A Grammar Of Slave

Author : Keren Rice
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110861822

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A Grammar of Slave by Keren Rice 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 : Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,MaryAnn Willie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296900

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Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar by Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,MaryAnn Willie Pdf

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has highlighted the importance of incorporating the effects of discourse and information structure on the syntactic representation. This book aims to invoke Jelinek's work either in substance or spirit. The focus is on Jelinek's influential Pronominal Argument Hypothesis as an "non-configurational" language; the influence of discourse-related interface phenomena on syntactic structure; the syntactic analysis of the grammaticalization; interactions between morphology, phonology and phonetics; and foundational issues about the link between formal grammar and function of language, as well as the methodological issues underlying the different approaches to linguistics.

Author : Thomas Edward Payne,David Weber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722241X

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Perspectives on Grammar Writing by Thomas Edward Payne,David Weber Pdf

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Author : Sharon Hargus
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774841245

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Witsuwit'en Grammar by Sharon Hargus Pdf

Witsuwit'en is an endangered First Nations language spoken in western-central British Columbia. A member of the Athapaskan family of languages, the language had been known to have some intriguing characteristics of consonant-vowel interaction, the details of which have been in dispute among scholars. Witsuwit'en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit'en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress. Information about the sound system and word structure of Witsuwit'en is also provided, revealing many unusual features not previously described in this level of detail for an Athapaskan language. Witsuwit'en has elaborate morphology, even by the standards of the Athapaskan language family. Witsuwit'en Grammar will be of interest to anthropologists interested in the history of the Athapasakan language family, linguists interested in comparative Athapaskan grammar, or any linguist interested in phonetics-phonology or phonology-morphology interaction.

Author : Thórhallur Eythórsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291578

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Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory by Thórhallur Eythórsson Pdf

This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of ‘Grammaticalization Theory’. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and – more controversially – internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change ‘by itself.’ A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : English language
ISBN : WISC:89110086501

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A Grammar of the English Language by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0039041654

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A Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : Keren Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Athapascan languages
ISBN : OCLC:8328492

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A Preliminary Grammar of Fort Good Hope Slave by Keren Rice Pdf

Author : Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230263

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Causatives and Transitivity by Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky Pdf

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019882174

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A grammar of the English language, etc by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199756049

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The Linguistic Cycle by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

In this volume, Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590242711

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A grammar of the English language, in a series of letters. To which are added, six lessons by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590242718

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A grammar of the English language, in a series of letters. With an additional chapter by J.P.Cobbett by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107392809

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The Languages of Native North America by Marianne Mithun Pdf

This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.

Author : Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0231510314

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The British Slave Trade and Public Memory by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace Pdf

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol; novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth; a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; and a revival of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the history of the slave trade and its legacy. While Wallace focuses on Britain, her work also speaks to questions of how the United States and other nations remember inglorious chapters from their past.