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Free Download Derib Ado, "Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages "
English | ISBN: 9027208336 | 2021 | 423 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in the history of Ethiopian linguistics, two chapters are dedicated to descriptive studies of Ethiopian Sign Language, as well as two studies on acoustic phonetics. Topics range over a wide spectrum of issues covering the lexicon, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural aspects and micro-linguistic studies on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ethiopian languages.

Free Download Grammatical Interference: Learning Syntax from Sentences: Third International Colloquium, ICGI-96 Montpellier, France, September 25-27, 1996 Proceedings By David M. Magerman (auth.), Laurent Miclet, Colin de la Higuera (eds.)
1996 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 3540617787 | PDF | 9 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI-96, held in Montpellier, France, in September 1996.The 25 revised full papers contained in the book together with two invited key papers by Magerman and Knuutila were carefully selected for presentation at the conference. The papers are organized in sections on algebraic methods and algorithms, natural language and pattern recognition, inference and stochastic models, incremental methods and inductive logic programming, and operational issues.

Free Download Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications: 8th International Colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings By Yuji Matsumoto (auth.), Yasubumi Sakakibara, Satoshi Kobayashi, Kengo Sato, Tetsuro Nishino, Etsuji Tomita (eds.)
2006 | 359 Pages | ISBN: 3540452648 | PDF | 3 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, ICGI 2006, held in Tokyo, Japan in September 2006.The 25 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The topics of the papers presented range from theoretical results of learning algorithms to innovative applications of grammatical inference and from learning several interesting classes of formal grammars to applications to natural language processing.

Free Download Martin Elsig, "Grammatical Variation across Space and Time (Studies in Language Variation)"
English | 2009 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 9027234833 | PDF | 3,8 mb
Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of French interrogative constructions across a time span of approximately five hundred years by drawing on written sources (15th to 17th century) and oral data (19th and 20th century). Special attention is paid to the regional variation between European French and Quebec French. A variationist analysis reveals the relevant sociolinguistic factors conditioning variant choice. On the basis of the results obtained, the syntax of the different variants is modeled within the framework of generative grammar. In particular, the progressive diachronic decline and restriction of subject-verb inversion is argued to mirror the loss of verb movement. This book is of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic variation and change.

Free Download Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition By Ramzi Baalbaki
2004 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0860789489 | PDF | 6 MB
Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi’s tome or Kitab, on the relation between grammatical study and other areas of linguistic enquiry such as Qur’anic readings and stylistics, and on the techniques which the grammarians employed to explain and rationalize usage and to incorporate within their system the vast body of dialectal material which the corpus comprises. The author has sought to highlight the central position which Arabic grammar enjoys within the wider Arab culture, and in so doing has examined several aspects of a legacy which has been revered over a millennium and which forms to this very day the backbone of the teaching of grammar in the Arab world.

Free Download Jeff MacSwan, "Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching"
English | ISBN: 0262027895 | | 326 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field.

Free Download Grammatical Voice By Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä
2019 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 1107159245 | PDF | 3 MB
The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä illustrate the semantic, morphological, and syntactic variation of voice across languages from a range of families and regions. They approach the topic from a broad and explicit perspective, and discuss a variety of topics that are not always regarded as voice, in order to make a clear and useful conceptual delimitation. Clearly organized and accessibly written, the book will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, especially those interested in how grammatical categories work.

Free Download Lauri Snellman, "Evil and Intelligibility: A Grammatical Metacritique of the Problem of Evil "
English | ISBN: 9004524789 | 2023 | 417 pages | PDF | 43 MB

Free Download Martha Kolln, "Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects Ed 8"
English | ISBN: 0134080378 | 2016 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1419 KB
For courses in first-year composition and rhetoric.