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A Grammar of Yélî Dnye

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733854
Total Pages : 617 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Yélî Dnye written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities." Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara

A Grammar of Yélî Dnye

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733900
Total Pages : 619 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Yélî Dnye written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities." Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara

A Tsilhqút’ín Grammar

Author : Eung-Do Cook
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484521X
Total Pages : 671 pages
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Exploring Linguistic Science

Author : Allison Burkette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108683614
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Meaning and Power in the Language of Law

Author : Janny H. C. Leung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108378188
Total Pages : 346 pages
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A Grammar of Kham

Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436082
Total Pages : 505 pages
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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.

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424287
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Grammar of the Chinese Language

Author : William Lobscheid
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Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics

Author : E. K. Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9780080443676
Total Pages : 856 pages
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A Grammar of the Kui Language

Author : J. E. Friend Pereira
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780526843527
Total Pages : 116 pages
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (Classic Reprint)

Author : Moses Stuart
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ISBN 13 : 9781332162932
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080959695
Total Pages : 1103 pages
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Key to a Grammar of Akkadian

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A Grammar of Gurune

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An Introduction to Kachchyana's Grammar of the Pàli Language;

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The Elements of the Science of Grammar ... Illustrated by a Comparison of the Structure of the English and Turkish Languages ... and a Complete Turkis

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Author : Edward Yates
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340581084
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