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Causative Constructions in Shona

Author : Victor Mugari
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783847378945
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Causative Constructions in Shona written by Victor Mugari and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for readers with an interest in Bantu linguistics for which Shona is an examplar. It mainly discusses issues of Bantu morphology, syntax and semantics. Heard-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), the theory of analysis employed in this book has made it possible to offer an analysis of Shona grammar, exposing the interface relations that obtain from causative constructions. The book provides insights into causativisation as a lexical phenomenon, tracing the developments in the study of causatives universally and locating where Shona stands as far as the study of causative constructions is concerned. The book has a unique approach to Bantu grammar, blended within the theoretical prowess of the non-transformational HPSG as a linguistic formalism. The book provides a platform for researchers with interest in interface relations, particularly the syntax-semantics interface that obtain from complex predicates, to which causative constructions belong.

The Syntax of Applicative and Causative Constructions in Shona

Author : Francis Matambirofa
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783843354028
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Applicative and Causative Constructions in Shona by : Francis Matambirofa

Download or read book The Syntax of Applicative and Causative Constructions in Shona written by Francis Matambirofa and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the greatest challenges that throw a Bantu linguist into a quagmire relate to perhaps three fundamental issues which are as follows; 1) the manner in which applicative and causative arguments are mapped onto syntactic structure; 2) the object status of the base verb s arguments vis-a-vis the arguments that result from these affixations and lastly; 3) the interaction of applicative and causative arguments vis-a-vis other argument altering operations associated with reflexivisation, reciprocalisation and passivisation among others. In addition to that, the current study also demonstrates that all of the above variables in turn interact and cross path with each individual language s idiosyncratic behaviour with regard to the status of NPs in double object constructions. This gives rise to such typological contraints as the Asymmetric Object Parameter (AOP) and the Alternation Parameter (AP). While Shona has a positive setting for AOP, it however poses a theoretical quandary because it also exhibits some symmetric tendencies whereby double objects can equally access full object properties in alternate lexical forms.

Shona Grammatical Constructions

Author : George Fortune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shona Grammatical Constructions written by George Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dative constructions in Romance and beyond

Author : Anna Pineda
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 396110249X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Dative constructions in Romance and beyond by : Anna Pineda

Download or read book Dative constructions in Romance and beyond written by Anna Pineda and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of dative structures across languages –with an important, though not exclusive, focus on the Romance family. As is well-known, datives play a central role in a variety of structures, ranging from ditransitive constructions to cliticization of indirect objects and differentially marked direct objects, and including also psychological predicates, possessor or causative constructions, among many others. As interest in all these topics has increased significantly over the past three decades, this volume provides an overdue update on the state of the art. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume account for both widely discussed patterns of dative constructions as well as those that are relatively unknown.

The Grammar of Causative Constructions

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368841
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Grammar of Causative Constructions by : Masayoshi Shibatani

Download or read book The Grammar of Causative Constructions written by Masayoshi Shibatani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Particles

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195091345
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Particles written by Marcel den Dikken and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, the author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages.

The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104247
Total Pages : 2192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar written by Mary Dalrymple and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 2192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Shona Grammatical Constructions

Author : George Fortune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shona Grammatical Constructions written by George Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Applicative Constructions

Author : David A. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199270929
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Applicative Constructions written by David A. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time. Applicative constructions are typically described as transitivizing because they allow an intransitive base verb to have a direct object. The term originates from the seventeenth-century missionary grammars of Uto-Aztecan languages. Constructions designated as prepositional, benefactive, and instrumental may refer to the same or similar phenomena. Applicative constructions have been deployed in the development of a range of syntactic theories which have then often been used to explain their functions, usually within the context of Bantu languages. Dr Peterson provides a wealth of cross-linguistic information on discourse-functional, diachronic, and typological aspects of applicative constructions. He documents their unexpected synchronic variety and the diversity of diachronic sources about them. He argues that many standard assumptions about applicatives are unfounded, and provides a clear guide for future language-specific and cross-linguistic research and analysis.

Shona

Author : Foreign Service Institute (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Shona written by Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflexive constructions in the world's languages

Author : Katarzyna Janic
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104115
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflexive constructions in the world's languages by : Katarzyna Janic

Download or read book Reflexive constructions in the world's languages written by Katarzyna Janic and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark publication brings together 28 papers on reflexive constructions in languages from all continents, representing very diverse language types. While reflexive constructions have been discussed in the past from a variety of angles, this is the first edited volume of its kind. All the chapters are based on original data, and they are broadly comparable through a common terminological framework. The volume opens with two introductory chapters by the editors that set the stage and lay out the main comparative concepts, and it concludes with a chapter presenting generalizations on the basis of the studies of individual languages.

Old and New in Southern Shona Independent Churches: Church growth, causative factors and recruitment techniques

Author : M. L. Daneel
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Old and New in Southern Shona Independent Churches: Church growth, causative factors and recruitment techniques written by M. L. Daneel and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kinyĩra Njĩra!

Author : Chege Githiora
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592212019
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Kinyĩra Njĩra! written by Chege Githiora and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2000. The lead essay urges African linguistics to move in step with the practical development of the African languages as part of the decolonisation struggle. The core areas of theoretical linguistics represented in the book are morpho-syntax, phonetics-phonology and semantics-pragmatics.

African Language Structures

Author : Wm. E. Welmers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377095
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis African Language Structures by : Wm. E. Welmers

Download or read book African Language Structures written by Wm. E. Welmers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic topic. Thus there are extensive discussions of tonal systems in languages from all over sub-Saharan Africa, of noun classes and concord in the Bantu and other Niger-Kordofanian languages, and of the varieties of verbal constructions found in representative languages. African Language Structures emphasizes the organization of language data rather than the technicalities of theoretical linguistics. The material is presented in such a way that students working on the analysis of other languages can be guided in their procedures; Welmers suggests not only what types of structures may be expected, but also how they may be discovered and described. This work is unique in the depth of its linguistic insight over the entire spectrum of language structure and in the breadth of its language coverage. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Objectives and Causative Constructions in SiSwati

Author : Joyce B. G. Sukumane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Objectives and Causative Constructions in SiSwati written by Joyce B. G. Sukumane and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shona Grammatical Constructions: The verbal constructions. Some notes on ideophones and ideophonic constructions in Shona

Author : George Fortune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

Author : Jenneke van der Wal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019884428X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement by : Jenneke van der Wal

Download or read book A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement written by Jenneke van der Wal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and patterns that are attested crosslinguistically.