Martin Haspelmath Livres

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.

The book offers an extensive exploration of indefinite pronouns across global languages, examining their functional and formal properties. It reveals the variation in these expressions, such as "someone" and "anything," while identifying universal implicational constraints that govern their usage. Additionally, the author provides explanations for these linguistic universals, contributing to the understanding of language structure and function.

The Atlas and three-volume Survey present by far the most comprehensive source of reference ever published on the distribution and linguistic characteristics of the world's pidgin and creole languages. On sale as combined item at a special prepublication price they comprise a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists.

The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

The Atlas and three-volume Survey present by far the most comprehensive source of reference ever published on the distribution and linguistic characteristics of the world's pidgin and creole languages. On sale as combined item at a special prepublication price they comprise a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists.

Vysokoškolská učebnice O čem je morfologie zaujme nejen lingvisty, ale i zájemce o jazyk z jiných oborů zasvěceným výkladem nejdůležitějších témat vymezujících předmět současné morfologie. Formou dialogu různých přístupů a názorů seznamují autoři se základními morfologickými pojmy a pravidly, s ukládáním slov/morfémů v mentálním lexikonu, vztahem mezi flexí a derivací, produktivitou a restrikcemi tvoření slov, vztahy mezi morfologií a syntaxí, morfologií a fonologií a úlohou frekvence v morfologii. Text doplňují cvičeními, glosářem termínů a rejstříky. V rámci moderního pojetí se autoři díky zkušenosti s jazykovou typologií a univerzáliemi neomezují na indoevropské jazyky, nýbrž předkládají data z jazyků celého světa. Díky zkušenosti s jazykovou typologií a univerzáliemi se autoři neomezují na indoevropské jazyky, nýbrž předkládají data z jazyků celého světa.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.