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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Qaqet by : Birgit Hellwig
Download or read book A Grammar of Qaqet written by Birgit Hellwig and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar is a description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the small Baining language family, and it is included among the geographically-defined East Papu
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Qaqet by : Birgit Hellwig
Download or read book A Grammar of Qaqet written by Birgit Hellwig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family (comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear. It is included among the geographically-defined East Papuan languages. The grammar presents a synchronic description of the language. From a language family perspective, the Baining languages are structurally fairly similar, but there are considerable differences in detail that point to different language-internal developments and grammaticalization paths. From an East Papuan and areal perspective, Qaqet exhibits both typical East Papuan features (e.g., nominal classification, possessor/possessed order, highly compositional lexicon) as well as areal features (e.g., AVO ~ SV constituent order, articles and determiners, prepositions). The description is based on primary data collected during fieldwork (from 2011 onwards), including both natural and elicited data. The description thereby provides new analyses and insights that are relevant to our understanding of the genetic and areal relationships in this region.
Book Synopsis Child-directed Speech in Qaqet by : Henrike Frye
Download or read book Child-directed Speech in Qaqet written by Henrike Frye and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the remote inland, children acquire Qaqet as their first language. Much of what we know about child‑directed speech (CDS) stems from children living in middle‑class, urban, industrialised contexts. This book combines evidence from different methods, showing that the features typical for speech to children in such contexts are also found in Qaqet CDS. Preliminary insights from naturalistic audio recordings suggest that Qaqet children are infrequently addressed directly. In interviews, Qaqet caregivers express the view that children ‘pick up’ the language on their own. Still, they have clear ideas about how to talk to children in a way that makes it easier for them to understand what is said. In order to compare adult- and child-directed speech in Qaqet, 20 retellings of a film have been analysed, half of them told to adults and half to children. The data show that talk directed to children differs from talk directed to adults for several features, among them utterance type, mean length of utterance, amount of hesitations and intonation. Despite this clear tendency, there seems to be a cut-off point of around 40 months of age for several of those features from which the talk directed to children becomes more like the talk directed to adults.
Book Synopsis A grammar of Kalamang by : Eline Visser
Download or read book A grammar of Kalamang written by Eline Visser and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.
Book Synopsis Caused Accompanied Motion by : Anna Margetts
Download or read book Caused Accompanied Motion written by Anna Margetts and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.
Book Synopsis Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective by : Thomas Stolz
Download or read book Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective written by Thomas Stolz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, proper names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names, personal names, and common nouns. It is shown that the behaviour of place names and personal names in morphology and syntax frequently disagrees with the rules established for other word classes independent of the language’s genetic affiliation, grammatical structure, and geographic location. Place names and personal names each boast a grammar of their own. They are candidates for the status of a distinct word class. Their special grammar comes frequently to the fore in the domain of spatial and possessive relations. This fact is explained with reference to functional notions.
Book Synopsis Proper Names versus Common Nouns by : Javier Caro Reina
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 299 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.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : Robert Sterling
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by Robert Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : Carl Paul Caspari
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by Carl Paul Caspari and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabick Language by : John Richardson
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabick Language written by John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : William Wright
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by William Wright and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : Robert Sterling
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by Robert Sterling and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabick Language by : John Richardson
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabick Language written by John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : William Wright
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by William Wright and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Omani Mehri written by Aaron D. Rubin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, presented with extensive commentary, were collected by the late T.M. Johnstone. Some are published here for the first time, while the rest have been newly edited and translated, based on the original manuscripts. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of southern Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume, which is the most detailed grammatical study of a Modern South Arabian language yet published.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Hinuq by : Diana Forker
Download or read book A Grammar of Hinuq written by Diana Forker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first thorough description of the Nakh-Daghestanian language Hinuq. Hinuq has about 600 speakers living primarily in a single village in the Caucasus mountains in southern Russia (Daghestan). During several fieldwork trips, the author collected an extensive corpus of texts. Based on the data, Forker provides a comprehensive analysis of Hinuq grammar with reference to other Nakh-Daghestanian languages, to Caucasian studies and to typological and general linguistic topics.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Arabic Language by : W. Wright
Download or read book A Grammar of the Arabic Language written by W. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
