A Tsilhqút ín Grammar

Author : Eung-Do Cook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774845212

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A Tsilhqút’ín Grammar by Eung-Do Cook Pdf

Tsilhqút’ín, also known as Chilcotin, is a northern Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Chilco River (Tsilhqóx) in Interior British Columbia. Until now, the literature on Tsilhqút’ín contained very little description of the language. With forty-seven consonants and six vowels plus tone, the phonological system is notoriously complex. This book is the first comprehensive grammar of Tsilhqút’ín. It covers all aspects of linguistic structure – phonology, morphology, and syntax – including negation and questions. Also included are three annotated texts. The product of decades of work by linguist Eung-Do Cook, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing documentation of Athabaskan languages.

Author : Eung-Do Cook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780774825184

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A Tsilhqút’ín Grammar by Eung-Do Cook Pdf

Tsilhqút’ín, also known as Chilcotin, is a northern Athabaskan language spoken by the people of the Chilco River (Tsilhqóx) in Interior British Columbia. Until now, the literature on Tsilhqút’ín contained very little description of the language. With forty-seven consonants and six vowels plus tone, the phonological system is notoriously complex. This book is the first comprehensive grammar of Tsilhqút’ín. It covers all aspects of linguistic structure – phonology, morphology, and syntax – including negation and questions. Also included are three annotated texts. The product of decades of work by linguist Eung-Do Cook, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing documentation of Athabaskan languages.

Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496219213

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A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 by Olga Lovick Pdf

A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 provides a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of Upper Tanana, the book meticulously details a language that is currently fluently spoken by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages. With the goal of preserving a language no longer consistently taught to younger generations, Olga Lovick’s foundational study is framed within the traditional form of linguistic theory that allows linguists and nonspecialists alike to study a vulnerable language that exists outside the dominant Indo-European mainstream. This text provides a substantive bulwark to protect a language acutely threatened by near-term extinction. In its expansive detailing of the Upper Tanana language, this volume is methodologically oriented toward structural linguistics through approaches focusing on phonology, lexical classes, and morphology. With attention to both detail and thoroughness, Lovick’s comparative approach provides solid grounding for the future survival of the Upper Tanana language.

Author : Olga Lovick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781496233684

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A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2 by Olga Lovick Pdf

A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2 is part of a comprehensive two-volume text that linguistically renders a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of the Upper Tanana language, volume 2 meticulously details a language that is currently spoken, with fluency, by approximately fifty people in limited parts of Alaska’s eastern interior and Canada’s Yukon Territory. As part of the Dene (Athabascan) language group, Upper Tanana embodies elements of both the Alaskan and Canadian subgroups of Northern Dene. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of any of the Alaskan Dene languages. The grammar is written in the framework of basic linguistic theory in order to make it accessible to a wide variety of readers, including specialists in Dene languages, linguists interested in the structure of non-Indo-European languages, and teachers and learners of Upper Tanana and related languages.

Author : Daniel Siddiqi,Michael Barrie,Carrie Gillon,Jason Haugen,Eric Mathieu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351810272

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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages by Daniel Siddiqi,Michael Barrie,Carrie Gillon,Jason Haugen,Eric Mathieu Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.

Author : Heriberto Avelino,Matt Coler,Leo Wetzels
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004303218

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The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages by Heriberto Avelino,Matt Coler,Leo Wetzels Pdf

This book presents insights into laryngeal features. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, it investigates properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms, stress, and prosody in several indigenous languages of the Americas.

Author : Michael Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191506208

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The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis by Michael Fortescue,Marianne Mithun,Nicholas Evans Pdf

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.

Author : William Chauncey Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081988168

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English Grammar by William Chauncey Fowler Pdf

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613833328

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

Author : Marcelle Dray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English language
ISBN : 9653680692

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Grammar in Focus by Marcelle Dray Pdf

Author : J. B. Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0649010728

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A Vocabulary and Outlines of Grammar of the Nitlakapamuk Or Thompson Tongue, (the Indian Language Spoken Between Yale, Lillooet, Cache Creek and Nicola Lake), Together with a Phonetic Chinook Dictionary, Adapted for Use in the Province of British Columbia by J. B. Good Pdf

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874556039

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

Author : Sharon Hargus
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Wayne P. Suttles
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0774810025

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Musqueam Reference Grammar by Wayne P. Suttles Pdf

Here is the long-awaited grammar of the Musqueam dialect of Halkomelem, which Wayne Suttles began work on in the late 1950s. The Musqueam people's aboriginal territory includes much of the Fraser Delta and the city of Vancouver. Halkomelem is one of the twenty-three languages that belong to the Salish Family. Suttles, an anthropologist, worked with knowledgeable older people, eliciting traditional stories, personal narratives, and ethnographic accounts. The grammar covers the usual topics of phonology, morphology, and syntax, illustrated by numerous sentences selected for their cultural relevance, providing insight into traditional practices, social relations, and sense of humor. With information on kinship, space and time, names of people and places, and the history of work on Halkomelem, this is perhaps the fullest account of any Salish language.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107464889

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.