(Išleidimo metai: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110665048)
The book offers a cognitively realistic account of morphosyntactic alternations through a combination of corpus-based analysis and (psycho)linguistic experiments. The central thesis of the book is that the choice between competing...Daugiau...
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of...Daugiau...
The present volume is a reprint of the 2009 second edition of the book, and includes the text of the first edition (1994) with minor modifications, as well as the scientific evidence for monogenesis, and a Postscript recounting developments in the fi...Daugiau...
Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawngs gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construct...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Feb-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9781614514244)
This linguistics study of the Aboriginal Australian language Mawng draws on materials and recordings produced through the Warruwi School bilingual Mawng-English program (1973-1996). The study examines the unusual phenomenon of lexicalization of verba...Daugiau...
This collection brings together articles which deal with the language isolates of the world. Isolated languages are languages without any known relatives, languages which are not demonstrably part of any language family, with Etruscan, Basqu...Daugiau...
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemin...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2008, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521880053)
Discusses language classification and how and why languages diversify and spread. How are relationships established between the worlds languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics....Daugiau...
April McMahon (English, U. of Edinburgh) and Robert McMahon (molecular genetics, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh) have worked together for the past ten years on interdisciplinary issues including connections between evolutionary theory, genetics,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Nov-2005, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199279012)
This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows ho...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Mar-2005, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199257713)
This book collects Joseph Greenbergs most important writings on the genetic classification of the worlds languages. Fifty years ago Joseph Greenberg put forward the now widely accepted classification of African languages. This book charts the progr...Daugiau...
This book collects Joseph Greenbergs most important writings on the genetic classification of the worlds languages. Fifty years ago Joseph Greenberg put forward the now widely accepted classification of African languages. This book charts...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-1996, Hardback, Leidėjas: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780471159636)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Argues that proof exists that all languages now spoken on earth are descendents of a single ancestral language The Origin of Language A critically acclaimed journey back through time in search of the Mother Tongue and the roots of the hum...Daugiau...
Common among the worlds languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-1994, Hardback, Leidėjas: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804723213)
Just as archaeologists study fossils and ancient artifacts for clues about mankinds origins, linguistic researchers today are sifting through word roots and grammatical conventions and coming up with some startling revelations about our beginnings....Daugiau...
