Related Books

The Life Cycle of Adpositions
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: T. Givón
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all language
Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the Ancient Mediterranean
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Carlotta Viti
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-23 - Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Latein und Griechisch werden in diesem Sammelband unter dem Aspekt des Sprachkontakts untersucht, ein Thema, das in unserer globalen und multiethnischen Gesells
Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Mohssen Esseesy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-18 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into acc
The Life Cycle of Language
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Darya Kavitskaya
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's lang
The Linguistic Cycle
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Elly van Gelderen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-31 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another.