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This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over
the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible
state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following
an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five
thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of
thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with
central topics in pragmatics, including implicature,
presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In
Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering
topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics.
Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics
such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural,
and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V
explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar,
morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information
structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an
indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of
all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for
linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language,
semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and
sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of
cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science,
anthropology, and sociology.
This monograph examines the relationship between women, language
and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context
between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from
the codification of Italian as a literary language to the formation
of a unified state. It investigates the role played by women in the
Italian linguistic tradition as addressees, readers or authors of
grammatical texts.
In spite of the ever-growing interest in different aspects of
women's life in the Western world through the centuries, little
attention has been given up to now to women's linguistic education,
their relationship with grammar and the ideas about their use of
language. In the context of Italy, these questions were virtually
unexplored.
This study is the result of extensive first-hand research and
detailed analysis of primary sources (well-known texts, as well as
minor and rare ones), brought together for the first time and made
available to a wider public. Sources range from more specifically
linguistic writings, to texts on women's education and conduct
books, from literary works (e.g. novels, short-stories, poetry,
plays, satirical writings, children's literature), to official
government documents, newspapers articles, women's magazines,
school texts, letters and memoirs.
Its interdisciplinary approach and the richness of its sources make
this volume an engaging journey across four centuries in the
history of the Italian language the history of grammar, the history
of linguistic thought, and the history of women and their
education. This is the first work of its kind in the field of
Italian studies. Relevant illustrations accompany the book offering
readers also a visual appreciation and understanding of the
subjects and themes examined in the six chapters.
In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the
grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split."
In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity
does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but rather, a split
in sentence structure. Specifically, the contexts in which we find
the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative
language involve added structure - a disassociation between the
syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem.
This proposal builds on the proposal of Basque split ergativity in
Laka 2006, and extends it to other languages. The book begins with
an analysis of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan
language of southern Mexico. Here appearance of split ergativity
follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the
imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is
not. The fact that the nonperfective morphemes are verbs, combined
with independent properties of Chol grammar, results in the
appearance of a split. In aspectual splits, ergativity is always
retained in the perfective aspect. This book further surveys
aspectual splits in a variety of unrelated languages and offers an
explanation for this universal directionality of split ergativity.
Following Laka's (2006) proposal for Basque, Coon proposes that the
cross-linguistic tendency for imperfective aspects to pattern with
locative constructions is responsible for the biclausality which
causes the appearance of a nonergative pattern. Building on
Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria's (2000) prepositional account of
spatiotemporal relations, Coon proposes that the perfective is
never periphrastic - and thus never involves a split - because
there is no preposition in natural language that correctly captures
the relation of the assertion time to the event time denoted by the
perfective aspect.
Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes
originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such
as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health
care system. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please
contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and
Rest of World)
Mini-set D: Politics re-issues works originally published between
1920 & 1987 and examines the government, political system and
foreign policy of Japan during the twentieth century.
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Locality
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Enoch Olade Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, Ian Roberts
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Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in
explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in
garden path sentences, as well. If syntax relates sound and meaning
over an infinite domain, syntactic dependencies and operations must
be restricted in such a way to apply over limited, finite domains
in order to be detectable at all (although of course they may be
allowed to iterate indefinitely). The theory of what these finite
domains are and how they relate to the fundamentally unbounded
nature of syntax is the theory of locality. The papers in this
collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic
theory, and, more specifically, describe and analyze the various
contributions Luigi Rizzi has made to this area over the past three
and a half decades. The authors are all eminent linguists in
generative syntax who have collaborated with Rizzi closely, and in
eleven chapters, they explore locality in both pure syntax and
psycholinguistics. This collection is essential reading for
students and scholars of linguistic theory, generative syntax, and
comparative syntax.
This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the
distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the
distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and
ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies.
What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens
to the people who use them, and what happens to people,
individually and collectively, is affected by the languages they
speak.
The book opens by examining what the languages are the
hunter-gatherers might have spoken and the changes to language that
took place when agriculture made settled communities possible. It
then looks at the effects of the invention of writing, the
formation of empires, the spread of religions, and the recent
dominance of world powers, and shows how these relate to great
changes in the use of languages. Tore Janson discusses the
appearance of new languages, the reasons why some languages spread
and others die, considers whether similar cyclical processes are
found at different times and places, and examines the causes of
internal changes in languages and dialects.
The book ranges widely among the world's languages and mixes
thematic chapters on general processes of change with accounts of
specific languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Latin, Greek, and
English.
By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall,
linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems
differ, and how they change over time. Micro-Syntactic Variation in
North American English provides a systematic look at minimal
differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North
America. The book makes available for the first time a range of
data on unfamiliar constructions drawn from several regional and
social dialects, data whose distribution and grammatical properties
shed light on the varieties under examination and on the properties
of English syntax more generally. The nine contributions collected
in this volume fall under a number of overlapping topics: variation
in the expression of negation and modality (the "so don't I "
construction in eastern New England, negative auxiliary inversion
in declaratives in African-American and southern white English,
multiple modals in southern speech, the "needs washed "
construction in the Pittsburgh area); pronouns and reflexives
(transitive expletives in Appalachia, personal dative constructions
in the Southern/Mountain states, long-distance reflexives in the
Minnesota Iron Range); and the relation between linguistic
variation and language change (the rise of "drama SO " among
younger speakers, the difficulty in establishing which phenomena
cluster together and should be explained by a single point of
parametric variation). These chapters delve into the syntactic
analysis of individual phenomena, and the editors' introduction and
afterword contextualize the issues and explore their semantic,
pragmatic, and sociolinguistic implications.
Japanese syntax has been studied within the framework of generative
linguistics for nearly 50 years. But when it is studied in
comparison with other languages, it is mostly compared with
English. Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a
gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison with
other Asian languages, including Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and
Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of India. By focusing on
Japanese and other Asian languages, the ten papers in this volume
(on topics such as ellipsis, postponing, and wh-questions) make a
unique contribution to the study of generative linguistics, and to
the Principles and Parameters theory in particular.
This volume looks at the impact of evergreen activities - sports,
games and gambling - upon the way we talk and the things we say.
Peter Ryding takes us from cricket to roulette via some very tricky
and diverting tangents.
This volume looks at the legacy of British history in the way we
talk and the things we say. It takes us from the departure of the
Romans from Britain up to and including the Middle Ages.
The author presents a humorous journey through the English
language, exploring the fascinating facts and phrases that make
English so rich and exciting.
Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a
number of languages and language families, along with an account of
the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A
cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional
category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve
negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and
affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal
agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as
agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data
on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues
that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy
Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal
Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to
classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides
insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it
evolved.
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about
the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the
relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous
texts, and other past and current topics in language-based research
into humor. At the end he stuffs all
This comprehensive guide uses a highly effective teaching method to
introduce readers to New Testament Greek quickly. The book provides
all the basics of a beginning grammar. In addition, it includes a
wealth of reading and translation exercises and activities, helpful
grammatical resources, and accented Greek text. Audio files for the
book are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources. Now
in paper.
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