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Bio-linguistics : the Santa Barbara lectures / / T. Givon
| Bio-linguistics : the Santa Barbara lectures / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401 |
| Soggetto topico | Biolinguistics |
| ISBN |
9786612160844
9781282160842 1282160842 9789027296061 9027296065 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bio-Linguistics -- Title page -- LCC page -- IN MEMORIAM JOSEPH GREENBERG -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Language as a biological adaptation -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The demise of competence -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Human language as an evolutionary product -- Notes -- Chapter 5 An evolutionary account of language processing rates -- Notes -- Appendix -- Chapter 6 The diachronic foundations of language universals -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The neuro-cognitive interpretation of 'context': Anticipating other minds -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The grammar of the narrator's perspective in fiction -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The society of intimates -- Notes -- Chapter 10 On the ontology of academic negativity -- Notes -- Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Context as other minds : the pragmatics of sociality, cognition, and communication / / T. Givon
| Context as other minds : the pragmatics of sociality, cognition, and communication / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Soggetto topico |
Pragmatics
Pragmatism |
| ISBN |
9786612156632
9781282156630 1282156632 9789027294340 9027294348 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Context as Other Minds -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Perspective -- 1.1. The conundrum of context -- 1.2. Russell's paradox -- 1.3. Objectivism -- 1.4. Relativism -- 1.5. Other minds -- 1.6. Recurrent themes -- 1.7. Early roots -- 1.8. Modern strands -- Notes -- 2. Categories as prototypes -- 2.1. Preamble -- 2.2. Philosophical roots -- 2.3. Linguistic roots -- 2.4. Prototypes: The adaptive middle -- 2.5. The adaptive underpinnings of prototype-like categories -- 2.6. Some social consequences of natural categorization -- 2.7. The cultural context of social decision-making -- Notes -- 3. Semantic networks and metaphoric language -- 3.1. Culturally shared generic mental maps -- 3.2. General design of the human communication system -- 3.3. The generic lexicon as a network of nodes and connections -- 3.4. Metaphoric or non-literal meaning -- 3.5. Figurative language and semantic networks -- 3.6. Adaptive motivation and frequency distribution of figurative language -- 3.7. Final reflections -- Notes -- 4. Grammar and other minds -- 4.1. Sociality, communication and other minds -- 4.2. Mental models -- 4.3. Grammar -- 4.4. Grammar and other minds -- 4.5. The selectivity of mental models -- 4.6. Other minds in an evolutionary perspective -- Notes -- 5. Referential coherence -- 5.1. Coherence as mental operations -- 5.2. Coherence as grounding -- 5.3. Use frequency, markedness and cognitive status -- 5.4. Cognitive model -- 5.5. Discussion -- Notes -- 6. Propositional modalities -- 6.1. Propositions vs. speakers -- 6.2. Epistemic modalities -- 6.3. Tense -- 6.4. Aspect -- 6.5. Deontic sub-modes of irrealis -- 6.6. The pragmatics of NEG-assertions -- 6.7. Evidentiality -- 6.8. Knowledge and power: The interaction between epistemics and deontics -- 6.9. Summary: Propositional modalities and other minds -- Notes.
7. Discourse coherence and clause chaining -- 7.1. Reorientation -- 7.2. Clause chaining -- 7.3. Pre-initial clauses ('coherence bridges') -- 7.4. Chain-initial vs. chain-medial clauses -- 7.5. Clause-level vs. chain-level conjunction -- 7.6. Chain-medial cataphoric switch-reference (DS) devices -- 7.7. Recapitulation: clause chaining and other minds -- Notes -- 8. Community as other mind -- 8.1. The scientist vs. the organism -- 8.2. Reductionist extremes in the philosophy of science -- 8.3. The pragmatics of empirical science -- 8.4. Multiple loci of pragmatic inference in the empirical cycle -- 8.5. The social pragmatics of science: Community as other minds -- Notes -- 9. The adaptive pragmatics of 'self' -- 9.1. Preamble -- 9.2. The essentialist self -- 9.3. The multiple self -- 9.4. The impaired self -- 9.5. The complex self as an adaptive strategy -- Notes -- 10. The pragmatics of martial arts -- 10.1. Preamble -- 10.2. Adaptive realism: There shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth -- 10.3. The paradox of Karma -- 10.4. Tao and Wu-Wei -- 10.5. Wu-Wei as paradox -- 10.6. Wu-Wei as strategy -- 10.7. The paradox of the invisible leader -- 10.8. The yoga of form -- 10.9. The ritualization of form -- 10.10. Complexity: Seven paradoxes -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2005 | ||
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The genesis of syntactic complexity : diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution / / T. Givon
| The genesis of syntactic complexity : diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Linguistic change Language acquisition Language and languages - Origin Human evolution Neurolinguistics |
| ISBN |
9786612105012
9781282105010 1282105019 9789027290052 9027290059 |
| Classificazione | ES 425 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Copyright acknowledgment -- Preface -- Part 1. Background -- Chapter 1. Complexity -- 1.1. Complexity and syntax -- 1.2. Developmental domains -- 1.3. Developmental trends in the genesis of syntactic complexity -- 1.3.1 From words to simple clauses -- 1.3.2 From clauses to chains to embedded clauses -- 1.4. The neuro-cognitive basis of syntactic complexity -- 1.4.1 Cognition and syntactic complexity -- 1.4.2 The neuro-cognition of syntactic complexity -- 1.4.3. Brain localization -- 1.5. Bio-evolutionary context -- Chapter 2. The adaptive approach to grammar -- 2.1 General orientation -- 2.2 Representation and communication -- 2.3 Human language as a combinatorial system -- 2.4 Grammar -- 2.4.1 Preliminaries -- 2.4.2 Grammar as structure -- 2.4.3 Grammar as function -- 2.5 Grammar and other minds -- 2.5.1 Mental models of epistemic states -- 2.5.2 Mental models of deontic states -- 2.6 The adaptive ecology of human communication -- 2.7 Cultural evolution -- Part 2. Diachrony -- Chapter 3. The diachrony of grammar -- 3.1. Diachrony and evolution* -- 3.2. Diachronic change, typological diversity and language universals -- 3.3. Case study: The diachronic typology of passive clauses -- 3.3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.3.2 The typology of passive constructions -- 3.3.3 Early vs. late stages of grammaticalization -- 3.3.4 Grammatical relations in the passive clause -- 3.3.5 Structural re-analysis: Early vs. late-stage grammaticalization -- 3.3.5.1 Reversion to nominative subject in the Lunda passive -- 3.3.5.2 Reversion to nominative in the Guarijío and Tarahumara passive -- 3.3.5.3 Retreat from nominative in the Spanish reflexive-passive -- 3.4. Syntactic change and the genesis of grammatical morphology.
3.5. Methodological aspects of diachronic reconstruction -- 3.6. Conclusion -- 3.6.1 Diachronic determination of synchronic traits -- 3.6.2 Change, variation and adaptive selection -- Chapter 4. Multiple routes to clause union -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Preliminaries -- 4.2.1 Grammaticalization, co-lexicalization and clause union -- 4.2.2 Functional and structural dimensions of clause union -- 4.2.2.1 Event integration and clause union: The Complementation scale -- 4.2.2.2 Finiteness -- A. Extreme nominalizing (embedding) languages -- B. Extreme finite ('non-embedding') languages -- 4.3 Two diachronic routes to clause-union -- 4.3.1 Preamble -- 4.3.2 Clause-union in equi-subject (SS) configurations -- 4.3.2.1 Verb adjacency and co-lexicalization -- 4.3.2.2 Finiteness gradients and grammaticalization -- 4.3.3 Clause-union in switch-subject (DS) configurations -- 4.4. The transfer of finite morphology from chains to serial clauses -- 4.5. Other types of complex predicates -- 4.5.1 Clearly serial -- 4.5.2 Clearly embedded -- 4.5.2.1 Cognate object constructions -- 4.5.2.2 Ideophone constructions -- 4.5.2.3 Co-verb constructions -- 4.5.3 Complex multi-stem verbal word -- 4.5.3.1 Pre-verbal incorporation of post-positions in Rama -- 4.5.3.2 Pre-verbal incorporated preposition in Romance and Germanic -- 4.5.3.3 Incorporated objects, instruments, adverbs and verbs in No. Uto Aztecan -- 4.5.3.4 Pre-verbal incorporated 'adverbial' stems in Athabaskan -- 4.6. Final reflections -- Chapter 5. The diachrony of relative clauses -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. From clause-chaining to embedding -- 5.3. From parenthetical non-restrictive to embedded REL-clauses -- 5.4. Are nominalized REL-clauses a separate diachronic pathway? -- 5.5. Word-order typology and the diachronic source of REL-clauses -- 5.6. Cleft and WH-questions. 5.7. WH pronouns as REL-pronouns: A third pathway? -- 5.8. Conclusion -- Part 3. Ontogeny -- Chapter 6. Child language acquisition -- 6.1. Preliminaries -- 6.2. Communicative ecology -- 6.3. Early lexicon and the one-word stage -- 6.4. Pre-grammatical pidgin communication: The two-word stage -- 6.5. Complex-embedded clauses -- 6.6. Combination vs. expansion -- Chapter 7. The ontogeny of complex verb phrases -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Data-base -- 7.3. Modal interaction units -- 7.3.1 Simple modal interactions -- 7.3.2 Complex modal interactions -- 7.3.3 Boundaries of modal interaction units -- 7.3.4 Identifying the child's speech-act intention -- 7.4. What counts as complex modal construction? -- 7.5. The communicative context: A quantitative analysis -- 7.5.1 Who takes the initiative for launching modal interaction? -- 7.5.2 Spatio-Temporal displacement -- 7.5.3 Speech-act value -- 7.5.4 Subject of modal expressions -- 7.6. Modality-marking grammatical devices -- 7.6.1 General considerations -- 7.6.2 Quantitative analysis -- 7.6.2.1 Stage-I -- 7.6.2.2 Stage II -- 7.6.2.3 Stage-III -- 7.7. Cross-turn distributed syntactic complexity: Paratactic precursors of complex verb phrases -- 7.7.1 Qualitative analysis: Types of cross-turn distributed complex modal expressions -- 7 Child responses to grammatically-marked adult modal expression (Nina-II) -- 7 Adult response to child's previous modal turn (Nina-II) -- 7.7.2 Quantitative analysis: Distribution of the various response types across diads and stages -- 7.7.2.1 Child responses to marked modal expressions in the preceding adult turns -- 7.7.2.2 Adult response to unmarked modal expressions in the child's preceding turn -- 7.8. Child-adult comparisons -- 7.9. Conclusion -- 7.9.1 Child development and the communicative context -- 7.9.2 Semantics vs. syntax. 7.9.3 Combination and condensation: From parataxis to syntaxis -- 7.9.4 Early childhood modal structure and the acquisition of Theories of Mind -- Appendix 1 Example and numerical distribution of direct speech-act vs. descriptive uses of complex modal expressions by the children and adults at stage-I -- 1 A: EVE-I: Distribution of child use of complex modal expressions -- 1 B: Eve-I: Distribution of adult use of complex modal expressions -- 1 C: NAOMI-I: Distribution of child use of complex modal expressions -- 1 D: NAOMI-I: Distribution of adult use of complex modal expressions -- 1 E: NINA-I: Distribution of child use of complex modal expressions -- 1 F: NINA-I: Distribution of adult use of complex modal expressions -- Appendix 2: Distribution of direct speech-act vs. descriptive use of complex modal expressions -- 2 A: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns in Eve-II -- 2 B: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns in Eve-II -- 2 C: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns, Naomi-II -- 2 D: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns , Naomi-II -- 2 E: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns, Nina-II -- 2 F: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns in Nina-II -- Appendix 3: Distribution of direct speech-act vs. descriptive use of complex modal expressions -- 3 A: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns, Eve-III -- 3 B: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns, Eve-III -- 3 C: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns, Naomi-III -- 3D: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns, Naomi-III -- 3 E: Distribution of child uses of modal patterns, Nina-III -- 3F: Distribution of adult uses of modal patterns, Nina-III -- Chapter 8. The ontogeny of relative clauses -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.1.1 The adaptive ecology of REL-clauses -- 8.1.2 The grammar referent tracking -- 8.2. Texts and subjects. 8.3. REL-clause types in the CHILDES texts -- 8.3.1 What counts as a REL-clause? -- 8.4. The communicative use of restrictive post-nominal modifiers: Qualitative analysis -- 8.4.1 Early stage (III -- ca. 2 -- 6-2 -- 8) -- 8.4.2 Intermediate stage (IV -- ca. age 3 -- 6) -- 8.4.3 Late stage (V -- ca. age 4 -- 6) -- 8.5. The communicative ecology of REL-clause acquisition: Quantitative analysis -- 8.5.1 Displaced referents -- 8.5.2 Displaced temporality -- 8.5.3 Length of coherent clause-chains inside single turns -- 8.5.4 Speech-act distribution -- 8.6. Paratactic precursors of children's REL clauses -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 8.7.1 The adaptive ecology of child communication -- 8.7.2 Adaptive-communicative context and syntactic development -- 8.7.3 Expansion' vs. 'condensation': From parataxis to syntaxis -- 8.7.4 Whither 'recursivity'? -- Chapter 9. Second-language pidgin -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Pre-grammar: Syntactic regularities in pidgin communication -- 9.3. Some neurological correlates of pidgin communication -- 9.4. Conclusion -- Part 4. Biology, neuro-cognition and evolution -- Chapter 10. From single words to verbal clauses -- 10.1. Introduction* -- 10.2. Zero anaphora and verbless clauses -- 10.3. Verbless clauses in spoken Ute narrative -- 10.3.1 Flexible word-order in Ute -- 10.3.2 Verbless constituents under separate intonation contours -- 10.3.3 Text distribution of verbal vs. verbless clauses in Ute -- 10.4. Verbless ('scattered') constituents in spoken English -- 10.5. Are verbless clauses well-governed? -- 10.5.1 Government of verbless clauses in English conversation -- 10.5.2 Government of verbless clauses in spoken Ute narratives -- 10.6. Verbless clauses in early child language -- 10.7. Verbless clauses in second language pidgin -- 10.8. Verbless clauses in Broca's aphasia speech -- 10.9. Summary -- 10.10. Discussion. 10.10.1 Indexing verbless constituents to adjacent verbal clauses. |
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Givon Talmy <1936->
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Syntax [[electronic resource]] . Volume 1 : an introduction. / / T. Givon
| Syntax [[electronic resource]] . Volume 1 : an introduction. / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvii, 500 p |
| Soggetto topico |
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-16227-6
9786612162275 90-272-9793-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782582703321 |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Syntax [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction . Vol. 2 / / T. Givon
| Syntax [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction . Vol. 2 / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [[New ed.].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : Benjamins, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 406 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Typology (Linguistics) Functionalism (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
9786612162268
1-282-16226-8 90-272-9792-4 90-272-2579-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782197303321 |
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| Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : Benjamins, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Syntax [[electronic resource]] . Volume 1 : an introduction. / / T. Givon
| Syntax [[electronic resource]] . Volume 1 : an introduction. / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvii, 500 p |
| Disciplina | 425 |
| Soggetto topico |
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
9786612162275
9781282162273 1282162276 9789027297938 9027297932 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Syntax -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The functional approach to language and the typological approach to grammar -- Chapter 2. The lexicon -- Chapter 3. Simple verbal clauses and argument structure -- Chapter 4. Grammatical relations and case-marking systems -- Chapter 5. Word order -- Chapter 6. Tense, aspect and modality I -- Chapter 7. Tense, aspect and modality II -- Chapter 8. Negation -- Chapter 9. Referential coherence I -- Chapter 10. Referential coherence II -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Givon Talmy <1936->
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2001 | ||
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Syntax [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction . Vol. 2 / / T. Givon
| Syntax [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction . Vol. 2 / / T. Givon |
| Autore | Givon Talmy <1936-> |
| Edizione | [[New ed.].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : Benjamins, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 406 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Typology (Linguistics) Functionalism (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
9786612162268
9781282162266 1282162268 9789027297921 9027297924 9789027225795 9027225796 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Syntax -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Chapter 11. Noun phrases -- Chapter 12. Verbal omplements and clause union -- Chapter 13. De-transitive voice -- Chapter 14. Relative clauses -- Chapter 15. Contrastive focus constructions -- Chapter 16. Marked topic constructions -- Chapter 17. Non-declarative speech-acts -- Chapter 18. Inter-clausal coherence -- References -- Index. |
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Givon Talmy <1936->
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| Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : Benjamins, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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