Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of Frames of Reference, these do not extend to a wide selection of the worlds languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia....Lasīt vairāk
Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide var...Lasīt vairāk
Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, Nicholas Evans
Sērija : Oxford Handbooks
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Sep-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199683208)
This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for...Lasīt vairāk
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emoti...Lasīt vairāk
Each of the prose poems that constitute the first part of this volume juxtaposes at least two widely different images and ways of reading them. The result - an either/or choice between incompatibles - can be surprising. Those of the second part are b...Lasīt vairāk
How could one go about communicating with an alien but sentient thing? What might the result be if things went wrong? Can one conduct a serious scientific conversation while wandering through Tivoli gardens? Is there a downside to being chancellor?...Lasīt vairāk
