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Author : Stefano Santandrea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Brief Grammar Outlines of the Yulu and Kara Languages written by Stefano Santandrea and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norbert Cyffer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027206686
Total Pages : 378 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 with total page 378 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 : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229403
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Reciprocals written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering alternative hypotheses regarding the grammaticalization of reciprocals. The formal, functional, typological and historical approaches in the present volume complement each other, contributing together to the understanding of forms, and syntactic and semantic properties of reciprocal markers. Several papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: they provide new descriptive data and they address theoretical issues at the same time. The languages discussed include: English, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Nyulnyulan (Australia), Amharic (Ethio-Semitic), Bilin (Cushitic), Chadic languages, Bantu, Halkomelem (Salishan), Mandarin, Yukaghir and a number of Oceanic languages. The volume also includes a study of grammaticalization of reciprocals and reflexives in African languages.
Author : Yvonne Treis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265976
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Similative and Equative Constructions written by Yvonne Treis and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in typologically and genetically distant languages, albeit with a focus on Africa, and from a range of perspectives. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that also shed light on the diachronic development of similative and equative constructions in language contact situations. Sources of similative morphemes and lexically expressed concepts of likeness are examined, and little-known multifunctionality patterns and grammaticalisation targets of similative morphemes – such as purpose clause markers, modality morphemes and markers of glottonyms – are discussed. Based on a sample of 119 languages worldwide, a new typology of equative constructions is proposed. The book should be of interest to typologists, semanticists, specialists of grammaticalization, historical linguistics and syntax.
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229397
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Reflexives written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the forms and functions of reflexives. Even when analyses have been conducted from different theoretical perspectives, the volume indicates a certain degree of convergence of results. The papers offer a variety of approaches, aiming to be of use in a variety of linguistic fields.
Author : Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810814783
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book An International Bibliography of African Lexicons written by Melvin K. Hendrix and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Author : Matthew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922276
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Syllable Weight written by Matthew Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. Rather than being consistent across phenomena within individual languages, weight turns out to be sensitive to the particular processes involved such that different phenomena display different distributions in weight criteria. The book goes on to explore the motivations behind the process-specific nature of weight, showing that phonetic factors explain much of the variation in weight criteria between phenomena and also the variation in criteria between languages for a single process. The book is unlike other studies in combining an extensive typological survey with detailed phonetic analysis of many languages. The finding that the widely studied phenomenon of syllable weight is not a unified phenomenon, contrary to the established view, is a significant result for the field of theoretical phonology. The book is also an important contribution to the field of phonetically-driven phonology, since it establishes a close link between the phonology of weight and various quantitative phonetic parameters.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316839451
Total Pages : 1687 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 1687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.
Author : Lionel Bender
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110883465
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Nilo-Saharan Proceedings written by Lionel Bender and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Nilo-Saharan Proceedings".
Author : Bernd Heine
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110124217
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)
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Author : Ian Maddieson
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436329
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa written by Ian Maddieson and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
Author : Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book A Study of the Poko (Suk) Language written by Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 908 pages
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Total Pages : 156 pages
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Author : British Library
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Total Pages : 696 pages
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Total Pages : 1742 pages
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