This book presents a detailed examination of the unusual agreement system of Archi, an endangered language spoken in southern Dagestan (Russia), from the perspective of three different syntactic theories: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Mini…
Introduction; Strategies of possessive structures in the Arabic dialects; 1. Strategy One: possessed + possessor; 2. Strategy Two: possessor + possessed; 3. Strategy Three: hagg, tab'; 4. Strategy Four: possessed + maal + possessor; 5. Strategy Five: possessed + {-en} + det. + p…
Normalization in Translation: Corpus-based Diachronic Research into Twentieth-century English-Chinese Fictional Translation provides a comprehensive description of translation norms in two different historical contexts in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a corpus methodology,…
Motifs in Language and Text
by Liang, Junying, Liu, Haitao
fromQuantitative Linguistics [QL]
The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics, text analysis and related research fields. Specifically, the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and empirical research, ultimately stri…
Maranga mai!: te reo and marae in crisis?
From the time of the Maori renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s, Maori made huge efforts to reinvigorate te reo and the life of marae as the twin cornerstones of Maori identity. Maori television and radio stations were set up, the Maori Language Commission established and kohanga …
This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered language with only one speaker remaining in 2012 and no child learners. The mater…
In a long dead language isolate such as Hurrian, grammatical studies are replete with difficulties. The paucity of material and our inability to compare it to modern, well-documented languages typically results in more questions than answers. Many posited answers to these questi…
A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions. The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpu…
'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be assoc…
This fourth edition of Colloquial Romanian has been completely updated to make learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Written by experienced teachers of Romanian, this course offers a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Romanian. No previous knowle…