Author: Ramón Arzápalo MarínPublisher: UNAM
ISBN: 9789683633125
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 604
Book Description
Vitalidad e influencia de las lenguas indígenas en Latinoamérica
Author: Ramón Arzápalo MarínPublisher: UNAM
ISBN: 9789683633125
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 604
Book Description
Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Author: Stephen C. LevinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424287
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.
The Mayan Languages
Author: Judith AissenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351754793
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This unique resource is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mayan languages and linguistics. Written by a team of experts in the field, The Mayan Languages presents in-depth accounts of the linguistic features that characterize the thirty-one languages of the family, their historical evolution, and the social context in which they are spoken. The Mayan Languages: provides detailed grammatical sketches of approximately a third of the Mayan languages, representing most of the branches of the family; includes a section on the historical development of the family, as well as an entirely new sketch of the grammar of "Classic Maya" as represented in the hieroglyphic script; provides detailed state-of-the-art discussions of the principal advances in grammatical analysis of Mayan languages; includes ample discussion of the use of the languages in social, conversational, and poetic contexts. Consisting of topical chapters on the history, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse structure, and acquisition of the Mayan languages, this book will be a resource for researchers and other readers with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition, and linguistic typology.
Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II
Author: Francesca Di Garbo Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961101809
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. This volume is preceded by volume one, which, in addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya
Author: Elisabeth VerhoevenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027292574
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.
Haciendo Linguistica
Author: Mercedes SedanoPublisher: Fondo Editorial Humanidades
ISBN: 9789800023068
Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 868
Book Description
"El título del libro recoge de manera muy acertada el espíritu de la obra, la cual reúne un conjunto de artículos que reflejan el quehacer lingüístico de sus autores. El volumen cubre los más variados aspectos del estudio del lenguaje a través de sus cinco secciones: Fonética, fonología y entonación; Gramática; Léxico y semántica; Discurso y pragmática; Historia, sociedad, teoría y metodología."--Page 4 of cover.
Latin American Indian Literatures Journal
Author: Convergencia e individualidad
Author: The Grammar of Time Reference in Yukatek Maya
Author: Jürgen BohnemeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropological linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Author: