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Author : Geoffrey Hull,Lance Eccles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : East Timor
ISBN : UOM:39015064943346
This volume concentrates on the common Tetum language as it is spoken and written today by educated East Timorese. -- BACK COVER.
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199279159
This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and similar structures in languages from Asia, Africa, North, Central and South America, and the Pacific. Chapters on well-known languages such as Cantonese and Thai are set alongside the languages of small hunter-gathererand slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups.A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. Each describes what can be conceptualized as a single event. They are monoclausal; their intonational properties are those of a monoverbal clause; they generally have just one tense, aspect, mood, and polarity value; and they are an important tool in cognitive packaging of events. Serial verb constructions are a pervasive feature of isolating languages of Asia and West Africa, andare also found in the languages of the Pacific, South, Central and North America, most of them endangered.Serial verbs have been a subject of interest among linguists for some time. This outstanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms. The book will interest students, at graduate level and above, of syntax, typology, language universals, information structure, and language contact. in departments of linguistics andanthroplogy.
Author : K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700712861
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Author : Margaret Florey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199544547
This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation.
Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108479707
Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.
Author : David Gil,Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260536
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili. The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of how and why languages become isolating, by examination of a number of competing hypotheses. While some view morphological loss as a natural process, others argue that the development of isolating word structure is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such as creolization, metatypy, and Sprachbund effects. This volume should be of interest not only to Austronesianists and historians of Insular Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typologists, historical linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact.
Author : Catharina Williams-van Klinken,John Hajek,Rachel Nordlinger
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015056211058
Author : Catharina Williams-van Klinken,John Hajek,Rachel Nordlinger
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Pacific Area
ISBN : UVA:X004680677
Author : Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317981794
This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous to the situations described while the other has undertaken extensive field work and consulting there. The three monographs contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the research available about each of them, while providing new research-based information. The purpose of the volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book was published as special issues of Current Issues in Language Planning.
Author : Catharina Williams-van Klinken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Tetum language
ISBN : UCBK:C095782688
Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015075647498
"This volume of new work explores the nature of verb serialisation in a range of languages from the Pacific region - both Austronesian and non-Austronesian. Serial verbs can be described linguistically as a sequence of verbs which behave as a single complex predicate. A particular focus of this book is the detailed examination given by most authors to the relationship of such uniclausal linguistic structures with the real world notion of eventhood. The book also makes a valuable addition to the description and analysis of serial verb constructions from the Pacific, a region which has generally been under-represented in cross-linguistic discussions of verb serialisation. The book will appeal to syntacticians and typologists as well as to Austronesianists and Papuanists."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Catharina Lumien van Klinken,Catharina Williams-van Klinken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fehan dialect
ISBN : UVA:X006108481
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Applied linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123031341
Author : Samuel Moore,Thomas Albert Knott,James Root Hulbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000004039
Author : Geoffrey Hull
Publisher : Caritas Australia
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X002481264
"In the island of Timor some twenty languages and dialects are spoken, and the Tetum taught in this book is not the rural or 'classical' variety of the language, but Tetum-Praca, the structurally simpler and lexically richer verancular of Dili which, during the centuries of Portugese rule, spread from the capital throughout the eastern half of the island as a lingua franca. Although Tetum has no official status today, it is the language in which East Timorese from different regions prefer to communicate, and it remains very much alive in the colonies of East Timorese that have grown up in Australia and Portugal since 1975. Tetum is also widely used by the East Timorese Catholic Church in its worship and everyday dealings with the people, and it is now becoming the vehicle of a modern literature." -- Inside back cover.