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, 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.

Author: Tania Mol
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: management, safety, productive
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $68.95
ISBN-10: 075065922X
ISBN-13: 9780750659222

Unlike most books on this subject, Productive Safety Management, described in this book, integrates occupational health and safety, human resource management, environmental management, and engineering to provide a whole-business approach to effective safety management.The book helps companies to reduce and manage risk by providing, analysing and improving systems in place within the company. It also looks at how external factors can affect company decision making and provides a tool to make sure that a health and safety management system is strategically aligned, appropriately resourced, and t

Author: Tania Aebi
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1574092138
ISBN-13: 9781574092134

In 1985, at age 18, Tania Aebi set out to sail around the world alone. She became instantly famous with Maiden Voyage, the best-selling book she wrote about the solo trip. In over twenty years of cruising by herself and with family, and leading ten-day flotillas to charter destinations in a professional capacity, she has gathered many anecdotes, observations, opinions, cautionary tales and advice. Indeed, she has been around. She was hired as a columnist in 1997 by the fledging sailing magazine Latitudes and Attitudes. "Casual and friendly in its approach to the sailing world, the magazineR

Author: Tania Stathaki
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: applications, algorithms, fusion, image
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2008-08-28
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0123725291
ISBN-13: 9780123725295

The growth in the use of sensor technology has led to the demand for image fusion: signal processing techniques that can combine information received from different sensors into a single composite image in an efficient and reliable manner. This book brings together classical and modern algorithms and design architectures, demonstrating through applications how these can be implemented.Image Fusion: Algorithms and Applications provides a representative collection of the recent advances in research and development in the field of image fusion, demonstrating both spatial domain and transform doma