Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Texts in Koyra Chiini
Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A Grammar of Koyra Chiini
Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110804859
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110804859
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Quotative Indexes in African Languages
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211459
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211459
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.
Humanities
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The World Atlas of Language Structures
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255911
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255911
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.
Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective
Author: Jürg Fleischer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110399962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110399962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.
A Grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro) Senni
Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher: Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Tondi Songway Kiini (Songhay, Mali)
Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
"The volume is self-contained, consisting of a reference grammar, sample texts, and a dictionary with French as well as English glosses. The presentation is clear and accessible, and the book could be a useful introduction to West African linguistics."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
"The volume is self-contained, consisting of a reference grammar, sample texts, and a dictionary with French as well as English glosses. The presentation is clear and accessible, and the book could be a useful introduction to West African linguistics."--BOOK JACKET.
Dictionnaire songhay-anglais-français: Koyra chiini
Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Langues d'Afrique
ISBN: 9782738467263
Category : Songhai language
Languages : un
Pages : 272
Book Description
Le songhay est l'une des principales langues vernaculaires du Mali. On en donne ici un dictionnaire de langue en trois tomes synoptiques. Le korya chiini est la langue parlée à Tombouctou, célèbre point de départ des caravanes sahariennes. Il s'étend vers l'ouest le long du fleuve Niger jusqu'à Goundam et Niafounké.
Publisher: Langues d'Afrique
ISBN: 9782738467263
Category : Songhai language
Languages : un
Pages : 272
Book Description
Le songhay est l'une des principales langues vernaculaires du Mali. On en donne ici un dictionnaire de langue en trois tomes synoptiques. Le korya chiini est la langue parlée à Tombouctou, célèbre point de départ des caravanes sahariennes. Il s'étend vers l'ouest le long du fleuve Niger jusqu'à Goundam et Niafounké.