On the Role of Perceptual Clues in Hebrew Relativization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Role of Perceptual Clues in Hebrew Relativization write by Talmy Givón. This book was released on 1975. On the Role of Perceptual Clues in Hebrew Relativization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Recent Study of Hebrew
The Recent Study of Hebrew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Recent Study of Hebrew write by Nahum M. Waldman. This book was released on 1989. The Recent Study of Hebrew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Grammar of Modern Hebrew
The Grammar of Modern Hebrew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Grammar of Modern Hebrew write by Lewis Glinert. This book was released on 2004-11-11. The Grammar of Modern Hebrew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reference book on Modern Hebrew morphology and syntax, this describes the language as it is really spoken and written in Israel today. The author pays particular attention to functional distinctions, giving equal weight to colloquial and formal usage.
On Understanding Grammar
On Understanding Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Understanding Grammar write by Talmy Givón. This book was released on 2014-05-10. On Understanding Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On Understanding Grammar covers the interdependencies among the various aspects of linguistics and the human language. This eight-chapter text considers some pertinent topics in linguistics, such as discourse-pragmatics, diachronic syntax, topology, creology, method, and ontology. Chapter 1 describes the notions of fact, theory, and explanation, particularly about how these notions manifest themselves in actual practice. Chapter 2 redefines syntax in terms of communicative function and discourse-pragmatics, and about the relation between the function of grammatical devices and their formal properties. Chapter 3 deals with discourse-pragmatics and how it transcends the narrow bounds of deductive logic, as well as the function and ontology of negation in language, and how those relate to the fundamental information-theoretic principle of figure versus ground. Chapter 4 explores the two major aspects of case systems, namely, the semantic role and pragmatic function, and how the two interact in determining the typological characteristics of grammars. Chapter 5 examines the relation between discourse and syntax based on diachronic, ontogenetic, phylogenetic viewpoints. Chapter 6 tackles the relation between synchronic grammar and diachronic change, while Chapter 7 describes the relationship between human language and its phylogenetic evolution. Chapter 8 is about language and ontology, as well as the relation between cognition and the universe. This book will prove useful to linguistics and language researchers.
Syntax
Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syntax write by Talmy Givón. This book was released on 2001. Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and pragmatic correlates of syntactic structure. With hindsight the author now finds the de-emphasis of the formal properties a somewhat regrettable choice, since it creates the false impression that one could somehow be a functionalist without being at the same time a structuralist. To redress the balance, explicit treatment is given to the core formal properties of syntactic constructions, such as constituency and hierarchy (phrase structure), grammatical relations and relational control, clause union, finiteness and governed constructions. At the same time, the cognitive and communicative underpinning of grammatical universals are further elucidated and underscored, and the interplay between grammar, cognition and neurology is outlined. Also the relevant typological database is expanded, now exploring in greater precision the bounds of syntactic diversity. Lastly, Syntax treats synchronic-typological diversity more explicitly as the dynamic by-product of diachronic development or grammaticalization. In so doing a parallel is drawn between linguistic diversity and diachrony on the one hand and biological diversity and evolution on the other. It is then suggested that as in biology synchronic universals of grammar are exercised and instantiated primarily as constraints on development, and are thus merely the apparent by-products of universal constraints on grammaticalization.
