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Author : Roger Carmichael Robert Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Bari Grammar and Vocabulary written by Roger Carmichael Robert Owen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. M. Spagnolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bari Grammar written by L. M. Spagnolo and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International African Institute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351601377
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Practical Orthography of African Languages written by International African Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French. Originally published in 1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the information on the Semitic and cushitic languages of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Related languages are grouped together into larger sections which have some linguistic significance. A further pamphlet, the Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa, describes the relationship between languages and dialects. For each language, data are given on locality, number of speakers, use for educational and religious purposes and the extent of vernacular literature. The linguistic material is set out in phonetic script with tone marks, though reference is made to current standard orthoraphies where these exist.
Author : Francesca C. Merlan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110871378
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Wardaman written by Francesca C. Merlan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 645 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.
Author : Richard Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714610375
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan written by Richard Hill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary containing over 1900 biographical notices of Sudanese and foreign persons who died before 1948.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226086658
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Grammar written by Joan Bybee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author : George William Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An English-Nubian Comparative Dictionary written by George William Murray and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810814783
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book An International Bibliography of African Lexicons written by Melvin K. Hendrix and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Author : Robert Needham Cust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113637244X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa: Volume I written by Robert Needham Cust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume I of three on series on Africa. It is part one and a look is a look at the old, extinct and mixed languages of Africa and was originally published in 1883.
Author : G. W. B. Huntingford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315313073
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Northern Nilo-Hamites written by G. W. B. Huntingford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research which, in 1945, had only just begun. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : Ineke Wellens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047416228
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Nubi Language of Uganda written by Ineke Wellens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed description of the Nubi language of Uganda, including more than one thousand examples and several texts. It also digs into history to reconstruct the development and growth of this most fascinating Arabic creole.
Author : Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110731096
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages written by Fernando Zuniga and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).
Author : Chris Lasse Däbritz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516425
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Dolgan written by Chris Lasse Däbritz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first corpus-based and complete description of Dolgan, a Turkic Language from the Taymyr Peninsula (Russia), analyzing its grammatical structure from a language-internal perspective. It aims at documenting the language and making it accessible for a wide range of potential users.
Author : Norbert Cyffer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027206686
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond written by Norbert Cyffer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term Prohibitive ), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imperfective vs. Perfective), lack of negative indefinites, and disjunctive negative marking (often referred to as double negation ). The articles presented here show that areal factors have played a significant role in the development of negation strategies in the languages of West Africa and beyond. On the other hand genetic factors seem to be less prominent."
Author : Soteria Svorou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229120
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Space written by Soteria Svorou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages. It is shown that languages are similar in the way spatial grams emerge and evolve, and also in the way specific types of spatial grams are used to express not only spatial but also temporal and other non-spatial relations. Motivation for these similarities may lie in the way we, as human beings, experience the world, which is constrained by our physical configuration and neurophysiological apparatus, as well as our individual cultures.
Author : Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514020
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification written by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross-linguistic perspective. It describes all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. It considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location. The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has been designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.
Author : Regina Pustet
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191555304
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Copulas written by Regina Pustet and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copulas (in English, the verb to be) are conventionally defined functionally as a means of relating elements of clause structure, especially subject and complement, and considered to be semantically empty or meaningless.They have received relatively little attention from linguists. Dr Pustet in this extensive cross-linguistic study goes some way towards correcting this neglect. In doing so she takes issue with both accepted definition and description. She presents an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 160 languages drawn from the language families of the world. She shows that some languages have a single copula, others several, and some none at all. In a series of statistical analyses she seeks to explain why by linking the distribution of copulas to variations in lexical categorization and syntactic structure. She concludes by advancing a comprehensive theory of copularization which she relates to language classification and to theories of language change, notably grammaticalization.
