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Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically
differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known
about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences
between proper names and common nouns in less known
(Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together
contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case
marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and
possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and
typological perspective. The languages surveyed include
Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and
Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding
not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns,
but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes
such as personal names, place names, and others.
Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic
theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the
world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has
established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature
of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural
languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have
contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This
volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding
scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that
address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the
nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional
domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data
from individual languages and from typological samples are
investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the
properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are
dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions,
modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations,
word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The
structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the
analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the
semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both
perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on
either the former or the latter perspective.
Grammaticalization theory has played a major role in the
developments in language typology and functional linguistics during
the last three decades. Grammaticalization phenomena show that
grammars evolve in a continuous way following cross-linguistically
established diachronic paths. The contributions in this book shed
new light on some central issues in grammaticalization theory such
as the (uni-)directionality debate, the relation between
grammaticalization and constructions, and the concept of multiple
grammaticalization. Evidence for grammaticalization in several
domains of grammar is presented: adpositions, numeral classifiers,
honorifics, agreement markers, applicatives, reciprocals, delexical
verbs, auxiliaries, relative clauses, and discourse particles. The
empirical investigations come from several languages, among them
many understudied languages such as Nanafwe, Maltese, Manambu,
Chibchan and Siouan languages.
This is a comprehensive dictionary of the Hoc/ak language which
contains approximately 4000 entries. The volume features an
introduction to the basics of the phonology, orthography, and
morphology of the Hoc/ak language, written in an easy-to-access
style, explaining linguistic terms so that it can be used by
nonlinguistics."
This is a comprehensive dictionary of the Hoc/ak language which
contains approximately 4000 entries. The volume features an
introduction to the basics of the phonology, orthography, and
morphology of the Hoc/ak language, written in an easy-to-access
style, explaining linguistic terms so that it can be used by
nonlinguistics."
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