Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680543
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.
Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680543
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680543
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.
A Descriptive Grammar of Kinnauri
Author: D. D. Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A Descriptive Grammar of Raji
Author: Kavita Rastogi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788175660755
Category : Rājī (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788175660755
Category : Rājī (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A Descriptive Grammar of Koasati
Author: Geoffrey D. Kimball
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)
Author: Stefan Georg
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Adapting and Writing Language Lessons
Author: Earl W. Stevick
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ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Grammar of Mursi
Author: Firew Girma Worku
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)
Author: Juan-Pablo Vita
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1677
Book Description
History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1677
Book Description
History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004351132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction to the state-of-art in the respective fields and currently ongoing debates in them.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004351132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction to the state-of-art in the respective fields and currently ongoing debates in them.
Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula)
Author: Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004437982
Category : Poumai Naga language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first complete description of Poumai Naga (Poula), an understudied language spoken in Manipur in northeast India. Poumai Naga belongs to the Angami-Pochuri clade of the Trans-Himalayan family. The book comprises all aspects of the language, including phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, syntax and discourse. This work employs the tone periodic table, an innovative method used for documenting tone languages. A bilingual lexicon and a collection of fully-analysed texts are provided in the appendices. This research work represents a substantial contribution to the field of comparative Trans-Himalayan linguistics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004437982
Category : Poumai Naga language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first complete description of Poumai Naga (Poula), an understudied language spoken in Manipur in northeast India. Poumai Naga belongs to the Angami-Pochuri clade of the Trans-Himalayan family. The book comprises all aspects of the language, including phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, syntax and discourse. This work employs the tone periodic table, an innovative method used for documenting tone languages. A bilingual lexicon and a collection of fully-analysed texts are provided in the appendices. This research work represents a substantial contribution to the field of comparative Trans-Himalayan linguistics.