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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages : 21 pages
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Download or read book Unusual classifiers in Tariana written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521770750
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Systems of Nominal Classification written by Gunter Senft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.
Author : Anne Storch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270635
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Number Constructions and Semantics written by Anne Storch and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.
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Total Pages : 10 pages
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Download or read book written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110726880X
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages : 43 pages
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Download or read book a morphosyntactic typology of classifiers written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
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ISBN 13 : 0198842015
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Genders and Classifiers written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Following a detailed introduction to noun categorization, the chapters in the volume provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families.
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270902
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Nominal Classification written by Marcin Kilarski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly ‘prescientific’ accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages : 10 pages
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Download or read book Systems of Nominal Classification written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tanja Pommerening
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110538776
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times written by Tanja Pommerening and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cognitive systems interact when individuals or larger groups conceptually organize their world. Scientists of antiquity studies, anthropologists, linguists etc. will find methods to reconstruct early concepts of men and nature from a synchronic and diachronic comparative perspective.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191543985
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Classifiers written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.
Author : Michael Fortescue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191506206
Total Pages : 1398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis written by Michael Fortescue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
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ISBN 13 : 9780199257850
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Language Contact in Amazonia written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a badge of identity: language mixing is resisted for ideological reasons. The book considers which parts of the language categories are likely to be borrowed. This study also examines changes brought about by recent contact with European languages and culture, and the linguistic effects of language obsolescence.
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Abstracts in Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly. References to journal articles, miscellaneous papers, and books, arranged under sections on archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Cross references. Cross index.
Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199270937
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Adjective Classes written by R.M.W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.
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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language Problems & Language Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
