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Author : Nors S. Josephson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Greek language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040633732
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110899283
No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
Author : Dionysious Psilopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527591196
As this book demonstrates, the cradle of the Mystery Cults of the Goddess and of Western civilization is the Aegean region, an area extending from the Balkans to Crete and from the Ionian Sea to Asia Minor. The Eleusinian Mysteries do not originate from Old Europe or Egypt, but from the worship of the Pelasgian goddess Daeira, Mother Earth, who preceded Demeter and whose cult was indigenous to Eleusis. As shown here, in the Mysteries of the Goddess, the initiates descend into the depths of their psyche, perceive the midnight sun, transcend duality, and achieve cosmic consciousness symbolized by the unity and harmony of the Great Goddess. The Pelasgians, Minyans, and Minoans, the Aegean region’s prehistoric tribes and ancestors of the Mycenaeans and modern Greeks, share the same cultural heritage, continuity, and autochthony with the region’s Proto-Greek, pre-Deukalion-Flood inhabitants. The book also argues that religious and scientific traces of pre-Flood knowledge can be discerned in the Mysteries and the technical achievements of prehistoric Minyan and Minoan Greeks. Even from the third millennium, the Minyans and Minoans, with their advanced nautical, geographic, and astronomical knowledge, sailed not only the Mediterranean, but using the Atlantic currents had reached the copper mines of northern Europe and America.
Author : Viktor Krupa
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000534145
Author : Lauren Clemens,Diane Massam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192604859
This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic research, and in recent years, data from Polynesian languages has also contributed to advances in the fields of prosody and semantics, as well as to the study of parametric variation. The chapters in this volume offer in-depth analyses of a range of theoretical issues at the syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interfaces, both within individual languages and from a comparative Polynesian perspective. They examine key topics including: word order variation, ergativity and case systems, causativization, negation, raising, modality and superlatives, and the left periphery of both the sentential and nominal domains. The findings not only shed light on the theoretical typology of Polynesian languages, but also have implications for linguistic theory as a whole.
Author : Walburga von Raffler-Engel,Jan Wind,Abraham Jonker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027239532
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors approach the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but also from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general biology, ethology, evolutionary biology and psychology.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819724
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author : H. S. Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004092676
This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Author : Henk Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296732
This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.
Author : Braj B. Kachru,Henry Kahane
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Anne Salmond
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810363
Author : Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134974719
Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015062493997
Author : Paulus Kieviet
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234753
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
