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Author : Elizabeth Mills
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Total Pages : 772 pages
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Download or read book Senoufo Phonology, Discourse to Syllable (a Prosodic Approach) written by Elizabeth Mills and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Robert Carlson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110883058
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Supyire written by Robert Carlson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198908
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book New Challenges in Typology written by Matti Miestamo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. The papers cover grammatical phenomena from phonology, morphology up to the syntax of complex sentences. The linguistic phenomena scrutinized include the following: foot and stress, tone, infixation, inflection vs. derivation, word formation, polysynthesis, suppletion, person marking, reflexives, alignment, transitivity, tense-aspect-mood systems, negation, interrogation, converb systems, and complex sentences. More general methodological and theoretical issues, such as reconstruction, markedness, semantic maps, templates, and use of parallel corpora, are also addressed. The contributions in this volume draw from many traditional fields of linguistics simultaneously, and show that it is becoming harder and maybe also less desirable to keep them separate, especially when taking a broadly cross-linguistic approach to language. The book is of interest to typologists and field linguists, as well as to any linguists interested in theoretical issues in different subfields of linguistics.
Author : Naomi Gurevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135876487
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Lenition and Contrast written by Naomi Gurevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, this collection is likely to become an important resource for future linguistics research. By distinguishing between phonetic and phonological neutralization, and showing that the first does not necessarily result in the second, Naomi Gurevich uncovers previously unexplored and often surprising trends in the relationship between phonetics and phonology.
Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110261529
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Sonority Controversy written by Steve Parker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has never been the focus of an entire book. Consequently, this is the first complete volume that explores diverging viewpoints about phonological phenomena rooted in sonority taken from numerous languages. All of the contributors are well-known and respected linguists who publish their research in leading academic outlets. Furthermore, each chapter in this collection contains new, cutting-edge results based on the latest trends in the field. Hence, no other extant piece of literature matches this volume in terms of its breadth and coverage of issues, all converging on the common theme of sonority. Given the wide variety of subtopics in this collection, there is something to appeal to everyone — the list of contributions encompasses areas such as Optimality Theory, acquisition, computational modeling, acoustic phonetics, typology, syllable structure, speech perception, markedness, connectionism, psycholinguistics, and even MRI technology. What ties all of these issues together is a solid and consistent emphasis on sonority as a unified background phenomenon. Furthermore, a continuum of opinions about sonority is represented, ranging from complete acceptance and enthusiasm, on the one hand, to moderate skepticism on the other hand.
Author : Jeff Mielke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199207917
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Distinctive Features written by Jeff Mielke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Emergence of Distinctive Features will be of essential interest to phonologists and typologists, as well as to syntacticians, cognitive scientists, and scholars outside linguistics interested in the nature of language and its acquisition."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Journal of African Languages and Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317888448
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Causatives and Causation written by Jae Jung Song and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study.
Author : Wendell Jones
Publisher : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Barasano Syntax written by Wendell Jones and published by Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald A. Burquest
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku written by Donald A. Burquest and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the the phonologies of Sawai, Kisar, Larike and West Tarangan (Indonesia).
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Publications Catalog of the Summer Institute of Linguistics International written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David O. Westley
Publisher : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Tepetotutla Chinantec Syntax written by David O. Westley and published by Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen H. Levinsohn
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa written by Stephen H. Levinsohn and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference, and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon. The papers are organized into three sections to explain the linguistic features of Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon whose meaning can only be explained by taking into account domains larger than the sentence. Folk tales and other narratives are used to illustrate discourse features of 10 languages from Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Zaïre. The first section concentrates on how coherence is maintained in a text when the author introduces a local discontinuity. The second section identifies factors which affect the amount of encoding used as a speaker refers to participants throughout a discourse. The third section presents data that applies insights from Relevance Theory. Describes markers of prominence and backgrounding.
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1120 pages
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Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
