Download or read book Residues of Pre Indo European Active Structure and Their Implications for the Relationships Among the Dialects written by Winfred Philipp Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language in Time and Space written by Brigitte L.M. Bauer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.
Download or read book Reconstructing Syntax written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
Download or read book Early Years in Machine Translation written by W. John Hutchins and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title details the history of the field of machine translation (MT) from its earliest years. It glimpses major figures through biographical accounts recounting the origin and development of research programmes as well as personal details and anecdotes on the impact of political and social events on MT developments.
Download or read book Grammatical Change in Indo European Languages written by Vít Bubeník and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.
Download or read book Origins of the Greek Verb written by Andreas Willi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outline in full the developments which led from the remotest recoverable stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in Homer and other early Greek texts. By combining the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction with a careful examination of large collections of primary data and insights gained from the study of language change and linguistic typology, Andreas Willi uncovers the deeper reasons behind many surface irregularities and offers a new understanding of how categories such as aspect, tense and voice interact. Drawing upon evidence from all major branches of Indo-European, and providing exhaustive critical coverage of scholarly debate on the most controversial issues, this book will be an essential reference tool for anyone seeking orientation in this burgeoning but increasingly fragmented area of linguistic research.
Download or read book The Diachronic Typology of Non Canonical Subjects written by Ilja A. Serzant and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.
Download or read book Experiential Constructions in Latin written by Chiara Fedriani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.
Download or read book Pre Indo European written by Winfred Philipp Lehmann and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bases for Reconstructing Pre-IEFrom Pie to Pre-IeResidues in Pie that Prompt its Identification as a Reflex of an Active Languagelexical StructureSyntaxDerivational MorphologyInflectional MorphologyPhonologyThe Culture of the Pre-Indo-European SpeakersPre-IE and Possible Related Languages
Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo European Conference Los Angeles May 21 23 1998 written by Karlene Jones-Bley and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IntroductionLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS:Calvert Watkins: A Celtic MiscellanyVyacheslav Vs. Ivanov: Palatalization and Labiovelars in LuwianDarya Kavitskaya: Vowel Epenthesis and Syllable Structure in HittiteIlya Yakubovich: ?Stative? Suffix /ai a/ in the Verbal System of old IndicCarol F. Justus: The Arrival of Italic and Germanic `have? in Late Indo EuropeanApostolos N. Athanassakis: ?keanos Mythic and Linguistic OriginsMartin E. Huld: IE `bear? Ursus arctos, Ursa Major, and Ursa minor.STUDIES IN POETIC DICTION:Dean Miller: Kings Communicating - Royal Speech and the Fourth FunctionThomas R. Walsh: Towards the Poetics of Potions - Helen's Cup and Indo European ComparandaRalph Gallucci: Studies in Homeric Epic TraditionEdwin D. Floyd: Cometas, On Lazarus?A Resurrection of Indo European Poetics?INDO EUROPEAN EXPANSION:Edwin F. Bryant: The Indo Aryan Invasion Debate?The Logic of the ResponseJeannine Davis Kimball: Priestesses, Enarees, and Other Statuses among Indo Iranian PeoplesAndrew Sherratt: Echoes of the Big Bang?The Historical Context of Language Dispersal.
Download or read book Word as Mantra written by Robert L. Hardgrave and published by Katha. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together some of the best and the most recent international scholarship on Raja Rao. Word as Mantra provides diverse critical as well as personal perspectives on Raja Rao the writer, the teacher, the philosopher, and the man commemorating the coming of age of Indian English writing.
Download or read book M r Curad written by Lisi Oliver and published by Institut Fur Sprachwissenschaft Der Universitat Innsbruck. This book was released on 1998 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellanea Indo Europea written by Edgar C. Polomé and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar C. Polome: IntroductionAlain de Benoist: Bibliographie Chronologique des Etudes Indo-EuropeenesGarrett Olmsted: Archaeology, Social Evolution, and the Spread of Indo-European Languages and CulturesAlexander Hausler: Nomadenhypothese und Ursprung der IndogermanenFrancoise Bader: Homere et le pelasgeCarol Justus: Can a Counting System be an Index of Linguistic Relationships?Nick Allen: Hinduism, Structuralism and DumezilDean Miller: Who Deals with the Gods? Kings and Other IntermediariesEdgar C. Polome: IE Initial /b/ & Gmc. Initial /p/Edgar C. Polome: Views on Developments in Indo-European Religions During the Last Decade of So.
Download or read book Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit written by John Jeffrey Lowe and published by Oxford Studies in Diachronic a. This book was released on 2015 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. It is also a poetic text in which deliberate obscurity is the governing aesthetic and in which the rules of language are pushed to their limits in order to produce the ideal poetic expression. Many Vedic sentences are of controversial, disputed meaning, and Vedic scholarship is thus fraught with controversy. John J. Lowe applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how participles are used. The author uses his findings to recategorize the data, by defining certain stems and stem-types as outside the synchronic category of participle on the basis of their syntactic and semantic properties. He suggests alternative sources for these forms and considers the linguistic processes that transformed old participles into non-participial entities. In his conclusion he reassesses the category of participles within the verbal and nominal systems, looks at their prehistory in Proto-Indo-European, and describes their universal, typological characteristics. Among his conclusions are that tense-aspect-stem participles have the technical properties of adjectival verbs, not verbal adjectives, and that such participles are not fully dependent on corresponding finite verbal forms. That is, a perfect participle, for example, need not share all the semantic and functional features of the finite perfect forms built to the same stem. These and many other conclusions drawn either directly challenge or radically revise received opinion and recent work.
Download or read book General Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North western European Language Evolution written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Change and Typological Variation written by Edgar C. Polomé and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
