Authors:Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Richard B. Dasher,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: studies, linguistics, cambridge, change, semantic, regularity
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2002-02-04
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0521583780
ISBN-13: 9780521583787

This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.Book DescriptionThis new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language u

Authors:Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, grammaticalization
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-08-25
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521804213
ISBN-13: 9780521804219

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Traugott synthesize research from several areas of linguistics in this revised introduction to the subject. The book includes substantial updates on theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen in the decade since the first edition, as well as a significantly expanded bibliography. Particular attention is paid to recent debates over directionality

Authors:Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: studies, language, typological, grammaticalization, gradualness, gradience
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2010-02-24
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 9027206716
ISBN-13: 9789027206718

Authors:Laurel J. Brinton, Elizabeth Closs Traugott,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: surveys, linguistics, research, change, language, lexicalization
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521833108
ISBN-13: 9780521833103

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceived in a variety of ways. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various ideas that have been presented. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages.

Authors:Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice Ter Meulen, Judy Sni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: conditionals
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-06-18
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 052111327X
ISBN-13: 9780521113274

On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences directly reflect the language user’s ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the inferential strategies and the cognitive and linguistic processes of human beings. The present volume brings together studies from several perspectives - p

Authors:Mark Traugott, Mark Traugott, Charles Tilly, Marc W.S
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: action, collective, cycles, repertoires
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822315467
ISBN-13: 9780822315469

The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such collective action, social scientists have increasingly noted the remarkable regularities exhibited by even the most tumultuous social change. In this volume, sociologists, political scientists, and historians come together to assess the complementary concepts of repertoires and cycles as tools for illuminating the consistent patterns that emerge from the apparent chaos.The significance of repertoiresâ€

Author: Traugott Fischer
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: students, engineering, science, materials
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2008-11-13
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0123735874
ISBN-13: 9780123735874

Materials Science for Engineering Students offers students of introductory materials science and engineering, and their instructors, a fresh perspective on the rapidly evolving world of advanced engineering materials. This new, concise text takes a more contemporary approach to materials science than the more traditional books in this subject, with a special emphasis on using an inductive method to first introduce materials and their particular properties and then to explain the underlying physical and chemical phenomena responsible for those properties. The text pays particular attention to t