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Japanese language --- Japanese language --- Japanese language --- Etymology --- Foreign elements --- Grammar, Comparative
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Ural-Altaic languages --- Grammar --- Altaic languages --- Grammaticalization. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- Scythian languages --- Proto-Altaic language --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammaticalization --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Transeurasian languages
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Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic necessitive construction. Premodern Japanese has no overt counterpart to it, but it does have an auxiliary adjective that expresses necessity. I argue that this auxiliary was a grammaticalization of a periphrastic analogous in form and meaning to
Altaic languages --- Scythian languages --- Transeurasian languages --- Proto-Altaic language --- Ural-Altaic languages --- Grammaticalization. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Morphology. --- Syntax.
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Genealogical linguistics and areal linguistics are rarely treated from an integrated perspective even if they are twin faces of diachronic linguistics. In Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets take up this challenge. The result is a wealth of empirical facts and different theoretical approaches, advanced by internationally renowned specialists and young scholars whose research is highly pertinent to the topic. Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective and works out criteria to distinguish between morphological cognates and copies. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between genealogical and areal linguistics. Contributors include: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Ad Backus, Dik Bakker, Peter Bakker, Éva Csató, Stig Eliasson, Victor Friedman, Francesco Gardani, Anthony Grant, Salomé Gutiérrez-Morales, Tooru Hayasi, Ewald Hekking, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, Brian Joseph, Folke Josephson, Judith Josephson, Johanna Nichols, Martine Robbeets, Marshall Unger, Nikki van de Pol, Anna Verschik, Lindsay Whaley
Comparative linguistics. --- Cognate words. --- Areal linguistics. --- Linguistic universals. --- Languages in contact. --- Language spread. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Prefixes --- Suffixes and prefixes --- Diffusion of language --- Language and languages --- Language diffusion --- Spread of language --- Sociolinguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Suffixes and prefixes. --- Morphology. --- Affixes --- Diffusion --- Spread --- Universals --- Cognate words --- Etymology --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology --- Morphology
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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the mostdebated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and arealapproaches are in fact compatible with one another.The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations forthe correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic,Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.
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The essays in this volume explore questions relating to human dispersals and exchange across the varied environments of Eurasia. Part One focuses on the Neolithic and how agriculture led to new adaptive niches for human societies. This process involved population and linguistic expansion, but could also be expressed through exploitation of the environment in new ways. In Part Two, the emphasis shifts to exchange between east and west across Eurasia in the Bronze Age and Middle Ages. Chapters in the book discuss topics as varied as Jmon plant cultivation, linguistic borrowings by agropastoral groups, the spread of gold and silverwares across the steppes, and customs related to feasting in medieval northern China. The volume will be of interest to archaeologists and historical linguists alike, particularly those working on long-term social change across Eurasia
Agriculture --- Cultural relations --- Language and languages --- History --- Historical linguistics --- Neolithic period. --- Bronze age --- Archaeology, Medieval --- History. --- China --- Eurasia --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Languages.
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Genealogical linguistics and areal linguistics are rarely treated from an integrated perspective even if they are twin faces of diachronic linguistics. In Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets take up this challenge. The result is a wealth of empirical facts and different theoretical approaches, advanced by internationally renowned specialists and young scholars whose research is highly pertinent to the topic. Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective and works out criteria to distinguish between morphological cognates and copies. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between genealogical and areal linguistics. Contributors include: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Ad Backus, Dik Bakker, Peter Bakker, Éva Csató, Stig Eliasson, Victor Friedman, Francesco Gardani, Anthony Grant, Salomé Gutiérrez-Morales, Tooru Hayasi, Ewald Hekking, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, Brian Joseph, Folke Josephson, Judith Josephson, Johanna Nichols, Martine Robbeets, Marshall Unger, Nikki van de Pol, Anna Verschik, Lindsay Whaley
Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Comparative linguistics. --- Cognate words. --- Areal linguistics. --- Linguistic universals. --- Languages in contact. --- Language spread. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Suffixes and prefixes. --- Morphology.
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The paper reviews the data concerning the nominal inflectional morphology in the chain of languages comprising Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic, collectively termed "Ural-Altaic". Although nominal morphology has traditionally been quoted in support of the hypothesis concerning the genetic relationship of these languages, a more detailed survey of the data shows that the extant parallels are in various ways secondary and/or accidental. This suggests that Ural-Altaic is an areal and typological complex of languages, but not a genetic entity. On the other hand, it is also
Paradigm (Linguistics) --- Altaic languages --- Comparative linguistics --- Scythian languages --- Transeurasian languages --- Proto-Altaic language --- Ural-Altaic languages --- Paradigmatics (Linguistics) --- Substitution class (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Morphology. --- Verb.
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