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Sivisa Titan

Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Sivisa Titan written by Claire Bowern and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Admiralty Islands -- Part A Sketch Grammar -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Description of the Meier Corpus -- 1.2 The Language Name -- 1.3 Classification and Dialects -- 1.4 Sources for Titan/'Moanus' -- 1.4.1 Published Sources -- 1.4.1.1 Schnee (1901) -- 1.4.1.2 Thilenius (1903) -- 1.4.1.3 Meier (1906-1909, 1912) -- 1.4.1.4 Parkinson (1999) -- 1.4.1.5 Mead (1942) -- 1.4.1.6 Fortune (1935) -- 1.4.1.7 Goebel (1956) -- 1.4.1.8 Smythe and Z'Graggen (1975) -- 1.4.1.9 Other published works -- 1.4.2 Unpublished Materials -- 1.5 Methods -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- 2.1 Consonant Phonemes -- 2.1.1 Consonant Inventory -- 2.1.2 Notes on Phonemic Interpretation -- 2.1.2.1 Alternation ∼ -- 2.1.2.2 Palatal Consonants -- 2.1.2.3 Velarized Labials: [pw] and [mw] -- 2.1.2.4 Trills: [mb], [n(d)r], [r] -- 2.1.2.5 Glottal Consonants: [?] and [h] -- 2.2 Vowel Phonemes -- 2.3 Orthography -- 2.4 Syllable Structure and Phonotactics -- 2.4.1 Consonant Clusters -- 2.4.2 Vowel Clusters -- 2.4.3 Number of Syllables in the Word -- 2.4.4 Phonotactics -- 2.5 Lexical Stress -- 2.6 Morphophonemic Alternations -- Chapter 3 Nouns -- 3.1 The Word Class of Nominals -- 3.2 Number -- 3.3 Possession -- 3.3.1 Inalienable Possession: Suffixation -- 3.3.2 Parataxis with Body Parts -- 3.3.3 Alienable Possession -- 3.3.4 Variable Marking -- 3.3.5 Food Possessive -- 3.3.6 Body Part Possession by Compounding -- 3.3.7 Possessors with Null Heads -- 3.4 Compounds -- 3.4.1 Order of Compounded Elements -- 3.4.2 Inalienable Possession -- 3.4.3 Descriptive or Delimiting Compounds -- 3.4.4 Locational Compounds -- 3.4.5 Determinative Compounds -- 3.4.6 Compounded Compounds -- 3.5 Proper Nouns -- 3.6 Derivation in Nominals -- 3.6.1 Derivational Suffixes -- 3.6.2 Reduplication -- 3.6.3 k- Prefixation.

Xenolinguistics

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000920682
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Xenolinguistics written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like. The 18 chapters examine what is known about human language and animal communication systems to provide reasonable hypotheses about what we may find if we encounter non-Earth intelligence. Showcasing an interdisciplinary dialogue between a set of highly established scholars, this volume: Clarifies what is and is not known about human language and animal communication systems Presents speculative arguments as a philosophical exercise to help define the boundaries of what our current science can tell us about non-speculative areas of investigation Provides readers with a clearer sense of the how our knowledge about language is better informed through a cross-disciplinary investigation Offers a better understanding of future avenues of research on language This rich interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers and students studying non-human communication, astrobiology, and language invention.

Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics

Author : Daniel Schmidt-Brücken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110434024
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics written by Daniel Schmidt-Brücken and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316790665
Total Pages : 1661 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

The Origins of Grammar

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619930
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Grammar written by James R. Hurford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were about to step over the brink to modern language. He now considers how that step might have been taken and the consequences it undoubtedly had. The capacity for language lets human beings formulate and express an unlimited range of propositions about real or fictitious worlds. It allows them to communicate these propositions, often overlaid with layers of nuance and irony, to other humans who can then interpret and respond to them. These processes take place at breakneck speed. Using a language means learning a vast number of arbitrary connections between forms and meanings and rules on how to manipulate them, both of which a normal human child can do in its first few years of life. James Hurford looks at how this miracle came about. The book is divided into three parts. In the first the author surveys the syntactic structures evident in the communicative behaviour of animals, such as birds and whales, and discusses how vocabularies of learned symbols could have evolved and the effects this had on human thought. In the second he considers how far the evolution of grammar depended on biological or cultural factors. In the third and final part he describes the probable route by which the human language faculty and languages evolved from simple beginnings to their present complex state.

Linguistic Fieldwork

Author : C. Bowern
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340800
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Fieldwork written by C. Bowern and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.

The Final-Over-Final Condition

Author : Michelle Sheehan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262534169
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Final-Over-Final Condition written by Michelle Sheehan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.

A Grammar of Mavea

Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837061
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mavea written by Valérie Guérin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken on Mavea Island by approximately 32 people, Mavea is an endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu. This work provides grammatical descriptions of this hitherto undescribed language. Fourteen chapters, containing more than 1,400 examples, cover topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Mavea, with an emphasis on the latter. Of particular interest are examples of individual speaker variation presented throughout the grammar; the presence of three linguo-labials (still used today by a single speaker) that were unexpectedly found before the rounded vowel /o/; and a chapter on numerals and the counting system, which have long been replaced by Bislama’s but are remembered by a handful of speakers. Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007.

A Grammar of Paluai

Author : Dineke Schokkin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311067517X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Paluai written by Dineke Schokkin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive description of Paluai, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Based on extensive field research, the grammar covers all linguistic levels, including phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, while paying particular attention to pragmatics and discourse practices. This is the first comprehensive description of Paluai, a language from the underdescribed Admiralties subgroup, a first-order branch of Oceanic (Austronesian). Paluai is spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, by two to three thousand people. The grammar is based on extensive field research by the author and covers all linguistic levels. After a general introduction of its socio-cultural context, the language's phonology is discussed, followed by two chapters on its parts of speech, divided by open and closed word classes. Following chapters address topics such as the structure of the noun phrase, verbal and non-verbal clauses, grammatical relations, serial verb constructions, mood, negation and clause combining. The final chapter provides an in-depth discussion of pragmatics and discourse practices relevant to Paluai, illustrated through two narrative texts that are included integrally at the end of the book. This grammar is of interest to scholars working on Austronesian languages, particularly those of the New Guinea region, and those working on linguistic typology. It is also relevant to those interested in the history, languages and cultures of this region more generally.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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MIT Working Papers in Linguistics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Proceedings from the Parasessions of the Chicago Linguistic Society's ... Meeting

Author : Chicago Linguistic Society. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings from the Parasessions of the Chicago Linguistic Society's ... Meeting written by Chicago Linguistic Society. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu

Author : Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824890515
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu written by Nicholas Thieberger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation. The resulting publication offers insight into the diversity of meanings available to speakers of Nafsan, providing some 3,400 senses for Nafsan words and an English-Nafsan finderlist. In addition, the book gives an overview of the Nafsan sound system, provides a list of existing literature on the language dating back to early missionary translations, and includes maps of Efate locating nearly 200 place names. Readers will also find South Efate cultural knowledge embedded in the explanations of the Nafsan words and their usages. A welcome companion to Thieberger’s A Grammar of South Efate (2006), this book complements and significantly augments other multimedia resources made available online by the author.

The Politics of Tradition in Baluan

Author : Ton Otto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Tradition in Baluan written by Ton Otto and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islanders

Author : Sylvia Ohnemus
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824820848
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islanders written by Sylvia Ohnemus and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931-32, Alfred Buhler (1900-81), who for many years was director of the Museum of Ethnology and the Swiss Museum of European Folklife, in Basel, assembled a unique collection documenting the culture of the Admiralty Islanders. The Admiralty Islands are located on the northern edge of the region of Melanesia, and today constitute the Manus province of the independent State of Papua New Guinea. In this book, commissioned by the Museum der Kulturen in Basel, Sylvia Ohnemus for the first time presents the results of Alfred Buhler's collecting and study expedition, which she complements with her own contributions based on information gathered in the field.

Multi-verb Constructions

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194525
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Multi-verb Constructions written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Where possible, a diachronic perspectrive is offered.

The Metropolitan Midwest

Author : Barry Checkoway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252011146
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Midwest written by Barry Checkoway and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: