Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2011

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• Arabic and the Media

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  • Editor Reem Bassiouney
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  • This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the relation between Arabic and the media. It focuses on close analyses of examples of media Arabic (code-switching, language variation, orthography and constructions of identity), and also offers approaches to the use of media for teaching Arabic.

• The Ecology of Arabic

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  • Author: M. Al-Sharkawi
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  • This book offers a comprehensive theory of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. It thereby draws on old Arab grammarians coupled with modern research in second language acquisition.

• From Linguistics to Hermeneutics

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  • Author: P. Van Hecke
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  • Drawing on the insights of functional grammar and cognitive semantics, this book offers a detailed linguistic analysis of Job 12-14 and a fresh exegetical reading of Job's longest and central speech in the book.

• From Two Kingdoms To One Nation - Israel and Judah

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  • Author: S. Gelander
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  • Each of the four chapters of the book focuses on a different aspect of the division between Judah and Israel: between the Northern and Southern prophets, between the Jacob and Abraham narratives, between the Exodus and the Zion traditions and the circumstances of unification.

• A Grammar of Kharia

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  • Author: J. Peterson
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  • The present study is an extensive description of Kharia, a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, spoken in central-eastern India. It covers virtually all areas of the grammar, including phonology, morphology, syntax as well as a detailed discussion of the lexicon.

• Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators

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  • Author: Mohssen Esseesy
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  • The empirical findings of this study establish that prepositions remain central to Arabic language users. It shows that they utilize them for construction of phrases, linked clauses, and organization of discourse, among other notable functions.

• Handbook of the Syllable

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  • Editors Charles Cairns; Eric Raimy
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  • The Handbook of the Syllable presents a broad range of empirical studies, offering a comprehensive survey of the syllable in phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. It is a seminal reference book for researchers exploring any empirical area where the notion of “the syllable” is invoked.

• I am a Linguist

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  • Author: R. Dixon
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  • The story of extended linguistic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia, Fiji and Amazonia, linked to theoretical study of the nature of human language, also throwing in detective novels, science fiction stories and blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with frank assessment of the role of universities today.

• The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amәdya

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  • Author: J. Greenblatt
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  • This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amǝdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection of texts recorded in the dialect on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres, including folk-tales and oral history.

• Language at Large

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  • The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.

• Language: Communication and Human Behavior

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  • Editors Alan Huffman; Joseph Davis
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  • In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users.

• The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Gift” in Ancient Hebrew

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  • Author: Francesco Zanella
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  • This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the semantic domain of ‘gift’ in Ancient Hebrew. The investigation focuses on the single lexemes and provides an overall picture of the developments of the lexical field across the linguistic layers of Ancient Hebrew.

• Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas

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  • Editors Eithne B. Carlin; Simon Kerke
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  • This book offers a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research from the Caribbean and Meso America, through Amazonia and the Andes to Argentina, ranging from historical comparative through descriptive and socio-linguistics to new discoveries in archaeological research.

• The Mehri Language of Oman

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  • This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in Oman and Yemen. It is the first grammar of its kind, and the first of any Modern South Arabian language in a century.

• Multi-verb Constructions

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  • Editors Alexandra Aikhenvald; Pieter Muysken
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  • This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Where possible, a diachronic perspectrive is offered.

• New Materials on the Khitan Small Script

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• Reading Academic Hebrew

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  • Author: N. Krohn
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  • This reference manual-cum-textbook provides advanced learners of Hebrew and their teachers with the linguistic information – both grammatical and semantic – and the strategic means necessary to reach a native-like proficiency in reading scholarly works in the field of Jewish Studies.

• Salish Applicatives

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  • Authors: K. Kiyosawa; D. Gerdts
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  • This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. The historical development and discourse function of applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

• Text Comparison and Digital Creativity

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  • Editors Wido Th. Peursen; Ernst Thoutenhoofd; Adriaan Weel
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  • Combining both case studies and theoretical reflections, this book offers a varied range of assessments about digital conditions of philological inquiry. The book details instruments and processes of digital text criticism along with reflection on the increasingly unstable reconstructions of authorship and presence in e-philology.

• Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar

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  • Author: E. Dahl
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  • Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.