Multilingües desde la cuna

A farmer describes how the resident parrot makes daily life more interesting for the other animals on the farm.

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' "Course in General Linguistics," the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered...

Más allá de sus investigaciones sobre temas históricos y políticos, y en otro horizonte intelectual bien distinto, estas reflexiones, publicadas por primera vez en 1719 y preparadas desde diez años antes, constituyen la más cuidada exposición sobre la teoría de las artes hecha por Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, para quien la finalidad específica del arte es emocionar. Esta obra, muy erudita, plena de sagacidad y de espíritu crítico, es todo un ejercicio filosófico ponderado que resulta aún más valioso cuando se conoce el hecho de que el propio Du Bos jamás practicó las artes acerca de...

Cognate Infinitives have been identified and described as productive linguistic features within Arabic language and along the Semitic continuum. However, their full range of function remains largely unstudied in the spoken varieties of Arabic. This study proposes a new grammatical model for the analysis and description of Cognate Infinitives in Lebanese Arabic that accounts for this feature’s semantic, informational, affective and social functions. It suggests that Cognate Infinitives function as focus markers and are efficient communicative tools for a variety of attention management...