Author: Desmond Dale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A practical guide to Zimbabwe's most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative constructions, common suffixes, temporal and consecutive clauses, noun classes, a large vocabulary section, inflection tables and tone conjunctions. A map illustrates the regions in which the language is spoken.
Shona Companion
Author: Desmond Dale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A practical guide to Zimbabwe's most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative constructions, common suffixes, temporal and consecutive clauses, noun classes, a large vocabulary section, inflection tables and tone conjunctions. A map illustrates the regions in which the language is spoken.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A practical guide to Zimbabwe's most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative constructions, common suffixes, temporal and consecutive clauses, noun classes, a large vocabulary section, inflection tables and tone conjunctions. A map illustrates the regions in which the language is spoken.
Medicine Show
Author: Jody Lynn Nye
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614753431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
It’s the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy–and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor’s Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine. She has a menagerie of very special assistants, including an Abyssinian cat, a dog, rabbits, mice, and an alien ottle named Chirwl. Now, this highly trained crew faces the ultimate medical mystery. On Chirwl’s home world, humans and ottles alike are aging at an alarming rate. And if Dr. Taylor doesn’t find a fast cure, the entire colony will die...of old age.
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614753431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
It’s the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy–and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor’s Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine. She has a menagerie of very special assistants, including an Abyssinian cat, a dog, rabbits, mice, and an alien ottle named Chirwl. Now, this highly trained crew faces the ultimate medical mystery. On Chirwl’s home world, humans and ottles alike are aging at an alarming rate. And if Dr. Taylor doesn’t find a fast cure, the entire colony will die...of old age.
Reported Discourse
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.
Beginner's Shona (ChiShona)
Author: Aquilina Mawadza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Shona, a Bantu language, is the national language of Zimbabwe. It is also spoken in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia. The basics of ChiShona, the most widely spoken form of Shona, appear here in twelve comprehensive lessons. Each chapter includes a practice dialogue, vocabulary, points of grammar, and review exercises, while cultural information places the language in a practical context. This guide provides the student, traveler, or businessperson with both the means for immediate communication and a foundation for future study.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Shona, a Bantu language, is the national language of Zimbabwe. It is also spoken in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia. The basics of ChiShona, the most widely spoken form of Shona, appear here in twelve comprehensive lessons. Each chapter includes a practice dialogue, vocabulary, points of grammar, and review exercises, while cultural information places the language in a practical context. This guide provides the student, traveler, or businessperson with both the means for immediate communication and a foundation for future study.
Compendium of the World's Languages
Author: George L. Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136258450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
This third edition of Compendium of the World’s Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Presenting an even broader range of languages and language families, including new coverage of Australian aboriginal languages and expanded treatment of North American and African languages, this new edition offers a total of 342 entries over nearly 2000 pages. Key features include: Complete rewriting, systematization and regularisation of the phonology sections Provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections Expansion of morphology descriptions for most major languages Provision of new illustrative text samples Addition of a glossary of technical terms and an expanded bibliography Comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in a representative range of languages, and also grouped by family Drawing upon a wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of George Campbell’s astounding Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers. Scholarly, comprehensive and highly accessible, Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal reference for all interested linguists and professionals alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136258450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
This third edition of Compendium of the World’s Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Presenting an even broader range of languages and language families, including new coverage of Australian aboriginal languages and expanded treatment of North American and African languages, this new edition offers a total of 342 entries over nearly 2000 pages. Key features include: Complete rewriting, systematization and regularisation of the phonology sections Provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections Expansion of morphology descriptions for most major languages Provision of new illustrative text samples Addition of a glossary of technical terms and an expanded bibliography Comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in a representative range of languages, and also grouped by family Drawing upon a wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of George Campbell’s astounding Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers. Scholarly, comprehensive and highly accessible, Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal reference for all interested linguists and professionals alike.
Learning Shona
Author: Dambudzo Ruzhowa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shona language
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shona language
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author: Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814783
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814783
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Author: F. K. Erhard Voeltz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
Shona Companion
Author: Desmond Dale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A practical guide to Zimbabwe's most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative constructions, common suffixes, temporal and consecutive clauses, noun classes, a large vocabulary section, inflection tables and tone conjunctions. A map illustrates the regions in which the language is spoken.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A practical guide to Zimbabwe's most widely spoken language. It contains detailed sections on adjectives, adverbials, infix and deficient verbs, moods of verbs, parts of speech, comparative and superlative constructions, common suffixes, temporal and consecutive clauses, noun classes, a large vocabulary section, inflection tables and tone conjunctions. A map illustrates the regions in which the language is spoken.
Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni
Author: George L. Campbell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415202978
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415202978
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.