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The Algonquian Inverse
Author | : Will Oxford |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780192871800 |
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This book serves as a definitive reference for inverse morphology across all documented Algonquian languages. It considers not only the morphology of the inverse construction but also its syntax and pragmatics, giving equal weight to diachronic, typological, functional, and formal perspectives.
Papers of the Algonquian Conference
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Algonquian Indians |
ISBN | : UOM:39015079722206 |
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The Languages of Native North America
Author | : Marianne Mithun |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2001-06-07 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 052129875X |
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This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Voice and Inversion
Author | : Talmy Givón |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027229175 |
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This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of inverse. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions direct-active, inverse, passive, antipassive are surveyed using narrative texts from 14 languages: Koyukon (Athabascan), Plains Cree (Algonquian), Chepang (Tibeto-Burman), Squamish and Bella Coola (Salish), Sahaptin (Sahaptian), Kutenai (isolate), Surinam Carib (Carib), Spanish and Greek (Indo-European), Korean, Maasai (Nilotic), Cebuano and Karao (Philippine). The comparative quantified study of pragmatic voice functions tests the validity of a universal functional definition of voice and in particular of inverse. The cross-language comparison of grammatical structures that code the various voice functions then lays down the foundation for a non-trivial cross-language typology of inverse.
Voice Form and Function
Author | : Barbara A. Fox,Paul J. Hopper |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1994-04-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027276568 |
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The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have raised still further questions. What discourse functions and diachronic events unite 'voice' as a recognizable phenomenon across languages? How are they typically grammaticalized? What stages do children go through in learning them? How does 'voice' link up with ergativity and with other categories and constructions such as the Inverse and the Antipassive? The authors in this volume have different perspectives on these problems: they discuss voice, e.g., from a typological-universal view, in relation to language acquisition and to ergativity, and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
Author | : Daniel Siddiqi,Michael Barrie,Carrie Gillon,Jason Haugen,Eric Mathieu |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781351810272 |
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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.
Papers of the Twenty third Algonquian Conference
Author | : William Cowan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Algonquian Indians |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105008883758 |
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Endangered Languages
Author | : Andrew Simpson,Peter Austin |
Publsiher | : Helmut Buske Verlag |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783875489545 |
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Peter K. Austin / Andrew Simpson: Introduction; Nicholas Evans: Warramurrungunji undone: Australian languages in the 51st Millenium; Knut J. Olawsky: Obvious OVS in Urarina syntax; Larry M. Hyman / Imelda Udoh: Length harmony in Leggbó: a counter-universal?; Nora England: The influence of Mayan-speaking linguists on the state of Mayan linguistics; Pamela Munro: Oblique subjects in Garifuna; Marina Chumakina / Anna Kibort / Greville G. Corbett: Determining a language's feature inventory: person in Archi; Friederike Lüpke: Vanishing voice – the morphologically zero-coded passive of Jalonke; Anju Saxena: The ergative in Kinnauri narratives; John Hajek: Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: some basic typological observations; Martina Faller: The Cusco Quechua Reportative evidential and rhetorical relations; Emmon Bach: Deixis in Northern Wakashan: recovering lost forms; Roberto Zavala: Inversion and obviation in Mesoamerica