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Casting a Minimalist Eye on Adjuncts (Paperback): Stefanie Bode Casting a Minimalist Eye on Adjuncts (Paperback)
Stefanie Bode
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge. The volume provides an up-to-date review of the existing literature on adjuncts and outlines their characteristic properties and the subsequent difficulties in adequately defining and treating them. The book compares previous attempts to account for adjuncts which have tended to use additional mechanisms or syntactic operations as a jumping-off point from which to propose a new way forward for analyzing them grounded in minimalist theory. Adopting an approach in the spirit of the strong minimalist thesis (SMT), Bode suggests an analysis of adjuncts which applies a minimalist approach based on theoretical simplicity, one which does not resort to extra mechanisms in capturing the empirical properties of adjuncts. Offering a comprehensive overview of research on adjuncts and foundational minimalist principles, this book will be of particular interest to graduate students and practicing researchers interested in syntax.

Perception and Metaphor - A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese (Hardcover): Qin Xiugui, Tie Yi Perception and Metaphor - A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese (Hardcover)
Qin Xiugui, Tie Yi; Contributions by Eliza Lai
R4,525 Discovery Miles 45 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. This title offers an extensive study of the conceptual metaphors in the perception domain. 2. The authors adopts contrastive perspective to reveal the similarities and differences between English and Chinese. 3. This title provides a thorough consideration of embodied motivation for various metaphorical mappings, which would benefit a variety of readership groups.

Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages - Exploring Diversity in Language Change (Hardcover): Patience Epps, Danny Law,... Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages - Exploring Diversity in Language Change (Hardcover)
Patience Epps, Danny Law, Na'ama Pat-El
R4,515 Discovery Miles 45 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward developing better informed approaches to language documentation and description. The volume brings together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars and represents a globally and linguistically diverse range of languages.The collected papers demonstrate the ways in which endangered languages can challenge existing models of language change based on more commonly studied languages, and can generate innovative insights into linguistic phenomena such as pathways of grammaticalization, forms and dynamics of contact-driven change, and the diachronic relationship between lexical and grammatical categories. In so doing, the book highlights the idea that processes and outcomes of language change long held to be universally relevant may be more sensitive to cultural and typological variability than previously assumed. Taken as a whole, this collection brings together perspectives from language documentation and historical linguistics to point the way forward for richer understandings of both language change and documentary-descriptive approaches, making this key reading for scholars in these fields.

Consonant Strength - Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations (Paperback): Lisa M. Lavoie Consonant Strength - Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations (Paperback)
Lisa M. Lavoie
R1,446 Discovery Miles 14 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a detailed examination of the phonetics and phonology of consonant strength, drawing data from parallel acoustic and articulatory studies of English and Spanish, as well as a cross linguistic survey of lenition and fortition.

Macrostructures - An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition (Paperback): Teun... Macrostructures - An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition (Paperback)
Teun A.Van Dijk
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Macrostructures are higher-level semantic or conceptual structures that organize the 'local' microstructures of discourse, interaction, and their cognitive processing. They are distinguished from other global structures of a more schematic nature, which we call superstructures. Originally published in 1980, the theory of macrostructures outlined in this book is the result of research carried out during the previous 10 years in the domains of literary theory, text grammar, the general theory of discourse, pragmatics, and the cognitive psychology of discourse processing. The presentation of the theory is systematic but informal and at this stage was not intended to be fully formalized.

The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages - A Typological Overview (Hardcover): Bornini Lahiri The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages - A Typological Overview (Hardcover)
Bornini Lahiri
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse and compare the case markers of seven EIA languages: Angika, Asamiya, Bhojpuri, Bangla, Magahi, Maithili and Odia. The book introduces semantic maps, which have hitherto not been used for Indian languages, to plot the scope of different case markers and facilitate cross-linguistic comparison of these languages. It also offers a detailed questionnaire specially designed for fieldwork and data collection which will be extremely useful to researchers involved in the study of case. A unique look into the linguistic traditions of South Asia, the book will be indispensable to academicians, researchers, and students of language studies, linguistics, literature, cognitive science, psychology, language technologies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for linguists, typologists, grammarians and those interested in the study of Indian languages.

The Social Psychology of Humor (Paperback): Madelijn Strick, Thomas E. Ford The Social Psychology of Humor (Paperback)
Madelijn Strick, Thomas E. Ford
R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* The first book of its kind to approach the topic of humor from a social psychological perspective. * Includes contributions from leading international scholars to offer a broad, global overview of the social psychology of humor. * Focuses on current, cutting-edge research to provide future directions in the field for years to come.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Hardcover): John R. Taylor, Wen XU The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Hardcover)
John R. Taylor, Wen XU
R6,490 Discovery Miles 64 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: * Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; * Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; * Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; * New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects - An Introduction (Hardcover, New edition): Edward Cook Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects - An Introduction (Hardcover, New edition)
Edward Cook
R3,604 Discovery Miles 36 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects is a comprehensive, introductory-level textbook for the acquisition of the language of the Old Testament and related dialects that were in use from the last few centuries BCE. Based on the latest research, it uses a method that guides students into knowledge of the language inductively, with selections taken from the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and papyrus discoveries from ancient Egypt. The volume offers a comprehensive view of ancient Aramaic that enables students to progress to advanced levels with a solid grounding in historical grammar. Most up-to-date description of Aramaic in light of modern discoveries and methods. Provides more detail than previous textbooks. Includes comprehensive description of Biblical dialect, along with Aramaic of the Persian period and of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Guided readings begin with primary sources, enabling students learn the language by reading historical texts.

Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language - An Introduction (Paperback): Peter Richardson, Charles M Mueller, Stephen Pihlaja Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language - An Introduction (Paperback)
Peter Richardson, Charles M Mueller, Stephen Pihlaja
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like embodied cognition, agency, metaphor analysis, and Dynamic Systems Theory; illustrate how they can be used in analyzing religious language; and offer thorough pedagogical material to aid learning and application. Advanced students and scholars of linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science, and religious and biblical studies will benefit from this practical guide to understanding and conducting research on religious discourse.

Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics - The Engineer and the Collector (Paperback): Margaret Thomas Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics - The Engineer and the Collector (Paperback)
Margaret Thomas
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists' focus on structural relationships and idealized linguistic data contrasts with functionalists' commitment to analyzing real language used as a communicative tool. The book highlights key sub-varieties, proponents, and critiques of each respective approach. It concludes by comparing formalist versus functionalist contributions in three domains of linguistic research: in the analysis of specific grammatical constructions; in the study of language acquisition; and in interdisciplinary research on the origins of language. Taken together, the volume opens insight into an important tension in linguistic theory, and provides students and scholars with a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the discipline of modern linguistics.

Language variation and change in social networks - A bipartite approach (Paperback): Robin Dodsworth, Richard A. Benton Language variation and change in social networks - A bipartite approach (Paperback)
Robin Dodsworth, Richard A. Benton
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city. Studies of sociolinguistic variation in urban spaces have uncovered durable patterns of linguistic difference, such as the maintenance of blue collar/white collar distinctions in the case of stable linguistic variables. But the underlying interactional origins of these patterns, and the interactional reasons for their durability, are not well understood, due in part to the near-absence of large-scale network investigation. This book undertakes a sociolinguistic network analysis of data from the Raleigh corpus, a set of conversational interviews collected form natives of Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2008-2017. Acoustic analysis of the corpus shows the rapid, ongoing retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift and increasing participation in national vowel changes. The social distribution of these trends is explored via standard social factors such as occupation as well as innovative network variables, including a measure of nestedness in the community network. The book aims to pursue new network-based questions about sociolinguistic variation that can be applied to other corpora, making this key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics as well as those interested in further understanding how existing quantitative network methods from sociological research might be applied to sociolinguistic data.

Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages - Insights from the Margins (Paperback): Emily Manetta Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages - Insights from the Margins (Paperback)
Emily Manetta
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly. After first defining what constitutes a marginal syntactic structure, this book then undertakes a micro-comparative approach to the rigorous exploration of fundamental properties of human language, including displacement, ellipsis, unbounded dependencies, and the role of clausal peripheries in such languages as Kashmiri and Romani. In so doing, Manetta interrogates and ultimately affirms the relevance of marked and marginal strings which have proven to be crucial to generative syntax while simultaneously advocating for the role of lesser-studied languages to the study of such properties. This book is key reading for graduate students and researchers in linguistics and syntax more specifically, as well as those interested in the study of Indic languages.

The Social Psychology of Humor (Hardcover): Madelijn Strick, Thomas E. Ford The Social Psychology of Humor (Hardcover)
Madelijn Strick, Thomas E. Ford
R3,477 Discovery Miles 34 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* The first book of its kind to approach the topic of humor from a social psychological perspective. * Includes contributions from leading international scholars to offer a broad, global overview of the social psychology of humor. * Focuses on current, cutting-edge research to provide future directions in the field for years to come.

The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication (Hardcover): David B Givens, John White The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication (Hardcover)
David B Givens, John White
R4,078 Discovery Miles 40 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Every day, the human awakes to a new world, a new dawn and a new cascade of nonverbal communication. It may be the pleasant scent of a rose, the soft touch of a loved one, the sight of sun rays on a bedroom floor or the excited chatter of a child. Whatever form it takes, your environment and all who inhabit it send nonverbal signals all day long - even while they sleep. The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication celebrates this communication, examining a very wide selection of nonverbal behaviors, actions and signals to provide the reader with an informed insight on the world around them and its messages. Compiled in the form of a dictionary, the book is presented as a series of chapters with alphabetical entries, ranging from attractiveness to zeitgeist. The book aims to provide the reader with a clear understanding of some of the relevant discourse on particular topics while also making it practical and easy to read. It draws on a wide selection of discourse from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and psychiatry. The dictionary will be an essential companion for anyone wishing to understand nonverbal communication. It will also be especially useful for those working in the field of nonverbal communication.

The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication (Paperback): David B Givens, John White The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication (Paperback)
David B Givens, John White
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Every day, the human awakes to a new world, a new dawn and a new cascade of nonverbal communication. It may be the pleasant scent of a rose, the soft touch of a loved one, the sight of sun rays on a bedroom floor or the excited chatter of a child. Whatever form it takes, your environment and all who inhabit it send nonverbal signals all day long - even while they sleep. The Routledge Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication celebrates this communication, examining a very wide selection of nonverbal behaviors, actions and signals to provide the reader with an informed insight on the world around them and its messages. Compiled in the form of a dictionary, the book is presented as a series of chapters with alphabetical entries, ranging from attractiveness to zeitgeist. The book aims to provide the reader with a clear understanding of some of the relevant discourse on particular topics while also making it practical and easy to read. It draws on a wide selection of discourse from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and psychiatry. The dictionary will be an essential companion for anyone wishing to understand nonverbal communication. It will also be especially useful for those working in the field of nonverbal communication.

Reported Speech in Chinese and English Newspapers - Textual and Pragmatic Functions (Hardcover): Wang Jingping Reported Speech in Chinese and English Newspapers - Textual and Pragmatic Functions (Hardcover)
Wang Jingping; XIN Bin; Contributions by Huachu Liu; Translated by Shen Lei; Gao Xiaoli
R4,509 Discovery Miles 45 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reported speech is a universal form across human languages. However, previous studies have tended to be limited because they mostly emphasize on the form and authenticity of reported speech, while its discourse and pragmatic functions have largely been ignored. Meanwhile, the studies mainly focus on English, with a comparative perspective with other languages largely missing. Acknowledging these limitations, this book analyzes the textual and pragmatic functions of reported speech in Chinese and English. The authors build a corpus comprising of twelve Chinese and English newspapers, including China Daily and The New York Times. They examine the classification and distribution of reported speech, the form and function in different news genres and contexts, and the socio-pragmatic interpretation of reported speech in news and other issues. This title can enrich comparative linguistic research, verify the feasibility of combining critical linguistics and corpus technology, and help improve the production and understanding of news reports. Students and scholars of critical discourse analysis, comparative linguistics, corpus linguistics, as well as communication studies will find this to be an essential guide.

Creoles, Revisited - Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics (Hardcover): Nicholas G Faraclas, Sally J.... Creoles, Revisited - Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics (Hardcover)
Nicholas G Faraclas, Sally J. Delgado
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages' formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses-and scholars across many disciplines-will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.

Language - The Last Homestead of Human Beings (Hardcover): Guanlian Qian Language - The Last Homestead of Human Beings (Hardcover)
Guanlian Qian; Contributions by Xiaolu An
R5,400 Discovery Miles 54 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Heidegger characterizes the relationship between language and Being as "language is the house of Being", negating the idea that language is merely a tool ready to be used at hand. Drawing on this idea, as well as ideas from anthropology, pragmatics, and folklore studies, the author argues that "language is the last homestead of human beings", meaning that mankind lives within language, has to live within language, and lives in formulaic speech events. The author takes Western classic works on the philosophy of language and his own insights of language use, rooted in traditional Chinese culture, in order to develop his own localized theory. In this title, the author explores the philosophical aspect of man's survival by presenting day-to-day exchange routines such as weddings and fortune-telling dialogues in the Chinese context. Awarded the first prize for Academic Excellence in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Guangdong Province, and second prize in the second Xu Guozhang Award for Foreign Language Studies, this is a must-read for researchers interested in philosophy of language and pragmatics.

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms (Hardcover): Gibran Delgado-Diaz The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms (Hardcover)
Gibran Delgado-Diaz
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic and susceptible to change. The past forms considered here include the preterit, the imperfect, the imperfect progressive with estar (temporal to be), the present perfect, the imperfect progressive with other auxiliary verbs, the preterit progressive with estar, and the preterit progressive with other auxiliary verbs. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students investigating tense and aspect phenomena in Spanish and other languages, grammaticalization processes, and language variation and change.

Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume I - The Sense-making Body (Paperback): Paul J. Thibault Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume I - The Sense-making Body (Paperback)
Paul J. Thibault
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term 'language' as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably, limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked volumes of Thibault's study articulate crucially important aspects of an emerging new perspective shift on language - the Distributed Language view - that is now receiving more and more attention internationally. Rejecting the classical view that the fundamental architecture of language can be localized as a number of inter-related levels of formal linguistic organization that function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a bio-cultural organisation of process that is embodied, multimodal, and integrated across multiple space-time scales. Thibault argues that we need to think of human languaging as the distinctively human mode of our becoming and being selves in the extended human ecology and the kinds of experiencing that this makes possible. Paradoxically, this also means thinking about language in non-linguistic ways that break the grip of the conventional meta-languages for thinking about human languaging. Thibault's book grounds languaging in process theory: languaging and the forms of experience it actualizes is always an event, not a thing that we 'use'. In taking a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, the book relates dialogical theories of human sense-making to the distributed view of human cognition, to recent thinking about distributed language, to ecological psychology, and to languaging as inter-individual affective dynamics grounded in the subjective lives of selves. In taking this approach, the book considers the coordination of selves in social encounters, the emergent forms of self-reflexivity that characterise these encounters, and the implications for how we think of and live our human sociality, not as something that is mediated by over-arching codes and systems, but as emerging from the endogenous subjectivities of selves when they seek to coordinate with other selves and with the situations, artefacts, social institutions, and technologies that populate the extended human ecology. The two volumes aim to bring our understanding of human languaging closer to human embodiment, experience, and feeling while also showing how languaging enables humans to transcend local circumstances and thus to dialogue with cultural tradition. Volume 1 focuses on the shorter timescales of bodily dynamics in languaging activity. Volume II integrates the shorter timescales of body dynamics to the longer cultural-historical timescales of the linguistic and cultural norms and patterns to which bodily dynamics are integrated.

Behavior and Culture in One Dimension - Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity (Paperback): Dennis Waters Behavior and Culture in One Dimension - Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity (Paperback)
Dennis Waters
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Draws on work across multiple disciplines, from astrobiology and physics to linguistics and the social sciences, making it appealing to graduates from a wide variety of fields. * The first accessible introduction into the important work of philosopher Howard Pattee. * Aims to equip readers with new approaches to simple and complex systems theory to take into any respective discipline.

Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects (Hardcover): Yolanda... Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects (Hardcover)
Yolanda Fernandez-Pena
R4,345 Discovery Miles 43 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martin Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)* *Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)* *Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and Linguistics* This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies - one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) - Fernandez-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change. This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

Healing the Reason-Emotion Split - Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard (Hardcover): Daniel S. Levine Healing the Reason-Emotion Split - Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard (Hardcover)
Daniel S. Levine
R3,321 Discovery Miles 33 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Healing the Reason-Emotion Split draws on research from experimental psychology and neuroscience to dispel the myth that reason should be heralded above emotion. Arguing that reason and emotion mutually benefit our decision-making abilities, the book explores the idea that understanding this relationship could have long-term advantages for our management of society's biggest problems. Levine reviews how reason and emotion operated in historical movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism and 1960s' counterculture, to conclude that a successful society would restore human connection and foster compassion in economics and politics by equally utilizing reason and emotion. Integrating discussion on classic and contemporary neurological studies and using allegory, the book lays out the potential for societal change through compassion, and would be of interest to psychologists concerned with social implications of their fields, philosophy students, social activists, and religious leaders.

Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Hardcover): Chung Min Lee, Young-Wha Kim,... Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Hardcover)
Chung Min Lee, Young-Wha Kim, Byeong-uk Yi
R4,062 Discovery Miles 40 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek universals or typological characteristics. The essays collected here from leading scholars in different fields promise to be greatly significant in the field of linguistics for several reasons. First, it targets three representative classifier languages in Asia. It also provides critical clues and suggests solutions to syntactic, semantic, psychological, and philosophical issues about classifier constructions. Finally, it addresses ensuing debates that may arise in the field of linguistics in general and neighboring inter-disciplinary areas. This book should be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of East Asian languages.

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