Cognitive linguistics is one of the most rapidly expanding schools in linguistics. A mature intellectual movement with a large international community of active scholars, cognitive linguistics is a fast growing approach to language and mind within cognitive science with an impressive and complex technical vocabulary. This alphabetic guide gives ......
Cognitive linguistics is one of the most rapidly expanding schools in linguistics. A mature intellectual movement with a large international community of active scholars, cognitive linguistics is a fast growing approach to language and mind within cognitive science with an impressive and complex technical vocabulary. This alphabetic guide gives ......
Offers a descriptive analysis of the elements of English grammar. This title includes exercises that test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, and glossary of over 200 technical terms.
Presenting advanced research in syntax and semantics, this title furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics. It also features crosslinguistic studies that deal with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities.
In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of ......
Offers introductions to linguistic morphology - the study and description of word formations in languages - that deals with inflection, derivation, and compounding, the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language.
A reference on the structure of the Arabic language and issues in Arabic linguistics, from dialectics to literature. It is suitable for researchers, linguists, students, area specialists, and others interested in Arabic.
A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects
A comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. It provides a nuanced description of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for greater cross-dialect comprehension.
This text seeks to provide a foundation for understanding the meaning and nature of language, and the differing concepts of truth which surround it. The author explores the theories of lingistic analysts such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap and Quine. He also deals with issues such as truth, meaning and the nature of language, and examines ......
