International Association of Young Linguists http://www.iayl.org/site Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:49:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/Syntax/Grammar_2007120536.html I) INTRODUCTION Grammar, branch of linguistics dealing with the form and structure of words (morphology), and their interrelation in sentences (syntax). The study of grammar reveals how language works. II) KINDS OF GRAMMAR Most people first encounter grammar in connection with the study of their own or of a second language in... Scientific Board - Syntax Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:38:03 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/General_Linguistics/South_American_Indian_languages_2007120431.html Introduction group of languages that once covered and today still partially cover all of South America, the Antilles, and Central America to the south of a line from the Gulf of Honduras to the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. Estimates of the number of speakers in that area in pre-Columbian times... Scientific Board - General Linguistics Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:50:04 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/General_Linguistics/Philosophy_Of_Language_2007120430.html Introduction philosophical investigation of the nature of language; the relations between language, language users, and the world; and the concepts with which language is described and analyzed, both in everyday speech and in scientific linguistic studies. Because its investigations are conceptual rather than empirical, the philosophy of language is distinct from... Scientific Board - General Linguistics Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:42:16 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/General_Linguistics/Computational_linguistics_2007120228.html Language analysis that makes use of electronic digital computers. Computational analysis is most frequently applied to the handling of basic language data—e.g., making concordances and counting frequencies of sounds, words, and word elements—although numerous other types of linguistic analysis can be performed by computers. Scientific Board - General Linguistics Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:19:57 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Persian/Dialectology/Dialect_geography_and_dialect_topography_2007102927.html مکان نگاری گویش و جغرافیا ی گویش در این پژوهه منظور از جغرافیای گویش مطالعه ی گویش –در بستر علم جغرافیا-است که معادل Dialect Geography است و به بررسی آن در مقابل مکان نگاری گویش Dialect Topography پرداختیم.قبل از پرداختن به... Persian - Dialectology Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:40:59 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/News/Site/A_Major_Change_In_Site_Address_2007092519.html Dear Faithful User We have decided to change our Site index address from iayl.org/en/index.html to http://www.iayl.org/site/index.html We plan to start all languages through this portal and we do not add any other portal for other languages. You may post your articles into website through desired section and category. if you don't see your... News - Site Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:26:44 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/Semiotics/The_Comparative_Study_of_Verbal_and_Visual_Artworks_2007090918.html The Semiotics of Time and Passage of Time: the Comparative Study of Verbal and Visual Artworks The issue of time, passage of time, conceptualization, and expression of time has always been considered by philosophers, on the one hand, and sociologists, on the other, and has led both to study how... Scientific Board - Semiotics Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:44:16 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/News/General/International_PEN_2007072514.html International PEN, worldwide association of writers that includes poets, essayists, novelists, historians, critics, translators, editors, journalists, and screenwriters. The organization was founded in 1921 in London as a non-political, non-governmental organization committed to the craft and art of writing and a commitment to freedom of expression through the written word.... News - General Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:33:22 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/General_Linguistics/Alphabet_2007072313.html I INTRODUCTIONAlphabet, set of letters or other symbols, each representing a distinctive sound of a language. These letters can be combined to write all the words of a language. The letters of an alphabet typically have names and a fixed order. Alphabets are the most common type of writing... Scientific Board - General Linguistics Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:12:00 +0100 http://www.iayl.org/site/Scientific_Board/General_Linguistics/Linguistic_Relativity_2007052912.html Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), American anthropological linguist, known for his theory of linguistic relativity, which asserts that a person's view of reality is shaped to a large extent by the linguistic system of the language used.Born at Winthrop, Massachusetts, Whorf attended public schools there and majored in chemical engineering at... Scientific Board - General Linguistics Tue, 29 May 2007 14:02:35 +0100