Authors:Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Mart Rann
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: linguistic, sociology, language, contributions, overcoming, human, rights, discrimination
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 1995-06-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3110148781
ISBN-13: 9783110148787

Only a few hundred of the world’s 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. Linguistic Human Rights introduces a new area and minority concerns with human rights. D

Authors:R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistic, typology, explorations, cross, clause, linking, semantics
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199567220
ISBN-13: 9780199567225

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence - cause, result, and purpose - which may be illustrated in English by, respectively: Because John has been studying German for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for years, thus he speaks it wel

Authors:R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistic, typology, explorations, cross, classes, adjective
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-07-13
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199203466
ISBN-13: 9780199203468

The studies in this volume suggest that every language has an adjective class, but these vary in character and in size. In its grammatical properties, an adjective class may beas similar to nouns, or to verbs, or to both, or to neither.ze. Whereas in some languages the adjective class is large and can be freely added to, in others it is small and closed. with just a dozen or so members. The book will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology and of the syntax and semantics of adjectives.

Authors:Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixo,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistic, typology, explorations, cross, contact, grammars
Number of Pages: 375
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0199207836
ISBN-13: 9780199207831

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyze the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages belonging to different geographical areas and diverse types.

Authors:Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixo,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistic, typology, explorations, cross, contact, grammars
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199556466
ISBN-13: 9780199556465

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyze the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages belonging to different geographical areas and diverse types.

Author: Henning Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: linguistic, vancouver, linguistics, current, issues, theory, historical, international, progress, change, papers, workshop, actualization, conference
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2001-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027237263
ISBN-13: 9789027237262

Authors:Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima, Toshihiro Takagaki,
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: informatics, linguistic, based, usage, language, spoken, corpus
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-12-13
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027233179
ISBN-13: 9789027233172