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Author : Gilbert Ansre
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tonal Structure of Ewe written by Gilbert Ansre and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophilus Kwadzo Setse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Some Aspects of the Tonal Structure of Ewe and Their Implications for the Teaching of English written by Theophilus Kwadzo Setse and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophilus Khadzo Setse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Some Aspects of the Tonal Structure of Ewe and Their Implications for the Teaching of English written by Theophilus Khadzo Setse and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary M. Clark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110869098
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Tonal System of Igbo written by Mary M. Clark and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. G. S. Sprigge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Collected Field Reports on Tone in the Adangbe Dialect of Ewe written by R. G. S. Sprigge and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880180
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Fongbe written by Claire Lefebvre and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.
Author : Koen Bogers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110866293
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals written by Koen Bogers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483273768
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Tone written by Victoria A. Fromkin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tone: A Linguistic Survey is a nine-chapter text that considers the phonetics and phonology of tone from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. The first chapters deal with the physiological and perceptual correlations of tone. These chapters also describe the interactions of tonal and nontonal features. The succeeding chapters provide the phonetic basis for phonological tonal phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the physical and physiological aspects of tone, the number of possible contrastive tones in a language, and a suprasegmental representation of tones based on linguistic evidence. This text also summarizes the kinds of tone rules found in languages and the important syntactic function played by tone in a number of the world's languages, particularly those in Africa. The final chapters look into the general and specific principles that constrain historical tone change. This book will prove useful to students with phonology course.
Author : Felix K. Ameka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197693
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Catching Language written by Felix K. Ameka and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's distinctive genius with an awareness of how other languages work, to combine rigour with readability, to depict structural regularities while respecting a corpus of real material, and to represent something of the native speaker's competence while recognising the variation inherent in any speech community. Despite a recent surge of awareness of the need to document little-known languages, there is no book that focusses on the manifold issues that face the author of a descriptive grammar. This volume brings together contributors who approach the problem from a range of angles. Most have written descriptive grammars themselves, but others represent different types of reader. Among the topics they address are: overall issues of grammar design, the complementary roles of outsider and native speaker grammarians, the balance between grammar and lexicon, cross-linguistic comparability, the role of explanation in grammatical description, the interplay of theory and a range of fieldwork methods in language description, the challenges of describing languages in their cultural and historical context, and the tensions between linguistic particularity, established practice of particular schools of linguistic description and the need for a universally commensurable analytic framework. This book will renew the field of grammaticography, addressing a multiple readership of descriptive linguists, typologists, and formal linguists, by bringing together a range of distinguished practitioners from around the world to address these questions.
Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287228
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
Author : Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521480840
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book African Rhythm written by Victor Kofi Agawu and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . An accompanying compact disk enables the reader to work closely with the sound of African speech and song discussed in the book.
Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195159905
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences written by Enoch Oladé Aboh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.
Author : Wm. E. Welmers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377095
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book African Language Structures written by Wm. E. Welmers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic topic. Thus there are extensive discussions of tonal systems in languages from all over sub-Saharan Africa, of noun classes and concord in the Bantu and other Niger-Kordofanian languages, and of the varieties of verbal constructions found in representative languages. African Language Structures emphasizes the organization of language data rather than the technicalities of theoretical linguistics. The material is presented in such a way that students working on the analysis of other languages can be guided in their procedures; Welmers suggests not only what types of structures may be expected, but also how they may be discovered and described. This work is unique in the depth of its linguistic insight over the entire spectrum of language structure and in the breadth of its language coverage. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author : Tomas Riad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110190571
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody written by Tomas Riad and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection aims to strengthen the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, e.g. of Zina Kotoko (Cameroon), Borgloon Dutch (Belgium), and European Portuguese, while others focus on the historical development of the prosodic systems of Basque, Kagoshima Japanese and Scandinavian. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.
Author : Hounkpati B.C. Capo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870533
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Phonology of Gbe written by Hounkpati B.C. Capo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, No 14).
Author : Peter Ladefoged
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521069637
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Phonetic Study of West African Languages written by Peter Ladefoged and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomas Riad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110207567
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody written by Tomas Riad and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, while others focus on the historical development of prosodic systems. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.
