Research In Afroasiatic Grammar

Author : Jacqueline Lecarme
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247537

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Research in Afroasiatic Grammar Two by Jacqueline Lecarme Pdf

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo). The articles discuss new solutions to familiar questions such as the free state/construct state alternation of nouns, the Semitic template system, and the morphosyntax of nominal and verbal plurality. Ten of the papers center on morphology, especially the relation of phonology to syntax and morphology; others address questions at the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface; two papers also offer comparative and historical perspectives. Taken as a whole, the papers provide an accurate picture of the state of current research in Afroasiatic linguistics, containing important new data and new analyses. Given its coverage, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Afroasiatic languages and theoretical linguistics.

Author : Jacqueline Lecarme,Jean Lowenstamm,Ur Shlonsky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237093

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Research in Afroasiatic Grammar by Jacqueline Lecarme,Jean Lowenstamm,Ur Shlonsky Pdf

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian.

Author : Jacqueline Lecarme,Jean Lowenstamm,Ur Shlonsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN : 9055690058

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Studies in Afroasiatic Grammar by Jacqueline Lecarme,Jean Lowenstamm,Ur Shlonsky Pdf

Author : Jean Lowenstamm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN : 9055690198

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Studies in Afroasiatic Grammar by Jean Lowenstamm Pdf

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Erin Shay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229872

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Interaction of Morphology and Syntax by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Erin Shay Pdf

The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch, while others focus on one or two languages within a family and the implications of their structures for the family, the phylum, or linguistic typology as a whole. The diversity of topics addressed within the present volume reflects the great diversity of language structures and functions within the Afroasiatic phylum.

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443811439

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Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron by Charles G. Häberl Pdf

Robert Hetzron first organized the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1973 and passed away only six months after it had completed a quarter century of annual meetings. He would undoubtedly have been pleased to know that NACAL is still going strong, and that ten years after his passing it attracted no fewer than thirty-six scholars from the United States, Canada, and eight other countries, who presented on topics near and dear to his heart such as phonology, morphology, syntax, language contact, classification, subgrouping, and the history of scholarship, in languages such as Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hebrew, Omotic, and others, as well as the groups to which they pertain. Since he established it, NACAL has served a unique role among the meetings of learned societies in North America. Only a handful of organizations worldwide hold annual meetings dedicated to Afroasiatic linguistics, and NACAL is one of a very small number of venues where linguists from all sub-disciplines and schools of thought meet to share their research. NACAL is also an academic nexus, a unique node at which graduate students at the beginning of their careers rub shoulders with the native speakers of the languages which they study and with the titans of their fields, men and women of an almost legendary stature such as Hetzron himself. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, on a broad cross-section of topics within the field of Afroasiatic linguistics.

Author : M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia ŠtubŇovÁ Nigrelli
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781646022304

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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic by M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Silvia ŠtubŇovÁ Nigrelli Pdf

Author : Katalin É. Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110902228

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Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages by Katalin É. Kiss Pdf

Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Grammar (more precisely, in terms of a hypothetical model of UG). Their studies, discussing syntactic and morphosyntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit, demonstrate that descriptive problems which have proved unsolvable for the traditional, inductive approach can be reduced to the interaction of regular operations and constraints of UG. The proposed analyses also bear on linguistic theory. They provide crucial new data and new generalizations concerning such basic questions of generative syntax as discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case marking to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitival constructions, the structure of coordinate phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax. In addition to confirming or refuting certain specific hypotheses, they also provide empirical evidence of the perhaps most basic tenet of generative theory, according to which UG is part of the genetic endowment of the human species - i.e., human languages do not "develop" parallel with the development of human civilization. Some of the languages examined in this volume were spoken as much as 5000 years old, still their grammars do not differ in any relevant respect from the grammars of languages spoken today.

Author : Amina Mettouchi,Martine Vanhove,Dominique Caubet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268891

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Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages by Amina Mettouchi,Martine Vanhove,Dominique Caubet Pdf

This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages. In addition to the rarity of corpus studies based on endangered and lesser-described languages, the volume is remarkable due to its focus on the role of prosody in interaction with several other phenomena, including code-switching and borrowing. Phonology, syntax, and information structure are explored, and the issue of the elaboration of strategies for the typological comparison of corpora is addressed in several papers. The volume also contains a presentation of software development conducted within the scope of the CorpAfroAs project and based upon the widely used ELAN. The sound-indexed, and morphosyntactically-annotated corpora, with their OLAC metadata and several other deliverables can be accessed and searched at http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.68.website.

Author : Mauro Tosco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264572

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Afroasiatic by Mauro Tosco Pdf

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from the analysis of data from scarcely known varieties to the reappraisal of old debates (such as the value of the Classical Arabic verbal forms). Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions, the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense, from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic, with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth, keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.

Author : Marja-Liisa Helasvuo,Lyle Campbell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293213

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Grammar from the Human Perspective by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo,Lyle Campbell Pdf

The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations. Other articles concern embodiment in language, showing how conceptualization is mediated by one’s embodied experience of the world and ourselves. Finally, some of the articles discuss coding of person focusing on the subjec­tivity of conceptualization and how it is reflected in grammar. The articles show that conceptualization reflects the speaker’s construal of the situation, and furthermore, that it is intersubjective because it reflects the speaker’s understanding of the relations between the speech act participants. The papers deal with Finnish, utilizing the rich resources of Finnish grammar to contribute to issues in contemporary linguistics and in particular to Cognitive Grammar.

Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh,Katharina Hartmann,Malte Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199093

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Focus Strategies in African Languages by Enoch Oladé Aboh,Katharina Hartmann,Malte Zimmermann Pdf

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus. The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful typological generalization across languages. Their common aim is to deepen our understanding of whether and how the information-structural category of focus is represented and marked in natural language. Topics investigated are, among others, the relation of focus and prosody, the effects of information structure on word order, ex situ versus in situ strategies of focus marking, the inventory of focus marking devices, focus and related constructions, focus-sensitive particles. The present inquiry into the focus systems of African languages has repercussions on existing theories of focus. It reveals new focus strategies as well as fine-tuned focus distinctions that are not discussed in the theoretical literature, which is almost exclusively based on well-documented intonation languages.

Author : Ekkehard Wolff,Hilke Meyer-Bahlburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015034657398

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Studies in Chadic and Afroasiatic Linguistics by Ekkehard Wolff,Hilke Meyer-Bahlburg Pdf

Author : Ruth King
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299512

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The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing by Ruth King Pdf

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Author : Ulrich Detges,Richard Waltereit
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248087

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The Paradox of Grammatical Change by Ulrich Detges,Richard Waltereit Pdf

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from various theoretical perspectives. In this, a close look at the divergent and/or convergent evolution of a richly documented language family such as Romance promises to be useful. The basic problem for any approach to language change is what Eugenio Coseriu has termed the paradox of change: if synchronically, languages can be viewed as perfectly running systems, then there is no reason why they should change in the first place. And yet, as everyone knows, languages are changing constantly. In nine case studies, a number of renowned scholars of Romance linguistics address the explanation of grammatical change either within a broadly generative or a functional framework.