De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 327 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 351). While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2007. — 456 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 196). The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2006. — 566 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 155). How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 177 p. Language is the ability to produce and comprehend spoken and written words. The book offers an introduction to the Languages and Cultures of Oceania. The overall aim of the book is to help students gain the linguistic skills necessary to function in all areas of practical need, and prepare them for advanced study of history, culture, and...
København: Bianco Lunos bogtrykkeri, 1917. — 154 s. General Tendencies. Strengthening of Negatives. Positive becomes Negative. Indirect and Incomplete Negation. Indirect Negation. Incomplete Negation. Special and Nexal Negation. Negative Attraction. Double Negation. Affirmative. Negative. The Meaning of Negation. Weakened Negatives. Negative Connectives. English -n't . But....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2009. — 440 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 217). The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed their Ph.D. theses. Through their case studies of selected theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual importance of language...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 237 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 235). Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the identification of the role of phrases for the evolution of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 312 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 40). This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 556 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 5). This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the...
Edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans. With an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2025. — ix, 251 p. — (Classics in Linguistics 8; ISSN 2366-374X). — ISBN 978-3-96110-500-7. Otto Jespersen’s landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 200 p. The book offers an introduction to the Languages and Cultures of South America. The overall aim of the book is to help students gain the linguistic skills necessary to function in all areas of practical need, and prepare them for advanced study of history, culture, and literature.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 201 p. Language is the ability to produce and comprehend spoken and written words. The book offers an introduction to the Languages and Cultures of Europe. The overall aim of the book is to help students gain the linguistic skills necessary to function in all areas of practical need, and prepare them for advanced study of history, culture, and literature.
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 418 p. This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages, including English, Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic languages, and a number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects. The term 'reference system' designates all functions within the grammatical system of...