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Author : Roberto Zariquiey,Pilar M. Valenzuela
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192593726

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The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions by Roberto Zariquiey,Pilar M. Valenzuela Pdf

This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan. Expressions denoting parts of the body often exhibit specific grammatical properties that are intrinsically related to their semantics, and frequently appear in dedicated constructions, many of which are found exclusively in association with these expressions. Following a detailed introduction and discussion of the foundations of body-part grammar, the chapters in the first part of the book investigate categorialization, lexicalization, and the semantic processes associated with body-part expressions. In the second part of the book, contributors investigate specific grammatical properties of body-part expressions, such as inalienability, incorporation, possessive constructions, prefixation, topicality, and word-formation strategies. The volume draws on data from lesser-known languages that are often under-represented in comparative work, and makes a significant contribution not only to the linguistics of the Americas and the typology of body-part expressions, but also to typological studies more broadly, and to historical, comparative, and anthropological linguistics.

Author : Swintha Danielsen,Katja Hannss,Fernando Zúñiga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269669

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Word Formation in South American Languages by Swintha Danielsen,Katja Hannss,Fernando Zúñiga Pdf

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan, as well as language isolates, such as Yurakaré and Cholón, reflect the linguistic diversity of South America. Equally diverse are the topics addressed, relating to word formation processes like reduplication, nominal and verbal compounding, clitic compounding, and incorporation. The traditional notions of the processes are discussed critically with respect to their implementation in minor indigenous languages. The book is therefore not only of interest to readers with an Amerindian background but also to typologists and historical linguists, and it is a supplement to more theory-driven approaches to language and linguistics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004292772

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Taming the TAME Systems by Anonim Pdf

This volume on TAME systems (Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality) stems from the 10th Chronos conference that took place in Aston University (Birmingham, UK) on 18th-20th April 2011. The papers collated here are therefore a chosen selection from a stringent peer-review process. They also witness to the width and breadth of the interests pursued within the Chronos community. Besides the traditional Western European languages, this volume explores languages from Eastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Russian) and much further afield such as Brazilian Portuguese, Korean or Mandarin Chinese. Little known languages from the Amazonian forest (Amondawa, Baure) or the Andes (Aymara) also come under scrutiny.

Author : Aaron Tenbrook
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780741423986

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Peguscity by Aaron Tenbrook Pdf

Author : William B. McGregor,Søren Wichmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264138

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The Diachrony of Classification Systems by William B. McGregor,Søren Wichmann Pdf

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise, change, and dissipate in both natural circumstances and in circumstances of attrition. The role of diffusion in such processes is explored, as well as the question of what can be diffused. The volume is not restricted to nominal systems of classification, but also includes papers dealing with the less well-known phenomenon of verbal classification. Languages from a wide spread of world regions are examined, including Africa, Amazonia, Australia, Eurasia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica. The volume will be of interest to linguistic typologists, descriptive linguists, historical linguists, and grammaticalization theorists.

Author : Mark Donohue,Søren Wichmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199238385

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The Typology of Semantic Alignment by Mark Donohue,Søren Wichmann Pdf

Leading scholars explore the characteristics of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of languages with and without them, with special reference to Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, where semantically aligned languages are concentrated.

Author : Harry RedmanJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813195001

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The Roland Legend in Nineteenth Century French Literature by Harry RedmanJr. Pdf

The year was 778. Charlemagne, starting homeward after an expedition onto the Iberian Peninsula, left his nephew, Count Roland, in command of a rear guard. As Roland and his troops moved through the Pyrenees, a fierce enemy swooped down and annihilated them. Whether the attackers were Moors, Basques, Gascons, or Aquitainians is still disputed. The massacre soon passed into legend, preserved but at the same time expanded and interpreted in oral tradition and written accounts. Dormant after the late Middle Ages, the legend began to inspire literary works even before the discovery and publication of the Oxford manuscript Chanson de Roland in 1837. The French Revolution and Empire, temporarily relieving Roland of his religious aura, hailed him as a patriot belaboring his country's foes. The Romantics made him either a dauntless, irrepressible extrovert or a noble victim struck down while making the world a better place. As the twentieth century dawned, a few authors scoffed at hero worship but others held up Roland as a heroic example that might help his countrymen live with the humiliation of their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and then, as World War I approached, retake their lost territories. Fascinating as the Roland legend is in itself, no one has looked into the nonacademic French literature to which it has given rise in modern times. Harry Redman now shows how writers, with varying outlooks and approaches and divergent purposes, drew upon the legend from 1777 to the end of World War I. A monumental enterprise based on primary research, the book is of extraordinary value to scholars interested in the Old French epic and to all those concerned with more recent literary periods.

Author : Rik van Gijn,Katharina Haude,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287090

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Subordination in Native South American Languages by Rik van Gijn,Katharina Haude,Pieter Muysken Pdf

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015160349

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Dress & Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Becker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110724424

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Articles in the World’s Languages by Laura Becker Pdf

This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclusive-specific, nonspecific, inclusive-specific, and referential articles. All 10 types are described in detail with examples from various languages of the world. The book also addresses crosslinguistic trends concerning the distribution and the development of different article types, and it proposes a typology of article systems. The aim of this study is to provide a general crosslinguistic overview concerning the attested properties and distributions of articles. It is geared towards readers with interests in language typology and the nominal domain, and it can serve as a point of reference for language-specific studies of articles or determiners.

Author : Lena Terhart
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104352

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A grammar of Paunaka by Lena Terhart Pdf

This book offers the first detailed grammatical description of Paunaka, an Arawakan language spoken (in 2023) by eight people in the Chiquitania region in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia. The grammar builds on material collected during several fieldwork trips between 2009 and 2020 by the team of the Paunaka Documentation Project, which was funded by the ELDP from 2011–2013. This material includes roughly 120 hours of audio and video recordings, which have been archived at ELAR. In 2022, the dissertation on which this book is based received the annual Research Award at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The grammar provides a description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Paunaka, including numerous comparative remarks to closely related languages. It includes over 1500 examples, most of them accompanied by a brief description of their original linguistic or extralinguistic context.

Author : Gregory Stump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107088832

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Inflectional Paradigms by Gregory Stump Pdf

This book explains inflectional paradigms' role as the grammatical nexus at which mismatches between words' content and form are resolved.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 081611840X

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Encyclopedia of World Cultures by David Levinson Pdf

Author : Michael Ezban
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315404776

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Aquaculture Landscapes by Michael Ezban Pdf

Aquaculture Landscapes explores the landscape architecture of farms, reefs, parks, and cities that are designed to entwine the lives of fish and humans. In the twenty-first century, aquaculture’s contribution to the supply of fish for human consumption exceeds that of wild-caught fish for the first time in history. Aquaculture has emerged as the fastest growing food production sector in the world, but aquaculture has agency beyond simply converting fish to food. Aquaculture Landscapes recovers aquaculture as a practice with a deep history of constructing extraordinary landscapes. These landscapes are characterized and enriched by multispecies interdependency, performative ecologies, collaborative practices, and aesthetic experiences between humans and fish. Aquaculture Landscapes presents over thirty contemporary and historical landscapes, spanning six continents, with incisive diagrams and vivid photographs. Within this expansive scope is a focus on urban aquaculture projects by leading designers—including Turenscape, James Corner Field Operations, and SCAPE—that employ mutually beneficial strategies for fish and humans to address urban coastal resiliency, wastewater management, and other contemporary urban challenges. Michael Ezban delivers a compelling account of the coalitions of fish and humans that shape the form, function, and identity of cities, and he offers a forward-thinking theorization of landscape as the preeminent medium for the design of ichthyological urbanism in the Anthropocene. With over two hundred evocative images, including ninety original drawings by the author, Aquaculture Landscapes is a richly illustrated portrayal of aquaculture seen through the disciplinary lens of landscape architecture. As the first book devoted to this topic, Aquaculture Landscapes is an original and essential resource for landscape architects, urbanists, animal geographers, aquaculturists, and all who seek and value multispecies cohabitation of a shared public realm.

Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313368790

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The Indians of Central and South America by James S. Olson Pdf

At a juncture in history when much interest and attention is focused on Central and South American political, ecological, social, and environmental concerns, this dictionary fills a major gap in reference materials relating to Amerindian tribes. This one-volume reference collects important information about the current status of the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and offers a chronology of the conquest of the Amerindian tribes; a list of tribes by country; and an extensive bibliography of surviving American Indian groups. Historical as well as contemporary descriptions of approximately 500 existing tribes or groups of people are provided along with several bibliographic citations at the conclusion of each entry. The focus of the volume is on those Indian groups that still maintain a sense of tribal identity. For the vast majority of his entries, James S. Olson draws material from the Smithsonian Institution's seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians as well as other classic resources of a broad, general nature. Much attention is also focused on the complicated question of South American languages and on the definition of what constitutes an Indian. Olson's introduction cites dozens of valuable reference works relating to these topics. Following the introduction, this survey of surviving Amerindians is divided into sections that contain entries for each existing tribe or group; an appendix listing tribes by country; the Amerindian conquest chronology; and a bibliographical essay. This unique reference work should be an important item for most public, college, and university libraries. It will be welcomed by reference librarians, historians, anthropologists, and their students.