Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony - 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 Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony write by Sonia Cristofaro. This book was released on 2018-07-15. Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.
Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation
Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation - 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 Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation write by Silvia Ballarè. This book was released on 2023-10-04. Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.
The Hittite Middle Voice
The Hittite Middle Voice - 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 Hittite Middle Voice write by Guglielmo Inglese. This book was released on 2020-07-13. The Hittite Middle Voice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Inglese offers a new description of the middle voice in Hittite, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The analysis is based on a corpus of original Hittite texts and is framed within current trends in linguistic typology.
Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective
Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective - 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 Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective write by Thomas Stolz. This book was released on 2023-12-04. Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time place names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names from personal names and common nouns. It is shown that the behavior of place names in morphology and syntax frequently disagrees with the rules established for other word classes independent of the language’s genetic affiliation, grammatical structure, and geographic location. Place names boast a grammar of their own. They are candidates for the status of a distinct word class. The special grammar of place names comes frequently to the fore in the domain of spatial relations. This fact is explained with reference to functional notions.
Proper Names versus Common Nouns
Proper Names versus Common Nouns - 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 Proper Names versus Common Nouns write by Javier Caro Reina. This book was released on 2022-11-07. Proper Names versus Common Nouns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.
