Agreement (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) /by Greville G. Corbett. Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. For example, in the sentence 'he runs', the suffix -s 'agrees' with the singular 'he'.
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction, Second edition /by Prof. Robert S.P. Beekes (Author), Dr. Michiel de Vaan (Author) . This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture and origin of the Indo-Europeans, the speakers of the Indo-European proto-language.
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Introducing Linguistics)
English | ISBN: 1405133848 | PDF | 509 Pages | 57.59 Mb
Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions.
Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics /by Jacek Fisiak. The 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics took place in Poznan, Poland from August 22 to 26, 1983. The Conference was organized by the Department of English at Adam Mickiewicz University(Poznan) and was attended by 163 linguists from 26 countries.
The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking /by John Newman. This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world’s languages. The highly multifaceted nature of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in some languages.
Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 6 edition by Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer
The MI..T Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0262013754, 0262513706 | 648 pages | PDF | 7,6 MB
This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as completely separate fields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while encouraging students to consider why people are intrinsically interested in language--the ultimate puzzle of the human mind.
Keith Brown - Encyclopedia Of Language And Linguistics (2005)
Publisher: Elsevier Science | 2005 | ISBN: 0080442994 | Pages: 9000 | PDF | 210 MB
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by John A. Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 18, 2000) | ISBN: 0521585813 | Pages: 308 | PDF | 1.20 MB
This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as "bad" versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.
Binding Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Daniel Büring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 8, 2005) | ISBN: 0521012228 | Pages: 292 | PDF | 1.39 MB
Binding Theory explores how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns come to have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern binding theory, introducing a huge variety of nominal and especially pronominal expressions from the world's languages. Written in a clear and accessible style, and with numerous exercises and examples, this textbook will be invaluable to graduate and advanced undergraduate students of syntax and semantics.
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
English | PDF | 528 Pages | 45.5 MB
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies.
There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
