Author: Maurice Vidal PortmanPublisher:
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Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A Manual of the Andamanese Languages
Author: Maurice Vidal PortmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language
Author: Anvita AbbiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246126
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present.
Manual of the Bengâlî Language, Comprising a Bengâlî Grammar and Lessons, with Various Appendices, Including an Asamese Grammar
Author: George Frederick NichollPublisher:
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Category : Assamese language
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Hindūstānī Manual
Author: Duncan ForbesPublisher:
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Category : Hindi language
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A Grammar of Akabea
Author: Raoul ZamponiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192597809
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.
Languages of the Himalayas
Author: George van DriemPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004514929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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A Grammar of the Bengālī Language
Author: Duncan ForbesPublisher:
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Category : Bengali language
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A Catalogue of Works on Oriental History, Languages and Literature
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orient
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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