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A Grammar of Teiwa

Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer,Marian Klamer
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Author : Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer,Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226065

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A Grammar of Teiwa by Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer,Marian Klamer Pdf

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in estern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and world lists (Teiwa-English/English-Teiwa) are included

A Grammar of Teiwa

Marian Klamer
A Grammar of Teiwa Book PDF

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3111741257

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A Grammar of Teiwa by Marian Klamer Pdf

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, they are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included.

A Grammar of Teiwa

Marian Klamer
A Grammar of Teiwa Book PDF

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226072

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A Grammar of Teiwa by Marian Klamer Pdf

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other, as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar languages are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. A grammar of Teiwa presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The book is structured as a reference grammar: after a general introduction on the language, it speakers and the linguistic situation on Alor and Pantar, the grammar builds up from a description of the language's phonology and word classes to its larger grammatical constituents and their mutual relations: nominal phrases, serial verb constructions, clauses, clause combinations, and information structure. While many Papuan languages are morphologically complex, Teiwa is almost analytic: it has only one paradigm of object marking prefixes, and one verbal suffix marking realis status. Other typologically interesting features of the language include: (i) the presence of uvular fricatives and stops, which is atypical for languages of eastern Indonesia; (ii) the absence of trivalent verbs: transitive verbs select a single (animate or inanimate) object, while the additional participant is expressed with a separate predicate; and (iii) the absence of morpho-syntactically encoded embedded clauses. A grammar of Teiwa is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included.

A grammar of Kalamang

Eline Visser
A grammar of Kalamang Book PDF

Author : Eline Visser
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103430

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A grammar of Kalamang by Eline Visser Pdf

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.

A Grammar of Makary Kotoko

Sean Allison
A Grammar of Makary Kotoko Book PDF

Author : Sean Allison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004422674

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A Grammar of Makary Kotoko by Sean Allison Pdf

In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.

A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD

Dongqi Li
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Author : Dongqi Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area

Bill Palmer
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Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110567267

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The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area by Bill Palmer Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.

The Alor-Pantar languages

Marian Klamer
The Alor Pantar languages Book PDF

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675480

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The Alor-Pantar languages by Marian Klamer Pdf

The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region.

Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages

Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
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Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110730951

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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).

Studies in Ditransitive Constructions

Andrej Malchukov,Martin Haspelmath,Bernard Comrie
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Author : Andrej Malchukov,Martin Haspelmath,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220377

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Studies in Ditransitive Constructions by Andrej Malchukov,Martin Haspelmath,Bernard Comrie Pdf

This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.

An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems

Ranko Matasović
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Author : Ranko Matasović
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108420976

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An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems by Ranko Matasović Pdf

The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Alessandra Barotto,Simone Mattiola
Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective Book PDF

Author : Alessandra Barotto,Simone Mattiola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254887

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Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective by Alessandra Barotto,Simone Mattiola Pdf

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap, by integrating different linguistic subfields, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, and typology. The contributions, both theoretically and empirically oriented, focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers, to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.

Number – Constructions and Semantics

Anne Storch,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Number Constructions and Semantics Book PDF

Author : Anne Storch,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270634

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Number – Constructions and Semantics by Anne Storch,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.

The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes

Eva van Lier
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Author : Eva van Lier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198852889

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The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes by Eva van Lier Pdf

This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

Pieter Muysken
From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics Book PDF

Author : Pieter Muysken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291363

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From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics by Pieter Muysken Pdf

From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the Guapore-Mamore (Amazon) regions have never before been studied in an areal perspective, and yet other areas are involved in current debates. The insight has gained ground that languages owe many of their characteristics to the languages they are in contact with over time. Yet the nature of these areal influences remains a matter of debate. Furthermore, areas are often hard to define. Hence the title: a shift from linguistic areas as concrete and circumscribed objects to a new way of doing linguistics: areally. New findings include the observation that there may be many more language areas than previously recognized. The book is primarily directed at linguists working in descriptive, comparative, historical and typological linguistics. Since it covers linguistic areas from four continents, it will have a wide appeal.