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Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar (Hardcover): Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar (Hardcover)
Andreas Dufter, Jurg Fleischer, Guido Seiler
R4,996 Discovery Miles 49 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale statistical analyses and investigations that rely more heavily on introspection and elicited grammaticality judgements. The aim of this volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between empirical-variationist and formal-theoretical approaches in linguistics. The volume offers case studies that seek to combine corpus-based and competence-based approaches to the description of variation. In doing so, it opens up new avenues for locating and analyzing variability, both at the level of the individual speaker and between speakers of different dialects and generations. The contributions document the plurality of current research into models of grammatical competence that live up to the challenge of variationist data. More specifically, parameter-based (e.g. Minimalist), constraint-based (e.g. Optimality Theoretic), and usage-based (e.g. Construction Grammar) approaches to variation are discussed. The volume therefore is of interest to a broad public within linguistics, including syntacticians of different theoretical persuasion, morphologists and sociolinguists. While a majority of contributions addresses facets of variation in English and German, the volume also includes variationist studies written by specialists of French, Dutch, Icelandic, and Uralic.

Language Contact across the North Atlantic - Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway... Language Contact across the North Atlantic - Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway (Ireland), 1992 and the University of Goeteborg (Sweden), 1993 (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
P.Sture Ureland, Iain Clarkson
R6,610 R5,890 Discovery Miles 58 900 Save R720 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups held at conferences at Galway (1992) and Goteborg (1993) which celebrated the quincentenary of Columbus' discovery of America in 1492. The pre-Columbian period of language contact is covered by articles on Old Norse in the Faroes, Scotland and Ireland, the Shetland dialect and Norn, and placenames in Iceland and Greenland. The articles on the post-Columbian period are wide-ranging and cover, in the Scandinavian context, the Scandinavian emigration, American Swedish, American Finnish, Swedish-Spanish and various aspects of Norwegian in America and also in Spitzbergen; in the British colonial context, English dialects in New England, Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia and Scots in North America (Maryland, the Appalachians and Virginia); in the context of the later continental mass emigration, American Dutch, Texas German, Croatian and Italian. Two papers deal with reverse emigration, that of Sicilian and Calabrian dialects, and the special case of Krio in Sierra Leone."

The New Cockney - New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London (Hardcover): S. Fox The New Cockney - New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London (Hardcover)
S. Fox
R2,378 R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Save R417 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and social practices within a single community and highlights some of the possible mechanisms for language change.

Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): A. Judge Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
A. Judge
R2,878 Discovery Miles 28 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was traditionally assumed that having a single official language was a necessary condition for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and the regional languages are making, in some cases, an impressive comeback. It is the story of their decline, their survival and, more recently their efforts to re-establish themselves as effective tools of normal communication which is tackled in this book. Each language is analyzed in terms of its development from the earliest times, through its period of decline to present-day efforts at regeneration.

Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Mirco Ghini Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Mirco Ghini
R3,561 Discovery Miles 35 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on a dual expertise of rare intensity, Mirco Ghini's book is a major contribution to both Romance dialectology and phonological theory. It gives a comprehensive account of the segmental and metrical phonology of the Ligurian dialect of the village of Miogliola, North-west Italy. Based on the author's own fieldwork, it is the first in-depth study of this area, also tracing its development from Latin. Feature assignment, underspecification, and quantity alternations are most prominent among the general theoretical issues on which the particulars of Miogliola phonology, meticuously analysed, are brought to bear with elegance and force.

Negation in the History of English (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff Negation in the History of English (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff
R5,122 Discovery Miles 51 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Variation, Selection, Development - Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change (Hardcover): Regine Eckardt, Gerhard... Variation, Selection, Development - Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change (Hardcover)
Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jager, Tonjes Veenstra
R6,099 Discovery Miles 60 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. In one of the youngest and rapidly growing areas of linguistic research, mathematical models and simulations of competition based developments have been applied to instances of language change. By matching the predicted and observed developmental trends, researchers gauge existing models to the needs of linguistic applications and evaluate the fruitfulness of evolutionary models in linguistics. The present volume confronts these studies with more empirically-based studies in creolization and historical language change which bear on key concepts of evolutionary models. What does it mean for a linguistic construction to survive its competitors? How do the interacting factors in phases of creolization differ from those in ordinary language change, and how - consequently - might Creole languages differ structurally from older languages? Some of the authors, finally, also address the question how different aspects of our linguistic competence tie in with our more elementary cognitive capacities. The volume contains contributions by Brady Clark et al., Elly van Gelderen, Alain Kihm, Manfred Krifka, Wouter Kusters, Robert van Rooij, Anette Rosenbach, John McWhorter, Teresa Satterfield, Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth C. Traugott. The book brings together contributions from two areas of research: the study of language evolution by means of methods from artifical intelligence/artificial life (like computer simulations and analytic mathematical methods) on the one hand, and empirically oriented research from historical linguistics and creolisation studies that uses concepts from evolutionary theory as a heuristic tool in a qualitative way. The book is thus interesting for readers from both traditions because it supplies them with information about relevant ongoing research and useful methods and data from the other camp.

Speaking and Social Identity - English in the Lives of Urban Africans (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Lawrence B Breitborde Speaking and Social Identity - English in the Lives of Urban Africans (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Lawrence B Breitborde
R4,804 Discovery Miles 48 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph is an anthropological study of the social significance of English among Kru residents of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. The volume contributes to our understanding of how contemporary Africans use language to negotiate conflicts and aspirations based on socioeconomic position and ethnic solidarity. aftermath of the first modern war.

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 2: Diachronic Databases (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): J Beal Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 2: Diachronic Databases (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
J Beal; Contributions by David Denison; Edited by K. Corrigan, H. Moisl
R2,877 Discovery Miles 28 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might describe as 'unconventional', namely, the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history. This book is a first step toward developing similar standards for enriching and preserving these neglected resources.

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 1: Synchronic Databases (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): J Beal, K. Corrigan, H. Moisl Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 1: Synchronic Databases (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
J Beal, K. Corrigan, H. Moisl
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might describe as 'unconventional', namely, dialects, child language and bilingual databases. This book is a first step toward developing similar standards for enriching and preserving these neglected resources.

Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Diana Villanueva Romero, Carolina Amador-Moreno, Manuel... Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Diana Villanueva Romero, Carolina Amador-Moreno, Manuel Sanchez-Garcia
R2,641 Discovery Miles 26 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and discourses. This edited collection analyses the work of well-known Irish authors such as Beckett, Joyce and G. B. Shaw, combining new methodologies with more traditional approaches to the study of literary discourse and style. Over the course of the volume, the contributors also discuss how Irish voices are received in translation, and how marginal voices are portrayed in the Irish mediascape. This dynamic book brings together a multitude of contrasting perspectives, and is sure to appeal to students and scholars of Irish literature, migration studies, discourse analysis, traductology and dialectology.

Time-Bound Words - Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's (Hardcover): P. Knapp Time-Bound Words - Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's (Hardcover)
P. Knapp
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Time-Bound Words argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following eleven words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Middle English words like corage, estat, thrift , and virtu come to serve the logic of new social discourses by 1611. Language from Chaucer, Wyclif, More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and others is examined both as current and emerging usage, and as verbal play that accomplishes cultural work.

The Origin of American Black English - Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Traute Ewers The Origin of American Black English - Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Traute Ewers
R4,488 Discovery Miles 44 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Teenage Talk - From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective (Hardcover, New): A.... Teenage Talk - From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective (Hardcover, New)
A. Stenstroem
R1,854 Discovery Miles 18 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

Rethinking Middle English 2005 - Linguistic and Literary Approaches (Paperback, illustrated edition): Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert... Rethinking Middle English 2005 - Linguistic and Literary Approaches (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert Schendl, Jacek Fisiak
R2,282 Discovery Miles 22 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual studies including recent developments in the study of text types and genres, as well as the sociohistorical perspective. This large variety of both traditional and new approaches is mirrored in the four main parts of the book, starting with texts and text types, and moving on to vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and finally phonology and orthography. Aspects of language contact as well as corpus linguistic studies are also addressed in a number of contributions. Author are leading experts in their fields, and come from the United States, South Africa, and all parts of Europe.

Acoustics of American English Speech - A Dynamic Approach (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): Joseph P. Olive, Alice Greenwood, John Coleman Acoustics of American English Speech - A Dynamic Approach (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
Joseph P. Olive, Alice Greenwood, John Coleman
R3,111 Discovery Miles 31 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents the most contemporary and comprehensive description of the acoustics of the sounds used in American English. Intended to serve as an introductory text for students and professionals interested in acoustic phonetics, linguistics, physics, electrical engineering, and computer science, the authors bring to the subject the points of view of both linguistics and physics. The book uses numerous examples of acoustic spectrograms to show the continuities and variability of natural speech. The book begins by introducing the basic concepts of phonetics, phonology, and linguistics to readers whose background is in physics or engineering and introducing the physics of sound generation and analysis for speech scientists and linguists. The authors then use the tools developed in the first part to examine the characteristics of individual phonemes as well as the changes introduced when individual sounds are combined in speech. Modern applications of speech acoustics, especially speech synthesis and recognition, are also discussed.

Syntactic Change in Medieval French - Verb-Second and Null Subjects (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): Barbara S. Vance Syntactic Change in Medieval French - Verb-Second and Null Subjects (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Barbara S. Vance
R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. 0. V2 AND NULL SUBJECTS IN THE HIS TORY OF FRENCH The prototypical Romance null subject language has certain well known characteristics: verbal inflection is rich, distinguishing six per sonlnumber forms; subject pronouns are generally emphatic; and, when there is no need to emphasize the subject, the pronoun is not expressed at all. Spanish and Italian, for example, fit this description rather weIl. Modem French, however, provides a striking contrast to these lan guages; it does not allow subjects to be missing and, not unexpectedly, it has a verbal agreement system with few overt endings and subject pronouns which are not emphatic. One of the goals of the present work is to examine null subjects in two dialects of Romance that fit neither the Italian nor the French model: later Old French (12th-13th centriries) and MiddIe French (14th- 15th centuries). Old French has null subjects only in contexts where the subject would be postverbal if expressed (cf. Foulet (1928)), and Mid dIe French has null subjects in a wider range of syntactic contexts but does not freely allow a11 persons of the verb to be null. The work of Vanelli, Renzi and Beninca (1985) (along with many other works by these authors individually) shows that a number of other geographically proximate medieval dialects had similar systems, though it appears that there are significant differences in detail among them."

Southern English Varieties Then and Now (Hardcover): Laura Wright Southern English Varieties Then and Now (Hardcover)
Laura Wright
R4,602 Discovery Miles 46 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Jonathon Green Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Jonathon Green
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.

Newspeak (Routledge Revivals) - A Dictionary of Jargon (Paperback): Jonathon Green Newspeak (Routledge Revivals) - A Dictionary of Jargon (Paperback)
Jonathon Green
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries - selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades, professions and interests - covering such areas as the world of entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the general inquisitive reader.

Tonal Accents in Norwegian - Phonology, morphology and lexical specification (Hardcover): Allison Wetterlin Tonal Accents in Norwegian - Phonology, morphology and lexical specification (Hardcover)
Allison Wetterlin
R3,476 Discovery Miles 34 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more simplex and unified morphophonological analysis of word accents in North Germanic. It gives the facts of accent distribution in Standard East Norwegian, discusses how three of the more recent and most important analyses of accent assignment in Norwegian and Swedish deal with these facts and provides an alternative analysis. Given that many Accent 1 words are loans, the book also discusses how loanword incorporated in East Norwegian and other North Germanic dialects and the question of why loans predominantly bear Accent 1. Although the focus of the book is word accent assignment in Standard East Norwegian, it also refers to Central Swedish and Old Norse. In this way, it accounts for many aspects of accent assignment, the true nature of which might have gone undetected had only one of the North Germanic language been taken into consideration. The book also dedicates one chapter to the phonetics of the tonal contrast. Addressing the question of how perceptually salient the tonal contrast is.

Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology - The Classification of Miin and Hakka (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): David Prager... Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology - The Classification of Miin and Hakka (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
David Prager Branner
R5,696 R5,088 Discovery Miles 50 880 Save R608 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.

The A - Z of Nuclear Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Jonathon Green The A - Z of Nuclear Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Jonathon Green
R3,118 Discovery Miles 31 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The terminology of the nuclear age expands and changes as fast as the weapons and strategies it describes; the dictionary therefore covers a span ranging from the first tentative post-Hiroshima ideas and systems through to the near-fictions of the 'Star Wars' initiative. This fascinating reissue will be of particular value to those in need of a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of nuclear warfare, as well as students of linguistics with a particular interest in slang and jargon.

Dialectology meets Typology - Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Hardcover): Bernd Kortmann Dialectology meets Typology - Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Hardcover)
Bernd Kortmann
R6,103 Discovery Miles 61 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Jonathon Green Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Jonathon Green
R8,822 Discovery Miles 88 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.

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