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Series Statement: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 53

Content: The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall perspective that an elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in the study of the history of the English language. Designed for students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III) presents studies on all periods of the English language in a variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level; Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian models that situate language change within small, close networks of speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change. All of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the construction of our present understanding of the history of English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the way ahead for the future of the discipline.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of contents -- , Part one -- , Developments in Early English and other Germanic languages -- , Palatalized and velarized consonants in English against their Germanic background, with special reference to i-umlaut -- , On syllable cut in the Orrmulum -- , Evolution of the a-verse in English alliterative meter -- , Part two -- , Early Modern English lexicography -- , On the stress-shifting of polysyllabic French loans in English -- , The two tongues of Early Modern English -- , Part three -- , The history of the English language and its scholarship: reconsiderations and resolutions about the way forward -- , Off the shelf or under the counter? On the social dynamics of sound changes -- , The relevance of community language studies to HEL: The view from Roswell -- , Diachronic aspects of complementation: Constructions, entrenchment, and the matching problem -- , Patterns of seeking and breaking silence in earlier English -- , Henry Machyn's English: Getting it right -- , The dialectal origins of the language of Henry Machyn -- , Archaisms and neologisms in the language of Beowulf -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Konferenzschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9783110198515

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Edition: Reprint 2020

ISBN: 9783110226225 , 9783110636772

Series Statement: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 27

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Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9783110226225

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Format: 1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition: 1994

ISBN: 9783110219029 , 9783110636895

Series Statement: Humor Research [HR] , 1

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Format: 1 online resource (609 p.)

Edition: Reprint 2015

ISBN: 9783110197174 , 9783110636970

Series Statement: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 27

Content: Kolyma Yukaghir is a seriously endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia. It is one of the two surviving languages of the Yukaghir family, which is considered by different scholars either as an isolate left over from before the expansion of other languages and language families into Siberia, or as a distant relative of the Uralic family. In many ways, Yukaghir fits the grammatical type widespread among the languages of Siberia, namely that of predominantly verb-final dependent-marking language with relatively rich agglumative morphology and deranking strategies of clause linking. Furthermore, it has a number of typologically remarkably features, which will be of interest to general linguists irrespective of their theoretical orientation. These include Yukaghir focus-marking system, differential object marking based on global effects of person hierarchy, the obligatory use of bound possesive markers to indicate non-coreference of the possessor with the subject, elaborated switch-reference system, initimate interaction between aspect and valence-changing derivation, etc. The book incorporates all major components of descriptive grammar, from phonology to syntax, with a special chapter on coreference and discourse coherence, annotated and translated sample texts, a Yukaghir-English vocabulary, and a subject index. The description is based on extensive field materials and richly exemplified by non-elicited data. The organization of the book facilitates its use as a reference grammar, with numerous cross-references between sections and concise summaries of interrelated phenomena discussed in various parts of the grammar. The book is of interest to scholars of Uralic and Siberian languages, linguistic typology, and general linguistics.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations -- , 1. Introcuction -- , 2. Kolyma Yukaghir and its speakers -- , 3. Phonology -- , 4. Parts of speech and inflectional paradigms -- , 5. Nominal morphology -- , 6. Verb morphology -- , 7. Morphology of closed classes -- , 8. Noun phrase and postpositional phrase -- , 9. Syntax of the clause -- , 10. Clause chaining -- , 11. Subordination -- , 12. Nominal predicates and grammatical Focus -- , 13. Sentence types and negation -- , 14. Coreference and discourse coherence -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9783110197174

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Format: 1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition: 2nd ed. 2002

ISBN: 9783110218329 , 9783110636970

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Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

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ISBN: 9783110197426 , 9783110636970

Series Statement: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 13

Content: Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Australian culture of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Aborigines. Combining discourse-analytical and pragmalinguistic methodologies with the perspectives of ethnopoetics and the ethnography of communication, this book presents a highly original and engaging study of storytelling as a vital communicative activity at the heart of socio-cultural life. The book is concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues. It engages critically with the theoretical framework of social constructivism and the notion of social practice, and it offers critical discussions of the most influential theories of narrative put forward in Western thinking. Arguing for the adoption of a communication-oriented and cross-cultural perspective as a prerequisite for improving our understanding of the cultural variability of narrative practice, Klapproth presents detailed textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, and contextualizes them with respect to the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. Narrative as Social Practice offers new insights to students and specialists in the fields of narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, folklore study, the ethnography of communication, and Australian Aboriginal studies.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chapter 1. Introduction -- , Part One. In the web of the wor(l)d: The narrative structuring of experience -- , Chapter 2. Creating webs of significace: The role of narrative in socio-cultural construction of reality -- , Chapter 3. The narrative sharing of words: Storytelling as communicative interaction -- , Chapter 4. Exploring the structure of narrated worlds: The search for study schemata -- , Part Two. Storytelling as social practice: A cross-cultural perspective -- , Chapter 5. The Beautiful and the Beasty: Cultural specifics of Anglo-Western narrative aesthetics -- , Chapter 6. Always keeping track: Text building strategies in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunyjatjara storytelling -- , Chapter 7. Holding the world in place: The interrelatedness of story, practice, and culture -- , Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Edition: Reprint 2011

ISBN: 9783110197228 , 9783110636970

Series Statement: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 5

Content: The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant contribution to both phonetic and phonological theory. Based on the author's original fieldwork and experimental investigations, it is the first in-depth study of this area, tracing it back also to its Old High German roots, particularly that of the dialect of Notker. Quantity alternations - notably word-initial long/short consonantal alternations - asymmetric neutralization of phonetic-phonological contrasts, stress and weight are most prominent among the theoretical issues on which Thurgovian phonology is brought to bear.

Note: Dissertation Universität Konstanz 2002. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , Chapter 1. Theoretical background and assumptions -- , Chapter 2. The synchronic sound system of Thurgovian -- , Chapter 3. The Germanic legacy -- , Chapter 4. Geminates: Phonetic evidence -- , Chapter 5. Weight and stress patterns -- , Conclusion -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110197228

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Format: 1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition: 2003

ISBN: 9783110219074 , 9783110636970

Series Statement: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 23

Content: This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research -- , Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning -- , Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology -- , Monosemy versus polysemy -- , The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited -- , Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning -- , Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context -- , Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition -- , Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar -- , The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy -- , A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese -- , Containment, support, and linguistic relativity -- , The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality? -- , Polysemy or generality? Mu. -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Format: 1 online resource (475 p.)

Edition: Reprint 2021

ISBN: 9783110219043 , 9783110636970

Series Statement: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 33

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , I. Cause -- , The relevance of causality -- , On the processing of causal relations -- , Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained -- , Causal relations in spoken discourse: Asyndetic constructions as a means for giving reasons -- , II. Condition -- , Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order -- , On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives -- , Pre- and post-positioning of wenn-clauses in spoken and written German -- , Counterfactual reasoning and desirability -- , III. Contrast -- , Adversative connectors on distinct levels of discourse: A re-examination of Eve Sweetser's three-level approach -- , Viewpoints and polysemy: Linking adversative and causal meanings of discourse markers -- , The treatment of contrasts in interaction -- , IV. Concession -- , Concessives on different semantic levels: A typological perspective -- , Causal and concessive clauses: Formal and semantic relations -- , Concession implies causality, though in some other space -- , Concessive patterns in conversation -- , "that's true, although not really, but still": Expressing concession in spoken English -- , From concessive connector to discourse marker: The use of obwohl in everyday German interaction -- , Index -- , Authors' addresses -- , Topics in English Linguistics , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Format: 1 online resource (393 p.)

ISBN: 9783110219265 , 9783110238570

Series Statement: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 46

Content: This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an influence on a wide variety of phenomena in morphology and syntax. Based on in-depth analyses of extensive electronic databases, the book presents 20 exemplary studies from different structural categories. Among them are much-debated as well as novel issues, including the double comparative worser, 'predicative only' a- adjectives, variant past participles, the placement of the degree modifier quite, the order of conjuncts in binomials, the negation of attributive adjectives and sentence adverbs, variable adverbial marking, the use or omission of the infinitive marker, and the a- prefix before - ing forms. The studies provide qualitative and quantitative evidence of the importance of rhythmic alternation in synchronic variation as well as diachronic change, without neglecting interactions with a set of competing functional tendencies. Thus, the book contributes essential aspects to the description and explanation of the phenomena considered, calling for a fundamental revision of current thinking about the interface between phonology and morphosyntax. In addition, the empirical findings are brought to bear on theoretical discussions of more general interest, yielding a critical assessment of the merits and limitations of two nonmodular linguistic theories: Optimality Theory and spreading activation models. The latter type is developed into a comprehensive conception integrating functional factors such as the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation in an overarching framework for language variation and change. The wide range of subject areas covered makes the volume essential reading and a source of inspiration for linguists with interests as diverse as the phonology-morphosyntax interface, English grammar, the history of English, functional linguistics, Optimality Theory, as well as neuro- and psycholinguistics.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations and symbols -- , Chapter 1. Introduction -- , Chapter 2. The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation introduced -- , Chapter 3. Methodology -- , Chapter 4. Analysis of attributive structures -- , Chapter 5. Analysis of verbal and adverbial structures -- , Chapter 6. Theoretical implications -- , Chapter 7. Conclusion -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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