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A Grammar of Daakaka

Author : Kilu von Prince
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766310
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Daakaka written by Kilu von Prince and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar is the first description of the endangered Oceanic language Daakaka. This language is spoken by about 1000 speakers on the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The data on which the analysis is based were collected by the author during a documentation project between 2009 and 2012. All structural levels of the language are discussed, including discussions of reduplication patterns and orthography design, nominal and verbal subclasses, clause types and information structure and the different types of subordinate clauses. Particular emphasis is given to the intricate system of nominal possession, the system of TAM- and polarity markers and serial verb constructions. Literary genres of the region and related art forms such as songs and the symbolic sand drawings are discussed in the final chapter. The grammar will be especially relevant to readers with an interest in Oceanic languages, general typology and theoretical linguistics as well as those with a broader interest in the region.

A Grammar of Kilmeri

Author : Claudia Gerstner-Link
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501506765
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kilmeri written by Claudia Gerstner-Link and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is accessible via a small collection of fully glossed personal and traditional stories included in the Online Supplement. The typological evaluation of selected properties of Kilmeri rounds out the description of the language.

Proper Names versus Common Nouns

Author : Javier Caro Reina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672626
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Proper Names versus Common Nouns written by Javier Caro Reina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.

A Grammar of Kambera

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805537
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kambera written by Marian Klamer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Susceptibility vs. Resistance

Author : Nataliya Levkovych
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311078551X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Susceptibility vs. Resistance by : Nataliya Levkovych

Download or read book Susceptibility vs. Resistance written by Nataliya Levkovych and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the negligible impact of English and Spanish on the number category in Patagonian Welsh, the reluctance of replicas to borrow English but. MAT-borrowing does not imply the copying of rules as the Spanish function-words in the Chamorro irrealis show. Chamorro and Tetun Dili look similar on account of their contact-induced parallels. The languages of the former USSR have borrowed largely identical sets of conjunctions from Russian, Arabic, and Persian to converge in the domain of clause linkage. Resistance against and susceptibility to transfer call for further investigations to the benefit of language-contact theory.

Demonstratives in discourse

Author : Åshild Næss
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102864
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Demonstratives in discourse written by Åshild Næss and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages

Author : Kenneth L. Rehg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190877049
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages written by Kenneth L. Rehg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language endangerment. The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, provides a comprehensive overview of the efforts that are being undertaken to deal with this crisis. A comprehensive reference reflecting the breadth of the field, the Handbook presents in detail both the range of thinking about language endangerment and the variety of responses to it, and broadens understanding of language endangerment, language documentation, and language revitalization, encouraging further research. The Handbook is organized into five parts. Part 1, Endangered Languages, addresses the fundamental issues that are essential to understanding the nature of the endangered languages crisis. Part 2, Language Documentation, provides an overview of the issues and activities of concern to linguists and others in their efforts to record and document endangered languages. Part 3, Language Revitalization, includes approaches, practices, and strategies for revitalizing endangered and sleeping ("dormant") languages. Part 4, Endangered Languages and Biocultural Diversity, extends the discussion of language endangerment beyond its conventional boundaries to consider the interrelationship of language, culture, and environment, and the common forces that now threaten the sustainability of their diversity. Part 5, Looking to the Future, addresses a variety of topics that are certain to be of consequence in future efforts to document and revitalize endangered languages.

Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces

Author : Lauren Clemens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192604856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces written by Lauren Clemens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, and in recent years, data from Polynesian languages has also contributed to advances in the fields of prosody and semantics, as well as to the study of parametric variation. The chapters in this volume offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues at the syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interfaces, both within individual languages and from a comparative Polynesian perspective. They examine key topics including: word order variation, ergativity and case systems, causativization, negation, raising, modality and superlatives, and the left periphery of both the sentential and nominal domains. The findings not only shed light on the theoretical typology of Polynesian languages, but also have implications for linguistic theory as a whole.

A Grammar of Dazaga

Author : Josiah Walters
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323910
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Dazaga written by Josiah Walters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Grammar of Dazaga, Josiah Walters provides a detailed description of Dazaga, a Saharan language. Based on recent data, the author describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Dazaga, relating his findings to related languages and recent typological studies.

A Grammar of Kham

Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436082
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kham written by David E. Watters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

A grammar of Yakkha

Author : Diana Schackow
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234119
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A grammar of Yakkha written by Diana Schackow and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.

A Grammar of the Sindhí Language

Author : George Stack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Sindhí Language written by George Stack and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of the Bengālī Language, etc

Author : Duncan Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Bengālī Language, etc written by Duncan Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of Kisi

Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110810883
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kisi written by G. Tucker Childs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

A Grammar of the Kaffir Language

Author : William Jafferd Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Kaffir Language written by William Jafferd Davis and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of the Kachin Language

Author : Ola Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Kachin Language written by Ola Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grammar of Mani

Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311026501X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mani written by G. Tucker Childs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling “Samou”) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted in 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years 2004-2006. That the Mani language will soon disappear is certain; just as certain is that this grammar will be the only one ever written.