Kwamera Dictionary

Kwamera Dictionary PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Kwamera Dictionary

Kwamera Dictionary PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
Publisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Comparative Austronesian Dictionary

Comparative Austronesian Dictionary PDF Author: Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110884011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3564

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Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

Kwamera

Kwamera PDF Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Oceanic Languages

The Oceanic Languages PDF Author: John Lynch
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700711287
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Pacific Languages

Pacific Languages PDF Author: John Lynch
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824842588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.

Tolo Dictionary

Tolo Dictionary PDF Author: Susan Smith Crowley
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages

Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages PDF Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111053229
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

Tetun-English Dictionary

Tetun-English Dictionary PDF Author: Cliff Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780858833081
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic PDF Author: Malcolm Ross
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921313196
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.

Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns PDF Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 019829963X
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Presents an encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world. This book shows that the range of variation in the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns is subject to a set of universal implicational constraints, and proposes explanations for these universals.