Multi Verb Constructions In Eastern Indonesia

Author : Volker Unterladstetter
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102167

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Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia by Volker Unterladstetter Pdf

Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages rather than looking at crosslinguistic patterns. This book provides the first in-depth account into the areal characteristics of multi-verb constructions (MVCs) in Eastern Indonesia. By collating published data as well as corpus data from 32 Austronesian and Papuan languages, the study traces commonalities as well as differences in MVC use across the area. Analysis takes place on two levels: first, the morpho-syntactic behaviour of MVCs is taken into account. As this plane of analysis arguably does not provide any meaningful insights into why MVCs are construed and used the way they are, a semantic account of MVCs is presented. One of the main hypotheses advanced in this book is that the crucial driving force behind multi-verb construals is semantic interaction between the verbs, leading to four principal techniques of event formation: merging, staging, modification, and free juxtaposition. The study aims at showing that while all four techniques are, to varying degrees, in use in Eastern Indonesian languages, the morpho-syntactic output does not necessarily mirror these underlying differences in event conception. Applying insights from Davidsonian event semantics as well as from predicate decomposition, the book provides a model of event interaction that helps to explain differences in MVC behaviour such as issues in constituent order or operator assignment.

Author : Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110692129

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Associated Motion by Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Pdf

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Author : Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110761146

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A Grammar of Bunaq by Antoinette Schapper Pdf

This is a comprehensive grammar of the Papuan language Bunaq as spoken in the district of Lamaknen. Bunaq belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family, which comprises the westernmost Papuan languages. Surrounded on all sides by Austronesian languages, Bunaq has developed in isolation from other members of the family, and as a result shows a range of unique morphosyntactic patterns. This grammar provides a detailed synchronic description of Bunaq based on a functional-typological approach. Following additional fieldwork and containing new material and analyses, this book is a thoroughly revised version of the author’s 2010 PhD thesis, which won the Pāṇini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology.

Author : Anna Margetts,Sonja Riesberg,Birgit Hellwig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257864

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Caused Accompanied Motion by Anna Margetts,Sonja Riesberg,Birgit Hellwig Pdf

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.

Author : Eline Visser
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540396

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A grammar of Kalamang by Eline Visser Pdf

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.

Author : Lucía Contreras-García,Daniel García Velasco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110711714

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Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar by Lucía Contreras-García,Daniel García Velasco Pdf

In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume explore the interface relations between different levels of linguistic representation in Functional Discourse Grammar as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and Keizer (2015). This theory analyses linguistic expressions at four linguistic levels: interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological. The articles address issues such as the possible correspondences and mismatches between those levels as well as the conditions which constrain the combinations of levels in well-formed expressions. Additionally, the theory is tested by examining various grammatical phenomena with a focus both on the English language and on typological adequacy: anaphora, raising, phonological reduction, noun incorporation, reflexives and reciprocals, serial verbs, the passive voice, time measurement constructions, coordination, nominal modification, and connectives. Overall, the volume provides both theoretical and descriptive insights which are of relevance to linguistics in general.

Author : Owen Edwards
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102228

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Metathesis and unmetathesis in Amarasi by Owen Edwards Pdf

This book provides a complete analysis of synchronic CV -> VC metathesis in Amarasi, a language of western Timor. Metathesis and unmetathesis realise a paradigm of parallel forms, pairs of which occur to complement each other throughout the language. Metathesis in Amarasi is superficially associated with a bewildering array of disparate phonological processes including: vowel deletion, consonant deletion, consonant insertion and multiple kinds of vowel assimilation, any of which can (and do) vary by lect in their realisation. By proposing that Amarasi has an obligatory CVCVC foot in which C-slots can be empty, all these phonological processes can be straightforwardly derived from a single rule of metathesis and two associated phonological rules. Three kinds of metathesis can be identified in Amarasi: (i) Before vowel initial enclitics, roots must undergo metathesis, responding to the need to create a phonological boundary between a clitic host and enclitic. Such metathesis is phonologically condi- tioned. (ii) Metathesis occurs within the syntax to signal attributive modification. Such a metathesised form cannot occur at the end of a phrase and thus requires the presence of an unmetathesised form to complete it syntactically. (iii) In the discourse an unmetathe- sised form marks an unresolved event or situation. Such an unmetathesised form cannot occur in isolation and requires a metathesised form to achieve resolution. Metathesis in Amarasi is the central linguistic process around which linguistic struc- tures are organised. Amarasi metatheses also reflect fundamental Timorese notions of societal and cosmic organisation. Alongside weaving and other performed activities, metathesis is an important linguistic marker of identity in a region obsessed with similarities and differences between different groups. The complementarity of Amarasi metathesis and unmetathesis within the syntax and within discourse reflects the Timorese division of the world into a series of mutually dependent binary and complementary pairs. As well as being the key which unlocks the structure of the language, metathesis is also a reflection of the structure of Amarasi society and culture.

Author : Simeon Floyd,Giovanni Rossi,N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102785

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Getting others to do things by Simeon Floyd,Giovanni Rossi,N. J. Enfield Pdf

Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour solicits or occasions another’s assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languages. The goal of this comparison is to uncover similarities and differences in how language and other conduct are used in carrying out social action around the world, including different kinds of requests, orders, suggestions, and other actions brought together under the rubric of recruitment.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104246

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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Author : R.M.W. Dixon,A. Iu Aikhenvald,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199297870

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Complementation by R.M.W. Dixon,A. Iu Aikhenvald,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Pdf

A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France]. Languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses, and the types of verbs which take them. Some languages lack a complement clause construction but instead employ other construction types to achieve similar ends; these are called complementation strategies. The book explores the variety of types of complementation foundacross the languages of the world, their grammatical properties and meanings. Detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German, are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which drawstogether the evidence and the arguments. This book will interest scholars of typology, language universals, syntax, information structure, and language contact in departments of linguistics and anthropology, as well as advanced and graduate students taking courses in these subjects.

Author : Sebastian Nordhoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004234130

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The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay by Sebastian Nordhoff Pdf

Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax and semantics. Historical, anthropological, typological and structural approaches shed light on the complex genesis and rapid evolution of this language.

Author : Kunio Nishiyama,Herman Kelen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Lamaholot language
ISBN : UOM:39015068815169

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A Grammar of Lamaholot, Eastern Indonesia by Kunio Nishiyama,Herman Kelen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NWU:35556026992149

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New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210167743

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The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ursula Samely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : UOM:39015042165095

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Kedang, (Eastern Indonesia), Some Aspects of Its Grammar by Ursula Samely Pdf