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Author : William Ronald Leben
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on African Linguistics written by William Ronald Leben and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan R. Dihoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112420063
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Vol. 1 written by Ivan R. Dihoff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Vol. 1".
Author : Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483273768
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Tone written by Victoria A. Fromkin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tone: A Linguistic Survey is a nine-chapter text that considers the phonetics and phonology of tone from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. The first chapters deal with the physiological and perceptual correlations of tone. These chapters also describe the interactions of tonal and nontonal features. The succeeding chapters provide the phonetic basis for phonological tonal phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the physical and physiological aspects of tone, the number of possible contrastive tones in a language, and a suprasegmental representation of tones based on linguistic evidence. This text also summarizes the kinds of tone rules found in languages and the important syntactic function played by tone in a number of the world's languages, particularly those in Africa. The final chapters look into the general and specific principles that constrain historical tone change. This book will prove useful to students with phonology course.
Author : P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351597043
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book African Languages/Langues Africaines written by P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on the national language issue in Africa (Akan in Ghana), a socio-linguistic case study of the Hausa language in Nigeria and assimiliation and lexical coinages in Igbo.
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Studies in African Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
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Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Africana Conference Paper Index: Register of conferences through Author index written by Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Journal of African Languages and Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan R. Dihoff
Publisher : Mouton de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789070176686
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Current Approaches to African Linguistics written by Ivan R. Dihoff and published by Mouton de Gruyter. This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rene Kager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425366
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Optimality Theory written by Rene Kager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
Author : María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646022319
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic written by María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological evidence. These contributions offer a reassessment of the Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its African context. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042978578X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Language in Indenture written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a political act with far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. In this book, the history of one of these Indic languages, Bhojpuri, and its adaptations to its new context are traced to the point where a distinct South African Bhojpuri koine (generally known as Hindi) came into being. The roots and subsequent evolution of this language variety, as well as the events contributing to its demise, form the basis of this study. Current patterns of usage by different generations are documented in the form of traditional folk tales, proverbs, riddles and songs, alongside personal interviews. This study offers a partial history of Bhojpuri speakers, who have been otherwise largely silent in the history of colonial Natal.
Author : George Melville Bolling
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Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language written by George Melville Bolling and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Author : Carol Lord
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229139
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions written by Carol Lord and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change.The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become defective and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity.With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
Author : John Newman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729609X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying written by John Newman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a number of languages: Dutch; Korean; Japanese; Lao; Chantyal, Magar (Tibeto-Burman); Chipewyan (Athapaskan); Trumai (spoken in Brazil); Kxoe (Khoisan); Mbay (Nilo-Saharan); Oceanic; Enga, Ku Waru (Papuan); Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Ngan’gityemerri (Australian). The contributors discuss data relevant to many fields of linguistic inquiry, including patterns of lexicalization (e.g., simplex or complex verb forms), morphology (e.g., state vs. action formations), grammaticalization (e.g., extension to locational predicates, aspect markers, auxiliaries, copulas, classifiers), and figurative extension. A final chapter reports on an experimental methodology designed to establish the relevant cognitive parameters underlying speakers’ judgements on the polysemy of English stand. Taken together, the chapters provide a wealth of cross-linguistic data on posture verbs.
Author : Fr. van Coetsem
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004061309
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Contributions to Historical Linguistics written by Fr. van Coetsem and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1980 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027226068
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to African Languages written by George Tucker Childs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
Author : British Library. Lending Division
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Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings Received written by British Library. Lending Division and published by . This book was released on 1986-07 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
