A Grammar Of Central Alaskan Yupik Cay

Author : Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110278576

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A Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY) by Osahito Miyaoka Pdf

The volume is a major grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY). It is the culmination of the author's linguistic studies done in Alaska and elsewhere since around 1960, with assistance of many native speakers. Central Alaskan Yupik is currently the most vigorous of the nineteen remaining Native Alaskan languages. Descriptive in nature, extensive and deep, this grammar is of typological and of ethnological/anthropological interest. Given the severely endangered state of the language, this much of descriptive linguistic material is without comparison in the field.

Author : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher : Utopia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1555000622

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A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Language by Steven A. Jacobson Pdf

Author : Steven A. Jacobson,Anna W. Jacobson
Publisher : Alaska Native Language Center
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1555000509

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A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Language by Steven A. Jacobson,Anna W. Jacobson Pdf

The native language of Eskimo people who live in the coastal and inland regions of the Lower Yukon, Kuskokwim, and Bristol Bay areas of Southwestern Alaska is presented in this grammar of Central Yup'ik. Written in a clear, concise, and readable style, this volume is not only a comprehensive textbook for students, but also a complete reference guide. It takes the student from beginning lessons to an advanced grammatical level. It is appropriate for the college and high school levels, and for self study.

Author : Michael Fortescue,Michael D. Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199683208

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The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis by Michael Fortescue,Michael D. Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans Pdf

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.

Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1297 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110731095

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Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages by Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels Pdf

This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).

Author : Marc-Antoine Mahieu,Nicole Tersis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206671

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Variations on Polysynthesis by Marc-Antoine Mahieu,Nicole Tersis Pdf

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the Eskaleut languages typologically in general linguistic terms, particularly with regard to polysynthesis. The degree of variation from more to less polysynthesis is evaluated within Eskaleut (Inuit-Yupik vs. Aleut), even in previously insufficiently explored domains such as pragmatics and use in context – including language contact and learning situations – and over typologically related language families such as Athabascan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Iroquoian, Uralic, and Wakashan.

Author : Roberto Zariquiey,Masayoshi Shibatani,David W. Fleck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262738

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Nominalization in Languages of the Americas by Roberto Zariquiey,Masayoshi Shibatani,David W. Fleck Pdf

Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been approached as foundational grammatical structures for constructions such as relative clauses and complement clauses. This is due to an imbalance in past scholarship, which has tended to focus on these constructions at the expense of the nominalization structures underlying them. The papers in this collection treat grammatical nominalizations in their own right, and as a starting point for the investigation of their uses in complex grammatical structures. A representative sample of Amerindian languages, with focus on South America, examines properties of grammatical nominalizations such as their multiple functions, their internal and external syntax, and their diachronic development. Among the far-reaching theoretical conclusions reached by the studies in this volume is that the various types of relative clauses recognized in the typological literature are actually no more than epiphenomena arising from the different uses of grammatical nominalizations.

Author : Carmen Dagostino,Marianne Mithun,Keren Rice
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110712742

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The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America by Carmen Dagostino,Marianne Mithun,Keren Rice Pdf

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Author : Nicholas Evans,Honoré Watanabe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266545

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Insubordination by Nicholas Evans,Honoré Watanabe Pdf

The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions, insubordinated clause phenomena turn out to be surprisingly widespread, and provide a vital empirical testing ground for various central theoretical issues in current linguistics – the interplay of langue and parole, the emergence of structure, the question of where productive syntactic rules give way to constructions, the role of prosody in language change, and the question of how far grammars are produced by isolated speakers as opposed to being collaboratively constructed in dialogue. This volume – the first book-length treatment on the topic – assembles studies of languages on all continents, by scholars who bring a range of approaches to bear on the topic, from historical linguistics to corpus studies to typology to conversational analysis.

Author : Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107159242

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Grammatical Voice by Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä Pdf

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

Author : Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103195

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Voice syncretism by Nicklas N. Bahrt Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.

Author : Ksenia Bogomolets,Professional Teaching Fellow School of Cultures Languages and Linguistics Ksenia Bogomolets,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198840589

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Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies by Ksenia Bogomolets,Professional Teaching Fellow School of Cultures Languages and Linguistics Ksenia Bogomolets,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The morphological complexity and phonological length that are characteristic of words in these languages make them a particularly fruitful ground for investigating the effects of both phonological and morphological factors in the assignment of prominence. The first three chapters in the volume explore general theoretical issues pertaining to word prominence in synthetic languages, including the issue of 'wordhood' and the empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues with delineating word-level prominence and the higher-level prosodic phenomena in these languages. These are followed by a series of case studies on stress, accent, and tone in a geographically and genetically diverse set of languages with highly synthetic morphologies including languages of the Americas, Europe and Asia, and Australia. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, combining phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic insights. It will be of interest not only to phonologists and morphologists, but to all those interested in the typological and theoretical issues relating to polysynthetic languages.

Author : Taro Kageyama,Wesley M. Jacobsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110475302

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Transitivity and Valency Alternations by Taro Kageyama,Wesley M. Jacobsen Pdf

This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.

Author : Edward Vajda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110556216

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The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia by Edward Vajda Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.

Author : Lars Hellan,Andrej Malchukov,Michela Cennamo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266095

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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency by Lars Hellan,Andrej Malchukov,Michela Cennamo Pdf

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects, ’null’ objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.