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The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin
| The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Continuum, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina |
417.7
417/.7 |
| Collana | Open linguistics series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Semiotics Language and languages Linguistic change Language acquisition |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4411-8458-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Emerging Language; 2. On Grammar as the Driving Force from Primary to Higher-order Gonsciousness; 3. The Evolution of Language: A Systemic Functional Exploration of Phylogenetic Phases; 4. Language, Apes and Meaning-Making; 5. Agency, Individuation and Meaning-making: Reflections on an Episode of Bonobo-Human Interaction; 6. The ''Interpersonal First'' Principle in Child Language Development; 7. The World in Words: Semiotic Mediation, Tenor and Ideology; 8. Two Forms of Human Language
9. Changing the Rules, Changing the Game: A Sociocultural Perspective on Second Language Learning in the Classroom10. How our Meanings Change: School Contexts and Semantic Evolution; 11. Ontogenesis and Grammatics: Functions of Metalanguage in Pedagogical Discourse; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464219903321 |
| London : , : Continuum, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin
| The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Continuum, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina |
417.7
417/.7 |
| Collana | Open linguistics series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Semiotics Language and languages Linguistic change Language acquisition |
| ISBN | 1-4411-8458-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Emerging Language; 2. On Grammar as the Driving Force from Primary to Higher-order Gonsciousness; 3. The Evolution of Language: A Systemic Functional Exploration of Phylogenetic Phases; 4. Language, Apes and Meaning-Making; 5. Agency, Individuation and Meaning-making: Reflections on an Episode of Bonobo-Human Interaction; 6. The ''Interpersonal First'' Principle in Child Language Development; 7. The World in Words: Semiotic Mediation, Tenor and Ideology; 8. Two Forms of Human Language
9. Changing the Rules, Changing the Game: A Sociocultural Perspective on Second Language Learning in the Classroom10. How our Meanings Change: School Contexts and Semantic Evolution; 11. Ontogenesis and Grammatics: Functions of Metalanguage in Pedagogical Discourse; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786922003321 |
| London : , : Continuum, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin
| The development of language : functional perspectives on species and individuals / / edited by Geoff Williams and Annabelle Lukin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Continuum, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina |
417.7
417/.7 |
| Collana | Open linguistics series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Semiotics Language and languages Linguistic change Language acquisition |
| ISBN | 1-4411-8458-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Emerging Language; 2. On Grammar as the Driving Force from Primary to Higher-order Gonsciousness; 3. The Evolution of Language: A Systemic Functional Exploration of Phylogenetic Phases; 4. Language, Apes and Meaning-Making; 5. Agency, Individuation and Meaning-making: Reflections on an Episode of Bonobo-Human Interaction; 6. The ''Interpersonal First'' Principle in Child Language Development; 7. The World in Words: Semiotic Mediation, Tenor and Ideology; 8. Two Forms of Human Language
9. Changing the Rules, Changing the Game: A Sociocultural Perspective on Second Language Learning in the Classroom10. How our Meanings Change: School Contexts and Semantic Evolution; 11. Ontogenesis and Grammatics: Functions of Metalanguage in Pedagogical Discourse; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820917603321 |
| London : , : Continuum, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson
| Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 443 p |
| Disciplina | 415/.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JosephsonFolke |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb
Historical linguistics Typology (Linguistics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7181-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452505403321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson
| Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 443 p |
| Disciplina | 415/.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JosephsonFolke |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb
Historical linguistics Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-7181-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779887503321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson
| Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 443 p |
| Disciplina | 415/.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JosephsonFolke |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb
Historical linguistics Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-7181-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- In memoriam Kjartan Ottosson -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin -- 1. The development of the Latin verbal system -- 2. The future tenses in conditional clauses -- 3. The present tense in conditional clauses -- 4. The past tenses in conditional clauses -- 4.1 Early and Classical Latin -- 4.2 In Late Latin -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The subjunctive in classical MP -- 3. Vestiges of the subjunctive in late MP/Pahlavi -- 4. Alternatives to subjunctive mood in late MP/Pahlavi -- 4.1 Future -- 4.2 Subordinate clause as complement of the main clause verb -- 4.3 Subordinate clauses with adverbial status -- 4.4 Conditionals -- 4.5 Summary -- 5. Conclusions -- 6. Abbreviations -- Corpus -- Manichaean Middle Persian (MMP) -- Late Middle Persian texts (9th and 10th century Pahlavi books) -- References -- The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meanings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interaction between negation and imperative modality -- 3. The principal meanings of the negated imperative -- 3.1 Prohibitive meaning -- 3.2 Preventive meaning -- 4. Inverse imperatives -- 5. Summary -- References -- Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminary considerations -- 1.2 Sources of tense, aspect and mood markers in Australian languages -- 1.3 Aims and organisation of paper -- 2. Verbal sources of Aktionsart markers -- 3. Verbal sources of aspect derivational morphology -- 4. Verbal sources of mood inflections -- 5. Verbal sources of tense (and aspect) inflections -- 6. Conclusions -- References.
Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. TAM in counterfactuals - some data from a parallel corpus -- 3. Two different fake imperfectives -- 4. In mood for chess: the counterfactual imperfective -- 5. The anaphoric past (in French) -- 6. The competition perspective -- 7. From the factual to the counterfactual imperfective in Russian -- 8. Towards a principled explanation for the emergence of the fake imperfective -- 8.1 Case 1: "came" vs. "came and left" -- 8.2 Case 2: factual vs. counterfactual outcome -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic -- 1. Synthetic markers -- 2. Canonic periphrastic modal constructions -- 3. Non-canonical periphrastic modal constructions -- 4. Distribution -- 5. Modal agreement constructions -- 6. Examples -- Volition -- Necessity -- Possibility -- 7. The role of language contact -- Glosses -- References -- Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A diachronic and comparative perspective -- 3. Vulgar Latin and Romance languages -- 4. The role of ante-preterit in a tense system -- 5. Modal uses of the pluperfect -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Late Latin -- 3. Ibero-Romance -- 4. Habere as a pseudo-transitive -- 5. Three uses of habere -- 6. Conclusion -- Corpus -- References -- Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Algonquian family and Cree dialects -- 3. Cree verbal morphology -- 4. Cree nominal and verbal morphology: parallels in inflection and derivation -- 4.1 Parallels in person inflection -- 4.2 Possession/obviation -im -- 4.3 Possession/obviation -iyi- -- 4.4 Dubitative on noun -- 4.5 Locative on verb. 4.6 -(i)sk-, repeated action -- 4.7 -is diminutive ( 'do something a little bit') -- 4.8 -ipan 'deceased'/preterit -- 4.9 -iwi-/-iwin, -ikê-/ikan, -ihkê-/ihkân -- 4.10 Other forms in other Algonquian languages -- 4.11 Summary: morphological parallels between verbs and nouns -- 5. Semantic categories in the Algonquian verb: prefixes and suffixes -- 5.1 Person -- 5.2 Aspectual reduplications: durative and iterative -- 5.3 Aspect/tense: the preterits -- 5.4 Preverbal TAM elements -- 5.5 Evidentiality: dubitative suffix -- 5.6 Subordinators (and aspect?) -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 6. More on ordering: adpositions, instrumental affixes and relative roots -- 6.1 Prepositions and postpositions -- 6.2 Demonstratives -- 6.3 Position of the instrumental affixes -- 6.4 Relative roots -- 6.5 Stem structure -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7. Typology and areas -- 8. Discussion -- 8.1 A linguistic reconstruction -- 8.2 Historical scenario -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Typological change in Vedic: The development of the Aorist from a perfective past to an immediate past -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical prerequisites -- 3. The Vedic data -- 3.1 Chronological overview -- 3.2 The Early Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.3 The Early Middle Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.4 The Middle Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.5 The Late Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- On the evolution of verbal aspectin insular Celtic -- 1. Tense and aspect in common Celtic and early Irish -- 2. The emergence of an introspective aspectual formation -- 2.1 The development of an introspective passive -- 3. The emergence of a retrospective formation -- 3.1 The retrospective passive -- 4. The emergence of a prospective aspect -- 4.1 The prospective passive -- 5. The expression of contingent states -- 6. Cognitive basis of the system. 7. The motivation for the emergence of periphrastic aspects -- 7.1 The pattern of emergence -- 8. The functional expansion of the periphrastic aspects -- 8.1 The expansion of the introspective -- 8.2 Functional expansion of the retrospective -- 8.3 From contingent state to classification -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausative ("inchoative") na-verbs in the Germanic languages -- 2.1 Gothic na-verbs - anticausative rather than "inchoative" -- 2.2 na-verbs in North Germanic -- 2.3 "Inchoative" na-verbs - presumably a Germanic inheritance -- 3. Middles - anticausative and otherwise -- 3.0 Overview -- 3.1 The Gothic reflexive construction - not quite Middle voice -- 3.2 The Old Nordic Middle voice -- 3.3 The Old High German reflexive construction (Middle) -- 3.4 Other West Germanic languages -- 3.5 Some conclusions on na-verbs and Middles in the Old Germanic languages -- 4. "Inchoative" na-verbs, Middle, "Detransitives" as expressions of anticausative content -- 5. Anticausative detransitives and some other valence-changing devices across Germanic -- 5.0 Overview -- 5.1 Gothic -- 5.2 Old Nordic -- 5.3 Old High German -- 5.4 The other (Old) West Germanic languages, represented by Old English -- 5.5 Some conclusions on ja-causatives and detransitives -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Directionality, case and actionality in Hittite -- 1. Local adverbs/adpositions, clitics, and case -- 2. Semantics of local adverbs/adpositions -- 3. Hittite local adverbs/postpositions/preverbs -- 4. Local/directional clitics, local adverbs, and verbs of motion -- 5. Comparative semantics of Hittite and Latin local adverbs, adpositions, and preverbs -- 5.1 Adverbs/postpositions/preverbs of approach -- 5.2 Local adverbs of distancing function (éloignement). Latin de and ab. 5.3 Exit -- 5.4 Descendant and ascendant directionality -- 5.5 Entry -- 6. Internal location -- 7. External location -- 7.1 extra -- 7.2 prae/post -- 8. Below, above: sub, super -- 9. Adverbs/postpositions of intermediate location -- 10. Motion past and across -- 11. Clitics and case -- 12. Hittite -kan/-san and Luvian -tta/-tar -- 13. Final remarks -- References -- The case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese -- Introduction -- 1. Unaccusativity -- 2. The case of unaccusatives in Modern Portuguese -- 3. The data from Classical Portuguese -- 4. Conclusion -- Corpus -- References -- Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-Aramaic -- 1. Ergativity and the past perfective -- i. Split conditioned by the tense/aspect of the verb -- ii. Split conditioned by the semantic nature of the verb -- 2. The development of the active participle -- References -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810156903321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution [[electronic resource] ] : Scalar Inferences and Word Order / / by I-Hsuan Chen
| Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution [[electronic resource] ] : Scalar Inferences and Word Order / / by I-Hsuan Chen |
| Autore | Chen I-Hsuan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 240 p. 39 illus., 25 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 495.1 |
| Collana | Studies in East Asian Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Chinese language
Historical linguistics Pragmatics Chinese Historical Linguistics |
| ISBN |
978-981-13-0170-4
981-13-0170-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The Development of ‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Chinese -- The Development of the Polysemous Fixed ‘One’-phrase in Mandarin Chinese -- The Emergence of Scalar Particles DOU and YE in OV Order in Mandarin Chinese.-‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Numeral Classifier Languages -- Synchronic Variations: ‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Modern Mandarin Chinese -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300584903321 |
Chen I-Hsuan
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| Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / / edited by Richard J. Whitt
| Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / / edited by Richard J. Whitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Disciplina | 410.188 |
| Collana | Studies in Corpus Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Historical linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6350-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is genre? -- 3. Diachronic corpora: Challenges in design, compilation, and use -- 4. Some diachronic corpora -- 5. The present volume -- 6. Reflection -- References -- 'From above', 'from below', and regionally balanced -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivation for a (new) corpus of nineteenth-century German -- 3. Methodology: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German -- 3.1 Existing corpora of nineteenth-century German and their limits for variational analysis -- 3.2 A new corpus: The Corpus of Nineteenth-Century German (NiCe German Corpus) -- 4. Case studies -- 4.1 Ausklammerung -- 4.2 Diminutive -chen/-gen/-lein -- 4.3 Noun plural forms with or without Umlaut (Wägen/Wagen) -- 4.4 Other features and future research -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related work -- 3. Implementation -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Corpus data -- 3.3 Co-occurrence frequencies -- 3.3.1 Native co-occurrence relation -- 3.3.2 Term × document matrix co-occurrence relation -- 3.3.3 DDC co-occurrence relation -- 3.4 Scoring and pruning -- 3.5 Comparisons -- 3.6 Output & -- visualization -- 4. Examples -- 4.1 Adjectival attribution: What makes a "man"? -- 4.2 Pronominal adverbs and deictic locality -- 5. Conclusion -- Classical and modern Arabic corpora -- 1. Classical Arabic corpora for religious education and understanding -- 1.1 Quranic Arabic Corpus -- 1.2 QurAna: Quran pronoun anaphoric co-reference corpus -- 1.3 QurSim: Quran verse similarity corpus.
1.4 Qurany: Classical Arabic Quran with English translations and verse topics -- 1.5 Boundary-Annotated Quran Corpus -- 1.6 Quran Question and Answer Corpus -- 1.7 Multilingual Hadith Corpus -- 1.8 KSUCCA King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic -- 1.9 Corpus for teaching about Islam -- 2. Modern Arabic corpora for language teaching, lexicography, and text analytics -- 2.1 ABC: Arabic By Computer -- 2.2 CCA: Corpus of Contemporary Arabic -- 2.3 Arabic Internet Corpus -- 2.4 World Wide Arabic Corpus -- 2.5 Arabic Discourse Treebank -- 2.6 Arabic Learner Corpus -- 2.7 Arabic Children's Corpus -- 2.8 Arabic Dialect Text Corpus -- 3. Machine learning from the Quran for Modern Arabic text analytics -- References -- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aim -- 3. Approach -- 4. Data -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Commentary scripts in the vernacular -- 6.1 Middle English -- 6.2 Sixteenth-century texts -- 7. Compilations and combinations of genre scripts -- 7.1 Middle English -- 7.2 Sixteenth-century texts -- 8. Seventeenth-century afterlives of scholastic treatises -- 8.1 Professional audiences -- 8.2 The "debased" trend of scholastic argumentation -- 9. Eighteenth-century texts -- 9.1 Texts for professional audiences -- 9.2 Pseudo-science -- 10. A new ranking order of scholastic features -- 11. The diachronic line in a new perspective -- 12. Conclusions -- Corpora -- References -- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Colloquialization in writing -- 1.2 Register features of present-day academic writing -- 1.3 Two types of historical development: The need for quantitative corpus-based research -- 1.4 Goals of the study -- 2. Corpora and analytical methods. 3. The historical evolution of academic writing: Quantitative increases and functional extensions of phrasal complexity features -- 3.1 General patterns of historical change: Phrasal and clausal complexity features -- 3.2 Nouns as noun pre-modifiers across written registers -- 3.3 Prepositional phrases as noun post-modifiers across written registers -- 4. Summing up: Academic writing as a locus of historical change -- References -- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Grammatical words in diachrony -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- "You can't control a thing like that" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human impersonal pronouns -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Human impersonal pronouns in earlier English -- 3. A corpus study on the Modern English HIP you -- 3.1 The corpus and data extraction -- 3.2 Quantitative observations -- 4. Changes in English genres -- 4.1 Genres throughout Modern English -- 4.2 The role of second-person pronouns -- 5. Has impersonal you changed, after all? -- 5.1 Impersonal vs. deictic you -- 5.2 Simulation -- 5.3 Self-reference -- 5.4 A comparative view -- 5.5 How 'involved' are second-person impersonals? -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Concessive conjunctions in written American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research background -- 2.1 Three semantic types of concessives -- 2.2 The stylistics of concessive conjunctions -- 2.3 Research questions -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Corpus examples -- 4.2 Frequencies -- 4.3 Semantics -- 5. Summary and outlook -- References -- Appendix -- Variation of sentence length across time and genre -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sentence length in written English: The diachronic evolution across genres -- 2.1 Just a matter of punctuation conventions?. 3. A comprehensive analysis of sentence length in the time period of 1800-2000 -- 3.1 Design of the analysis and methodology -- 3.1.1 Full-text COHA -- 3.1.2 Genres in COHA -- 3.1.3 Sentence tokenisation: Methodology -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- 4. Sentence length and syntactic usage -- 5. Conclusions -- Corpora -- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Passive and case -- 3. The rise of the recipient passive in English -- 3.1 Allen's (1995) study -- 3.2 Comparing results from a multi-genre and a single-genre corpus study -- 4. The language contact hypothesis -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation -- 2.1 The problem of the comparability of texts -- 2.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence -- 2.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable -- 3. Parallel texts versus conventional corpora -- 3.1 The problem of the comparability of texts -- 3.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence -- 3.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable -- 4. New insights in the study of possession in Old Spanish -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix I -- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A parsed corpus of Middle Low German -- 3. Syntactic variation and the role of genre in the corpus -- 3.1 Discourse markers -- 3.2 Null pronominal arguments -- 3.2.1 Referential null subjects -- 3.2.2 Pronominal gaps in alse-clauses -- 3.2.3 Null resumptives in non-restrictive relative clauses. 3.2.4 Pronominal gaps in asymmetric coordinations -- 4. Summary and outlook -- References -- Genre influence on word formation (change) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of research -- 3. Approach, corpora, and methods -- 4. Quantitative productivity measures -- 5. Distribution of suffixational patterns -- 6. Semantic, syntactic, and textual implications -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Index. |
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Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / / edited by Richard J. Whitt
| Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / / edited by Richard J. Whitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Disciplina | 410.188 |
| Collana | Studies in Corpus Linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Historical linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6350-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is genre? -- 3. Diachronic corpora: Challenges in design, compilation, and use -- 4. Some diachronic corpora -- 5. The present volume -- 6. Reflection -- References -- 'From above', 'from below', and regionally balanced -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivation for a (new) corpus of nineteenth-century German -- 3. Methodology: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German -- 3.1 Existing corpora of nineteenth-century German and their limits for variational analysis -- 3.2 A new corpus: The Corpus of Nineteenth-Century German (NiCe German Corpus) -- 4. Case studies -- 4.1 Ausklammerung -- 4.2 Diminutive -chen/-gen/-lein -- 4.3 Noun plural forms with or without Umlaut (Wägen/Wagen) -- 4.4 Other features and future research -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related work -- 3. Implementation -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Corpus data -- 3.3 Co-occurrence frequencies -- 3.3.1 Native co-occurrence relation -- 3.3.2 Term × document matrix co-occurrence relation -- 3.3.3 DDC co-occurrence relation -- 3.4 Scoring and pruning -- 3.5 Comparisons -- 3.6 Output & -- visualization -- 4. Examples -- 4.1 Adjectival attribution: What makes a "man"? -- 4.2 Pronominal adverbs and deictic locality -- 5. Conclusion -- Classical and modern Arabic corpora -- 1. Classical Arabic corpora for religious education and understanding -- 1.1 Quranic Arabic Corpus -- 1.2 QurAna: Quran pronoun anaphoric co-reference corpus -- 1.3 QurSim: Quran verse similarity corpus.
1.4 Qurany: Classical Arabic Quran with English translations and verse topics -- 1.5 Boundary-Annotated Quran Corpus -- 1.6 Quran Question and Answer Corpus -- 1.7 Multilingual Hadith Corpus -- 1.8 KSUCCA King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic -- 1.9 Corpus for teaching about Islam -- 2. Modern Arabic corpora for language teaching, lexicography, and text analytics -- 2.1 ABC: Arabic By Computer -- 2.2 CCA: Corpus of Contemporary Arabic -- 2.3 Arabic Internet Corpus -- 2.4 World Wide Arabic Corpus -- 2.5 Arabic Discourse Treebank -- 2.6 Arabic Learner Corpus -- 2.7 Arabic Children's Corpus -- 2.8 Arabic Dialect Text Corpus -- 3. Machine learning from the Quran for Modern Arabic text analytics -- References -- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aim -- 3. Approach -- 4. Data -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Commentary scripts in the vernacular -- 6.1 Middle English -- 6.2 Sixteenth-century texts -- 7. Compilations and combinations of genre scripts -- 7.1 Middle English -- 7.2 Sixteenth-century texts -- 8. Seventeenth-century afterlives of scholastic treatises -- 8.1 Professional audiences -- 8.2 The "debased" trend of scholastic argumentation -- 9. Eighteenth-century texts -- 9.1 Texts for professional audiences -- 9.2 Pseudo-science -- 10. A new ranking order of scholastic features -- 11. The diachronic line in a new perspective -- 12. Conclusions -- Corpora -- References -- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Colloquialization in writing -- 1.2 Register features of present-day academic writing -- 1.3 Two types of historical development: The need for quantitative corpus-based research -- 1.4 Goals of the study -- 2. Corpora and analytical methods. 3. The historical evolution of academic writing: Quantitative increases and functional extensions of phrasal complexity features -- 3.1 General patterns of historical change: Phrasal and clausal complexity features -- 3.2 Nouns as noun pre-modifiers across written registers -- 3.3 Prepositional phrases as noun post-modifiers across written registers -- 4. Summing up: Academic writing as a locus of historical change -- References -- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Grammatical words in diachrony -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- "You can't control a thing like that" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human impersonal pronouns -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Human impersonal pronouns in earlier English -- 3. A corpus study on the Modern English HIP you -- 3.1 The corpus and data extraction -- 3.2 Quantitative observations -- 4. Changes in English genres -- 4.1 Genres throughout Modern English -- 4.2 The role of second-person pronouns -- 5. Has impersonal you changed, after all? -- 5.1 Impersonal vs. deictic you -- 5.2 Simulation -- 5.3 Self-reference -- 5.4 A comparative view -- 5.5 How 'involved' are second-person impersonals? -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Concessive conjunctions in written American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research background -- 2.1 Three semantic types of concessives -- 2.2 The stylistics of concessive conjunctions -- 2.3 Research questions -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Corpus examples -- 4.2 Frequencies -- 4.3 Semantics -- 5. Summary and outlook -- References -- Appendix -- Variation of sentence length across time and genre -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sentence length in written English: The diachronic evolution across genres -- 2.1 Just a matter of punctuation conventions?. 3. A comprehensive analysis of sentence length in the time period of 1800-2000 -- 3.1 Design of the analysis and methodology -- 3.1.1 Full-text COHA -- 3.1.2 Genres in COHA -- 3.1.3 Sentence tokenisation: Methodology -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- 4. Sentence length and syntactic usage -- 5. Conclusions -- Corpora -- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Passive and case -- 3. The rise of the recipient passive in English -- 3.1 Allen's (1995) study -- 3.2 Comparing results from a multi-genre and a single-genre corpus study -- 4. The language contact hypothesis -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation -- 2.1 The problem of the comparability of texts -- 2.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence -- 2.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable -- 3. Parallel texts versus conventional corpora -- 3.1 The problem of the comparability of texts -- 3.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence -- 3.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable -- 4. New insights in the study of possession in Old Spanish -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix I -- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A parsed corpus of Middle Low German -- 3. Syntactic variation and the role of genre in the corpus -- 3.1 Discourse markers -- 3.2 Null pronominal arguments -- 3.2.1 Referential null subjects -- 3.2.2 Pronominal gaps in alse-clauses -- 3.2.3 Null resumptives in non-restrictive relative clauses. 3.2.4 Pronominal gaps in asymmetric coordinations -- 4. Summary and outlook -- References -- Genre influence on word formation (change) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of research -- 3. Approach, corpora, and methods -- 4. Quantitative productivity measures -- 5. Distribution of suffixational patterns -- 6. Semantic, syntactic, and textual implications -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Index. |
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Diachronic corpus pragmatics / / Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Jukka Tuominen, University of Helsinki
| Diachronic corpus pragmatics / / Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Jukka Tuominen, University of Helsinki |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
| Disciplina | 425 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
TaavitsainenIrma
JuckerAndreas H TuominenJukka |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS) |
| Soggetto topico |
Corpora (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis Historical linguistics Pragmatics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7071-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Diachronic corpus pragmatics; 1. The components of diachronic corpus pragmatics; 2. Intersections with focus on diachrony; 3. Intersections with focus on corpus studies; 4. Intersections with focus on pragmatics; 5. Elaboration of context; 6. Searching for pragmatic entities; 7. The double binds of historical corpora; 7.1 Large generalizations versus rich contextualizations; 7.2 Normalized spelling versus faithful text reproduction and corpus annotation; 8. The articles in this volume
ReferencesCorpora and electronic resources; Secondary sources; Words; I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Data basis and methodology; 4. Findings; 4.1 Pretty; 4.2 A bit (of (a)); 5. Discussion: Pretty/a bit in the context of language/semantic change; 6. Conclusion and outlook; References; Electronic resources; Secondary sources; Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly'; 1. Introduction; 2. Causality, reported speech, and evidentiality 3. The dubitative muka in Present-day Finnish4. Establishing pragmatic meanings from historical material - a case study on nineteenth-century corpora; 4.1 Ideological frames of written texts; 4.2 Different dimensions of muka in nineteenth-century Finnish texts; 5. Dialect data and historical pragmatic analysis; 5.1 Introduction to Finnish dialect archives; 5.2 Reportative and dubitative readings of muka in the dialect data; 6. Discussion; References; Primary sources: Electronic corpora; Primary sources: Printed and Internet material; Secondary sources From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese1. Introduction; 2. Corpora; 3. Diachronic and synchronic survey of the three adverbs; Data analysis 1; Data analysis 2; Data analysis 3; 4. From adverbs to pragmatic particles; 4.1 Amari/Anmari/Anma; Data analysis 4; 4.2 Bakari/Bakkari/Bakka; Data analysis 5; 4.3 Yahari/Yappari/Yappa; Data analysis 6; 4.4 Semantic/functional comparison of all three adverbs; 5. On the parallel development of the three adverbs; The Korean case; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Corpora; Secondary sources Appendix: Novels selected for analysisAnalyzing polysemy in Estonian; 1. Introduction; 2. The many faces of täpselt; 2.1 Adverbial use; 2.2 Moving towards a new function; 3. Quantitative analysis of the use and function of täpselt; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References; Corpora and tools; Secondary sources; Appendix: Logistic regression analysis; On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente; 1. Introduction; 2. Veramente and davvero across centuries: Some rough quantitative data; 3. The wide multifunctionality of veramente in Old Italian 4. Towards intersubjectification: Veramente as a strategy for a mitigated rebuttal |
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