Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027204936)
In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational leve...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027204035)
The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistentl...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027203410)
This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach, CS shares with Cognitive Linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning corresponde...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027201676)
Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027200426)
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative in core voc...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215840)
This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215833)
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear; and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “se...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215826)
This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’sUlysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it i...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215819)
This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Sep-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215802)
This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies t...Loe edasi...
María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Angela Downing
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215789)
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influe...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215796)
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this bo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215772)
Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation o...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Sep-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215765)
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and se...Loe edasi...
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft, Lene Schøsler
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Dec-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215758)
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic c...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215741)
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent val...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215734)
The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Nov-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215727)
This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situation...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215703)
This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simple...Loe edasi...
María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elsa M. González Álvarez
Sari: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Dec-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027215710)
This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory an...Loe edasi...