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Fernando Zúñiga
Fernando Zúñiga (born 6 January 1968) is a Chilean-born Swiss linguistics, linguist at thUniversity of Bern where he held the chair of General Linguistics from February, 2013 until January, 2024; after retiring for health reasons, he became an associate researcher at the Institute of Linguistics. He works in the fields of linguistic typology and indigenous languages of the Americas, especially Mapudungun and Algonquian languages. He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. Partial bibliography * ''Mapudungun'', Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2000 * ''Deixis and Alignment. Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas'', Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006, * ''Mapudungun: el habla mapuche. Introducción a la lengua mapuche, con notas comparativas y un CD'', Santiago de Chile: Centro de Estudios Públicos, 2006, * ''Benefactives and Malefactives. Typological perspectives and case studies'', co-edited with Seppo Kittilä, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has been classified as a social science, natural science, cognitive science,Thagard, PaulCognitive Science, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). or part of the humanities. Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |