Author: Joseph Dele Atoyebi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783896455536
Category : Oko language
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A Reference Grammar of Oko
A Reference Grammar of Japanese
Author: Samuel Elmo Martin
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824828189
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
This title explains the use of Japanese words such as wa, ga and mo looking at the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824828189
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
This title explains the use of Japanese words such as wa, ga and mo looking at the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms.
Ute Reference Grammar
Author: Talmy Givón
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027202842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features, best viewed from the perspective of diachronic change and grammaticalization. The book presents a comprehensive synchronic description of grammatical structures and their communicative functions, as well as a diachronic account of a grammar in the midst of change. The book is the first of a 3-volume series which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members may find in the present volume a step-by-step description of how words are combined into meaningful communication. Linguists may find a detailed account of one language, an account that is unabashedly informed by universals of grammar, communication and change.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027202842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features, best viewed from the perspective of diachronic change and grammaticalization. The book presents a comprehensive synchronic description of grammatical structures and their communicative functions, as well as a diachronic account of a grammar in the midst of change. The book is the first of a 3-volume series which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members may find in the present volume a step-by-step description of how words are combined into meaningful communication. Linguists may find a detailed account of one language, an account that is unabashedly informed by universals of grammar, communication and change.
A Reference Grammar of Wappo
Author: Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done on this language. The grammar focuses on morphosyntax, particularly nominal, verbal, and clausal structures and clause combining patterns, from a functional/typological perspective.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done on this language. The grammar focuses on morphosyntax, particularly nominal, verbal, and clausal structures and clause combining patterns, from a functional/typological perspective.
A Reference Grammar of Trumai
Author: Raquel Guirardello
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Write it Right
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789971404086
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789971404086
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Art of Grammar
Author: Aleksandr Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199683212
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199683212
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
Mokilese Reference Grammar
Author: Sheldon P. Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Yapese Reference Grammar
Author: John Thayer Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780824881290
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780824881290
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Here – Hither – Hence and Related Categories
Author: Julia Nintemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110672723
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here – hither – hence and there – thither – thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110672723
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here – hither – hence and there – thither – thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.