Austronesian Root Theory

Author : R. A. Blust
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027230201

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Austronesian Root Theory by R. A. Blust Pdf

Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the 'root' has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort to reassess the value of his work for contemporary linguistics the author examines Brandstetter's methods and results, and applies a modified from of this approach to new material. The study establishes 230 roots based on more than 2,560 root tokens in some 117 languages. It is thus intended to serve as a rudimentary root dictionary and a basic handbook on the subject of the root for future scholars of Austronesian.

Author : Robert Blust
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110781779

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A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes) by Robert Blust Pdf

This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC. It fills a critical gap in scholarship on these languages by bringing together a large body of data in one place, and by discussing some of the theoretical issues that arise in analyzing this data. Following an introduction which presents the topic, it includes a critical review of the relevant literature over the past century, and discussions of the following: 1. problems in finding the root (the "needle in the haystack" problem), 2. root ambiguity, 3. controls on chance as an interfering factor, 4. unrecognized morphology as a possible factor in duplicating evidence, 5. the shape/structure of the root, 6. referents of roots, 7. the origin of roots, 8. the problem of distinguishing false cognates produced by convergence in root-bearing morphemes from legitimate comparisons resulting from divergent descent, and 9. the problem of explaining how submorphemes are transmitted across generations of speakers independently of the morphemes that host them. The remainder of the book consists of a list of sources for the 197 languages from which data is drawn, followed by the roots with supporting evidence, a short appendix, and references.

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111053370

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Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

Author : Philip Baldi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886092

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Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology by Philip Baldi Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : E. M. Kempler Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015052052522

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Fundaments of Austronesian Roots and Etymology by E. M. Kempler Cohen Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul G. POTET
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780244788223

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FILIPINIANA BIBLIOGRAPHY by Jean-Paul G. POTET Pdf

This book is the list of printed documents I have collected about the Philippines in general and the Tagalog language in particular. The entries are followed by an index of the themes involved.

Author : K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700712861

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The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar by K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann Pdf

An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.

Author : Malcolm Ross,Andrew Pawley,Meredith Osmond
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781921313196

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The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic by Malcolm Ross,Andrew Pawley,Meredith Osmond Pdf

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723082X

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Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood Pdf

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the determination of meaning in typological studies; a refined understanding of diachronic processes by including intentional, social, statistical, and level-determined phenomena; the reconsideration of categories such as sentence, evidential or adposition, and structures such as compounds or polysynthesis; the tension between formal simplicity and functional clarity; the inclusion of unusual systems in theoretical debates; and fresh approaches to Chinese classifiers, possession in Oceanic languages, and English aspect. This is a careful selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the Symposium was to confront fundamental issues in language structure and change with the rich variation of forms and functions observed across languages.

Author : Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194210

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History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband by Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh Pdf

Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.

Author : Richard McGinn
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X001318171

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Studies in Austronesian Linguistics by Richard McGinn Pdf

This volume consists of seventeen articles by scholars including Robert Blust, Paul Hopper, A. L. Becker, Sarah Bell, J. C. Catford, Talmy Givon, J. W. M. Verharr and John U. Wolff. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Chamorro, Malay, Old Malay, Javanese, Old Javanese, Indonesian, Niasese, Loniu, and Niuean are some of the languages discussed in the study. The essays explore the issues of ergativity in Western Austronesian languages, historical morphology, phonology, phonetics and morphophonemics. Book jacket.

Author : Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261288

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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz Pdf

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

Author : Trask R. L. Trask
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781474473316

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Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Trask R. L. Trask Pdf

Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms only introduced recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast language families, and the attempts at relating the results of the historical linguists to those of the archaeologists, the anthropologists and the geneticists.More than just a dictionary, this book provides genuine linguistic examples of most of the terms entered, detailed explanations of fundamental concepts, critical assessment of controversial ideas, cross-references to related terms, and an abundance of references to the original literature.Features:*The first dictionary in the field.*Comprehensive coverage.*Clearly written and accurate entries.*Covers traditional and contemporary terminology.*Provides linguistic examples of terms defined.*Supplies numerous cross-references to related terms.*Includes hundreds of references to the original literature.

Author : Philip Baldi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110871890

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Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns by Philip Baldi Pdf

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429000263

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Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction with Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis by Juliette Blevins Pdf

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics. Building on a long tradition of Basque scholarship, the comparative method and internal reconstruction, informed by the phonetic bases of sound change and phonological typology, are used to explain previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in Basque sound patterns, resulting in a radically new view of the proto-language. The comparative method is then used to compare this new Proto-Basque with Proto-Indo-European, revealing regular sound correspondences in basic vocabulary and grammatical formatives. Evaluation of these results supports a distant genetic relationship between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European, and offers new insights into specific linguistic properties of these two ancient languages. This comprehensive volume, which includes a detailed appendix including Proto-Basque/Proto-Indo-European cognate sets, will be of general interest to linguists, archeologists, historians, and geneticists, and of particular interest to scholars in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, language change, and Basque and Indo-European studies.