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Author : Jacinta Mary Smallhorn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Binanderean Languages of Papua New Guinea written by Jacinta Mary Smallhorn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacinta Mary Smallhorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (845 download)
Download or read book A Reconstruction and Subgrouping of the Binanderean Languages of Papua New Guinea written by Jacinta Mary Smallhorn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521286213
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Papuan Languages of New Guinea written by William A. Foley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-11-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.
Author : Susanne Holzknecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Markham Languages of Papua New Guinea written by Susanne Holzknecht and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110567261
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 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 1142 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.
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ISBN 13 : 9780858836310
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Binanderean Languages of Paua New Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
Publisher : Barrie Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Papuan Languages of Oceania written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and published by Barrie Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ger P. Reesink
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230153
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Structures and Their Functions in Usan written by Ger P. Reesink and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment. Uniqueness can only be shown in the context of communality with other languages. This monograph offers numerous occasions to observe similarities and differences between Usan and other language, those that can be called Papuan in particular.
Author : Hannah Sarvasy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340106
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Nungon written by Hannah Sarvasy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains, Morobe Province. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork. The exposition is extraordinarily thorough, covering phonetics, phonology, word classes, morphology, grammatical relations, switch-reference, valency, complex predicates, clause combining, possession, information structure, and the pragmatics of communication. Four complete interlinearized Nungon monologues and dialogues supplement the copious textual examples. A Grammar of Nungon sets a new standard of thoroughness for reference works on languages of this region.
Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study: Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230048
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea written by John Haiman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a 'medial verb'construction used to conjoin clauses in compound and complex sentences. Hua also shows a fundamental morphological distinction between coordinate and subordinate medial clauses, the latter are not 'tense-iconic', the events they describe are not necessarily prior to the event described in later clauses. Moreover their truth is always presupposed. The distribution and behaviour of a post-nominal suffix - mo provides insights into the nature of topics, conditional clauses, and functional definitions of the parts of speech. In phonology, the central rules of assimilation are constrained by the universal hierarchy of sonority, which may, however, be derived from binary features. These are some of the areas in which the grammar of Hua is unusually perspicuous. The present work aims at a standard of completeness such that it would be a useful reference work for research in almost any theoretical topic.
Author : John Waiko
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Be Jijimo written by John Waiko and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Hooley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics College of Asia and Pacific the Australian National University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Papers on Six Languages of Papua New Guinea written by Joan Hooley and published by Pacific Linguistics College of Asia and Pacific the Australian National University. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 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 : Geoff P. Smith
Publisher : Battlebridge Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Growing Up with Tok Pisin written by Geoff P. Smith and published by Battlebridge Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tok Pisin is the Pidgin English language that was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century as a way for this linguistically complex society to communicate with a common language. This book provides the historical background for this language and a detailed account of the changes that are taking place in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as it is increasingly adopted as the first language of young people throughout the country.
Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161534X
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. Manambu can be considered an endangered language. The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape, large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson. After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to all linguists and linguistically oriented anthropologists.
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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
