First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.
The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language.
Der vorliegende Band enthält einige Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachdidaktik und Literaturwissenschaft, die bei der internationalen Germanistentagung 2022 an der Universität Oulu präsentiert wurden.
This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space.
Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems.
First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages.
In the last 25 years foreign language teaching has been able to increase its efficiency through an orientation towards authentic language materials, pragmatic language functions and interactive learning methods.
This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one.
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective.
Le choix de décrire la dérivation déverbale savante du français moderne découle de la considération de quelques problèmes posés par le système dérivationnel du français aussi bien que par la théorie de la morphologie.
As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways.
This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism).
This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.
The classification and distribution of the languages of the Northern Bantu Borderland between the Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean have been given in Volume 1 of The Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, where however, the linguistic evidence on which the classification rested was not included.
As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.
Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent offers a fresh perspective on a long-standing debate about the value of Latin grammarians writing about the Latin accent: should the information they give us be taken seriously, or should much of it be dismissed as copied mindlessly from Greek sources?
