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ISBN: 9027229155 1556194188 9786613312785 1283312786 9027276560 1556194196 9789027276568 9781283312783 6613312789 Year: 1994 Volume: 27 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have raised still further questions. What discourse functions and diachronic events unite 'voice' as a recognizable phenomenon across languages? How are they typically grammaticalized? What stages do children go through in learning them? How does 'voice' link up with ergativity and with o


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The phonology/paraphonology interface and the sounds of German across time
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ISBN: 9781433101151 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Bern Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang,

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The Phonology / Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time is an excursion into the phonology of the German language in the present, the remote prehistoric past (Indo-European and Germanic), and throughout the almost thousand-year historical era. It accordingly addresses all eras pertaining to the study of the German language in its innermost core, namely, its phonology. This book makes accessible to linguists and non-linguists alike the elements of acoustic and articulatory phonetics. It provides the reader with insight into phonological methods from the Prague Structuralism and Chomskyan Generativism of the last seventy-five years to an array of today's non-linear approaches by applying them to given phonological changes that act as leitmotifs in the research of German sounds through time. The dynamic acts that infuse the structure of German phonology, such as ablaut, umlaut, and various other assimilations, diphthongizations, monophthongizations, and consonant shifts, are all woven into the book. In each of the three time frames, the interface with ample paraphonological data allows the reader to experience «flesh and blood» phonology, that is, how it occurs and to what purpose in the mouth / ear of the speaker / listener of the German language. Not least, the reading of a piece of literature, be it a Runic inscription, the Old High German Otfrid, a Middle High German dawn song, the Early New High German Ackermann aus Böhmen, or a Rilke poem, adds delight to the understanding of the sounds that belong to our most vital and prized human possessions.


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Parole et musique : aux origines du dialogue humain
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ISBN: 9782738123480 2738123481 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : O. Jacob,


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Vox & silentium : études de linguistique et littérature romanes ; Vox & silentium : studi di linguistica e letteratura romanza ; Vox & silentium : estudios de lingüistica y literatura romanicas.
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ISBN: 9783034316118 Year: 2015 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Bruxelles [etc.] Peter Lang

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Les deux concepts s'opposent traditionnellement. Les contributeurs dépassent cette vision traditionnelle et étudient la relation de ces concepts en linguistique et littérature : communication non verbale, voix silencieuse, représentation de l'acoustique. ©Electre 2015

Laut, Stimme und Sprache : Studien zu drei Grundbegriffen der antiken Sprachtheorie
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ISBN: 3525251815 9783525251812 Year: 1986 Volume: 84 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht


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Les routes de la voix : l'antiquité grecque et le mystère de la voix
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ISBN: 9782251326849 2251326847 Year: 2013 Volume: 147 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres ;

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La voix dans l'Antiquité grecque est étudiée : les mots qui la désignent, les définitions données par les anciens, les discours des médecins et des philosophes, mais aussi les relations entre le corps et la voix, entre le dehors et le dedans, la distinction entre l'animé et l'inanimé, la classification des êtres vivants.


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Deconstructing the English passive
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ISBN: 9783110196320 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin : New York :. Mouton de Gruyter,

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This book analyzes the form and function of the English passive from a verb-based point of view. It takes the position that the various surface forms of the passive (with or without thematic subject, with or without object, with or without by-phrase, with or without auxiliary) have a common source and are determined by the interplay of the syntactic properties of the verb and general syntactic principles. Each structural element of the passive construction is examined separately, and the participle is considered the only defining component of the passive. Special emphasis is put on the existence of an implicit argument (ususally an agent) and its representation in the passive. A review of data from syntax, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics shows that the implicit agent is not just a conceptually understood argument. It is argued that it is represented at the level of argument structure and that this is what sets the passive apart from other patient-subject constructions. A corpus-based case study on the use of the passive in academic writing analyzes the use of the passive in this particular register. One of the findings is that about 20-25% of passives occur in constructions that do not require an auxiliary, a result that challenges corpus studies on the use of the passive that only consider full be-passives. It is also shown that new active-voice constructions have emerged that compete with the passive without having a more visible agent. The emergence of these constructions (such as "This paper argues...") is discussed in the context of changes in the rhetoric of scientific discourse. The book is mainly of interest to linguists and graduate students in the areas of English syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.


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Autour des verbes
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ISBN: 9789027231390 9027231397 1299794742 9027271445 9789027271440 9781299794740 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This paper is intended as an contrastive study of present narrative in French and in Japanese within the framework of Mental Space Theory. In French the so called "historical present" is a metaphorical use of present tense intending to convey past events as if it were now present before the speaker's eye. But in Japanese the present tense is used to describe the state of past situations without any stylistic effects. The difference comes from the different tense systems of the two languages. In French all events must be indicated from the speaker's position, but Japanese tense indicate only the relation between the event and the v-point spaces. This may account for the use of the present tense in Japanese.

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