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Co-compounds and natural coordination
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ISBN: 0199276218 9780199276219 0191706043 128075530X 9786610755301 1423788699 0191534765 0199563322 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

New challenges in typology : broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations.
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ISBN: 3110195925 9786612194627 1282194623 3110198908 9783110195927 9783110198904 9781282194625 6612194626 Year: 2007 Volume: 189 Publisher: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter

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The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. The papers cover grammatical phenomena from phonology, morphology up to the syntax of complex sentences. The linguistic phenomena scrutinized include the following: foot and stress, tone, infixation, inflection vs. derivation, word formation, polysynthesis, suppletion, person marking, reflexives, alignment, transitivity, tense-aspect-mood systems, negation, interrogation, converb systems, and complex sentences. More general methodological and theoretical issues, such as reconstruction, markedness, semantic maps, templates, and use of parallel corpora, are also addressed. The contributions in this volume draw from many traditional fields of linguistics simultaneously, and show that it is becoming harder and maybe also less desirable to keep them separate, especially when taking a broadly cross-linguistic approach to language. The book is of interest to typologists and field linguists, as well as to any linguists interested in theoretical issues in different subfields of linguistics.


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Methods in contemporary linguistics.
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ISBN: 9783110284669 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter Mouton


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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, volume 2 : world-wide comparative studies
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ISBN: 3961101809 9783961101801 3961101817 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin Language Science Press

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The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.


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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, volume 1 : general issues and specific studies
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ISBN: 3961101787 9783961101788 3961101795 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin Language Science Press

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The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities.This volume is complemented by volume two, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.


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Methods in contemporary linguistics
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ISBN: 9783110275681 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin ; New York De Gruyter Mouton

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics
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ISBN: 3110394987 3110343959 3110343762 9783110343762 9783110343953 9783110394986 9783110343960 3110343967 9783110346343 3110346346 3110578549 9783110578546 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.


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Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact
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ISSN: 18614302 ISBN: 3110271974 9786613940773 1283628325 3110270099 3110271982 9783110270099 9783110271973 9783110271973 9781283628327 Year: 2012 Volume: 242 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The


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Sprachwissenschaft : Grammatik - Interaktion - Kognition

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Das Phänomen Sprache und seine aktuelle Erforschung. Sprachwissenschaft umfasst mehr als nur Grundlegendes wie Laute, Wörter und Sätze. Daher greift das Lehrbuch über die grammatischen Disziplinen hinaus zahlreiche Themen auf, die das Interesse für das Fach Linguistik wecken: sprachliche Interaktion, Variation und Wandel, Sprachkontakt und Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprache und Kultur, Ursprung der Sprache u. a. Das große Format und das zweifarbige Layout erleichtern den Überblick. Umfassend und kompakt - ideal für BA-Studierende.

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