1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451634603321

Titolo

Local budgeting [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anwar Shah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2007

ISBN

1-280-85771-4

9786610857715

0-8213-6946-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

Public sector governance and accountability series

Altri autori (Persone)

ShahAnwar

Disciplina

352.4/8214

Soggetti

Local budgets

Local finance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Overview; Part I Fiscal Administration; BOXES; TABLES; Part II Local Budgeting; FIGURES; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of local budgeting needed to develop sound fiscal administration such as setting priorities, planning, financial control over inputs, management of operations and accountability to citizens. Topics covered include fiscal administration, forecasting, fiscal discipline, fiscal transparency, integrity of revenue administration, budget formats, and processes including performance budgeting, and capital budgeting.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778375403321

Autore

Riemer Nick <1972->

Titolo

The semantics of polysemy [[electronic resource] ] : reading meaning in English and Warlpiri / / by Nick Riemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , c2005

ISBN

1-282-19393-7

9786612193934

3-11-019755-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Cognitive linguistics research ; ; 30

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Polysemy

Cognitive grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

English language - Semantics

Warlpiri language - Semantics

Warlpiri language C15

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-478) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1 Cognition and linguistic science -- Chapter 2 Meaning, definition and paraphrase -- Chapter 3 Evidence for polysemy -- Chapter 4 A four-category theory of polysemy -- Chapter 5 Applications I: English -- Chapter 6 Applications II: Warlpiri -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: description and explanation in semantics -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia). The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis



of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy. The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910862085303321

Autore

Romagno Domenica

Titolo

Variation, Contact, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages : Between Linguistics and Philology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

90-04-50887-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

RovaiFrancesco

BianconiMichele

CapanoMarta

Disciplina

417.7

Soggetti

Indo-European languages

Languages in contact

Language variation

Reconstruction (Linguistics)

Extinct languages

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

"The collected papers in this book address an array of important issues in the field of Historical Linguistics and, specifically, Indo-European Linguistics, including different theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language organization and change, building on the strict relationship between Linguistics and Philology. The papers provide significant contributions to the understanding of aspects of variation, contact and reconstruction, reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from a large variety of languages. The themes that emerge from the papers center around two main research lines: 1. the relationship between language facts and historical accidents; 2. the relationship between grammatical categories and conceptual representations. The book is of interest for any reader seeking to gain insight into the nature of language organization and change"--