SubjectsLinguistics / Linguistics of isolated languages
Journal
ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731
Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 339 pp.
The Korean language and multilingual communities in Australasia and beyond
Edited by Seong-Chul Shin
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 19:2 (2023) v, 83 pp.
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.
Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean
Edited by John Whitman and Lucien Brown
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015) v, 140 pp.
Korean Historical Linguistics
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 15:2 (2013) v, 135 pp.
A Syntax of the Nivkh Language: The Amur dialect
Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Galina A. Otaina
This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately. It is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors’… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 139] 2013. xxx, 396 pp.
Space in Tense: The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean
Kyung-Sook Chung
This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 189] 2012. xvii, 292 pp.
Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning
Lucien Brown
This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 206] 2011. xiv, 311 pp.
Request Strategies: A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean
Yong-Ju Rue and Grace Zhang
This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp.
Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O’Connor
Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh: A contribution to a typology of polysynthesis
Johanna Mattissen
Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 57] 2003. x, 350 pp.
Classification Syntaxique des Constructions Adjectivales en Coréen
Jeesun Nam
The purpose of this study is the systematic description of a set of data called Adjectives in Korean, which reduces to a minimum theoretical preoccupations and abstract formalisations with no practical applications. The framework of our research is the Lexicon-grammar, whose fundamental idea is… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 21] 1996. xxvi, 560 pp.
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
Chai-Song Hong
Ce travail est une description syntaxique des constructions des verbes de mouvement (Vmt) en coréen contemporain. L’objectif immédiat est the caractériser syntaxiquement les phrases acceptant un Vmt et de décrire leurs propriétés formelles. Dans cette optique, on doit: construire sur la base de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 12] 1985. xv, 309 pp.