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Author : Phyllis M. Healey,Alan Healey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X001666892
Author : Päivi Juvonen,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377675
The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.
Author : Sebastian Fedden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110264197
Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and meaning.
Author : Matthew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135922269
The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. Rather than being consistent across phenomena within individual languages, weight turns out to be sensitive to the particular processes involved such that different phenomena display different distributions in weight criteria. The book goes on to explore the motivations behind the process-specific nature of weight, showing that phonetic factors explain much of the variation in weight criteria between phenomena and also the variation in criteria between languages for a single process. The book is unlike other studies in combining an extensive typological survey with detailed phonetic analysis of many languages. The finding that the widely studied phenomenon of syllable weight is not a unified phenomenon, contrary to the established view, is a significant result for the field of theoretical phonology. The book is also an important contribution to the field of phonetically-driven phonology, since it establishes a close link between the phonology of weight and various quantitative phonetic parameters.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110124211
Author : Tania Zamuner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135885106
This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language. A problem not often considered is that these two theories are confounded because the structures that are frequent across languages are also typically the most frequent within a specific language. In addition, the innate theory of language acquisition is difficult to quantify and qualify. Using cross-linguistic, corpus and experimental approaches, this book attempts to contrast these theories through an examination of the acquisition of word-final consonants in English.
Author : Martina Plümacher,Peter Holz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292179
How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from neurobiology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics and philosophy. They show that linguistic representation of colors and odors depends highly on cultures of communication. Experts are skilled in discerning finer differences between their sense impressions and have at their disposal a special language which non-experts do not master. The color and odor vocabulary is rare, if there is no cultural habit to communicate the very sense impression. In cases where individuals have to speak of their sensory experiences more precisely they often turn to metaphors. The contributions discuss the lack of inter-individual conventions of naming and describing odors – compared to the more expanded linguistic representation of colors.
Author : Joel Robbins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520937082
In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing, he offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion. Theoretically ambitious and engagingly written, his book opens a unique perspective on a Melanesian society, religious experience, and the very nature of rapid cultural change.
Author : Charles E. Cairns,Eric Raimy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004190085
The Handbook of the Syllable presents a broad range of empirical studies, offering a comprehensive survey of the syllable in phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. It is a seminal reference book for researchers exploring any empirical area where the notion of “the syllable” is invoked.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015011351775
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015063392735
Author : Victor Buchli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415336422
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Author : Ron Brunton
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521373751
In this book, Ron Brunton attempts to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders.
Author : Maureen A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317704867
Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings 'woven' into the bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies. It is open to manipulation and reformation in a variety of contexts and is used by both Telefol women and men to explore, and so explain the complexities and ambiguities inherent in their social life.
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020065451