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Pragmatics --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammaire générale --- Grammaire générale et comparée --- Grammaire philosophique --- Grammaire universelle --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Implicatie (Logica) --- Implication (Logic) --- Implication (Logique) --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatique --- Semantics --- Semantiek --- Spraakkunst [Vergelijkende en algemene ] --- Sémantique --- Sémasiologie --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Formal languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Implication (Logic). --- #KVHA: Syntaxis --- #KVHA: Pragmatiek --- #KVHA: Communicatie --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Formal language semantics --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Logic --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Philosophy --- Grammar, Comparative

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Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate systems in language and cognition, it is shown that not all languages use all types, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language. The book reports on collaborative, interdisciplinary research, involving anthropologists, linguists and psychologists, conducted in many languages and cultures around the world, which establishes this robust correlation. The overall results suggest that thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will be of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers, and especially to students of spatial cognition.

Space and time in language. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Cognition. --- Psychology --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Psychological aspects --- Cognition --- Psycholinguistics --- Space and time in language --- #KVHA:Cognitieve linguistiek --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ?rara? suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level.

Language isolates.