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Nominal anchoring : Specificity, definiteness and article systems across lang…
Most contributions report on research on different corpora and elicited data or present the outcome of various experimental studies. One paper presents a diachronic study of the emergence of article systems. On the issue of how languages with and without articles guide the hearer to the conclusion that a given noun phrase should be interpreted as definite, specific or non-specific, the studies …
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- 978-3-96110-284-6
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- 405 NOM
Syntactic architecture and its consequences I : Syntax inside the grammar
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the i…
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- 9783961102754
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- Open Generative Syntax 9
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- 415 SYN
Demonstratives in discourse
This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative p…
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- 978-3-96110-286-0
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- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 6
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- 425 DEM
A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics
Computational experiments on algorithms can supplement theoretical analysis by showing what algorithms, implementations and speed-up methods work best for specific machines or problems. This book guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of the major experimental questions: What should I measure? What inputs should I test? How do I analyze the data? To answer these questions the book draws o…
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- 9780511843747
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Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960
This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. Originating from a PhD Thesis, the book recreates the atmosphere following step by step argume…
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- 978-3-319-07647-8
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- XXI, 215
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- Springer Geography
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- 941 MAR p
Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from …
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- 978-3-96110-269-3
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics 30
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- 401.43 EVI
On a law of Indo-European word order : Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen …
Jacob Wackernagel’s 1892 essay on second-position enclitics in the Indo-European languages has long been hailed as groundbreaking in both historical and theoretical linguistics. Until now, however, it has only been available in the original German. This book provides a full translation into English, including glossed and translated examples from several early Indo-European languages and varie…
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- 9783961102716
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- Classics in Linguistics 7
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- 411 WAC l
A Guide to Diplomatic Practice
Recruited straight from university, Ernest Satow (1843–1929) became one of the most respected British diplomats, particularly in Japan, where he is still remembered. After a career spent mostly in the rapidly developing Far East, he retired in 1906. Just before the outbreak of war, he was asked to compile a work on international diplomacy, and 'Satow', as it has become known, was first publis…
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- 9780511995200
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- Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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Place Names in Africa; Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial…
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- 978-3-319-32485-2
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- XVII, 229
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- 939.7 BIG p
Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary: An Aranda, German, Lo…
Carl Strehlow’s comparative dictionary manuscript is a unique item of Australian cultural heritage; it is a large collection of circa 7,600 Aranda, 6,800 Loritja (Luritja) and 1,200 Dieri to German entries compiled at the beginning of the twentieth century at the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia. It is an integral part of Strehlow’s ethnographic work on Aboriginal cultures that his…
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- 9781760462062
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