A Grammar Of The Fehan Dialect Of Tetun An Austronesian Language Of West Timor
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Author |
: Catharina Lumien van Klinken |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X006108481 |
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: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of the Fehan Dialect of Tetun, an Austronesian Language of West Timor by : Catharina Lumien van Klinken
Author |
: Marian Klamer |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 559 |
Release |
: 2010-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110226072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110226073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Teiwa by : Marian Klamer
Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other, as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar languages are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. A grammar of Teiwa presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The book is structured as a reference grammar: after a general introduction on the language, it speakers and the linguistic situation on Alor and Pantar, the grammar builds up from a description of the language's phonology and word classes to its larger grammatical constituents and their mutual relations: nominal phrases, serial verb constructions, clauses, clause combinations, and information structure. While many Papuan languages are morphologically complex, Teiwa is almost analytic: it has only one paradigm of object marking prefixes, and one verbal suffix marking realis status. Other typologically interesting features of the language include: (i) the presence of uvular fricatives and stops, which is atypical for languages of eastern Indonesia; (ii) the absence of trivalent verbs: transitive verbs select a single (animate or inanimate) object, while the additional participant is expressed with a separate predicate; and (iii) the absence of morpho-syntactically encoded embedded clauses. A grammar of Teiwa is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included.
Author |
: Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 559 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110226065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110226065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grammar of Teiwa by : Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer
Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in estern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and world lists (Teiwa-English/English-Teiwa) are included
Author |
: Elena Filimonova |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2005-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027293886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027293880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clusivity by : Elena Filimonova
This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of it has been available so far. This book is intended to make the first step towards a better understanding of the inclusive–exclusive opposition, by documenting the current linguistic knowledge on the topic. The issues discussed include the categorial and paradigmatic status of the opposition, its geographical distribution, realization in free vs bound pronouns, inclusive imperatives, clusivity in the 2nd person, honorific uses of the distinction, etc. These case studies are complemented by the analysis of the opposition in American Sign Language as opposed to spoken languages. In-depth areal and family surveys of clusivity consider this opposition in Austronesian, Tibeto-Burman, central-western South American, Turkic languages, and in Mosetenan and Shuswap.
Author |
: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2007-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191514128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191514128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammars in Contact by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - which are they? When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures? Only an inductively based cross-linguistic examination can provide an answer. This is what this volume is about. The book starts with a typological introduction outlining principles of contact-induced change and factors which facilitate diffusion of linguistic traits. It is followed by twelve studies of contact-induced changes in languages from Amazonia, East and West Africa, Australia, East Timor, and the Sinitic domain. Set alongside these are studies of Pennsylvania German spoken by Mennonites in Canada in contact with English, Basque in contact with Romance languages in Spain and France, and language contact in the Balkans. All the studies are based on intensive fieldwork, and each cast in terms of the typological parameters set out in the introduction. The book includes a glossary to facilitate its use by graduates and advanced undergraduates in linguistics and in disciplines such as anthropology.
Author |
: Owen Edwards |
Publisher |
: ANU Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2021-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781760464578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1760464570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary by : Owen Edwards
This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relate to forms in other languages including Proto‑Malayo‑Polynesian etyma (where known) and/or out-comparisons to putative cognates in other languages of the region. The dictionary also contains two finder-lists: English to Rote-Meto, and Austronesian reconstructions with Rote-Meto reflexes. The dictionary is preceded by three introductory chapters. The first chapter contains a guide to using the dictionary as well as discussion of the data sources. The second chapter provides a short synchronic overview of the Rote-Meto langauges. The third chapter discusses the historical background of Rote-Meto. This includes sound correspondences, the internal subgrouping of the Rote-Meto family, and the position of Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian more broadly. Searchable electronic versions of the comparative dictionary are provided in two formats at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/251618. The first electronic version is a Lexique Pro export of the dictionary. The Lexique Pro file contains the same data and information in the book version of the dictionary, but does not contain the introductory chapters. See the "About Rote-Meto" tab of the Lexique Pro file for more information on this version of the dictionary. The second electronic version is a text file. It is formatted as a tab separated file and is intended to be read in spreadsheet format. This text file does not contain all the data and information in other versions of the Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary and should be used in conjunction with these other versions. See the associated readme for more information on what data is included and excluded from that text file.
Author |
: K. Alexander Adelaar |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 866 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780700712861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0700712860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar by : K. Alexander Adelaar
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Author |
: Catharina Williams-van Klinken |
Publisher |
: Spotlight Poets |
Total Pages |
: 74 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056211058 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Short Grammar of Tetun Dili by : Catharina Williams-van Klinken
Author |
: Anne Storch |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2014-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027270634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027270635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Number Constructions and Semantics by : Anne Storch
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 |
: Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2011-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199857630 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199857636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.