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Author: Julie Barbour Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 311028961X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 502
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Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.
Author: Julie Barbour Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 311028961X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 502
Book Description
Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521826648 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 744
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A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
Author: Jeroen Wiedenhof Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027267758 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 504
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A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough account of Mandarin speech sounds. Nine core chapters explore syntactic, morphological and lexical dimensions. A final chapter traces the Chinese character script from oracle-bone inscriptions to today’s digital pens. This work will cater to language learners and linguistic specialists alike. Easy reference is provided by more than eighty tables, figures, appendices, and a glossary. The main text is enriched by sections in finer print, offering further analysis and reflection. Example sentences are fully glossed, translated, and explained from diverse angles, with a keen eye for recent linguistic change. This grammar, in short, reveals a Mandarin language in full swing.
Author: Richard M. Coe Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 0809314207 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 144
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Richard M. Coe has developed such a “grammar,” one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen’s generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively analyzes the logical relations between statements by mapping coordinate, subordinate, and superordinate relationships. Coe demonstrates the power of his discourse matrix by applying it to a variety of significant problems, such as how to demonstrate discourse differences between cultures (especially between Chinese and English), how to explain precisely what is “bad” about the structure of passages that do not work, and how best to teach structure. This new view of the structure of passages helps to articulate crucial questions about the relations between form and function, language, thought and culture, cognitive and social processes.
Author: Elizabeth Pearce Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 1614516596 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 616
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The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings. The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed.
Author: Anvita Abbi Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004246126 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 331
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A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present.
Author: Philippe Maurer-Cecchini Publisher: Language Science Press ISBN: 3961103186 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 540
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This book is the first descriptive grammar of Tuatschin, a Sursilvan Romansh dialect spoken by approximately 800 people in the westernmost part of the Romansh territory, in the canton of Grisons in southeastern Switzerland. The description is mainly based on narratives and elicitation, collected during fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020. Besides the grammatical description, it also offers a variety of narratives produced by female and male native speakers between thirty and eighty years of age.
Author: Julie Barbour
Author: Julie Barbour
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
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Author: Felix Carey
Author: Jeroen Wiedenhof
Author: Richard M. Coe
Author: Louis F. Klipstein
Author: Elizabeth Pearce
Author: Anvita Abbi
Author: Philippe Maurer-Cecchini