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Author : James W. Gair
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110873206
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures written by James W. Gair and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kājī Dīna Muhammada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Verbal Structure in Colloquial Bengali written by Kājī Dīna Muhammada and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dileep Chandralal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027238154
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Sinhala written by Dileep Chandralal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D., its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2,000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.
Author : Wilhelm Geiger
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120611344
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language written by Wilhelm Geiger and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Mendis Gunasekara
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120601062
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese Language written by Abraham Mendis Gunasekara and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray B. Emeneau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110819503
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Linguistics in South Asia written by Murray B. Emeneau and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James W. Gair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195095219
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Studies in South Asian Linguistics written by James W. Gair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
Author : Colin P. Masica
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521299442
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Aryan Languages written by Colin P. Masica and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-09 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more of these languages who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally synchronic in approach, concentrating on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the modern representatives of the group, the volume also covers their historical development, areal context, writing systems and aspects of sociolinguistics. The survey is organised not on a language-by-language basis but by topic, so that salient theoretical issues may be discussed in a comparative context.
Author : Viviane Déprez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263159
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Negation and Negative Concord written by Viviane Déprez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
Author : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134720270
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Concise Compendium of the World's Languages written by George L. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Afrikaans to Zulu, almost 100 languages from the comprehensive Compendium of the World's Languages are featured in this new concise version. Many articles have been revised. The Concise Compendium presents a detailed comparative study of the major and many of the lesser known languages of the world. Included are representatives of all language families, with samples of Amerindian, such as Navajo and of African languages, such as Fulani and Nama; languages of politically independent groups in the former USSR, like Uzbek and Belorussian; those of political pressure groups, such as Breton and Catalan and significant community/ethnic languages, including Amharic and Vietnamese. Throughout, the treatment is factual and jargon-free. Articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standard structure for ease of reference: * general historical and sociolinguistic introduction * writing system * sound system * grammatical system A passage from the Gospel of St. John illustrates each language with a written tradition. These scripts are explained in an appendix at the end of the book. Presents 100 of the world's major languages and representatives of different language groups, politically significant languages and particularly interesting ones.
Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287430
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology written by Claire Lefebvre and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.
Author : Danesh Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135797102
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Aryan Languages written by Danesh Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 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 : George L. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415202978
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni written by George L. Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
Author : N Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135751897
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Subject, Voice and Ergativity written by N Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642286046
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing written by Alexander Gelbukh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 7181 and LNCS 7182, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Linguistics and Intelligent Processing, held in New Delhi, India, in March 2012. The total of 92 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The contents have been ordered according to the following topical sections: NLP system architecture; lexical resources; morphology and syntax; word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition; semantics and discourse; sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and emotions; natural language generation; machine translation and multilingualism; text categorization and clustering; information extraction and text mining; information retrieval and question answering; document summarization; and applications.
Author : Jan Rijkhoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191645478
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Flexible Word Classes written by Jan Rijkhoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of two or more of the four traditional, 'specialised' word classes. Thus, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions like 'predicating' (verbal function), 'referring' (nominal function) or 'modifying' (a function typically associated with adjectives and e.g. manner adverbs). Even though linguists have been aware of flexible world classes for more than a century, the phenomenon has not played a role in the development of linguistic typology or modern grammatical theory. The current volume aims to address this gap by offering detailed studies on flexible word classes, investigating their properties and what it means for the grammar of a language to have such a word class. It includes new cross-linguistic studies of word class systems as well as original descriptive and theoretical contributions from authors with an expert knowledge of languages that have played - or should play - a role in the debate about flexible word classes, including Kharia, Riau Indonesian, Santali, Sri Lanka Malay, Lushootseed, Gooniyandi, and Late Archaic Chinese.
