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Author : Richard A. Benton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824879105
The Philippine series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Pangasinan language
ISBN : 0824879112
Author : Richard A. Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835798267
Author : Richard A. Benton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824879082
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
Author : Ernesto Constantino
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824880781
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages. Ilokano is an Austronesian language. It ranks third among the major languages of the Philippines, being spoken by just over 12 percent of the population. Widely spoken throughout the Philippines, Ilokano is the dominant language of most of the provinces of Northern Luzon and is used as a lingua franca by non-Ilokano speakers in this area. Settlers have also carried the language to Mindoro and to several areas in Mindanao. The Ilokano reference grammar was developed under the auspices of the Pacific and Asian Linguistics Institute (PALI) of the University of Hawaii, and accompanies the Ilokano dictionary by the same author as well as Ilokano Lessons by Bernabe, Lapid, and Sibayan. This reference grammar concentrates on syntactic structures. Professor Constantino cites morphological farms in depth in his dictionary. Consequently the treatment here should be used in conjunction with both the dictionary and the lessons mentioned above. It is the hope of the editor and author alike that this reference grammar will prove of value and interest to learners of Ilokano.
Author : Richard A. Benton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824879167
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
Author : Peter Cole,Jerrold M. Sadock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004368866
Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110224443
Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in particular (though not exclusively) with regard to syntax.
Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781408102145
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Author : John A Hawkins
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483296609
Word Order Universals
Author : Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226086651
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author : Russell S Tomlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933793
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 : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497639
Author : Andrew Carnie,Sheila Ann Dooley,Heidi Harley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227977
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.
Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298577
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.