The Structure Of Sentences In Mende
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The Structure of Sentences in Mende
Author | : Gordon Innes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Mende language |
ISBN | : UVA:X001841315 |
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Radiance from the Waters
Author | : Sylvia Ardyn Boone |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300048610 |
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The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.
ACAL in SoCAL
Author | : Yaqian Huang,Jun Jie Lim,Sharon Rose,Anthony Struthers-Young,Nina Hagen Kaldhol |
Publsiher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2024-05-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783961104727 |
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This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.
African Linguistics
Author | : Didier L. Goyvaerts |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027279507 |
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This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology.
Causatives and Causation
Author | : Jae Jung Song |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317888437 |
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Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study.
Tone
Author | : Victoria A. Fromkin |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781483273761 |
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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.
The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution
Author | : Jie Zhang |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136721762 |
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First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The term “tone language” usually refers to languages in which the pitch of a syllable serves lexical or grammatical functions. In some tone languages, the contrastive functions of pitch are sometimes played by pitch changes within a syllable. Pitch changes of this kind are called contour tones. The distribution of contour tones in a language, are when under what phonological contexts contour tones are more readily realized.
Minimal Indirect Reference
Author | : Amanda Seidl |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136710285 |
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This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.