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Explaining Language Universals
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Author : John A. Hawkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Explaining Language Universals written by John A. Hawkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Cartesian linguistics categories.
Language Universals
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Author : Morten H. Christiansen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Language Universals written by Morten H. Christiansen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word order. Nonetheless, languages do share certain regularities in how they are structured and used. The exact nature and extent of these "language universals" has been the focus of much research and is one of the central explanatory goals in the language sciences. During the past 50 years, there has been tremendous progress, a few major conceptual revolutions, and even the emergence of entirely new fields. The wealth of findings and theories offered by the various language-science disciplines has made it more important than ever to work toward an integrated understanding of the nature of human language universals. This book is the first to examine language universals from a cross-disciplinary perspective. It provides new insights into long standing questions such as: What exactly defines the human capacity for language? Are there universal properties of human languages and, if so, what are they? Can all language universals be explained in the same way, or do some universals require different kinds of explanations from others? Language Universals is unique in starting with the assumption that the best way to approach these and related questions is through a dialogue between a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, computer science and biology.
Explanations For Language Universals
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Author : Brian Butterworth
language : en
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Release Date : 1984
Explanations For Language Universals written by Brian Butterworth and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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Universals Of Language Today
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Author : Sergio Scalise
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-10-11
Universals Of Language Today written by Sergio Scalise and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that make up the volume deal with both theoretical and empirical issues, and range over various domains, covering not only morphology and syntax, which were the major focus of Greenberg’s seminal work, but also phonology and semantics, as well as diachrony and second language acquisition. Diverse perspectives illustrate and discuss a huge number of phenomena from a wide variety of languages, not only exploring the way research on universals - tersects with different subareas of linguistics, but also contributing to the ongoing debate between functional and formal approaches to explaining the universals of language. This stimulating reading for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics shows how different, but not irreconcilable, modes of explanation can complement each other, both offering fresh insights into the investigation of unity and diversity in languages, and pointing to exciting areas for future research. • A fresh and up-to-date survey of the present state of research on Universals of Language in an international context, with original contributions from leading specialists in the eld. • First-hand accounts of substantive ndings and theoretical observations in diff- ent subareas of linguistics. • Huge number of linguistic phenomena and data from diffferent languages a- lyzed and discussed in detail.
Language Universals Markedness Theory And Natural Phonetic Processes
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Author : Robert K. Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Release Date : 1986
Language Universals Markedness Theory And Natural Phonetic Processes written by Robert K. Herbert and has been published by Mouton de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language Universals
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Author : Morten H. Christiansen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Language Universals written by Morten H. Christiansen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Psychology categories.
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word order. Nonetheless, languages do share certain regularities in how they are structured and used. The exact nature and extent of these "language universals" has been the focus of much research and is one of the central explanatory goals in the language sciences.During the past 50 years, there has been tremendous progress, a few major conceptual revolutions, and even the emergence of entirely new fields. The wealth of findings and theories offered by the various language-science disciplines has made it more important than ever to work toward an integrated understanding of the nature of human language universals. This book is the first to examine language universals from a cross-disciplinary perspective. It provides new insights into long standing questions such as: What exactly defines the human capacity for language? Are there universal properties of human languages and, if so, what are they? Can all language universals be explained in the same way, or do some universals require different kinds of explanations from others? Language Universals is unique in starting with the assumption that the best way to approach these and related questions is through a dialogue between a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, computer science and biology.
Language Typology And Language Universals
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Author : Martin Haspelmath
language : en
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Release Date : 2001
Language Typology And Language Universals written by Martin Haspelmath and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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On Some General Principles Explaining Language Phenomena
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Author : Ernesto Zierer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
On Some General Principles Explaining Language Phenomena written by Ernesto Zierer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Language and languages categories.
Defining Language Universals
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Author : Bianca Stärk
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-11-20
Defining Language Universals written by Bianca Stärk and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, Note: 2,8, Universität zu Köln (Anglistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Morphosyntax English - German, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Language is something uniquely human. Bertrand Russell stated in 1948 that “A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor” (Whaley 1997: 4). Language ist not only unique to humans and diverse but there are also commonalities between languages. About five thousand languages are spoken in the world today but there still is a basic unity that undelies their diversities. Many of the world’s languages show similar principles. An example of such a similaritiy is word order. In some languages such as English, French and Italian the word order is subject, verb and object. This is the so called SOV order. Besides similarities like this, there also exist features between some languages, which are common to all human languages in the world and are called language universals. These language universals classify entire languages into categories which are then based on shared properties. Language universals are examined within the field of typology. Typology has the task of examining cross-linguistic patterns. This means that “all typological research is based on comparisons between languages” (Whaley 1997: 7). Through comparing different languages with each other, one necessarily comes into contact with universals, which hold true for a group of languages or even for all languages. This is how language universals are placed within the field of typology.
Working Papers On Language Universals
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Author : Stanford University Language Universals Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Working Papers On Language Universals written by Stanford University Language Universals Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Linguistics categories.