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Author : Margaret L. Press,Press
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0520096002
Author : Margaret L. Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608184616
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781607819684
Based on extensive fieldwork that spanned more than 50 years, this comprehensive dictionary is a monumental achievement and will help to preserve this American Indian language that is nearing extinction.
Author : R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317851080
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : Braj B. Kachru,Henry Kahane
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110957075
A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.
Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520094670
A polar bear and a brown bear help camouflage each other.
Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107096240
A lively introduction to morphology, this second edition textbook has been thoroughly updated, including new examples and exercises.
Author : Ranko Matasović
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108420976
The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.
Author : John Haiman,Pamela Munro
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280268
Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for referential tracking. Formally, switch-reference is almost always a verbal category, similar to the familiar category of verbal concord. In most languages switch-reference marking is indicated by a verbal affix, however in some languages it may be marked by an independent morpheme. The contributions to this volume are concerned with questions of form, function, and genesis of canonical switch-reference systems.
Author : Earl R. Anderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0838637647
Literary criticism often includes ad hoc comments about onomatopoeia, synaesthesia, or other forms of iconism. In A Grammar of Iconism, Earl Anderson discusses these phenomena systematically. According to Anderson, modern post-Saussurian linguistics has as its central tenet the arbitrariness of linguistic signs. Thus, linguistic elements that bear some relationship to their referent have been seen as marginal to the system of language, or at best similar in their arbitrariness to other linguistic signs. As an example of the latter, while most languages have an onomatopoeic element, different languages imitate sounds differently. Anderson argues against the standard view, provides a detailed critique of the negative arguments against iconism, and offers a positive typology that demonstrates the extensiveness and complexity of iconism in language.
Author : Maurice L. Zigmond,Curtis G. Booth,Pamela Munro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520097476
Author : David L. Kozak
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240865
Inside Dazzling Mountains provides fresh new translations of Native oral literatures of the Southwest, a region of vital and varied cultures and languages. The collection features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. It combines translations of recordings made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a rich array of newly recorded and produced materials, attesting to the continued vitality and creativity of contemporary Native languages in the Southwest. For southwestern linguistic and cultural traditions to be more widely recognized and appreciated, retranslations of older works have been sorely needed. Original translations were often flawed and culturally biased and made use of literary conventions that were familiar to Anglo-Americans but foreign to the Native tribes themselves. Inside Dazzling Mountains corrects these flaws and celebrates the diversity of Native languages spoken in the Southwest today. Skillfully edited and translated by David L. Kozak, who offers a wealth of editorial tools for interpreting songs, song sets, myths, stories, and chants of the Southwest, past and present, this volume contributes to the continued vitality and cultural complexity of the region.
Author : Russell S Tomlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933809
This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization. From a database of nearly 1,000 languages and their basic constituent orders, a sample of 400 languages was produced that is statistically representative of both the genetic and areal distributions of the world’s languages. This sample reveals the following relative frequencies (in order from high to low) of basic constituent order types: (1) SOV and SVO, (2) VSO, (3) VOS and OVS, (4) OSV. It is argued that these relative frequencies can be explained to be the result of the possible interactions of three fundamental functional principles of linguistic organization. Principle 1, the thematic information principle, specifies that initial position is the cross-linguistically favoured position for clause-level thematic information. Principle 2, the verb-object bonding principle, describes the cross-linguistic tendency for a transitive verb and its object to form a more tightly integrated unit, syntactically and semantically, than does a transitive verb and its subject. Principle 3, the animated principle, describes the cross-linguistic tendency for semantic arguments which are either more animate or more agentive to occur earlier in the clause. Each principle is motivated independently of the others, drawing on cross-linguistic data from more than 80 genetically and typologically diverse languages. Given these three independently motivated functional principles, it is argued that the relative frequency of basic constituent order types is due to the tendency for the three principles to be maximally realized in the world’s languages. SOV and SVO languages are typologically most frequent because such basic orders reflect all three principles. The remaining orders occur less frequently because they reflect fewer of the principles. The 1,000-language database and the genetic and areal classification frames are published as appendices to the volume.
Author : D. N. Shankara Bhat
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199269129
On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of over 250 languages, this book brings to light several fascinating characteristics of pronouns. It argues that these words do not form a single category, but rather two different categories called 'personal pronouns' and 'proforms'. It points outseveral differences between the two, such as the occurrence of a dual structure among proforms but not among personal pronouns. These differences are shown to derive from the distinct functions that the two categories have to perform in language.The book also shows that the so-called interrogative pronouns of familiar languages do not actually have interrogation as their meaning. One can only assign the meaning of indefiniteness to them. Further, the notion of indefiniteness that can be associated with these and other pronouns is quitedifferent from the one that can be associated with noun phrases. Other interesting aspects of this book include the postulation of certain typological distinctions like 'two-person' and 'three-person' languages and 'free-pronoun' and 'bound-pronoun' languages.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191571459
In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in cross-linguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 2011) offer in-depth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. 'The task of the linguist,' Professor Dixon writes, 'is to explain the nature of human languages - each viewed as an integrated system - together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation.' Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in linguistic fieldwork. It is a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology.
