Author: Henrik Liljegren
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3946234313
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.
A grammar of Palula
Author: Henrik Liljegren
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3946234313
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3946234313
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.
Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement
Author: Henrik Bergqvist
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961102694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages. Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that signal how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access (evidentials); the speaker’s involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the addressee’s knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker (engagement marking).
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961102694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages. Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that signal how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access (evidentials); the speaker’s involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the addressee’s knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker (engagement marking).
The Lines We Cross
Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407173480
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina, but they're on opposite sides of an issue that's tearing their town apart. His parents are part of an anti-immigration group, while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan. As tensions rise, lines are drawn and both must decide what they want their world to look like, no matter the cost.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407173480
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina, but they're on opposite sides of an issue that's tearing their town apart. His parents are part of an anti-immigration group, while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan. As tensions rise, lines are drawn and both must decide what they want their world to look like, no matter the cost.
Gates of Peristan
Author: Alberto M. Cacopardo
Publisher: ISIAO
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher: ISIAO
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Love Where You Work Boxed Set, Books 1-3
Author: Anna Pulley
Publisher: Red Heel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
Discover the love, laughter, and work-inspired chaos in the Love Where You Work boxed set, featuring three feel-good sapphic rom-coms. Love Where You Work introduces Clare Kolikov, a dedicated HR manager navigating an unconventional matchmaking role at a quirky San Francisco startup, W;nkdIn. Seemingly doomed encounters with pole dancing and plant-healing challenge her working life, while her growing attraction for fellow colleague Julia Dawes—the dazzling fashionista with roller-blade confidence—threatens her meticulous career plans. Workplace regulations and a secret love affair culminate into a challenging decision—choosing between her dream job or her dream girl. Pivot is a humorous queer rom-com starring Paula Suarez, a hopeful designer, and her chance meeting with audacious journalist Nita Funmaker, amidst cosplay catastrophes and unraveling divorce amendments. A series of amusing scenarios, including drag wrestling and secret ice-skating passions, act as a melting pot for their burgeoning affections. Their joint escapades lead to confronting inner turmoil and perhaps finding an unexpected love. The third novel, Courtship, takes us on a cruise with Reaux Briggs, a recently ousted drummer, who unexpectedly crosses paths with her former love Catherine “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a dedicated divorce lawyer. Thrust together due to a mutual friend's wedding, they must reconcile their past as they navigate through literal and emotional storms on their quest for love. Heartwarming, steamy, and always humorous—the Love Where You Work boxed set is a heartfelt exploration of work, friendship, and the surprising places one may find love. For fans of Casey McQuiston and Karelia Stetz-Waters, this trio of novels promises to be both an emotional rollercoaster and a joy to read.
Publisher: Red Heel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
Discover the love, laughter, and work-inspired chaos in the Love Where You Work boxed set, featuring three feel-good sapphic rom-coms. Love Where You Work introduces Clare Kolikov, a dedicated HR manager navigating an unconventional matchmaking role at a quirky San Francisco startup, W;nkdIn. Seemingly doomed encounters with pole dancing and plant-healing challenge her working life, while her growing attraction for fellow colleague Julia Dawes—the dazzling fashionista with roller-blade confidence—threatens her meticulous career plans. Workplace regulations and a secret love affair culminate into a challenging decision—choosing between her dream job or her dream girl. Pivot is a humorous queer rom-com starring Paula Suarez, a hopeful designer, and her chance meeting with audacious journalist Nita Funmaker, amidst cosplay catastrophes and unraveling divorce amendments. A series of amusing scenarios, including drag wrestling and secret ice-skating passions, act as a melting pot for their burgeoning affections. Their joint escapades lead to confronting inner turmoil and perhaps finding an unexpected love. The third novel, Courtship, takes us on a cruise with Reaux Briggs, a recently ousted drummer, who unexpectedly crosses paths with her former love Catherine “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a dedicated divorce lawyer. Thrust together due to a mutual friend's wedding, they must reconcile their past as they navigate through literal and emotional storms on their quest for love. Heartwarming, steamy, and always humorous—the Love Where You Work boxed set is a heartfelt exploration of work, friendship, and the surprising places one may find love. For fans of Casey McQuiston and Karelia Stetz-Waters, this trio of novels promises to be both an emotional rollercoaster and a joy to read.
Sky
Author: Ondine Sherman
Publisher: Pantera Press
ISBN: 1925700283
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Friendship can be found in the unlikeliest of places. After her mother's death, Sky leaves her city life to move in with her aunt and uncle in a small Australian town. Life in a new place isn't easy, and Sky finds comfort in the friendship of a stray dog she meets along the way. But her new friends at school are another story, and as Sky struggles to fit in, she finds herself doing things that go against everything she believes in. When Sky stumbles on a case of animal cruelty, she is forced to question what's really important to her and who she wants to be.
Publisher: Pantera Press
ISBN: 1925700283
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Friendship can be found in the unlikeliest of places. After her mother's death, Sky leaves her city life to move in with her aunt and uncle in a small Australian town. Life in a new place isn't easy, and Sky finds comfort in the friendship of a stray dog she meets along the way. But her new friends at school are another story, and as Sky struggles to fit in, she finds herself doing things that go against everything she believes in. When Sky stumbles on a case of animal cruelty, she is forced to question what's really important to her and who she wants to be.
The Indo-Aryan Languages
Author: Danesh Jain
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135797110
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135797110
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
Anthropological Linguistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Grammar of the Shina Language of Indus Kohistan
Author: Ruth Laila Schmidt
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447056762
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Shina language is a Dardic speech spoken in the mountainousregions of the upper Indus River and its tributaries in Pakistan and India, an area which extends more than eight hundred kilometers from east to west and three hundred kilometers from north to south - an area larger than Norway. It is divided into three major dialects: the Gilgiti, Kohistani and Astori. Until now, only the Gilgiti dialect has received the attention of scholars; this work is the only grammar of the Kohistani dialect, as well as the ? rst modern grammar of any Shina dialect.Table of contents: PrefaceMapList of Abbreviations1. The Geographic and Historical Setting2. The Sound System3. Nouns and Postpositions4. Pronouns and Deixis5. Adjectives6. Verbs7. Adverbs, Participles and Verbal Nouns8. Compound Verbs9. ConjunctionsBibliographyInde
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447056762
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Shina language is a Dardic speech spoken in the mountainousregions of the upper Indus River and its tributaries in Pakistan and India, an area which extends more than eight hundred kilometers from east to west and three hundred kilometers from north to south - an area larger than Norway. It is divided into three major dialects: the Gilgiti, Kohistani and Astori. Until now, only the Gilgiti dialect has received the attention of scholars; this work is the only grammar of the Kohistani dialect, as well as the ? rst modern grammar of any Shina dialect.Table of contents: PrefaceMapList of Abbreviations1. The Geographic and Historical Setting2. The Sound System3. Nouns and Postpositions4. Pronouns and Deixis5. Adjectives6. Verbs7. Adverbs, Participles and Verbal Nouns8. Compound Verbs9. ConjunctionsBibliographyInde
Aqua Regia
Author: Enrique Henri
Publisher: Grannys Books Publishing
ISBN: 0981861164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
U.S. Treasury Agent Enos Butler is quickly recognized as a man going to the top, a tough guy, dedicated to his career. A typical American couple, Frank and Jane Bullock live in a small New England coastal village, raising their son, Henry, and building a prosperous life together. On a bluff in Maine overlooking Penobscot Bay, the Bullock family drops into the lethal crosshairs of Agent Butler and from out of nowhere, he delivers a deadly KO. Aqua Regia details an incredible saga of crime and suspense; no quarter offered. Pack waders, joggers, KY and Kleenex. You will need them all.
Publisher: Grannys Books Publishing
ISBN: 0981861164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
U.S. Treasury Agent Enos Butler is quickly recognized as a man going to the top, a tough guy, dedicated to his career. A typical American couple, Frank and Jane Bullock live in a small New England coastal village, raising their son, Henry, and building a prosperous life together. On a bluff in Maine overlooking Penobscot Bay, the Bullock family drops into the lethal crosshairs of Agent Butler and from out of nowhere, he delivers a deadly KO. Aqua Regia details an incredible saga of crime and suspense; no quarter offered. Pack waders, joggers, KY and Kleenex. You will need them all.