A Grammar Of Lango

Author : Michael Noonan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110850512

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A Grammar of Lango by Michael Noonan Pdf

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 : B. Carollo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8830793035

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Practical Lango Grammar by B. Carollo Pdf

Author : Donald Mark Omong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9970997009

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Lango-English Dictionary by Donald Mark Omong Pdf

Leb Lango is spoken by millions of Lango people who are geographically located in central Uganda, and politically located in northern Uganda. It can be traced back to, the languages spoken by their, Ateker and Galla/Oromo ancestors of Ethiopia during, BCE and Medieval Era before they finally arrived at Otuke Hills (Got Otuke) in Uganda. The language has since absorbed vocabulary from a huge number of sources which has seen a significant change to its orthography, grammar, and pronunciation. Currently, the language consists of a blend of many sources and what was originally leb lango. Most of the vocabulary in this dictionary is based on the modern day lango language which was compiled between 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century.

Author : Jack Herbert DRIBERG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Lango (African people)
ISBN : OCLC:559815743

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The Lango. A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda ... Illustrated. [With a Grammar and Vocabularies.]. by Jack Herbert DRIBERG Pdf

Author : Hiroyuki Ura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195118391

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Checking Theory and Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar by Hiroyuki Ura Pdf

Ura's theory of multiple feature-checking develops the basic idea in original and highly productive ways, providing persuasive answers to difficult questions that arise in widely-ranging languages, and opening up new and challenging problems. It is an impressive achievement, which merits careful study, according to Noam Chomsky.

Author : Jens Fleischhauer,Claudius Patrick Kihara
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110795295

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African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective by Jens Fleischhauer,Claudius Patrick Kihara Pdf

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.

Author : Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110161877

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Kambera by Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer Pdf

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Author : Dongqi Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811988219

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A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD by Dongqi Li Pdf

The grammatical category of (sentence) mood has been of central interest to many branches of linguistics, including linguistic typology and systemic functional linguistics. This book is a successful integration of the typological and systemic functional approaches to mood, aiming to investigate the commonalities and variations across languages in both mood system and mood structure. To this aim, it establishes a geographically, genetically and typologically representative sample of 60 languages and provides detailed systemic functional descriptions of the mood system and mood structure of these languages. Based on such descriptions, it makes cross-linguistic comparisons of the mood system and mood structure of the languages in the sample. Structurally, it explores the cross-linguistic commonalities and variations in (i) the realizations of some major functional elements in mood structure, (ii) the realizations of mood options and (iii) the realizations of mood system. Systemically, it investigates how languages resemble and vary from each other in (i) the subtypes of major mood types, (ii) the organization of mood system and (iii) the semantic dimensions along which mood system is elaborated further in delicacy. Moreover, building on the descriptions and comparisons, it makes some generalizations about the structural and systemic features of mood and proposes some tentative explanations for the commonalities and variations languages display in mood system and mood structure. This book is an empirical and holistic approach to the typology of mood and contributes to a deeper understanding of the grammatical category. It is of special interest to systemic functional linguists, typologists, grammarians and descriptive linguists.

Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521588057

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Describing Morphosyntax by Thomas E. Payne Pdf

Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.

Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110363685

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Syntax - Theory and Analysis by Tibor Kiss Pdf

The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analysis, also dealing with the methodology employed, and the rules of argumentation required to achieve such analyses for a wide range of phenomena.

Author : Shobhana L. Chelliah,Willem J. de Reuse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048190263

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Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork by Shobhana L. Chelliah,Willem J. de Reuse Pdf

The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than a twenty active fieldwork researchers, this handbook provides an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and surveys past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world. The discussion of the ethical dimensions of fieldwork, as well as what constitutes the “typical” linguistic fieldwork setting or consultant is explored from multiple perspectives relevant to fieldwork on every continent. Included is information omitted in most other texts on the subject such as the collection, representation, management, and methods of extracting grammatical information from discourse and conversational data as well as the relationship between questionnaire-based elicitation, text-based elicitation, and philology, and the need for combinations of these methods. The book is useful before, during and after linguistic field trips since it provides extensive practical macro and micro organization and planning fieldwork tips as well as a handy sketch of major typological features for use in linguistic analysis. Comprehensive references are provided at the end of each chapter as resources relevant to the reader's particular interests.

Author : Bernd Heine,Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of African Studies Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva,Professor of English Linguistics Tania Kuteva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199227761

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The Genesis of Grammar by Bernd Heine,Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of African Studies Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva,Professor of English Linguistics Tania Kuteva Pdf

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African languages
ISBN : UVA:X006174323

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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Regina Pustet
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191555305

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Copulas by Regina Pustet Pdf

Copulas (in English, the verb to be) are conventionally defined functionally as a means of relating elements of clause structure, especially subject and complement, and considered to be semantically empty or meaningless.They have received relatively little attention from linguists. Dr Pustet in this extensive cross-linguistic study goes some way towards correcting this neglect. In doing so she takes issue with both accepted definition and description. She presents an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 160 languages drawn from the language families of the world. She shows that some languages have a single copula, others several, and some none at all. In a series of statistical analyses she seeks to explain why by linking the distribution of copulas to variations in lexical categorization and syntactic structure. She concludes by advancing a comprehensive theory of copularization which she relates to language classification and to theories of language change, notably grammaticalization.

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004207684

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Language at Large by Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon Pdf

The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.