A Grammar of Tawala
Author | : Bryan Ezard |
Publisher | : Pacific Linguistics |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bryan Ezard |
Publisher | : Pacific Linguistics |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bryan Ezard |
Publisher | : Pacific Linguistics |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bryan Ezard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Tavara language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Donohue |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110805545 |
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author | : Timothy Shopen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2007-10-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 113946728X |
This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each new concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Volume I covers parts-of-speech systems, word order, the noun phrase, clause types, speech act distinctions, the passive, and information packaging in the clause.
Author | : Darrell T. Tryon |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 3564 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110884011 |
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.
Author | : Stephen C. Levinson |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2022-06-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110733854 |
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities." Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Author | : Matthew Baerman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2005-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139445537 |
Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. The implications of syncretism for the syntax-morphology interface have long been recognised: it argues either for an enriched model of feature structure (thereby preserving a direct link between function and form), or for the independence of morphological structure from syntactic structure. This book presents a compelling argument for the autonomy of morphology and the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series of formal case studies within Network Morphology. It will be welcomed by all linguists interested in the relation between words and the larger units of which they are a part.
Author | : John Lynch |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0700711287 |
The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.
Author | : Terry Crowley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780198241355 |
Terry Crowley introduces the idea of serial verbs which are clauses that include multiple verbs or verb-like items that are used to convey a single meaning like wash the plates clean. The author argues that their formation is a consequence of contact between different languages.