Tag: Linguistic

Free Download Vladimir Feshchenko, "Russian and American Poetry of Experiment: The Linguistic Avant-Garde "
English | ISBN: 9004526250 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 30 MB

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Free Download Form and Function in Greek Grammar: Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature
by Albert Rijksbaron, Rutger J. Allan
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004385770 | 448 Pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB

Free Download Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective By Alice C. Harris; Lyle Campbell
1995 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0521478812 | PDF | 27 MB
This study utilizes a cross-linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change.

Free Download Dispersals and Diversification Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European By Matilde Serangeli; Thomas Olander (ed.)
2019 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 9004414509 | PDF | 5 MB
Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, including discussions of the methodological approaches involved.

Free Download Charles Denroche, "Metonymy and Language: A New Theory of Linguistic Processing "
English | ISBN: 1138810622 | 2014 | 202 pages | EPUB | 1222 KB
Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy as key to understanding why language is so ‘fit for purpose’ and how it achieves such great subtlety and flexibility. This study develops the notion of ‘metonymic competence’ and demonstrates that metonymic behavior is often pursued for its own sake in recreational activities, such as quizzes, puzzles and play, and shows the possible impact of the application of metonymic processing theory to professional fields, such as language teaching and translator training. Furthermore, it proposes a research approach with metonymy at its center, ‘metonymics,’ which Denroche suggests could provide a powerful framework for addressing issues in numerous fields of practice in the arts and sciences.

Free Download Arturo Tosi, "Language and the Grand Tour: Linguistic Experiences of Travelling in Early Modern Europe"
English | ISBN: 1108487270 | 2020 | 318 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The Grand Tour was the classical continental trip to France and Italy, undertaken by young aristocratic men in early modern Europe, ostensibly for educational purposes. Using amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers’ writings, Arturo Tosi charts the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages. The travellers’ writings provide a valuable source of information about language contact, and illuminate how socialisation with the locals led, on the one hand, to conscious borrowings from prestigious foreign peers and, on the other, to linguistic disorientation when confronted with lower-class speech and rural vernaculars. The first of its kind to approach the Grand Tour from a linguistic perspective, this book is a timely addition to this burgeoning area of study, presenting a unique case study of population movement, language change and education in early modern Europe.

Free Download Akinloyè Òjó, "Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents"
English | ISBN: 1498534309 | 2017 | 212 pages | EPUB | 942 KB
Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has generally entailed non-milieu bound interactions, which alters the existence of its participants. The concerns about the impact of globalization have been raised in relation to Africa and have related to the helpful and deleterious effects. Increasingly, industrialization (without consideration of environmental impacts) and westernization (including erosion of indigenous values) are perceived as synonymous with globalization. This multidisciplinary collection contends that in theory, globalization linked Africa with the world through trade and information sharing, thereby increasing development. This collection provides reflections based on contemporary research within the linguistic, literary, and technological areas of study. It illustrates that globalization is not a single process but rather a complex set of processes that seemingly operate in an oppositional manner. The collected works make for exciting appraisal as they highlight some of the contents and discontents of globalization across multiple areas of human endeavor in Africa and its diaspora.

Free Download Marie-Eve Ritz, "The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality: Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Lan"
English | ISBN: 0367508338 | 2023 | 242 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 22 MB
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages.

Free Download Diego Pescarini, "Romance Object Clitics: Microvariation and Linguistic Change "
English | ISBN: 0198864388 | 2021 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and especially syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern Romance languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory. It challenges the received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency; instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of discourse features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal forms and then – through reanalysis – their successive incorporation to verbal hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling, and stylistic fronting, among many others.

Free Download Adam Glaz, "Linguistic Worldview(s) "
English | ISBN: 0367858797 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB
This book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical structures and patterns of usage, encode interpretations of reality that symbolize, shape, and construct speakers’ cultural experience.