Author: Leonard Talmy
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: structuring, language, speech, communication, concept, process, semantics, volume, typology, cognitive
Number of Pages: 503
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0262700972
ISBN-13: 9780262700979

In this two-volume set Leonard Talmy defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic struc

Authors:Lars Johanson, Bo Utas,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: approaches, language, typology, vol, empirical, languages, turkic, iranian, neighbouring, evidentials
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 2000-09
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 3110161583
ISBN-13: 9783110161588

This volume deals with the frequently misinterpreted evidential categories – grammaticalised expressions of subjective experience – found in the verbal systems of Turkic and Iranian languages as well as in some of their Slavic, Finno-Ugric, Tungusic, Caucasian and Armenian contact languages.

Authors:Johan Van Der Auwera, Donall O Baoill,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: approaches, language, typology, empirical, europe, constructions, languages, adverbial
Number of Pages: 852
Published: 1998-06
List price: $263.00
ISBN-10: 3110157462
ISBN-13: 9783110157468

Authors:Henk C. Van Riemsdijk, George Bosong, Bernard Comrie
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: language, typology, approaches, empirical, languages, europe, clitics
Number of Pages: 1026
Published: 1999-07
List price: $375.00
ISBN-10: 3110157519
ISBN-13: 9783110157512

This volume constitutes a substantial contribution to the grammar of clitics. It offers an extensive overview of the current state-of-the-art, presenting a broad variety of analytical and theoretical approaches to clitics.

Author: Bernd Kortma
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouto
Keywords: trends, perspective, linguistics, studies, monographs, linguistic, cross, meets, typology, dialect, grammar, dialectology
Number of Pages: 541
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3110179490
ISBN-13: 9783110179491

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others’ work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticaliza

Authors:Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouto
Keywords: approaches, language, typology, eurotyp, empirical, europe, organization, discourse, languages, pragmatic
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $121.00
ISBN-10: 3110157535
ISBN-13: 9783110157536

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given informa

Authors:Giuliano Bernini, Paolo Ramat,
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: empirical, approaches, language, typology, approach, typological, sentences, languages, europe, negative
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1997-01
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 3110140640
ISBN-13: 9783110140644