Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Paul Hopper
yhteensä 24 hakutulosta
Voice: Form and Function
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the …
Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism
As modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life. It demonstrates how the …
Tense-Aspect
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker's reported …
Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism
As modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life. It demonstrates how the …
The Syntax of the Simple Sentence in Proto-Germanic
Understanding Development
Understanding Development is the ideal introduction to the major issues and critical debates about development in the contemporary world. Perfectly suited to students, it offers an …
Understanding Development
Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition …
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book …
Understanding Development
Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition …
Limits of Grammaticalization
The earliest use of the term "e;grammaticalization"e; was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "e;he keeps bees"e;) …
Stories from the Universal Collector
Long ago, during our era, a gigantic spaceship travels silently through a galaxy far away from our Earth. For more than a hundred generations, the ship has been home to the …
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics
This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive …