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Author : Ursula Wiesemann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Chadic Language Studies in Northern Cameroon written by Ursula Wiesemann and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on Mandara, Zulgo and Poduko (Paduko) languages.
Author : Erin Shay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445978
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Giziga written by Erin Shay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon.
Author : Paul Newman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110874210
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic written by Paul Newman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic".
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Werner Vycichl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004132450
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies written by Werner Vycichl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers comprises almost all major areas of interest of Werner Vycichl: Egyptology and Coptology, Semitic linguistics, Beja (Northern Cushitic), Chadic, and general Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics.
Author : Gábor Takács
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412230
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies in Memoriam Werner Vycichl written by Gábor Takács and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is paying homage to the memory of Werner Vycichl (1909-1999), one of the most outstanding figures of Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics. The contributions by well-known specialists comprise almost all principle branches of the Semito-Hamitic macrofamily. The volume is divided in five major sections following the areas of interest of W. Vycichl: Egyptology and Coptology, Semitic linguistics, Beja (Northern Cushitic), Chadic, and general Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics (Berber has been excluded, since we already have a separate Mémorial Werner Vycichl with articles only in Berberology). The volume is important for the researchers in all the linguistic fields enumerated above as well as for those interested in African or comparative linguistics in general.
Author : Bello Sodangi Yaro Al-Hassan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reduplication in the Chadic Languages written by Bello Sodangi Yaro Al-Hassan and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis--J.W. Goethe-Universiteat, Frankfurt am Main, 1997.
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies in Chadic Morphology and Syntax written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume consists of fourteen comparative and descriptive studies dealing with the syntax and morphology of the simple clause in Chadic. Chadic languages are the largest and the most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family. Among the issues discussed in the volume are the underlying forms of verbs in West Chadic, nominal and verbal plurality, ergative characteristics, coding of grammatical relations in proto-Chadic, double coding of the subject (also known as "intransitive copy pronouns"). Also discussed are the use of verbal extensions in the coding of causative and benefactive, the ventive and the centrifugal, logophoric systems, the interrogative clause, and grammaticalization from preposition to copula. The volume concludes with a discussion of the implications of Chadic for the theory and methodology of diachronic syntax. The studies are of interest to scholars of Afroasiatic languages, African languages, typologists, scholars interested in grammaticalization, diachronic syntax, and structures of grammatical systems."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jean Pierre Boutché
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3643959745
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book FULA SPOKEN IN THE CITY OF MAROUA (NORTHERN CAMEROON) written by Jean Pierre Boutché and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783896452993
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Hdi written by Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281998
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family. One of the findings of the present work is that languages starting from the same base may develop quite different morphological and syntactic structures. With respect to issues of general linguistic interest, the book deals with motivations for grammaticalization: It is proposed that one of the most important motivations is satisfaction of the principle of well formedness, that is, that every element in an utterance must have its role transparent to the hearer either by inherent lexical properties or by grammatical means. In the present work both aspects of grammaticalization, viz. the emergence of grammatical constructions and the emergence of grammatical morphemes, are given equal weight. In addition to semantic metaphor and metonymy as mechanisms in the processes of grammaticalization, the present work develops the notion of semiotic metonymy, whereby a part of a sign performs the function of the sign. It is shown that semiotic metonymy plays an important role in the grammaticalization of grammatical morphemes and constructions into other morphemes and constructions. The book also shows that unindirectionality is not a governing principle with respect to the development of grammatical morphemes into other grammatical morphemes; rather, there is considerable evidence and theoretical justification for the bidirectionality principle.
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009021443
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language contact. This pioneering study explores the development of the sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major branch of the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from about 60 different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks the specific phonological principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse phonological evolution, arguing that their diversity results to no little extent from historical processes of 'prosodification' of reconstructable segments of the proto-language. The book offers meticulous historical analyses of some 60 words from Proto-Central Chadic, in up to 60 individual modern languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular emphasis is on tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of palatalisation and labialisation prosodies within a phonological system that, on its deepest level, recognises only one vowel phoneme */a/.
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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Hausa and the Chadic Language Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
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ISBN 13 : 1009346350
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.
Author : Dianne Friesen
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234631
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)
Download or read book A grammar of Moloko written by Dianne Friesen and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Moloko, a Chadic language spoken by about 10,000 speakers in northern Cameroon. The grammar was developed from hours and years that the authors spent at friends’ houses hearing and recording stories, hours spent listening to the tapes and transcribing the stories, then translating them and studying the language through them. Time was spent together and with others speaking the language and talking about it, translating resources and talking to Moloko people about them. Grammar and phonology discoveries were made in the office, in the fields while working, and at gatherings. In the process, the four authors have become more and more passionate about the Moloko language and are eager to share their knowledge about it with others. Intriguing phonological aspects of Moloko include the fact that words have a consonantal skeleton and only one underlying vowel (but with ten phonetic variants). The simplicity of the vowel system contrasts with the complexity of the verb word, which can include information (in addition to the verbal idea) about subject, direct object (semantic Theme), indirect object (recipient or beneficiary), direction, location, aspect (Imperfective and Perfective), mood (indicative, irrealis, iterative), and Perfect aspect. Some of the fascinating aspects about the grammar of Moloko include transitivity issues, question formation, presupposition, and the absence of simple adjectives as a grammatical class. Most verbs are not inherently transitive or intransitive, but rather the semantics is tied to the number and type of core grammatical relations in a clause. Morphologically, two types of verb pronominals indicate two kinds of direct object; both are found in ditransitive clauses. Noun incorporation of special ‘body-part’ nouns in some verbs adds another grammatical argument and changes the lexical characteristics of the verb. Clauses of zero transitivity can occur in main clauses due to the use of dependent verb forms and ideophones. Question formation is interesting in that the interrogative pronoun is clause-final for most constructions. The clause will sometimes be reconfigured so that the interrogative pronoun can be clause-final. Expectation is a foundational pillar for Moloko grammar. Three types of irrealis mood relate to speaker’s expectation concerning the accomplishment of an event. Clauses are organised around the concept of presupposition, through the use of the na-construction. Known or expected elements are marked with the na particle. There are no simple adjectives in Moloko; all adjectives are derived from nouns. The authors invite others to further explore the intricacies of the phonology and grammar of this intriguing language.
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110885794
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Hdi written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 577 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 : Marvin Lionel Bender
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selected Comparative-historical Afrasian Linguistic Studies written by Marvin Lionel Bender and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
