Sari: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2017, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191065026)
The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191056185)
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a specific framework for its study, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191511745)
This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside s...Loe edasi...
Otto Zwartjes, Klaus Zimmermann, Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Sari: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2014, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027270580)
The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions...Loe edasi...
Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Bettelou Los
Sari: Oxford Studies in the History of English
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2012, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199938483)
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and gramm...Loe edasi...
Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín, Thomas C. Smith-Stark
Sari: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2009, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027290397)
This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. It contains a selection of papers derived from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics held in Merida, Yucatan (Mexico), 14th-17th March 2007. As with the prev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2008, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780470754726)
The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaums classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understandi...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2007, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027291738)
This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volu...Loe edasi...
