Author: Jean Dominique HaumontéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : fr
Pages : 142
Book Description
Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue taensa, avec textes traduits et commentés, par J.-D. Haumonté, Parisot, L. Adam
Author: Langue taensaGrammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa avec textes traduits et commentés
Author: Jean Dominique HaumontéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : fr
Pages : 142
Book Description
Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
The Indian Linguistic Families of the United States
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027245990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes, travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
Indian Linguistic Families Of America
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026888626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes, travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these conditions the languages of the various tribes have received much study. Many extensive works have been published, embracing grammars and dictionaries; but a far greater number of minor vocabularies have been collected and very many have been published. In addition to these, the Bible, in whole or in part, and various religious books and school books, have been translated into Indian tongues to be used for purposes of instruction; and newspapers have been published in the Indian languages. Altogether the literature of these languages and that relating to them are of vast extent.
Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa
Author: Lucien Adambureau of ethnology
Author: j.w. powell Basic Word Order (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Author: Russell S TomlinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317933796
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization. From a database of nearly 1,000 languages and their basic constituent orders, a sample of 400 languages was produced that is statistically representative of both the genetic and areal distributions of the world’s languages. This sample reveals the following relative frequencies (in order from high to low) of basic constituent order types: (1) SOV and SVO, (2) VSO, (3) VOS and OVS, (4) OSV. It is argued that these relative frequencies can be explained to be the result of the possible interactions of three fundamental functional principles of linguistic organization. Principle 1, the thematic information principle, specifies that initial position is the cross-linguistically favoured position for clause-level thematic information. Principle 2, the verb-object bonding principle, describes the cross-linguistic tendency for a transitive verb and its object to form a more tightly integrated unit, syntactically and semantically, than does a transitive verb and its subject. Principle 3, the animated principle, describes the cross-linguistic tendency for semantic arguments which are either more animate or more agentive to occur earlier in the clause. Each principle is motivated independently of the others, drawing on cross-linguistic data from more than 80 genetically and typologically diverse languages. Given these three independently motivated functional principles, it is argued that the relative frequency of basic constituent order types is due to the tendency for the three principles to be maximally realized in the world’s languages. SOV and SVO languages are typologically most frequent because such basic orders reflect all three principles. The remaining orders occur less frequently because they reflect fewer of the principles. The 1,000-language database and the genetic and areal classification frames are published as appendices to the volume.
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Author: James MooneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Grammatical Gender
Author: Muhammad Hasan IbrahimPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110905396
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description