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Author : Robert Petterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909055103
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Rumu--English--Hiri-Motu Dictionary written by Robert Petterson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110295253
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area written by Bill Palmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
Author : Carol Priestley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501510959
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Koromu (Kesawai) written by Carol Priestley and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis on information structure. Geographic, linguistic, social and historical setting are described as well as phonology and morphophonology. The book examines the morphosyntactic structures of the language, covering basic clause structure, word classes, phrase structures and structures of spatial reference, verbal morphology, serial verb constructions, experiencer object constructions and the various constructions of clause combining (clause chaining, complement clauses, adverbial and relative clauses). Chapters also deal with noun phrase (non)realisation and morphological signaling of prominence and show how links and tails are encoded grammatically. Appendices contain texts and a wordlist.
Author : James F. Weiner
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925022234
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Songs of the Empty Place written by James F. Weiner and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women’s sago songs (obedobora), men’s ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women’s sorohabora are included. Men turn the prosaic content of womenís sago songs into their ownsorohabora songs, which are performed the night following large-scale inter-community pig kills, called dawa. While women sing sago songs by themselves, men sing their ceremonial songs in groups of paired men. Women also have their own ceremonial versions of such songs. The songs are memorial in intent; they are designed to commemorate the lives of men who are no longer living. Most commonly they do so by naming the places the deceased inhabited during his lifetime. These song texts and translations are introduced by Weiner. Ethnomusicologist Don Niles then brings together information about each type of song and considers these Foi genres in relation to those of neighbouring groups, highlighting aspects of regional performance styles. Consideration is also given to the poetic devices used in Papua New Guinea songs. Eighteen recordings illustrating the Foi genres discussed in this book are available for download. It remains uncertain how such songs may be affected by the major oil extraction project that has been undertaken in the region for more than two decades. This book will interest students of anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, verbal art, aesthetics, and cultural heritage.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199255911
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.
Author : Department of Language
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789980945884
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Hiri Motu for Beginners written by Department of Language and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cliff Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tetun-English Dictionary written by Cliff Morris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Farr
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Interface Between Syntax and Discourse in Korafe written by Cynthia Farr and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl James Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Linguistic Situation in the Gulf District and Adjacent Areas, Papua New Guinea written by Karl James Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Indigenous Australian content.
Author : Donald MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by Donald MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the book is to describe the Efate language. Comparison is made with other languages in order to elucidate certain aspects of Efate or as evidence in support of the author's theory that the Oceanic languages have their origin in Semitic.
Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780858831315
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (313 download)
Download or read book New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Hammarström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handbook of Descriptive Language Knowledge written by Harald Hammarström and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Summer Institute of Linguistics
Publisher : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ethnologue written by Summer Institute of Linguistics and published by Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth Edition is a comprehensive reference volume with entries for the 6,912 languages in use in the world today. Ethnologue is published from SIL¿s language database that has been in use by linguists for over fifty years. The new fifteenth edition is now in hardcover for durability of use in libraries and reference collections. New and updated features include: 208 color language maps, statistical summary tables, entirely restructured indexes including over 39,000 language names, and the three letter language identifiers from the new ISO/DIS 639-3 draft international standard.
Author : Percy Chatterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949267986
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Say it in Motu written by Percy Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Ross
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313196
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic written by Malcolm Ross and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.
Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0700711287
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Lynch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.
Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215383
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Critically Modern written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology." —Charles Piot "In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually enriching. The volume should appeal to scholars across the entire range of disciplines that deal with modernity and/or globalization." —Edward LiPuma Are there multiple ways of being "modern" in the world today? How do people in various parts of the world become modern in their own distinct ways? Does the current focus on modernity in the social sciences resurrect a series of dichotomies ("traditional" and "modern," "the West" and "the Rest," "developed" and "undeveloped") that social theorists have sought to move beyond in recent years? Or do inflections of modernity capture key features of ideology and influence in the contemporary world? Combining rich ethnographic analysis with incisive theoretical critiques, this timely volume is certain to make an important mark in anthropology and in all related fields in which modernity is a central problematic. Contributors: Donald L. Donham, Robert J. Foster, Jonathan Friedman, Ivan Karp, John D. Kelly, Bruce M. Knauft, Lisa B. Rofel, Debra A. Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.
