The Genesis Of Grammar
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Author |
: Bernd Heine |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2007-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191527838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191527831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genesis of Grammar by : Bernd Heine
"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal communication and human evolution. The questions they address include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that if language evolution is the result of language change then the reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists, cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.
Author |
: Bernd Heine |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2007-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199227761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199227764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genesis of Grammar by : Bernd Heine
This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.
Author |
: Claire Lefebvre |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2006-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521025389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521025386 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar by : Claire Lefebvre
This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. The author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
Author |
: Louis G. Kelly |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027245908 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027245908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mirror of Grammar by : Louis G. Kelly
Much is known about the grammar of the modistae and about its eclipse; this book sets out to trace its rise. In the late eleventh century grammar became an analytical rather than an exegetical discipline under the impetus of the new theology. Under the impetus of Arab learning the ancient sciences were reshaped according to the norms of Aristotle's Analytics, and developed within a structure of speculative sciences beginning with grammar and culminating in theology. Though the modistae acknowledge Aristotle, Donatus, Priscian and the Arab commentators, their roots also lie in Augustine and Boethius, and they took as much from their scholastic contemporaries as they gave them. This book traces the genesis of a grammar which communicated freely with other speculative sciences, shared their structures and methods, and affirmed its own individuality by defining its object as the causes of language.
Author |
: Marge E. Landsberg |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110847536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110847531 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genesis of Language by : Marge E. Landsberg
Author |
: James Lantolf |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2006-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015073665039 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development by : James Lantolf
Integrates theory, research, and practice on the learning of second and foreign languages as informed by sociocultural and activity theory. It familiarizes students, teachers, and other researchers who do not work within the theory with its principal claims and constructs in particular as they relate to second language research. The book also describes and illustrates the use of activity theory to support practical and conceptual innovations in second language education.
Author |
: Talmy Givón |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027232533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027232539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity by : Talmy Givón
Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian adaptive selection. Prof. Givón's book treats syntactic complexity as an integral part of the evolutionary rise of human communication. The book first describes grammar as an adaptive instrument of communication, assembled upon the pre-existing platform of pre-linguistic object- and-event cognition and mental representation. It then surveys the two grand developmental trends of human language: diachrony, the communal enterprise directly responsible for fashioning synchronic morpho-syntax and cross-language diversity; and ontogeny, the individual endeavor directly responsible for acquiring the competent use of grammar. The genesis of syntactic complexity along these two developmental trends is compared with second language acquisition, pre-grammatical pidgin and pre-human communication. The evolutionary relevance of language diachrony, language ontogeny and pidginization is argued for on general bio-evolutionary grounds: It is the organism's adaptive on-line behavior- invention, learning and skill acquisition - that is the common thread running through all three developmental trends. The neuro-cognitive circuits that underlie language, and their evolutionary underpinnings, are described and assessed. Recursive embedding turns out to be not an adaptive target on its own, but the by-product of two distinct adaptive moves: (i) the recruitment of conjoined clauses as modal operators on, or referential specifiers of, other clauses; and (ii) the subsequent condensation of paratactic into syntactic structures.
Author |
: Talmy Givón |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027229597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027229595 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evolution of Language Out of Pre-language by : Talmy Givón
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave birth to a unique linguistic organ, but as a gradual, adaptive extension of pre-existing mental capacities and brain structures. The contributors carefully study brain mechanisms, diachronic change, language acquisition, and the parallels between cognitive and linguistic structures to weave a web of hypotheses and suggestive empirical findings on the origins of language and the connections of language to other human capacities. The chapters discuss brain pathways that support linguistic processing; origins of specific linguistic features in temporal and hierarchical structures of the mind; the possible co-evolution of language and the reasoning about mental states; and the aspects of language learning that may serve as models of evolutionary change.
Author |
: George Steiner |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2013-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781480411869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1480411868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammars of Creation by : George Steiner
DIV“A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle’s eye-view of western literature.” —Financial Times/divDIV Early in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato’s maxim that in “all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.” Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature—central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however, art has shown a tendency to linger on endings—on sundown instead of sunrise. Asserting that every use of the future tense of the verb “to be” is a negation of mortality, Steiner draws on everything from world wars and the Nazis to religion and the word of God to demonstrate how our grammar reveals our perceptions, reflections, and experiences. His study shows the twentieth century to be largely a failed one, but also offers a glimpse of hope for Western civilization, a new light peeking just over the horizon./div
Author |
: Claire Lefebvre |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199945313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199945314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Relabeling in Language Genesis by : Claire Lefebvre
In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work.