Download Full eBooks in PDF
A Comparative Study Of The Melanesian Island Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of A Comparative Study Of The Melanesian Island Languages book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107682023
This book, first published in 1928, is an exhaustive study of the languages of Melanesia and the attendant islands.
Author : Robert Henry Codrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Melanesian languages
ISBN : HARVARD:HWSIMI
Author : Robert Codrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Melanesian languages
ISBN : OCLC:475390163
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080877754
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution. Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. * Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes * Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics * Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose * Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage * Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia
Author : John Lynch,Malcolm Ross,Terry Crowley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700711284
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 : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804714509
Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.
Author : Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 3564 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110884012
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 A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110820775
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author : Terence Wesley-Smith,Michael P. Hamnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : UOM:39015079939560
Author : Anita Herle,Sandra Rouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521584612
Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.
Author : Mark Durie,Malcolm Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195066074
Historical reconstruction of languages relies on the comparative method, which itself depends on the notion of the regularity of change. The regularity of sound change is the famous Neogrammarian Hypothesis: "sound change takes place according to laws that admit no exception." The comparative method, however, is not restricted to the consideration of sound change, and neither is the assumption of regularity. Syntactic, morphological, and semantic change are all amenable in varying degrees, to comparative reconstruction, and each type of change is constrained in ways that enable the researcher to distinguish between regular and more irregular changes.This volume draws together studies by scholars engaged in historical reconstruction, all focussing on the subject of regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A wide range of languages are represented, including Chinese, Germanic, and Austronesian.
Author : Tom Dutton,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110883091
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015014738549
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 26924 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080547848
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Kay Owens,Glen Lean,Patricia Paraide,Charly Muke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319454832
This unique volume presents an ecocultural and embodied perspective on understanding numbers and their history in indigenous communities. The book focuses on research carried out in Papua New Guinea and Oceania, and will help educators understand humanity's use of numbers, and their development and change. The authors focus on indigenous mathematics education in the early years and shine light on the unique processes and number systems of non-European styled cultural classrooms. This new perspective for mathematics education challenges educators who have not heard about the history of number outside of Western traditions, and can help them develop a rich cultural competence in their own practice and a new vision of foundational number concepts such as large numbers, groups, and systems. Featured in this invaluable resource are some data and analyses that chief researcher Glendon Angove Lean collected while living in Papua New Guinea before his death in 1995. Among the topics covered: The diversity of counting system cycles, where they were established, and how they may have developed. A detailed exploration of number systems other than base 10 systems including: 2-cycle, 5-cycle, 4- and 6-cycle systems, and body-part tally systems. Research collected from major studies such as Geoff Smith's and Sue Holzknecht’s studies of Morobe Province's multiple counting systems, Charly Muke's study of counting in the Wahgi Valley in the Jiwaka Province, and Patricia Paraide's documentation of the number and measurement knowledge of her Tolai community. The implications of viewing early numeracy in the light of this book’s research, and ways of catering to diversity in mathematics education. In this volume Kay Owens draws on recent research from diverse fields such as linguistics and archaeology to present their exegesis on the history of number reaching back ten thousand years ago. Researchers and educators interested in the history of mathematical sciences will find History of Number: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania to be an invaluable resource.
