Author: James W. GairPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110873206
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures
Author: James W. GairPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110873206
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Clause Structures in Spoken Colloquial Sinhalese
Author: James Wells GairColloquial Sinhalese
Author: Gordon H. FairbanksPublisher:
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Category : Sinhalese language
Languages : en
Pages :
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Colloquial Sinhalese
Author: Gordon H. FairbanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sinhalese language
Languages : en
Pages :
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Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages
Author: Mahendra K. VermaPublisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN: 9780937073605
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathi, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic unit, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics. Mahendra Verma is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tara Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore.
Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography
Author: R. Malatesha JoshiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030059774
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a billion people, there is an urgent need for a systematic attempt to bring the features, research findings, and future directions of akshara together in a coherent volume. We hope that this volume will bridge that gap. Akshara is used in several Indic languages, each calling it by a slightly different name, for example 'aksharamu', in Telugu, 'akshara' in Kannada, and 'akshar' in Hindi. It is the Bhrami-derived orthography used across much of the Indian subcontinent. There is a growing body of research on the psycholinguistic underpinnings of learning to read akshara, and the emerging perspective is that akshara, even though classified as alphasyllabaries, abugida, and semi-syllabic writing systems, is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Rather, akshara orthography is unique and deserves to be a separate classification and needs further investigation relating to literacy acquisition in akshara. The chapters in this volume, written by leading authors in the field, will inform the reader of the current research on akshara in a coherent and systematic way.
Transitivity
Author: Patrick BrandtPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287813
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity", the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.
Studies in South Asian Linguistics
Author: James W. GairPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195095219
Category : Sinhalese language
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett
Author: Frederick B AgardPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004655395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay
Author: Sebastian NordhoffPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004234136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax and semantics. Historical, anthropological, typological and structural approaches shed light on the complex genesis and rapid evolution of this language.