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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can
be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten
lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the
theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological
approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic
processes in language. The lectures address issues such as
constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts
in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in
constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize
modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current
theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant
for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus
linguistics, and historical linguistics.
Geoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian
language YukhÃti Kóy, better known in English as Atakapa, once
spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas.
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a drastic
fall in the Atakapa population, and by the first decades of the
twentieth century the Atakapa language ceased to be spoken. The
grammar is based on the field notes collected by Albert Samuel
Gatschet in January of 1885, with additional material collected by
John R. Swanton in 1907–8. Gatschet worked with two speakers of
the language, Kišyuc, also known as Yoyot, and her cousin
Tottokš, whose English names were Louison Huntington and Delilah
Moss, respectively. John R. Swanton wrote a grammatical sketch of
Atakapa in 1929 based on Gatschet’s notes and in 1932 published
the texts Gatschet had gathered, as well as a dictionary. The
materials, originally written phonetically, have been phonemicized,
and the nature of the grammar has been elucidated. The nine
surviving texts in YukhÃti have been phonemicized, analyzed, and
translated, and the parallels between them and other traditional
oral literatures of Native American languages of the Southeast are
discussed. This reference grammar includes a vocabulary of all
words contained in the field notes. Â
Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes
written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for
any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or
from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through
translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in
the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the
history of translation as related to grammatical changes in English
and Greek in a contrastive way. In this respect, emphasis is placed
on the analysis of diachronic retranslations: the book examines
translations from earlier periods of English and Greek in relation
to various grammatical characteristics of these languages in
different periods and in comparison to non-translated texts.
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Origen
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Ronald E Heine
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This volume presents the research insights of twelve new studies by
fourteen linguists examining a range of Biblical Hebrew grammatical
phenomena. The contributions proceed from the second international
workshop of the Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology network
(www.BHLaP.wordpress.com), initiated in 2017 to bring together
theoretical linguists and Hebraists in order to reinvigorate the
study of Biblical Hebrew grammar. Recent linguistic theory is
applied to the study of the ancient language, and results in
innovative insight into pausal forms, prosodic dependency, ordinal
numeral syntax, ellipsis, the infinitive system, light verbs,
secondary predicates, verbal semantics of the Hiphil binyan, and
hybrid constructions.
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Zulu names
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Local history and folklore often inform the naming of people and
places. Does eThekwini mean "place of the lagoon" or "place of the
single testicle"? How are the names of dogs used to accuse a
neighbor of witchcraft? What is the origin of Jamludi? Is the Zulu
isibongo the same as a surname? Zulu Names explores the meanings of
and metaphors behind more than a thousand Zulu names grouped into
different categories: from personal names and nicknames to clan
names and praises; from place, homestead and regimental names to
school and shop names; and from domestic animal and bird names to
the names of the Zulu lunar months. For the more serious scholar,
Zulu Names also contains ground-breaking research and onomastic
material. This is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in
Zulu language or culture, or in naming practices generally.
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