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Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004425606

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Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective by Anonim Pdf

This volume elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The eleven chapters reflect work by 13 leading researchers in Austroasiatic language studies.

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351967730

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Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Specifically, the contributors to this volume examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions and perceptions of speakers. These forms, often referred to expressives, remain relatively undocumented, until now. It is clear from the evidence on contextualized language use that the grammatically artistic usage of these forms enriches and enlivens both every day and ritualized genres of discourse. The contributors to this volume provide grammatical and sociolinguistic documentation through a typological introduction to the diversity of expressive forms in the languages of South Asia. This book is suitable for students and researchers in South Asian Languages, and language families of the following; Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic.

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004439153

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Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area by Anonim Pdf

This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies

Author : Ksenia Bogomolets,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192577047

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Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies by Ksenia Bogomolets,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The morphological complexity and phonological length that are characteristic of words in these languages make them a particularly fruitful ground for investigating the effects of both phonological and morphological factors in the assignment of prominence. The first three chapters in the volume explore general theoretical issues pertaining to word prominence in synthetic languages, including the issue of 'wordhood' and the empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues with delineating word-level prominence and the higher-level prosodic phenomena in these languages. These are followed by a series of case studies on stress, accent, and tone in a geographically and genetically diverse set of languages with highly synthetic morphologies including languages of the Americas, Europe and Asia, and Australia. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, combining phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic insights. It will be of interest not only to phonologists and morphologists, but to all those interested in the typological and theoretical issues relating to polysynthetic languages.

Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004448568

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Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This volume is a tribute to Professor Vovin’s research and a summary of the latest developments in his fields of expertise.

Word Order Variation

Author : Hiwa Asadpour,Thomas Jügel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110790368

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Word Order Variation by Hiwa Asadpour,Thomas Jügel Pdf

In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’. Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its contact-induced origin by combining various languages from inside and outside this contact area: the Greek variety Romeyka, Indic Domari, Iranic Balochi Kurdish, Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian and Sogdian, Nilotic Maa, Semitic Arabic and Aramaic, Sibiran and Iran-Turkic. The contributors investigate word order variation of transitive, ditransitive, and copula structures as well as intransitives with Targets. Their analyses highlight the relevance of grammatical, discourse-pragmatic, and cognitive principles. The volume highlights the importance of Target structures for linguistic theory by offering new perspectives and will be of interest to typologists and linguists interested in word order variation and information structure.

Perspectives on Historical Syntax

Author : Carlotta Viti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268938

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Perspectives on Historical Syntax by Carlotta Viti Pdf

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.

South Asian Languages

Author : Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521861489

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South Asian Languages by Kārumūri V. Subbārāo Pdf

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

Mainland Southeast Asian Languages

Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521765442

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Mainland Southeast Asian Languages by N. J. Enfield Pdf

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.

The Aesthetics of Grammar

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107007123

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The Aesthetics of Grammar by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

This book provides a detailed comparative overview of an array of elaborate grammatical resources used in Southeast Asian languages.

The Syntax of Imperatives

Author : Asier Alcázar,Mario Saltarelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107005808

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The Syntax of Imperatives by Asier Alcázar,Mario Saltarelli Pdf

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.

The Evolution of Grammar

Author : Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226086651

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The Evolution of Grammar by Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca Pdf

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.

Tone in Yongning~Na

Author : Alexis Michaud
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234869

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Tone in Yongning~Na by Alexis Michaud Pdf

Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of Yongning Na; they are not the product of a small set of phonological rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been reported in this area of Sino-Tibetan, but book-length descriptions remain few. This study of an endangered language contributes to a better understanding of the diversity of prosodic systems in East Asia. The analysis is based on original fieldwork data (made available online), collected over the course of ten years, commencing in 2006.

A Grammar of Anong

Author : hong kai Sun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004176867

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A Grammar of Anong by hong kai Sun Pdf

A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.