Diversity in Language: Perspectives and ImplicationsWhat does linguistic diversity tell us about the human mind? In the comprehensive volume Diversity in Language, a renowned team of contributorsassess the intricacies of linguistic variation. From historical perspectives on Indonesian to apparent time change in Smith Island verbs, from unplanned spoken Russian to argument structure in the Pacific Northwest, these essays render the full spectrum of linguistic possibility. |
Contents
Department of Linguistics Kobe University | 1 |
Historical | 71 |
A Tour into Linguistic | 131 |
Copyright | |
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Active A/SUBJ Ambon Ambon Malay Appropriate Not appropriate Austronesian Austronesian languages Boku-wa by-phrase center-embedding Chimakuan clitic cognitive constraints construction contexts cross-linguistic dapa dialect Diessel & Tomasello discourse empathy example Fall-type grammatical aspect guage Halkomelem head noun her/him I-TOP Indonesian/Malay Jakarta Jakarta Malay Japanese Kelantan Ken-ga Ken-NOM kita Know-type Kwak'wala Language Acquisition learners leveling lexical aspect linguistic Makah Makasar Makasar Malay Marathi marker marking meaning morphological native speakers Nitinaht non-native speakers norms Nuuchahnulth OBJ/Agt OBJ/x OBL/L/Agt OBL/X P/SUBJ Passive A/OBL participants Patient pattern perspective phonological Pittsburgh pronominal Quileute relative clauses Ride-type Salishan languages Schilling-Estes Second Language Acquisition second person semantic sentences Serui Serui Malay Shirai shown Smith Island Smith Island English sociolinguistic speech spoken stancetaking Standard Indonesian structure SUBJ/Agt SUBJ/Pat SUBJ/X syntactic role teiru third person tion tive toka typology University variation varieties verb voice system Wakashan yinz