Author: Geoff Woollams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Grammar of Karo Batak
Author: Geoff Woollams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Grammar of Madurese
Author: William D. Davies
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110224445
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in particular (though not exclusively) with regard to syntax.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110224445
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in particular (though not exclusively) with regard to syntax.
A Grammar of Toba-Batak
Author: H N Van Der Tuuk
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656952
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656952
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A Grammar of the Urbanised Toba-Batak of Medan
Author: W. Keith Percival
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author: K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700712860
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700712860
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Analyzing Grammar
Author: Paul R. Kroeger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139443517
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises. Topics covered include word order, constituency, case, agreement, tense, gender, pronoun systems, inflection, derivation, argument structure and grammatical relations, and a useful glossary provides a clear explanation of each term. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Analyzing Grammar is set to become a key text for all courses in grammatical analysis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139443517
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises. Topics covered include word order, constituency, case, agreement, tense, gender, pronoun systems, inflection, derivation, argument structure and grammatical relations, and a useful glossary provides a clear explanation of each term. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Analyzing Grammar is set to become a key text for all courses in grammatical analysis.
Radical Construction Grammar
Author: William Croft
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198299547
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198299547
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
A Grammar of Gayo
Author: Domenyk Eades
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World
Author: Simone Mattiola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027262586
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027262586
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.
Clusivity
Author: Elena Filimonova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229748
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027229748
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.