Author: Claude Hagège
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235945
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world around them. Further, these theories tend toward excessive concern with methodology and the properties of linguistic systems, neglecting, in fact, the languages themselves and those who use them in everyday life. Even the shift toward cognitive approaches, promising for their new insights into the brain, still misses an equally important aspect of language, namely a framework which would account for the social activity by which speakers build linguistic structures in order to meet the requirements of communication. Based on a wide range of languages, Hagège's work sheds light on the human language building activity. He argues that the conscious and unconscious 'signatures' of human nature are written everywhere in language. The study of these signatures gives insight into basic characteristics of human beings, tends to re-humanize linguistics, and stresses the importance of language as a dynamic activity as opposed to a self-contained system.
Author: J. P. Crazzolara
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351606034
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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In the mid 20th century the people known as the Logbara were a diverse collection of groups fleeing from different parts and having different socail and political affiliations - essentially refugees in search of a new home. At the time that this book was originally published in 1960, existing conditions, resulting from the past history of Logbara, made it difficult to decide which dialect fo the language to choose for this analysis. The grammar as a whole in its features, details and rules is common to all parts of the country but the author chose the dialect spoken around Arua, the district headquarters of the West Nile as a baiss for the grammar and vocabulary, mainly out of considerations of practicability.
Author: A. T. Dalfovo
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Category : Lugbara (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Lugbara people live south of Sudan, astride the Nile-Zaire divide, partly in north-west Uganda and partly in north-east Zaire. The proverbs in this collection reflect the rich diversity in Lugbara culture.
Author: A. T. Dalfovo
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Category : Lugbara (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Uganda
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: Gerda Rossel
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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A more technical problem is formed by the classification and nomenclature of plantain cultivars. Until now this problem has not been satisfactorily solved, and suggestions to this end are therefore presented in this study.
Author: Robert O. Moore
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Category : Kalenjin
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: M. A. Bryan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351598716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 667
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This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour. Although some vocabulary material is contained in this volume, and some more in the Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, vocabulary comparison itself plays little part. The volume presents an overall picture of the working of representative languages from each section of the Handbook and provides grammatical material which will help future students in classifying the languages to their typological as apart from their lexical features.
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110421666
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
