Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Chad
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015128940
Chadic Newsletter
Anonim
Chadic Newsletter
Chadic Newsletter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Chadic Newsletter book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Barayin Morphosyntax
Joseph Lovestrand
Author : Joseph Lovestrand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198851158
Barayin Morphosyntax by Joseph Lovestrand Pdf
This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verb phrases, and serial verb constructions. The version of LFG adopted here includes two recent innovations: the first is minimal c-structure, which results in simpler phrase structure representations; the second is the assumption that glue semantics accounts for argument selection, rejecting the need for a level of a-structure or for Completeness and Coherence in f-structure. Argument sharing in serial verb constructions can thus be modeled in a connected s-structure. This method of modeling semantic composition in complex predicates is extended to directional and associated motion complex predicates in Choctaw and Wambaya, removing the need to appeal to a special mechanism to unite semantic forms in such constructions.
Language Death and Language Maintenance
Mark Janse,Sijmen Tol
Author : Mark Janse,Sijmen Tol
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275295
Language Death and Language Maintenance by Mark Janse,Sijmen Tol Pdf
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world’s linguistic diversity.
Undescribed and Endangered Languages
Amedeo De Dominicis
Author : Amedeo De Dominicis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443809283
Undescribed and Endangered Languages by Amedeo De Dominicis Pdf
The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena). It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent works.
Historical Dictionary of Chad
Mario J. Azevedo,Samuel Decalo
Author : Mario J. Azevedo,Samuel Decalo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538114377
Historical Dictionary of Chad by Mario J. Azevedo,Samuel Decalo Pdf
Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where and nut cultivation and harvesting is possible; and an endowed southern tropical zone where the forest and the savanna meet, blessed by several long-running rivers, most notably, the Logone and the Chari that empty their waters into centuries-old Lake Chad. Even though things in Chad seem to have improved during the past 10 years, most observers agree that the path to peace, reconstruction, and economic progress is still long and arduous. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chad.
A Grammar of Mina
Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Eric Johnston
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Eric Johnston
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110893908
A Grammar of Mina by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Eric Johnston Pdf
A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The outstanding characteristics of Mina include: vowel harmony; use of phonological means, including vowel deletion and vowel retention, to code phrasal boundaries; two tense and aspectual systems, each system carrying a different pragmatic function; a lexical category ‘locative predicator’ hitherto not observed in other languages; some tense, aspect, and mood markers that occur before the verb, and others that occur after the verb; the markers of interrogative and negative modality that occur in clause-final position; the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in the subject function that differs from the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in all other functions.In addition to the coding of argument structure, adjuncts, tense, aspect, and mood categories, Mina also codes the category point-of-view. The language has a clausal category ‘comment clause’ used in both simple and complex sentences, which overtly marks the speaker’s comment on the proposition. The discourse structure has the principle of unity of place. If one of the participants in a described event changes scene, that is coded by a special syntactic construction in addition to any verb of movement that may be used. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the Grammar of Mina will be of interest to a wide range of linguists.
News from the past: Progress in African archaeobotany
Ursula Thanheiser
Author : Ursula Thanheiser
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789492444028
News from the past: Progress in African archaeobotany by Ursula Thanheiser Pdf
Most of the contributions in this volume were presented at the seventh International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA), held in Vienna, 2-5 July 2012. They address past interrelationships between people and plants as evident in the rich archaeobotanical, ethnographic, and linguistic record of Africa. Since its inception two decades ago, IWAA has developed into a tightly knit community of scholars from all continents who share a profound interest in African ways of plant exploitation, trade networks, questions of origin, domestication and subsequent dispersal of African crops, as well as the introduction of crops of Asian and American origin.
A Grammar of Hdi
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110885798
A Grammar of Hdi by Zygmunt Frajzyngier Pdf
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Paideuma Bd.52 / Jahrgang 2006
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : W. Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3170193171
Paideuma Bd.52 / Jahrgang 2006 by Anonim Pdf
Aspects of the Morphology-syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages
Gerald Heusing
Author : Gerald Heusing
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 3825839176
Aspects of the Morphology-syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages by Gerald Heusing Pdf
This study seeks to blend the rigorous description of four Nigerian languages with theoretical insights. Four main tasks are involved. First, constructions involving the interface of morphology and syntax in the four languages are presented with regard to the syntax of substantives and functional categories, the morphology of functional heads and the relation between functional heads and the syntactic level of language. Secondly, these constructions are described and analysed within the framework of the Principles and Parameters Theory. Thirdly, those theoretical approaches within the Principles and Parameters Theory that can serve as tools for the analysis of the four languages are refined and modified, thereby establishing a version of the theory which may also serve for the morpho-syntactic analysis of related languages. Finally the syntactic model of functional categories is combined with a strictly morpho-semantic model of functional categories.
Studies in Hausa
Graham Furniss,Philip J. Jaggar
Author : Graham Furniss,Philip J. Jaggar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317406167
Studies in Hausa by Graham Furniss,Philip J. Jaggar Pdf
First published in 1988, this book is a landmark in the study of one of the major African languages: Hausa. Hausa is spoken by 40-50 million people, mostly in northern Nigeria, but also in communities stretching from Senegal to the Red Sea. It is a language taught on an international basis at major universities in Nigeria, the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle and Far East, and is probably the best studied African language, boasting an impressive list of research publications. As Nigeria grows in importance, so Hausa becomes a language of international standing. The volume brings together contributions from the major contemporary figures in Hausa language studies from around the world. It contains work on the linguistic description of Hausa, various aspects of Hausa literature, both oral and written, and on the description of the relationship of Hausa to other Chadic languages.
Chadic Wordlists
Charles H. Kraft
Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Chadic languages
ISBN : IND:39000002022734
Chadic Wordlists by Charles H. Kraft Pdf
Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV
Henry Tourneux
Author : Henry Tourneux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chadic languages
ISBN : IND:30000111250696
Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV by Henry Tourneux Pdf
Mafa-Mada, a Comparative Study of Chadic Languages in North Cameroun
Melvin Olaf Rossing
Author : Melvin Olaf Rossing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Chadic languages
ISBN : IND:39000001551725
Mafa-Mada, a Comparative Study of Chadic Languages in North Cameroun by Melvin Olaf Rossing Pdf
Chadic Lexical Roots
Herrmann Jungraithmayr,Kiyoshi Shimizu
Author : Herrmann Jungraithmayr,Kiyoshi Shimizu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Chadic languages
ISBN : UVA:X030224986