A Grammar Of Xong

Author : Adam Sposato
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110764932

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A Grammar of Xong by Adam Sposato Pdf

Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong has approximately 900,000 speakers, the vast majority lives in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces in South-Central China. In particular, this description concentrates on several fully mutually intelligible Xong varieties spoken in Fenghuang County, located in the Hunan Province. In producing this work, the author primarily relies on the fieldwork data he collected over a period of ten months in Fenghuang County. He also made use of many of the previously published Chinese-language descriptions of Xong. The results are of use to scholars with an interest in the Miao-Yao family in particular or in the languages of East and Southeast Asia more in general.

Author : Kirill Babaev,Irina Samarina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004461086

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A Grammar of May by Kirill Babaev,Irina Samarina Pdf

Translated from the 2018 Russian language monograph by Babaev and Samarina, this the only grammar in English of any small Vietic (Austroasiatic) language; it describes and analyses May in remarkable detail.

Author : Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
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 : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Laurence C. Thompson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824811178

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A Vietnamese Reference Grammar by Laurence C. Thompson Pdf

"When Laurence Thompson's original Vietnamese Grammar first appeared in 1965, it went almost instantly to the top of the list of required reading for serious students of the Vietnamese language. It has stayed there ever since but, in recent years, the title has become almost impossible to find, either in bookstores or in libraries, where original copies have often grown woefully ragged and marked up or are now simply missing. In the meanwhile, the author has become aware of a number of minor infelicities and typographical errors requiring correction. Thus, both demand and scholarship have dictated this re-edition." -From the Editor's Note

Author : Chris Shei,Saihong Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000574500

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The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics by Chris Shei,Saihong Li Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia. Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages. Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

Author : C. J. F. S. Forbes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385446526

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Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Further India. A Fragment and Other Essays, the Literary Remains of the Late Capt. C.J.F.S. Forbes by C. J. F. S. Forbes Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : ONB:+Z229243909

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A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect by Joseph Edkins Pdf

Author : John Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Greek language
ISBN : BL:A0017606238

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A Grammar of the Greek Tongue by John Jones Pdf

Author : William Edward Jelf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Greek language
ISBN : CHI:095986974

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A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf Pdf

Author : John Snelling Popkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Greek language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081595179

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A Grammar of the Greek Language by John Snelling Popkin Pdf

Author : Thomas Latter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Burmese language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56687001

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A Grammar of the Language of Burmah by Thomas Latter Pdf

Author : Georg Benedikt Winer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7A9X

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A Grammar of the New Testament Diction by Georg Benedikt Winer Pdf

Author : John SMITH (Professor at Dartmouth College.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019422590

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A Grammar of the Greek Language; ... with the rules of contraction, and the syntax and prosody complete. To which is subjoined, an appendix by John SMITH (Professor at Dartmouth College.) Pdf

Author : A.T. Robertson
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research by A.T. Robertson Pdf

This classic reference work is organized as follows: Part I. Introduction Chapter I. New Material Chapter II. The Historical Method Chapter III. The Κοινη Chapter IV. The Place of the New Testament in the Κοινη Part II. Accidence Chapter V. Word-Formation Chapter VI. Orthography and Phonetics Chapter VII. The Declensions (Κλισεις) Chapter VIII. Conjugation of the Verb (Ῥημα) Part III. Syntax Chapter IX. The Meaning of Syntax (Συνταξις) Chapter X. The Sentence Chapter XI. The Cases (Πτωσεις) Chapter XII. Adverbs (Ἐπιρρηματα) Chapter XIII. Prepositions (Προθεσεις) Chapter XIV. Adjectives (Ἐπιθετα) Chapter XV. Pronouns (Ἀντωνυμιαι) Chapter XVI. The Article (Το Ἅρθρον) Chapter XVII. Voice (∆Ιαθεσις, Genus) Chapter XVIII. Tense (Χρονος) Chapter XIX. Mode (Ἔγκαισις) Chapter XX. Verbal Nouns (Ὀνοματα του Ῥηματος) Chapter XXI. Particles (Αι Παραθηκαι) Chapter XXII. Figures of Speech (Γοργιεια Σχηματα)