A Grammar Of Mangghuer
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Author |
: Keith W. Slater |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2005-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135790813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135790817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Mangghuer by : Keith W. Slater
This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language. Its primary importance is as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. It also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies.
Author |
: Juha Janhunen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 721 |
Release |
: 2006-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135796891 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135796890 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mongolic Languages by : Juha Janhunen
Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of the Mongolic language family is also a prerequisite for the study of Mongolian and Central Eurasian history and culture. This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic languages in English, written by an international team of specialists.
Author |
: Nicklas N. Bahrt |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961103195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961103194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voice syncretism by : Nicklas N. Bahrt
This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.
Author |
: Pirkko Suihkonen |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2012-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027274717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027274711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations by : Pirkko Suihkonen
This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-marking principles (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of ‘give’ (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argument structure, typology of the Amdo Sprachbund, spatial realtors (Northeastern Turkic), core argument patterns (languages of Northern California), and typology of grammatical relations (LENCA) are the topics of articles based on cross-linguistic data. The broad empirical sweep and the fine-tuned theoretical analysis highlight the central role of argument structure and grammatical relations with respect to a plethora of linguistic phenomena.
Author |
: Martine Irma Robbeets |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027205995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 902720599X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shared Grammaticalization by : Martine Irma Robbeets
This book offers fresh perspectives on shared grammaticalization, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) the languages in focus as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.
Author |
: Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2004-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134307265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134307268 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese by : Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064823852 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Language by :
Author |
: R. M. W. Dixon |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 568 |
Release |
: 2012-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199571093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199571090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3 by : R. M. W. Dixon
R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.
Author |
: Leon Stassen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 831 |
Release |
: 2009-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199211654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199211655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Predicative Possession by : Leon Stassen
This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession. It examines their interdependence with other typologies, and explores varieties of related grammaticalization processes.
Author |
: John D. Bengtson |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 502 |
Release |
: 2008-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027289858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027289859 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory by : John D. Bengtson
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming’s major focus on language — he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue — the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming’s extensive field experience in Africa some of the articles deal with African topics. This volume is intended to exemplify the principle, in the words of Fleming himself, that each of the four disciplines is enriched when it combines with any one of the other four. The authors are representative of the cutting edge of their respective fields, and this book is unusual in including contributions from a wide range of anthropological fields rather than concentrating in any one of them.