Author: John Thayer JensenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780824881290
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Yapese Reference Grammar
Author: John Thayer JensenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780824881290
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Yapese Reference Grammar
Author: John Thayer JensenPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881281
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Yapese reference grammar is a comprehensive survey of the Yapese language. All important aspects of the language—phonology, morphology, and syntax—are discussed at both the phrase and sentence levels of structure. Useful features of the text are the extensive cross-referencing, a glossary of relevant linguistic terms, and an index. Though the book is aimed primarily at speakers of the language—both students and teachers—on the island of Yap, the text has been so organized as to be useful also to others interested in the language. Thus, the linguist, the scientist, and the general reader with an interest in language may profit from study of the text.
Woleaian Reference Grammar
Author: Ho-min SohnPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824882253
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A systematic presentation of the overall grammatical structure of Woleaian, spoken in the Caroline Islands. For those who want to learn the language and for linguists who are interested for theoretical purposes.
Identity Relations in Grammar
Author: Kuniya NasukawaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 161451898X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles. Beyond a great many analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These include: Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary, while in other contexts it must be avoided? What are the properties of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity (XX)? What structural notions of closeness or distance determine whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity? Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are such comparisons merely metaphorical? Indeed, can we define the notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine instances of some identity (avoidance) effect? If identity avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars of different languages seems to be subject to considerable variation?
Form and Function in Language Research
Author: Johannes HelmbrechtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110216132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective.
A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham
Author: Graham ThurgoodPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614518777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.
Comparative Austronesian Dictionary
Author: Darrell T. TryonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110884011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3564
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Prosodic Weight
Author: Kevin M. RyanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192550209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. The book demonstrates that while some systems treat weight as a simple (heavy vs. light) distinction, others treat it as a rich continuum of heaviness. Following an introduction to weight-sensitive systems in phonology, Kevin Ryan explores the range of phenomena that interact with prosodic weight. Chapters examine the analysis of scales in terms of prominence rather than moraic coercion; prosodic minimality in the context of larger prosodic constituents; syllable weight in metrics; and the relationship between prosodic end-weight and stress. Throughout, the analysis is based on a survey of weight systems both within and across the world's languages, which yields a number of valuable generalizations and points towards a universal theory of weight in human language.
Lingua et Linguistica 1.1
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect
Author: Robert I. BinnickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195381971
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.