A Grammar Of Murui Bue
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Author |
: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 613 |
Release |
: 2020-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004432673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004432671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Murui (Bue) by : Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
A Grammar of Murui (Bue) by Katarzyna Wojtylak is the first complete description of Murui (Witoto, Huitoto) spoken in Colombia and Peru. It is an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages and linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia.
Author |
: Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1011338760 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Murui (Bue) by : Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak
Author |
: Alexandra Aikhenvald |
Publisher |
: Profile Books |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2021-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782833215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782833218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Saw the Dog by : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian language, things might be masculine, feminine, neuter - or edible vegetable. Every language tells us something about the people who use it. In I Saw the Dog, linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald takes us from the remote swamplands of Papua New Guinea to the university campuses of North America to illuminate the vital importance of names, the value of being able to say exactly what you mean, what language can tell us about what it means to be human - and what we lose when they disappear forever.
Author |
: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2021-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192660916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192660918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Integration of Language and Society by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the world, as well as other aspects of their social environment, their means of subsistence, and even geographical features of the areas in which the language is spoken. The chapters in this book draw on data from the languages of Australia and New Guinea (Dyirbal and Idi), South America (Chamacoco, Ayoreo, Murui, and Tariana), Asia (Japanese, Brokpa, and Dzongkha), and Africa (Iraqw) to examine the ways in which the grammar of a language relates to societal practices. The volume begins with a general introduction that summarizes the main issues relevant to how language and societies are integrated, before later chapters explore specific points of integration in a range of diverse languages, including honorifics, genders and classifiers, possessives, evidentiality, comparatives, and demonstratives. The findings advance our understanding of how non-linguistic traits have their correlates in language, and how these change when society changes. The volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of typology, cultural and linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics and social sciences more widely.
Author |
: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2020-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198865681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198865686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Phonological Word and Grammatical Word by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
This volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.
Author |
: A.R. Coupe |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 553 |
Release |
: 2008-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110198522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110198525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Mongsen Ao by : A.R. Coupe
A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author’s fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India.
Author |
: Valérie Guérin |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961101412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961101418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bridging constructions by : Valérie Guérin
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 |
: Alice Shepherd |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2006-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520098527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520098528 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proto-Wintun by : Alice Shepherd
This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2022-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004510395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004510397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Language by :
This volume explores different ideas of what language does and what is done with language, considering different ways in which hospitality and humanity are expressed, knowledge is constructed, and asking about more integrative ways in keeping languages relevant.
Author |
: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2021-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004466425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004466428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Web of Knowledge by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
This essay relates together, in a clear and concise manner, four major groups of grammatical meanings — evidentiality for information source, egophopricity for access to knowledge, mirativity for expectation of knowledge, and epistemic modality for attitude to knowledge.