Year: 2015 Publisher: Language Science Press

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After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable.


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Contemporary Morphological Theories : A User's Guide.
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ISBN: 9780748692682 9780748692675 9780748692699 9780748692705 0748692673 074869269X 0748692703 0748692681 Year: 2015 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition of this concept (or network of related concepts). Many perspectives are needed in order to gain even a schematic idea of what words are, how words may be composed, and what relationships there might be between words. Many linguists have put forward frameworks for describing the domain of morphology, each framework proceeding from its author's assumptions, prioritizing distinct formal and functional dimensions, and therefore entering into de facto competition. This book addresses the needs of the language scholar/student who finds her/himself engaged in morphological analysis and theorizing. It offers a guide to existing approaches, revealing how they can either complement or compete with each other.


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Describing Verb Valency : Practical and Theoretical Issues
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ISBN: 9783319209845 9783319209869 9783319370491 3319209841 331920985X Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data. This book starts from theoretical points of wide acceptance among linguists and goes on to present a descriptive metalanguage, able to express the facts of verb valency, which constitute one of the core areas in linguistic description. Most of the data come from an extensive survey under way of the valency of Portuguese verbs; but the present work’s relevance goes well beyond that, and incorporates a proposal applicable to other European languages, illustrated by the wealth of English examples included in the exposition. Among the topics discussed are the syntactic component of constructions (following here a proposal recently published in Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax); delimitation and definition of semantic roles; the role of linking rules and their relation to prototypes; and the connection between linguistic expressions and cognitive units such as frames and schemata. The result is a notational system flexible and robust enough to describe all aspects of verb valency.


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Information structure and Nilotic languages
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ISBN: 9784863371958 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tokyo : Research Institute for languages and cultures of Asia and Africa,

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Adverbial Clauses in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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ISBN: 9783110342604 9783110409963 9783110409857 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies
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ISBN: 9783662465042 3662465035 9783662465035 3662465043 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a group of grammarians started to look into the Chinese tradition of commenting on classics. This led to a variety of alternative grammars. After the war, Western linguistics started to gain influence in China. With the establishment of the PRC in 1949, efforts began to have a standard grammar adopted nationwide. The first attempt at such a grammar was published in 1956. This book spans the period 1898 – 1956.This book combines historiography and linguistics to distinguish different periods in the timespan covered. It shows how the development of a national grammar cannot be studied separately from language policies and discussions on the national language. The description of each period includes a general introduction of the relevant events in that period and a treatment of the major works of grammar.


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Spotlight on melody and structure in syntax and phonology

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Semantics of Complex Words
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ISBN: 3319141023 3319141015 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.

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