Автор: Allen Название: The Ancient Egyptian Language ISBN: 1107664675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107664678 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3696 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book, the first of its kind, examines how the phonology and grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed over more than three thousand years of its history, from the first appearance of written documents, c.3250 BC, to the Coptic dialects of the second century AD and later. Part One discusses phonology, working backward from the vowels and consonants of Coptic to those that can be deduced for earlier stages of the language. Part Two is devoted to grammar, including both basic components such as nouns and the complex history of the verbal system. The book thus provides both a synchronic description of the five major historical stages of ancient Egyptian and a diachronic analysis of their development and relationship.
Автор: David Crystal Название: Language Death ISBN: 0521012716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521012713 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2190 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The endangerment and death of minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern. In this 2002 book, a leading commentator on language issues, David Crystal asks the question, 'Why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact.
Автор: Norman, Jerry Название: Chinese ISBN: 0521296536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521296533 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6709 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of the Chinese language, tracing its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day.
Автор: Heike Wiese Название: Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind ISBN: 0521831822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521831826 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11229 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of
numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the picture? This book addresses these questions and
discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives on number, its evolution, and
its development in children. Heike Wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. She characterises number
sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to
develop such mental tools.
Описание: Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this title features contributors who identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today`s state of linguistic diversity in Latin America.
Автор: Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue (Professor of Psychology, Emo Название: Apes, Language and the Human Mind ISBN: 0195109864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195109863 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5682 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Apes, Language, and the Human Mind discusses the theoretical and conceptual implications of Savage-Rumbaugh's primate work for cognitive, developmental, and linguistic research, and uses it as a spring board to argue for a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind.
Автор: Joan Bybee Название: Phonology and Language Use ISBN: 0521583748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521583749 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11778 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer’s experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change which produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first. The well-known effects of type and token frequency on morphologically-conditioned phonological alterations are shown also to apply to larger sequences, such as fixed phrases and constructions, solving some of the problems formulated previously as dealing with the phonology-syntax interface.
Автор: Ho-Min Sohn Название: The Korean Language ISBN: 0521369436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521369435 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6298 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a detailed survey of the Korean language, covering its speakers, genetic affiliation, historical development, dialects, lexicon, writing systems, sound patterns, word structure, and grammatical structure. It is designed to be accessible to a wide readership, and provides a wealth of data in a user-friendly format that does not presuppose an in-depth knowledge of the latest linguistic theories. It will be used by general linguists and Korean linguists who are interested in the typological characteristics of the language from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and by undergraduates and graduate students in those disciplines who seek a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. Likewise, advanced students of the Korean language and language educators will find it offers valuable insights into lexical, phonological, morphological and syntactic aspects of the language for their purposes.
Автор: Scott K. Liddell Название: Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language ISBN: 0521016509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521016506 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6298 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. This obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing has no parallel in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs. It guides the reader through ASL grammar, the different categories of directional signs, the types of spatial representations signs are directed toward, how such spatial conceptions can be represented in mental space theory, and the conceptual purposes served by these signs. The book demonstrates a remarkable integration of grammar and gesture in the service of constructing meaning. These results also suggest that our concept of ‘language’ has been much too narrow and that a more comprehensive look at vocally produced languages will reveal the same integration of gestural, gradient, and symbolic elements.
Автор: Ralph Penny Название: A History of the Spanish Language ISBN: 0521011841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521011846 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6298 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of Ralph Penny’s authoritative textbook, first published in 1991, which provides a clear and elegant account of the development of Spanish over the last 2,000 years. Although principally oriented towards ‘internal’ history, ‘external’ history is also considered and referred to throughout. In this new edition, as well as adding insights from recent scholarship throughout the text, Professor Penny has added a new chapter which discusses the nature of linguistic history, the concept of World Spanish, processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish, and the English/Spanish interface. This edition also contains a glossary of technical terms, guidance on further reading, and suggested topics for discussion.
Описание: Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts.
Автор: Drechsel Название: Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific ISBN: 1107015103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107015104 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10270 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.
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