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Author : James W. Gair,Ḍabliv. Es Karuṇātilaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sinhalese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127830748
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000068697488
Author : Danesh Jain,George Cardona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135797119
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
Author : Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642286032
This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 7181 and LNCS 7182, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Linguistics and Intelligent Processing, held in New Delhi, India, in March 2012. The total of 92 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The contents have been ordered according to the following topical sections: NLP system architecture; lexical resources; morphology and syntax; word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition; semantics and discourse; sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and emotions; natural language generation; machine translation and multilingualism; text categorization and clustering; information extraction and text mining; information retrieval and question answering; document summarization; and applications.
Author : Barbara C. Lust,Kashi Wali,James W. Gair,K. V. Subbarao
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110818888
Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author : James W. Gair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sinhalese language
ISBN : 9780195095210
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 2198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195139778
This updated edition contains over 900 articles, which provide a detailed overview of theory and research in all branches of linguistics. Every known language is covered and each article is followed by a detailed bibliography.
Author : Julia A. Petrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Area studies
ISBN : MINN:30000010696379
Author : Peter T. Daniels,William Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195079937
Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.
Author : Dileep Chandralal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288530
Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.
Author : Tamara Gunasekera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000324457
A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power.
Author : John P. Brosseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Area studies
ISBN : UCR:31210024773663
Author : Benjamin Schonthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107152236
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.
Author : James W. Gair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Sinhalese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040685252
Author : Anne M. Blackburn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226055091
Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating with other Asian Buddhists, respond to colonial rule? To answer these questions, Anne M. Blackburn focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) to examine more broadly Buddhist life under foreign rule. In Locations of Buddhism, Blackburn reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization, there was a surprising stability in the central religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked. At the same time, they developed new institutions and forms of association, drawing on pre-colonial intellectual heritage as well as colonial-period technologies and discourse. Advocating a new way of studying the impact of colonialism on colonized societies, Blackburn is particularly attuned here to human experience, paying attention to the habits of thought and modes of affiliation that characterized individuals and smaller scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a wholly original contribution to the study of Sri Lanka and the history of Buddhism more generally.
