Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of
language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a
synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic
unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor’s preface. The book’s first
chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the
art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important
linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics
and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a
comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language
and word length studies.
The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume
will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general
linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding
language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should
be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar : The Effect of Particular Languages (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics)
This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with
regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of
papers gives empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages
including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch,
Indonesian, Estonian, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with
a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without
subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently
debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional
ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of
language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the
acquisition process. The papers are united by their focus on
discovering what determines rule-governed behavior in language learners
who are coming to terms with the grammar of verbs.
This book written by Mark Juergensmeyer, the Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, sets out to explore why, in a few extreme instances, religion is used to justify terrorism. "Terror in the Mind of God" was published in 2000, before the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, but it is extremely relevant to today's headlines...
The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality. The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes: "Topics" and "Cultures". The combination of topical overviews and varying cultural portraits is what makes this encyclopedia a unique reference work for students, researchers and teachers interested in gender studies and cross-cultural variation in sex and gender. It deserves a place in the library of every university and every social science and health department.