Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Subordination in Conversation: A Cross-L

📁 Subordination in Conversation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Studies in Language and Social Interaction)

✍ Ritva Laury, Ryoko Suzuki 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk, cons

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Persp

📁 Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Stephen C. Levinson; Sarah Cutfield; Michael J. Dunn; N. J. Enfield; Sérgio Meir 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Persp

📁 Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield, Michael J. Dunn, N. J. Enfield, Sérgio Meir 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons

Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguisti

📁 Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Mouton de Gruyter 🌐 English

Historical syntax in cross-linguistic pe

📁 Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective

✍ Alice C. Harris; Lyle Campbell 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

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.

Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguisti

📁 Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Yaron Matras (editor); Jeanette Sakel (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p> The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically t