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Author : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher : Utopia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1555000622
Author : Steven A. Jacobson,Anna W. Jacobson
Publisher : Alaska Native Language Center
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1555000509
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 : Steven A. Jacobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015051783929
A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.
Author : Terryl Miller
Publisher : World Friendship Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Central Yupik language
ISBN : 1880769069
Author : Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110278576
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 : Marc-Antoine Mahieu,Nicole Tersis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206671
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 : Michael D. Fortescue,Steven A. Jacobson,Lawrence D. Kaplan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1555001092
"Compares cognates found in the modern Eskimo languages ranging from northeastern Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. Includes five Inuit dialect groups, the four Yupik languages, and Sirenikski. Aleut cognates are added when available"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107392809
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 : Irene Reed,Alaska Native Language Center
Publisher : [Fairbanks] : Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Eskimo languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106011332662
Linguistic analysis of the western Eskimo language.
Author : Edward Vajda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110554069
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 : Andrej Malchukov,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110429343
Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.
Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803269125
The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup?ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup?ik People documents their qanruyutet (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history, these distinctive wise words have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and even with non-Natives. Yup?ik elders have chosen to share these wise words during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 for instrumental reasons?because of their continued relevance and power to change lives. ø The Calista Elders Council, which represents some thirteen hundred Yup'ik elders, recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. In describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation??We talk to you because we love you??elders not only educate Yup?ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us. ø Wise Words of the Yup?ik People will serve as a valuable resource for the Yup'ik people and those who wish to learn more about their lives and values.
Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110731095
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 : Roberto Zariquiey,Masayoshi Shibatani,David W. Fleck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262738
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 : David Lockwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441162564
This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenomena in different languages. The book covers every aspect of syntax from the basics to more specialised topics, such as clitics which have grammatical importance but cannot be used in isolation, and negation, in which a construction contradicts the meaning of a sentence. The approach taken combines concepts from different theoretical schools, which view syntax differently. These include M. A. K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, the stratificational school advocated by Sydney Lamb, and Kenneth L. Pike's tagmemic model. The emphasis of the book is on syntactic structures rather than linguistic meaning, and the book stresses the difference between a well-formed sentence and a meaningful one. The final chapter brings these two aspects together, to show the connections between syntax and semology. Each chapter concludes with exercises from a diverse range of languages and a list of major technical terms. The book also includes a glossary as an essential resource for students approaching this difficult subject for the first time.