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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Porto Velho Workpapers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristine Stenzel
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100195
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book On this and other worlds written by Kristine Stenzel and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a collection of twelve interlinear texts reflecting the vast linguistic diversity of Amazonia as well as the rich verbal arts and oral literature traditions of Amazonian peoples. Contributions to the volume come from a variety of geographic regions and represent the Carib, Jê, Tupi, East Tukano, Nadahup, and Pano language families, as well as three linguistic isolates. The selected texts exemplify a variety of narrative styles recounting the origins of constellations, crops, and sacred cemeteries, and of travel to worlds beyond death. We hear tales of tricksters and of encounters between humans and other beings, learn of battles between enemies, and gain insight into history and the indigenous perspective of creation, cordiality and confrontation. The contributions to this volume are the result of research efforts conducted since 2000, and as such, exemplify rapidly expanding investment and interest in documenting native Amazonian voices. They moreover demonstrate the collaborative efforts of linguists, anthropologists, and indigenous leaders, storytellers, and researchers to study and preserve Amazonian languages and cultures. Each chapter offers complete interlinear analysis as well as ample commentary on both linguistic and cultural aspects, appealing to a wide audience, including linguists, historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists. This collection is the first of its type, constituting a significant contribution to focused study of Amazonian linguistic diversity and a relevant addition to our broader knowledge of Amerindian languages and cosmologies.
Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199297878
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Complementation written by R.M.W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages lack a complement clause construction but instead employ other construction types to achieve similar ends; these are called complementation strategies. The book explores the variety of types of complementation foundacross the languages of the world, their grammatical properties and meanings. Detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German, are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which drawstogether the evidence and the arguments. This book will interest scholars of typology, language universals, syntax, information structure, and language contact in departments of linguistics and anthropology, as well as advanced and graduate students taking courses in these subjects.
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786115
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Amazonian Linguistics written by Doris L. Payne and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied ln the world. Consequently, their previous contribution to linguistic theory and language universals has been small. However, as this volume demonstrates, tremendous diversity and significance are found in the languages of this region. These nineteen essays, originally presented at a conference on Amazonian languages held at the University of Oregon, offer new information on the Tupian, Cariban, Jivaroan, Nambiquaran, Arawakan, Tucanoan, and Makuan languages and new analyses of previously recalcitrant Tupí-Guaraní verb agreement systems. The studies are descriptive, but typological and theoretical implications are consistently considered. Authors invariably indicate where previous claims must be adjusted based on the new information presented. This is true in the areas of nonlinear phonological theory, verb agreement systems and ergativity, grammatical relations and incorporation, and the uniqueness of Amazonian noun classification systems. The studies also contribute to the now extensive interest in grammatical change.
Author : Summer Institute of Linguistics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Work Papers written by Summer Institute of Linguistics and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521448987
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Ergativity written by Robert M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for many current linguistic theories. R. M. W. Dixon here provides a full survey of the various types of ergativity, looking at the ways they interrelate, their semantic bases and their role in the organisation of discourse. Ergativity stems from R. M. W. Dixon's long-standing interest in the topic, and in particular from his seminal 1979 paper in Language. It includes a rich collection of data from a large number of the world's languages. Comprehensive, clear and insightful, it will be the standard point of reference for all those interested in the topic.
Author : Jackie Nordstrom
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205833
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Modality and Subordinators written by Jackie Nordstrom and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and "that" and "if "depending on the speaker s and/or the subject s certainty of the truth of the proposition."
Author : Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110854376
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Amazonian languages. 3.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515078
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an evidentiality contrast (eyewitness/non-eyewitness) in the three past tenses. Of the two genders, feminine and masculine, feminine is unmarked. There are at least eight types of subordinate clause constructions, including complement clauses, relative clauses, coreferential dependent clauses, and 'when', 'if', 'due to the lack of' and 'because of' clauses.There are only eleven consonants and four vowels but an extensive set of ordered phonological rules of lenition, vowel assimilation and unstressed syllable omission. There are four imperative inflections (with different meanings) and three explicit interrogative suffixes within the mood system. The book is entirely based on field work by the authors.
Author : Spike Gildea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195109528
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book On Reconstructing Grammar written by Spike Gildea and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.
Author : Rik van Gijn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270759
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences written by Rik van Gijn and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure and reference tracking – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On the one hand, a complex sentence can be studied as a mini-unit of discourse consisting of two or more elements describing events, situations, or processes, with its own internal information-structural and referential organization. On the other hand, complex sentences can be studied as parts of larger discourse structures, such as narratives or conversations, in terms of how their information-structural characteristics relate to this wider context. The book offers new perspectives for the study of the interaction between complex sentences and information management, and moreover adds typological breadth by focusing on lesser studied languages from several parts of the world.
Author : Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110102574
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Amazonian Languages written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1986 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Amazonian languages. 1.
Author : Summer Institute of Linguistics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Workpapers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota written by Summer Institute of Linguistics and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728590X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility written by Doris L. Payne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of “basic”, with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.
Author : Francesca Di Garbo
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961101809
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II written by Francesca Di Garbo and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. This volume is preceded by volume one, which, in addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311025803X
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Indigenous Languages of South America written by Lyle Campbell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199571074
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2 written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship.
