Authors:Bernd Heine, Bernd Heine, Heiko Narrog,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, linguistics, handbooks, linguistic, handbook, analysis
Number of Pages: 1048
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 019954400X
ISBN-13: 9780199544004

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the

Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: grammaticalization, forces, cognitive, auxiliaries
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1993-09-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195083873
ISBN-13: 9780195083873

Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully. Rather than a closed, self-contained system, language is an entity that is constantly shaped by such external factors as cognitive forces, pragmatic manipulati

Authors:Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evolution, language, studies, reconstruction, grammar, genesis
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-11-24
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0199227772
ISBN-13: 9780199227778

"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind."Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obsta

Authors:Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introduction, languages, african
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2000-09-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521666295
ISBN-13: 9780521666299

This book is the first general introduction to African languages and linguistics to be published in English. It covers the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and nonspecialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to by more advanced st

Authors:Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grammaticalization, lexicon, world
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-03-25
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521005973
ISBN-13: 9780521005975

While the comparative method is concerned with regularities in phonological change, grammaticalization theory deals with regularities of grammatical change. In an A-Z format, this book summarizes the most salient generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change of grammatical forms and constructions. It thus demonstrates that grammatical change is regular and also adds to our knowledge of universal properties of human languages. Indices organized by source and target concepts allow for flexible use, and the findings delineated in the book are relevant to students of language

Authors:Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evolution, language, studies, reconstruction, grammar, genesis
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-11-24
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0199227764
ISBN-13: 9780199227761

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacl

Authors:Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: language, contact, approaches, cambridge, grammatical, change
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-03-07
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521845742
ISBN-13: 9780521845748

The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. The book will be of great interest to all working in grammaticalization, language contact, and language change.