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Author : William H. Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proto-Polynesian Possessive Marking written by William H. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hilary Chappell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311082213X
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Inalienability written by Hilary Chappell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author : Ritsuko Kikusawa
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Proto Central Pacific Ergativity written by Ritsuko Kikusawa and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110213230
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Expression of Possession written by William B. McGregor and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has been to invite linguists whose research, while not necessarily directly dealing with possession, touches on it, and indicates that they are likely to provide fresh perspectives on this well-trodden field. Key features: William McGregor is a well known expert in this fíeld of research Possession is a paradigm for studies on typology, ethnology etc., because a multitude of linguistic and cultural varieties are reflected in this field new series textbook
Author : Maura Velázquez-Castillo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728198X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Possession written by Maura Velázquez-Castillo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include adnominal and predicative possessive constructions, noun incorporation, and possessor ascension. Examples are drawn from a rich data base that incorporate native speaker intuitions and resources in the construction of illustrative linguistic forms as well as the analysis of the communicative use of the forms under study. The book provides a complete picture of inalienability as a coherent integrated system of grammatical and semantic oppositions in a language that has received little attention in the theoretical linguistic literature. The analysis moves from general principles to specific details of the language while applying principles of Cognitive Grammar and Functional Linguistics. There is an explicit aim to uncover the particularities of form-meaning connections, as well as the communicative and discourse functions of the structures examined. Other approaches are also considered when appropriate, resulting in a theoretically informed study that contains a rich variety of considerations.
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Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pacific Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199660220
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Possession and Ownership written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be equally valued in linguistics and anthropology.
Author : Sandra Chung
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768540
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian written by Sandra Chung and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify what counts as evidence in syntactic reconstruction and how syntactic reanalysis progresses. It therefore represents a first step toward a general theory of syntactic change. Chung first describes the basic syntax of the Polynesian languages, discussing Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Kapingamarangi, and Pukapukan in depth. She then presents an investigation of the grammatical relations of these languages and their relevance to syntax and shows that the syntax of all these languages—even those with ergative case marking—revolves around the familiar grammatical relations subject and direct object. Finally the book traces the historical development of the different case systems from their origins in Proto-Polynesian.
Author : Albert J. Schütz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824881656
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Fijian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is directed to those who want to learn more about the Fijian language. It is intended as a reference work, treating in detail such tropics as verb and noun classification, transitivity, the phonological hierarchy, orthography, specification, possession, subordination, and the definite article (among others). In addition, it is an attempt to fit these pieces together into a unified picture of the structure of the language.
Author : Silvia Luraghi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311039457X
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Partitive Cases and Related Categories written by Silvia Luraghi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.
Author : Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192534262
Total Pages : 1089 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia written by Alexander Adelaar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study. The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Author : Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134928440
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Nominalizations written by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal constructions, and in particular, the comparison of their syntactic structure with that of finite clauses and of other noun phrases, a problem which has claimed much attention in current syntactic theories. Supported by rich empirical material and clearly illustrated with examples from all the sample languages, the book provides a detailed and consistent basis for constructing a typology of derived constructions and for presenting cross-linguistic comparisons.
Author : Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113497471X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Tuvaluan written by Niko Besnier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477301054
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Mechanisms of Syntactic Change written by Charles N. Li and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families.
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 : R. A. Blust
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Austronesian Languages written by R. A. Blust and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2009 with total page 864 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.
