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Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book An Initial Orthography and Lexicon for Emai, an Edoid Language of Nigeria written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267871
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Beyond Aspect written by Doris L. Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide background information? Studies in this volume show that African languages sometimes support, but often refute the idea that perfective aspect or past tense marks the narrative event line. Rather, languages may employ clause level constructions, conjunctions or connectives, tonal melodies on verbs or subjects, specialized auxiliaries, special verb forms and even dependent clause and imperfective aspect forms. Often, correlation of such grammatical elements with the event line is a subcase of a more general function. Analyses in this volume contribute to developing a typology of the expression of discourse functions, a field of research which has so far been minimally addressed from a typological perspective.
Author : Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110220369
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Studies in Ditransitive Constructions written by Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. This volume includes a typological overview of ditransitive constructions, the editors' questionnaire, as well as studies of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world.
Author : Ian Maddieson
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436329
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa written by Ian Maddieson and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592211555
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages written by John M. Mugane and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the thirty-third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired and used. This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd AWAL held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa.
Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229465
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Ideophones written by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.
Author : Ines Fiedler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288429
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Expression of Information Structure written by Ines Fiedler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant for some of the most pertinent questions in modern linguistic theory. The special contribution of this volume is the perspective on a variety of information-structurally related phenomena which go far beyond classical notions such as focus and topic. Detailed investigations are dedicated to so far less discussed focal subcategories, like focus on verbal operators or the thetic-categorical distinction. Finally, the information-structural configuration of unmarked, canonical sentence structures is recognized. The papers provide evidence that the formal means to encode information-structural categories range from means such as morphological markers or syntactic operations, famous in linguistics, to less well-known strategies, such as defocalization rather than focalization.
Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766280
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar is the first ever description of West Africa’s Edoid language Emai. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results over the last three decades. Treated are morphology, syntax and argument structure after an introductory phonology and orthographic overview highlighting grammatical and lexical tone. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrase structure as well as clause shape in discourse and clause combination. Noun inflection and derivation are detailed as is verb inflection in the context of tense, aspect and modality. Noun phrase character encompasses remnant noun classes, nominal modification types and pronoun forms followed by conjunction. Verb phrase features include complex predicates, both verbs in series and verb plus postverbal particle, functionally distinct copulas, double objects, and sentence complement types constrained by matrix verb. Also analyzed are preverbal and postverbal adverbials relative to information question types. Multi-clause constructions are profiled as to coding varieties across dependent clauses as well as precedence relations. A concluding chapter presents a sample narrative in orthographic form, interlinear gloss and English free translation.
Author : Pamela A. Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027284946
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Word Order in Discourse written by Pamela A. Downing and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.
Author : Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110338815
Total Pages : 885 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia written by Andrej Malchukov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.
Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229759
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Studies in African Linguistic Typology written by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic topology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298602
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book External Possession written by Doris L. Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as “have” or “own”. In many cases, EPCs appear to “break the rules” about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.
Author : Pamela Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229031
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Linguistics of Literacy written by Pamela Downing and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which draws together the various strands considered in the other sections of the book and addresses the broader question of the social and psychological consequences of literacy.
Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bassey Andah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134679491
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Africa written by Bassey Andah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.
Author : Vicki Carstens
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865437944
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Advances in African Linguistics written by Vicki Carstens and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783110489668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar is the first description of Emai, an Edoid language of 25-35,000 villagers in southern Nigeria. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrases, clause character in discourse, clause combinations as well as tone functions. Prominently featured are complex predicates, functionally distinct copulas, double object constructions, and sentence complement types.
