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Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Si-Luyana Language written by Talmy Givón and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318990
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3 written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135796831
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Bantu Languages written by Derek Nurse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
Author : Robert K. Herbert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110865939
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Language Universals, Markedness Theory, and Natural Phonetic Processes written by Robert K. Herbert and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Mukumbuta Lisimba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Luyana Dialectology written by Mukumbuta Lisimba and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134868030
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book African Languages, Development and the State written by Richard Fardon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521276597
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
Author : Maria Braun
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3484305177
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Word-formation and Creolisation written by Maria Braun and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a relatively little investigated area of creole languages, word-formation. It provides the most comprehensive account so far of the word-formation patterns of an English-based creole language, Sranan, as found in its earliest sources, and compares them with the patterns attested in the input languages. One of the few studies of creole morphology based on historical data, the book discusses the theoretical problems arising with the historical analysis of creole word-formation and provides an analysis along the lines of Booij's (2005, 2007) Construction Morphology in which the assumed boundaries between affixation, compounding and syntactic constructions play a very minor role. It shows that Early Sranan word-formation is characterised by the absence of superstrate derivational affixes, the use of free morphemes as derivational markers and of compounding as the major word-formation strategy. The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation involved multiple sources (the input languages, universals, language-internal development) and different mechanisms (reanalysis of free morphemes as derivational markers, adaptation of superstrate complex words, transfer from the substrates and the creation of innovations). The findings render untenable theoretical accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor, such as superstrate or substrate influence.
Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318983
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of a survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the world's languages.
Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268886
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Diachrony of Grammar written by T. Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit theoretical perspective – adaptive, developmental, variationist. Taken as a whole, this work constitutes a frontal assault on Ferdinand de Saussure's corrosive legacy in linguistics. Over the years, reviewers slapped the author's wrist periodically for having dared to commit that most heinous of sins against de Saussure's hallowed legacy – panchronic grammar. In this work he pleads guilty, having never seen a piece of synchronic data that didn't reek, to high heaven, of the diachrony that gave it rise. Reek in two distinct ways: first with the frozen relics of the past that prompt us to reconstruct prior diachronic states; and second with the synchronic variation that hints at ongoing change. Conversely, the author confesses to having never seen a diachronic explanation that did not hinge on the synchronic principles – Carnap's general propositions – that govern language behavior. The synchrony and diachrony of grammar are twin faces of the same coin. To study one without the other is to gut both. By understanding how synchronic grammars come into being we also understand the cognitive, communicative, neurological and developmental universals that constrain diachronic change – and through it synchronic typology.
Author : Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518423X
Total Pages : 3183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set written by Marc van Oostendorp and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 3183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2): Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series
Author : Mutumba Mainga
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9982241362
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Bulozi under the Luyana Kings written by Mutumba Mainga and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulozi under the Luyana Kings was first published in 1973 by Longman, London. After wide consultations at home and abroad, a decision was made to have the book reprinted in its original form. Bulozi under the Luyana Kings is a study of the Lozi Kingdom in Western Zambia in the pre-colonial period. The study traces the origins of the Luyana and the Lozi people; the founding of the Luyana Central Kingship and the invasion by the Makololo in the mid-nineteenth century; and ends with the study of the Lozi response to European intrusion at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Folke Josephson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205701
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses written by Folke Josephson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.
Author : John J. McCarthy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470755520
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Optimality Theory in Phonology written by John J. McCarthy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199239290
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Bantu written by Derek Nurse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website.
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.
Author : Mutumba Mainga
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9982240528
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Bulozi under the Luyana Kings written by Mutumba Mainga and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulozi under the Luyana Kings is a study of the Lozi Kingdom in Western Zambia in the pre-colonial period. The study traces the origins of the Luyana and the Lozi people; the founding of the Luyana Central Kingship and the invasion by the Makololo in the mid-nineteenth century; and ends with the study of the Lozi response to European intrusion at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bulozi under the Luyana Kings was first published in 1973 by Longman, London. After wide consultations at home and abroad, the book is now republished in its original form.
