Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Assimil, 2021. — 131 p. — (Les cahiers d'écriture). Ce cahier d’écriture a été spécialement conçu pour vous permettre d’apprendre à tracer les hiéroglyphes les plus complexes. Les signes imprimés de la classification de Gardiner servent de modèle et sont reproduits de façon schématique et cursive pour une écriture plus fluide. Pas à pas, crayon en main, vous vous entraînez à...
Charles E. Nichols, 2008. — 154 p. This book is written for high school students and beginners. It avoids using complicated grammar. The examples are kept simple. In many cases the hieroglyphs are "unrolled" - each hieroglyphic word is presented to the student one hieroglyph at a time, just as we write an English word one letter at a time. Each hieroglyph is treated as if it...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 415 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 416 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2025. — 573 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 6). Per una storia della venetizzazione linguistica dell’Istria: prospettive metodologiche per una sociolinguistica diacronica (“Studi Mediolatini e Volgari” 1975, 23: 59-100) Storia linguistica dell’Istria preromana e romana (Rapporti linguistici e culturali tra popoli dell’Italia antica: Pisa, Giardini Editori e...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2024. — 245 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 5). Questo lavoro si propone di presentare un’analisi dei testi di carattere magico-religioso provenienti dalla Sicilia e databili al periodo compreso tra III e VIII secolo dell’era volgare, che si ispira ai principi e ai metodi della sociolinguistica storica. La raccolta integrale di questo corpus documentario si...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2023. — 259 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 3). Il volume raccoglie i contributi di alcuni tra i maggiori specialisti italiani di quest’ambito di studi, che in Italia vanta una lunga tradizione. L’obiettivo dell’opera è duplice: da una parte, ricostruire il quadro complessivo dei rapporti che sono intercorsi fra i sistemi di scrittura attestati a Creta e a Cipro...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 349 p. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 528 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
MDPI, 2025. — 248 p. This volume brings together cutting-edge research on the syntax-discourse interface, featuring eleven studies by prominent scholars that address the widely debated issue of the relationship between syntax and pragmatics. The focus is on which pragmatic features and categories should be projected in syntax in order to provide formal explanations for...
Brill, 2025. — 114 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics 8). Cognitive semantics is a relatively new field whose central concern is how language structures conceptual content. This book aims to approach the field comprehensively and outline its main contours. It both summarizes previous research and presents novel analyses. The main issues it covers range from...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 332 p. — (Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics 2). The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Primarily, but not exclusively, they explore the impact of the great transnational languages, Greek and Latin, on numerous indigenous languages: the...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 710 p. — (Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics 1). There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 329 p. — (Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics 4). The present volume collects contributions given at the First Postclassical Greek Conference Cologne (March 24–26, 2021), dealing with different topics related to the Greek language of the Postclassical period. In particular, it addresses the following issues: diachrony of the Greek language (e.g....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 327 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 351). While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill...
Brill, 2022. — 395 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 15). Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a...
Brill, 2016. — 223 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 6). In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Fløgstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteño Spanish – a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through primary sources and a large...
Brill, 2022. — 407 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 16). The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology; the integrative basis of all work included in the...
Brill, 2024. — 341 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 23). The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of languages....
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 892 p. The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the...
Springer, 2000. — 233 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 50). Though centered on Italian, cross-linguistic analysis is extensively provided: data from languages as diverse as English, Hungarian, Modern Greek, Hausa, Chichewa, Serbo-Croatian and Somali are used to show that despite surface variations, the interface interpretation of Focus and Topic lies in...
Springer, 1999. — 283 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43). This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the...
Springer, 1998. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42). Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling,...
Springer, 1999. — 241 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 44). The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is that all elements that follow the main...
Springer, 1990. — 279 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20). The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as...
Springer, 1994. — 213 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30). Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics. It is argued that case assignment, agreement, syntactic binding relations, as well...
Springer, 2021. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 99). This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and dialects. The collection, divided into four sections, proposes that SE...
Springer, 2022. — 224 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 101). This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which subjunctive mood occurs and of its...
Springer, 2017. — 246 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 93). This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it possible...
Springer, 2018. — 415 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 94). This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable “one-stop shopping” opportunity for readers interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic analysis intersect and interact. The boundaries between the lexicon and morphophonology, between...
Springer, 2019. — 331 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 96). This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. Adnominal adjectival expressions are apparently optional noun dependents but their syntax and semantics have been shown to provide an important window on the internal structure of DP. By carefully...
Springer, 2019. — 254 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 95). This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Spanish. Other chapters...
D. Reidel, 1986. — 231 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6). The Issues The Historical Perspective The Spiral of Progress An Outline of The Theory: English Phonology Lexical and Postlexical Rule Applications 8 Lexical Morphology The Use of Morphological Information in Phonology How Many Strata in English? Rules, Domains, and Stratum Ordering The Mental...
Springer, 2011. — 207 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 84). This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates—and forges links between—two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky’s Bare Phrase Structure and Richard...
Springer, 2010. — 317 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 80). Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a...
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009. — 216 S. — (Iranische Onomastik 6). Der vorliegende Band bietet eine vollständige Sammlung und eingehende Interpretation jener in neuassyrischen Texten (Annalen, Feldzugsberichten, Orakelanfragen, Briefen usw.) des 9. bis 7. Jh.s überlieferten Personennamen, die sicher oder sehr wahrscheinlich iranischen Ursprungs...
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009. — 377 S. — (Iranische Onomastik 4). Dieser Faszikel enthält 656 Lemmata, und zwar 656 Personen mit 458 Namen. Die sehr detaillierte Einleitung umfasst 20 Seiten, und die erschöpfenden Indizes über 30 Seiten. Der chronologische Rahmen reicht von ca. 650 bis 5 v.Chr. Das Material ist überwiegend achämenidisch, als...
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009. — 192 S. — (Iranische Onomastik 5). Die gemeinsame Arbeit dreier Verfasser über "Noms propres syriaques d´origine iranienne" wird hier als ein neuer Faszikel des "Iranische(n) Personennamenbuch(es)" innerhalb einer neuen Reihe namens "Iranische Onomastik" veröffentlicht. Die Autoren haben alle syrischen Anthroponyme...
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. — 122 S. — (Iranische Onomastik 13). Der vorliegende Band bietet erstmals eine vollständige Sammlung der in ägyptischer (hieroglyphischer wie demotischer) Überlieferung bezeugten Personennamen iranischer Herkunft. Die Namen sind hauptsächlich während der Ersten und Zweiten Perserherrschaft (526 bis ca. 400 v. Chr....
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 309 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The essays collected in this volume originate, directly or indirectly, from the Certificat de specialisation en theorie syntaxique et syntaxe comparative which was held at the University of Geneva in 1989-90. This program gave rise to a substantive body of research in comparative syntax which...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 380 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2000. — 360 p. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is covered, including the distribution of French...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 304 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Shlonsky uses Chomsky’s Government and Binding approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic. He establishes a syntactic analysis of Hebrew and then extends that analysis to aspects of Arabic clausal syntax. Through the comparative lens of...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 216 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker ‘s syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 282 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 288 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). One of the world’s leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 394 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book presents a collection of recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. It focuses on both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new and fine-grained tool for illuminating properties of the human language faculty, and...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 266 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book studies three salient phenomena of the West Germanic language group, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. It shows that scrambling cannot be taken to create the remnant categories necessary for VO-topicalization and the formation of...