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The Semantics of Clause Linking

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609951
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Clause Linking written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence - cause, result, and purpose - which may be illustrated in English by, respectively: Because John has been studying German for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for years, thus he speaks it well; and John has been studying German for years, in order that he should speak it well. Syntactic descriptions of languages provide a grammatical analysis of clause types. The chapters in this book add the further dimension of semantics, generally in the form of focal and supporting clauses, the former referring to the central activity or state of the biclausal linking; and the latter to the clause attached to it. The supporting clause may set out the temporal milieu for the focal clause or specify a condition or presupposition for it or a preliminary statement of it, as in Although John has been studying German for years (the supporting clause), he does not speak it well (the focal clause). Professor Dixon's extensive opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.

The Aversive Clause

Author : B. C. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937854249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Aversive Clause written by B. C. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[B.C. Edwards] is a writer possessed of a quicksilver anarchic imagination and I recommend his fiction highly to all and sundry."--Patrick McGrath From "My Recipe for the Best Tuna Salad in the World": 'Malcolm,' 'I've finished clearing out the apartment, you boy-hungry mongoloid. The last of your things are in the vestibule. I'd come pick them up soon, as I'm sure you're aware, the front door won't shut completely and the glass has been broken in and so the rain is doing a number on that collection of forty-fives you inherited from your father but never got around to playing a single one of.' 'Meanwhile, as requested, here is that recipe for tuna salad that you've enjoyed so much over all of these apparently bitter years.' Every story in 'The Aversive Clause' has its own unique world: the quiet moments of a couple's destruction as one inexorably turns into a monster, a girl trapped in a tree at the end of the world, acrobats hired to tumble at an oil tycoon's birthday, an entire city come to life to terrorize a dwarf.B.C. Edwards is a producer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and attended the graduate writing program at The New School in New York. The winner of the 2011 Hudson Prize for Fiction, he is the author of the collected stories "The Aversive Clause" (Spring, 2013) as well as two collections of poetry "To Mend Small Children," (February, 2012) and "From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes" (Spring, 2014). He was raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn.

A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara written by Cliff Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology, parts of speech, case and case marking; nominals and the noun phrase; nominalisation, relativisation and subordination; verbal inflection and serial verb construction; verb-stem morphology; negation, interrogative, spatial and temporal qualifiers; sentence connectives and particles; ways of speaking, respect, avoidance, rhetoric, euphemism.

The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161534X
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. Manambu can be considered an endangered language. The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape, large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson. After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to all linguists and linguistically oriented anthropologists.

La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New Grammar of Dyirbal

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192859900
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book A New Grammar of Dyirbal written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more recent theoretical advances. The resulting A New Grammar of Dyirbal offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the language, reanalysed in myriad ways and drawing on an extensive corpus of texts. Among its many new features are further discussion of the applicative/causative derivation; a fresh focus on the role of the pervasive 'pivot', the syntactic linking of S and O functions; a detailed account of the two antipassives and their semantic contrast and phonological conditioning; and an extended account of relative clauses. The volume is accompanied by a companion website hosting the full set of textual data on which the grammar is based, as well as a thesaurus/dictionary of nouns, adjectives, and verbs across ten dialects of Dyirbal.

The Citizen's Constitution

Author : Seth Lipsky
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465024300
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Citizen's Constitution written by Seth Lipsky and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket versions of the Constitution of the United States of America abound, as do multi-volume commentaries, scholarly histories of its writing, and political posturings of various clauses. But what if you want a delightfully quick, witty, and readable reference that, in one compact volume, places the document and its clauses into context? You're out of luck -- until now. Written by Seth Lipsky, described in the Boston Globe as "a legendary figure in contemporary journalism,&" The Citizen's Constitution draws on the writings of the Founders, case law from our greatest judges, and current events in more than 300 illuminating annotations. Lipsky provides a no-nonsense, entertaining, and learned guide to the fundamental questions surrounding the document that governs how we govern our country. Every American should know the Constitution. Rarely has it glinted so brightly.

The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges

Author : Tania Groppi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782251006
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges written by Tania Groppi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 the International Association of Constitutional Law established an Interest Group on 'The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges' to conduct a survey of the use of foreign precedents by Supreme and Constitutional Courts in deciding constitutional cases. Its purpose was to determine - through empirical analysis employing both quantitative and qualitative indicators - the extent to which foreign case law is cited. The survey aimed to test the reliability of studies describing and reporting instances of transjudicial communication between Courts. The research also provides useful insights into the extent to which a progressive constitutional convergence may be taking place between common law and civil law traditions. The present work includes studies by scholars from African, American, Asian, European, Latin American and Oceania countries, representing jurisdictions belonging to both common law and civil law traditions, and countries employing both centralised and decentralised systems of judicial review. The results, published here for the first time, give us the best evidence yet of the existence and limits of a transnational constitutional communication between courts.

Elements of Structural Syntax

Author : Lucien Tesnière
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269998
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Structural Syntax written by Lucien Tesnière and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages, many of which he was proficient in, Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating. Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.

The Modern English Word-order in Clauses with Demonstrative and Determinative Verbal Modifiers

Author : August Dahlstedt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Modern English Word-order in Clauses with Demonstrative and Determinative Verbal Modifiers written by August Dahlstedt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Grammar and Composition In English-French

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Grammar and Composition In English-French written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced English Grammar and Composition are a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that teaches the rules of sentences, noun, verbs, question mark, adjectives, and adverbs; prepositions, propositions, and pronoun pronouncements; punctuation; possessives; and proofreading skills for all communication. Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced English Grammar and Composition for explaining everything from basic sentence structure to the finer points of grammar with exercises. This eBook will help you to communicate more effectively and make the right impression every time and it will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, teachers, interpreting and learning English). Just remember one thing that learning never stops! Read, Read, Read! And Write, Write, Write! A thank you to my wonderful wife Beth (Griffo) Nguyen and my amazing sons Taylor Nguyen and Ashton Nguyen for all their love and support, without their emotional support and help, none of these educational language eBooks and audios would be possible. La base essentielle, Intermédiaire et Avancé Anglais-Français Grammaire et Composition sont une grande ressource partout où vous allez; il est un outil facile qui enseigne les règles de phrases, NOM, verbes, d'interrogation, des adjectifs, adverbes et; prépositions, propositions et déclarations de pronoms; la ponctuation; possessifs; et les compétences de relecture pour toutes les communications. Essential Basic, Intermédiaire et Avancé Anglais-Français Grammaire et Composition pour tout expliquer à partir de la structure de base de la peine à les subtilités de la grammaire avec exercices. Cet eBook vous aidera à communiquer plus efficacement et de faire bonne impression à chaque fois et il sera très utile pour tout le monde (à la maison, l'école, les élèves, Voyage, les enseignants, l'interprétation et l'apprentissage de l'anglais). Rappelez-vous juste une chose que l'apprentissage ne cesse jamais! Lire, lire, lire! Et écrire, écrire, écrire! Un grand merci à ma merveilleuse épouse Beth (Griffo) Nguyen et mes fils étonnantes Taylor Nguyen et Nguyen Ashton pour leur amour et leur soutien, sans leur soutien affectif et de l'aide, aucun de ces livres électroniques et audios de langue d'enseignement serait possible.

An Impartial Report of the Debates that Occur in the Two Houses of Parliament ...

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)

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An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises

Author : George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises written by George Lyman Kittredge and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises" by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Language at Large

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004206078
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Language at Large written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.

Worrorra

Author : Mark Clendon
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
ISBN 13 : 1922064599
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Worrorra written by Mark Clendon and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kimberley Arafuran language Worrorra was spoken traditionally on the remote coastline and precipitously beautiful hinterland between the Walcott Inlet and the Prince Regent River. The language described here is that attested by its last full speakers, Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah. Patsy Lulpunda was a child when Europeans first entered her country in 1912, and Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah both grew up on the Kunmunya mission. This comprehensive and detailed grammar provides as well an historical and cultural context for a society now drastically altered. In the 1950s Worrorra people left their traditional land and from the 1970s the number of people speaking Worrorra as their first language declined dramatically. Worrorra is a highly polysynthetic language, characterised by overarching concord and a high degree of morphological fusion. Verbal semantics involve a voicing opposition and an extensive system of evidentiality-marking. Worrorra has elaborate systems of pragmatic reference, a derivational morphology that projects agreement-class concord across most lexical categories and complex predicates that incorporate one verb within another. Nouns are distributed among five genders, the intensional properties of which define dynamic oppositions between men and women on the one hand, and earth and sky on the other. This volume will be of interest to morphologists, syntacticians, semanticists, anthropologists, typologists, and readers interested in Australian language and culture generally.

Australian Languages

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521473780
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Australian Languages written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.

Parliamentary Debates

Author : Western Australia. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Western Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: