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A Grammar of Goemai
Author | : Birgit Hellwig |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110238297 |
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This is the first description of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Nigeria. Goemai is spoken in a language contact area, and this contact has shaped Goemai grammar to the extent that it can be considered a fairly untypical Chadic language. The grammar presents the structure of the present-day language, relates it to its diachronic sources, and adds a semantic perspective to the description.
A Grammar of Mbembe
Author | : Doris Richter |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004283961 |
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A Grammar of Mbembe is a description of a little studied Jukunoid language which is spoken in the borderland of Nigeria and Cameroon. Present-day structures of different dialects are described and discussed with respect to diachronic developments. It is based on extensive fieldwork, but also takes into consideration previous work on Mbembe and other Jukunoid languages. The main topics in the chapters on the noun phrase and the verb and simple sentence structures are nominal classification and number marking based on Ablaut phenomena and tone, argument structure, and serial verb constructions. The remaining chapters cover phonology, complex structures, information structure and requesting information, and other word classes. This is complemented by example texts and a word list in the appendix.
Demonstratives in Cross Linguistic Perspective
Author | : Stephen C. Levinson,Sarah Cutfield,Michael J. Dunn,N. J. Enfield,Sérgio Meira |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-07-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108424288 |
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The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.
Catching Language
Author | : Felix K. Ameka,Alan Dench,Nicholas Evans |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110197693 |
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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.
A Typological Study of the Existential Clause
Author | : Wang Yong |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2024-06-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781040051351 |
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This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The prototypical EC in the less familiar languages is identified through its functional equivalents in the more familiar ones, which share the common semantic basis of ‘there exists something in some location’. Topics addressed include the morpho-syntactic features of the EC, the subject of the EC, the definiteness effect and its manifestations in the EC, the EC as impersonals, the distinction between entity- vs. event-existentials, and the EC and its related constructions. Drawing on both cross-linguistic observations based on the language sample and in-depth investigations in particular languages (e.g., in Chinese and English), the study aims to unravel how the lexico-grammar of EC is related to its meanings and functions, that is, how meaning is realised in form. The title will appeal to scholars and students in the field of linguistics, especially functional linguistics, and syntax.
An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
Author | : Ranko Matasović |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108420976 |
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The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.
Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages
Author | : Alessandro Capone,Manuel García-Carpintero,Alessandra Falzone |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783319787718 |
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This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections following the provenance of the authors. Combining the voices from leading and emerging authors in the field, it offers a detailed picture of indirect reports in the world’s languages and their significance for theoretical linguistics. Building on the previous book on indirect reports in this series, this volume adds an empirical and cross-linguistic approach that covers an impressive range of languages, such as Cantonese, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Armenian, Italian, English, Hungarian, German, Rumanian, and Basque.
Language at Large
Author | : Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004207684 |
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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.