Methods in Contemporary Linguistics

Author: Andrea Ender
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110275686
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Book Description
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative nature, the volume is a valuable source for students and researchers of a broad range of linguistic interests.

Contemporary Linguistics

Author: William O'Grady
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN: 9781319039776
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contemporary Linguistics is one of the most comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of linguistics, balancing engaging aspects of language study with solid coverage of the basics. Up-to-date scholarship, a direct approach, and a lucid writing style makes it appealing to instructors and beginning students alike and a resource that many students continue to use beyond the classroom.

Contemporary Linguistics

Author: William Delaney O'Grady
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312137496
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 710

Book Description

Modern Linguistics

Author: M.P. Sinha
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126904150
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Modern Linguistics That Began In The Form Of Philology Towards The End Of The Eighteenth Century Is Now Much Wider In Scope. This Book Extensively Deals With Its Two Most Important Branches: Descriptive Linguistics And Historical Linguistics. The Book Written In A Very Simple And Comprehensive Language Studies Thoroughly The Following Topics In A Very Lucid Manner:" Definition And Scope Of Linguistics" Nature Of Language" Phonetics And Phonology" Morphophonemics And Morphology" Syntactic System" Language Families And Their Classification" Language Change" Borrowing" Writing SystemsThe Book Would Prove Highly Useful To All The Students Of English Language In General And More Particularly To The Linguists, Researchers, And Teaching Professionals.

Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics

Author: Julie Auger
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588115980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and Jose Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second language acquisition (Spanish & English), Spanish intonation, phonology, syntax, and semantics, Italian semantics, Romanian morphology and syntax, Catalan phonology and morphology, and Galician phonology (two papers). The volume is rounded out by three explicitly comparative studies, one on proto-Romance phonology, one on microvariation in Romance syntax, and a third addressing syntactic microvariation among varieties of French and French-based creoles. Frameworks represented include Optimality Theory, Minimalism, and Construction Grammar.

Contemporary Linguistic Analysis : an Introduction

Author: Michael Dobrovolsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773054516
Category : Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 694

Book Description

Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics

Author: Peter Arkadiev
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110343959
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Philosophy of Language

Author: William G. Lycan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134696043
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Unique features of the text: * chapter overviews and summaries * clear supportive examples * study questions * annotated further reading * glossary.

Contemporary Linguistics

Author: William O'Grady
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781405899307
Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 698

Book Description
An initiation into the intricacies of scientific linguistic analysis, Contemporary Linguistics covers not only how language is structured, but also how it functions both socially and culturally, and how it is acquired and processed by speakers. --

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Author: María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027272220
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.