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Voice at the interfaces : The syntax, semantics, and morphology of the Hebrew…
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible valu…
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- 9783961102570
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- Open Generative Syntax 8
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- 492.4 KAS v
A Greek Grammar Accidence and Syntax for Schools and Colleges
John Thompson (c.1866–1936) was Classics master and headmaster (1908–27) at the prestigious High School, Dublin. A competent linguist, he translated from German, produced a Latin primer, and wrote a Sanskrit course, though he opposed the teaching of Irish. He became a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1912), President of the Classical Association (1918) and was appointed Officier d'Académ…
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- 9781139333825
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago : Descriptive concepts and cas…
This volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV, Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in today’s linguistics: loca…
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- 9783961102921
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- History andPhilosophy of the Language Sciences 3
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- 411 HIS
Jaan Kross and Russian Culture
Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian writer Jaan Kross (1920–2007) with Russian literature and culture. It includes contributions on the poetics of some of Kross' works ("The Czar's Madman", "Professor…
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- Vol. 2.0
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- 978-9949-32-202-2
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- Acta Slavica Estonica II : Works on Russian and Slavic Philology, Literary Criticism VIII
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- 491.7 JAA
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
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