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Givon T. Givon: Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes
This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament – Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). …
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€91.52
Givon T. Givon: Story of Zero
The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devices in human language. Together with its functional …
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€106.68
Givon T. Givon: Ute Dictionary
This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the …
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€118.34
Givon T. Givon: Diachrony of Grammar
The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical m …
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€161.59
Ute Texts
This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tig …
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€117.99
Givon T. Givon: English Grammar
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise c …
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€103.12
Givon T. Givon: English Grammar
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise c …
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€106.99
Givon T. Givon: Functionalism and Grammar
This book is Prof. Givón’s long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalist …
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€140.30
Givon T. Givon: Grammatical Relations
This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented lingu …
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€140.27
Givon T. Givon: Conversation
The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-fa …
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€134.81
Gernsbacher Morton Ann Gernsbacher & Givon T. Givon: Coherence in Spontaneous Text
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech p …
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€129.43
Givon T. Givon: Voice and Inversion
This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse&#82 …
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€145.36
Givon T. Givon: Topic Continuity in Discourse
The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. A …
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€151.84
Thompson Sandra A. Thompson & Givon T. Givon: Discourse, Grammar and Typology
This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors’ conviction that all linguistic work needs to …
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€129.30
T. (University of Oregon) Givon: Ute Reference Grammar
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ut …
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€117.81
Givon T. Givon: Genesis of Syntactic Complexity
Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary …
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€118.37
Shibatani Masayoshi Shibatani & Givon T. Givon: Syntactic Complexity
Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special statu …
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€118.34
Givon T. Givon: Context as Other Minds
Givon’s new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notio …
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€124.85
Givon T. Givon: Bio-Linguistics
Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givon suggest …
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€140.27
Malle Bertram F. Malle & Givon T. Givon: Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biol …
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€145.77
Givon T. Givon: Syntax
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal asp …
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€129.43
Givon T. Givon: Syntax
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal asp …
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€135.34
Givon T. Givon: Coherence
Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint …
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€106.88
Givon T. Givon: On Understanding Grammar
In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowle …
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€106.23
Givon T. Givon: Life Cycle of Adpositions
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begi …
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€97.38