The Greater Awyu Languages Of West Papua

Author : Lourens de Vries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501506918

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The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua by Lourens de Vries Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: counting systems, language names, kinship, linguistic ideologies, lexical substitution registers, avoidance and taboo. The linguistic patterns of Greater Awyu languages are systematically placed in the genetic, typological, areal and historical contexts of New Guinea. The long dialect continuums within the family, by reflecting different diachronic stages, offer a window on the origin of switch reference, clause chaining, topic markers, postpositions and double-headed relative clauses. The book is relevant for readers interested in the typological, historical and cultural linguistics of New Guinea but also for anthropologists and historians because the history and cultural practices of Greater Awyu speakers are a key part of the story of this language family.

Author : Lourens de Vries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501506956

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The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua by Lourens de Vries Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: counting systems, language names, kinship, linguistic ideologies, lexical substitution registers, avoidance and taboo. The linguistic patterns of Greater Awyu languages are systematically placed in the genetic, typological, areal and historical contexts of New Guinea. The long dialect continuums within the family, by reflecting different diachronic stages, offer a window on the origin of switch reference, clause chaining, topic markers, postpositions and double-headed relative clauses. The book is relevant for readers interested in the typological, historical and cultural linguistics of New Guinea but also for anthropologists and historians because the history and cultural practices of Greater Awyu speakers are a key part of the story of this language family.

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198803225

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Commands by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert M. W. Dixon Pdf

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Author : Hannah Sarvasy,Diana Forker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264442

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Word Hunters by Hannah Sarvasy,Diana Forker Pdf

In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here—the stuff of departmental and family legends—are published publicly for the first time.

Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110567267

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The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area by Bill Palmer Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.

Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101412

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Bridging constructions by Valérie Guérin Pdf

Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.

Author : Anne Storch,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270634

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Number – Constructions and Semantics by Anne Storch,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.

Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317743248

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The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics by Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28

Author : Nico Nassenstein,Anne Storch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511202

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Swearing and Cursing by Nico Nassenstein,Anne Storch Pdf

While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe –including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.

Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
Publisher : Barrie Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106012047509

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Papuan Languages of Oceania by Stephen Adolphe Wurm Pdf

Author : William A. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986-11-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521286212

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The Papuan Languages of New Guinea by William A. Foley Pdf

This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.

Author : Susanne Holzknecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015018983828

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The Markham Languages of Papua New Guinea by Susanne Holzknecht Pdf

Author : Lourens de Vries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X002256224

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Forms and Functions in Kombai, an Awyu Language of Irian Jaya by Lourens de Vries Pdf

Author : Gilles Gravelle
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics College of Asia and Pacific the Australian National University
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Meax language
ISBN : 0858836254

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Meyah by Gilles Gravelle Pdf

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230041

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Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea by John Haiman Pdf

There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a 'medial verb'construction used to conjoin clauses in compound and complex sentences. Hua also shows a fundamental morphological distinction between coordinate and subordinate medial clauses, the latter are not 'tense-iconic', the events they describe are not necessarily prior to the event described in later clauses. Moreover their truth is always presupposed. The distribution and behaviour of a post-nominal suffix - mo provides insights into the nature of topics, conditional clauses, and functional definitions of the parts of speech. In phonology, the central rules of assimilation are constrained by the universal hierarchy of sonority, which may, however, be derived from binary features. These are some of the areas in which the grammar of Hua is unusually perspicuous. The present work aims at a standard of completeness such that it would be a useful reference work for research in almost any theoretical topic.