Author: Howard S. OlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Phonology and Morphology of Rimi
Author: Howard S. OlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Phonology and Morphology of Rimi
Author: Howard Stanley OlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent
Author: Harry van der HulstPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110874261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models.
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Author: Norbert CyfferPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027289395
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent in our region: conflict or even incompatibility between negation and focus, use of other indirect means of negating non-indicative mood (covered under the term ‘Prohibitive’), different negation patterns in different Tense-Aspect-Moods (e.g. Imperfective vs. Perfective), lack of negative indefinites, and disjunctive negative marking (often referred to as ‘double negation’). The articles presented here show that areal factors have played a significant role in the development of negation strategies in the languages of West Africa and beyond. On the other hand genetic factors seem to be less prominent.
Africa's Endangered Languages
Author: Jason KandybowiczPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190256346
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This book examines the endangered languages of Africa from both documentary and theoretical perspectives, highlighting the threats of extinction many of them face and the challenges and implications each bring to bear on linguistic theory. It focuses on the symbiosis between documentary and theoretical methodologies, and its consequences for the preservation of endangered languages, both in the African context and more broadly.
The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
Author: Mary DalrymplePublisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961104247
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2192
Book Description
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.
Hartford Studies in Linguistics
Author: The Phonology of Tone
Author: Keith SniderPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110869373
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Language Contacts in Prehistory
Author: Henning AndersenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588113795
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy the systematic study of such layers may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.
Advances in African Linguistics
Author: Vicki CarstensPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437944
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.