Descriptive Linguistics
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2011
363 pages
978-3-11-080043-2 (ISBN)
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Mohammad A. Jazayery | Edgar C. Polome | Werner Winter
Descriptive Linguistics
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Content
- Intro
- DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH
- A semantic view of syntax: Some verbs that govern infinitives
- Continuous/Discrete: A reinterpretation of the mass/count feature of English common nouns
- The direct object nexeme in English
- Some nonrules of English
- Observations on the passive construction
- Two notes on comparatives
- Intuitive rules and factual evidence: /-sp, -st, -sk/ plus [-z]
- The frailty of grammatical concord
- Jespersen's 'Move and Change' class and causative verbs in English
- Squinting grammar and the number of tenses in English
- The 'barred-i' morphophone in English
- A classical case of structural ambiguity or no ambiguity at all
- DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: OTHER LANGUAGES
- The vowel of the imperfect prefix in Najdi Arabic
- Some aspects of the semantic complexity of Karana conjunct verbs in Hindi
- Developments in the Hebrew verbal system of Israeli children and youth
- Barbareño Chumash text and lexicon
- Order and reference in Aleut
- Kurdish dialects in Eastern Turkey
- Universal rules and vocalic devoicing in Southern Paiute
- The semantic significance of S O V sequences in Armenian
- Phonetic segments of Haida (Hydaburg dialect)
- The interpretation of glottalized resonants in Straits Salish
- The origin and development of Kituba (Lingua Franca Kikongo)
- The main stress rule in Turkish
- The phonology of the Mixtepec dialect of Mixtec
- Some generative solutions to problems in Cashibo phonology
- Constraints in Zapotec questions and relative clauses
- Inventory and choice in expressive language
- Cuna numeral classifiers
- Complex verbs in Hindi
- Setswana phonemics: Sefokeng dialect
- Some 'glide shifts' in Russian derivation
