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Author : Lynell Marchese
Publisher : James Currey
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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tense/aspect and the Development of Auxiliaries in Kru Languages written by Lynell Marchese and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynell Marchese
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Total Pages : 1126 pages
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Download or read book Tense/aspect and the Development of Auxiliaries in the Kru Language Family written by Lynell Marchese and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195083873
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Auxiliaries written by Bernd Heine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of the linguistic concept of auxiliaries, which offers a new perspective on language structure in general. It also provides an introduction to recent work in grammaticalization theory.
Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195381971
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect written by Robert I. Binnick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Author : Gregory D.S. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199280312
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Auxiliary Verb Constructions written by Gregory D.S. Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework.The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchersin language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.
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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 : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267871
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Beyond Aspect written by Doris L. Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide background information? Studies in this volume show that African languages sometimes support, but often refute the idea that perfective aspect or past tense marks the narrative event line. Rather, languages may employ clause level constructions, conjunctions or connectives, tonal melodies on verbs or subjects, specialized auxiliaries, special verb forms and even dependent clause and imperfective aspect forms. Often, correlation of such grammatical elements with the event line is a subcase of a more general function. Analyses in this volume contribute to developing a typology of the expression of discourse functions, a field of research which has so far been minimally addressed from a typological perspective.
Author : Norbert Cyffer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289395
Total Pages : 379 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 2009-08-27 with total page 379 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 : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295883
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to African Languages written by G. Tucker Childs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 287 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 : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135434166
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Development of African Livestock written by Roger Blench and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.
Author : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110421666
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Africa written by Tom Güldemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
Author : Felix K. Ameka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291381
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages written by Felix K. Ameka and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or potentiality of an event, hence with modality, rather than the purely temporal sequencing associated with tense. The primary grammatical contrasts are perfective versus imperfective. The main languages discussed are Akan, Dangme, Ewe, Ga and Tuwuli while Nzema-Ahanta, Likpe and Eastern Gbe are also mentioned. Knowledge about these languages has deepened considerably during the past decade or so and ideas about their structure have changed. The volume therefore presents novel analyses of grammatical forms like the so-called S-Aux-O-V-Other or “future” constructions, and provides empirical data for theorizing about aspect and modality. It should be of considerable interest to Africanist linguists, typologists, and creolists interested in substrate issues.
Author : Francis Byrne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276943
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages written by Francis Byrne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.
Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902722899X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Grammaticalization written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.
Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287228
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
Author : Bridget Drinka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514932
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Language Contact in Europe written by Bridget Drinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the spread of the perfect tense across Europe, demonstrating the crucial role of language contact.
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199227764
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Grammar written by Bernd Heine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.
