Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word clas ... 続きを読む
This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the conscio ... 続きを読む
Offers an authoritative account of the field of translation, covering the whole history of translation
Provides a range of fascinating examples from many languages
Puts forward fresh arguments ... 続きを読む
To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other sp ... 続きを読む
Francois Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utter ... 続きを読む
Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who br ... 続きを読む
Since its appearance in 1967, Professor Lewis's Turkish Grammar has been the standard work on the language throughout the English-speaking world. This revised and fully updated new edition further re ... 続きを読む
Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to ... 続きを読む
This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence T ... 続きを読む
This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence T ... 続きを読む
