10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIACHRONY»
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diachrony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diachrony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Syntactic Complexity:
Diachrony, Acquisition, ...
This volume, coming out of a symposium held at Rice University in March 2008, tackles syntactic complexity from multiple developmental perspectives.
Talmy Givón, Masayoshi Shibatani, 2009
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Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, ...
The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts oflanguage growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empiricalperspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities andfrom a diversity of acquisition ...
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Diachrony in psychoanalysis
Historical truth, which is based on the beliefs organising the psyche, is contrasted with material truth stripped of any embellishment. the essays in this volume complete the ideas put forward in "Time in Psychoanalysis - Some Contradictory ...
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Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic:
Diachrony and Synchrony
Drawing on the recent discussions on Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the various fields of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the ...
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Diversity and
Diachrony
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2.
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Non-Verbal Predication: Theory, Typology,
Diachrony
Non-Verbal Predication : Theory, Typology, Diachrony
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Studies in Typology and
Diachrony: Papers Presented to ...
The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the past three decades has been in the fusion of these two approaches to linguistic explanation into one, diachronic typology, the cross-linguistic analysis of languages as dynamic systems.This volume ...
William Croft, Keith M. Denning, Suzanne Kemmer, 1990
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The Synchrony and
Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive: A ...
This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms by the languages of the Balkan peninsula.
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The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity:
Diachrony, Ontogeny, ...
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.
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Modal Adjectives: English Deontic and Evaluative ...
The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives.
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIACHRONY»
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diachrony is used in the context of the following news items.
Fascinating Cambridge University Research Links Endangered …
... how much micro-variation there exists (known as synchrony) and how the morpho-syntactic structure has changed through time (diachrony). «The Pappas Post, May 15»
“Urban Diachrony”–After The Social Progress Of The 1960s Worked …
Commenter jackson points out a website called “urban diachrony” that posts before and after photos of places in Los Angeles. Here's the ... «VDARE.com, May 15»
This Is Your Brain on Wax: Masaki Batoh Turns Brain Waves Into …
“BPM works on the brain waves directly, which means both of them operate with synchrony and diachrony.” Originally, Batoh intended to fill the ... «Wired News, Feb 12»
Oxford students take Greek theatre to Zambia
The work of the chorus was sublime, grasping in one hour the play between synchrony and diachrony that makes a good chorus so interesting ... «Oxford Student, Sep 11»
