A Grammar And Dictionary Of Tayap
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A Grammar And Dictionary Of Tayap
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Author : Don Kulick
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-06-04
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Tayap written by Don Kulick and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. Based on linguistic anthropological work conducted over the course of thirty years, this book describes the grammar of the language, detailing its phonology, morphology and syntax. It devotes particular attention to verbs, which are the most elaborated area of the grammar, and which are complex, fusional and massively suppletive.The book also provides a full Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary. A particularly innovative contribution is the detailed discussions of how Tayap’'s grammar is dissolving in the language of young speakers. The book exemplifies how the complex structures in fluent speakers’ Tayap are reduced or reanalyzed by younger speakers. This grammar and dictionary should therefore be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the mechanics of how languages disappear. The fact that it is the sole documentation of this unique Papuan language should also make it of interest to areal specialists and language typologists.
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yakama Language
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Author : Mie. Cles Pandosy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-13
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yakama Language written by Mie. Cles Pandosy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-13 with categories.
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yakama Language
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Author : Marie Charles Pandosy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yakama Language written by Marie Charles Pandosy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Yakama language categories.
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 2 Vols
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Author : Anton Lustig
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-09-24
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 2 Vols written by Anton Lustig and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with Reference categories.
This work is a thorough and unique documentation of the conceptual universe expressed through the typologically highly interesting Zaiwa language of the Jingpo minority in China.
A Grammar Of Y L Dnye
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Author : Stephen C. Levinson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-06-06
A Grammar Of Y L Dnye written by Stephen C. Levinson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities." Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Grammar Of Ulwa Papua New Guinea
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Author : Russell Barlow
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-08-14
A Grammar Of Ulwa Papua New Guinea written by Russell Barlow and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a grammatical description of Ulwa, a Papuan language spoken by about 600 people living in four villages in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Ulwa belongs to the Keram language family. This grammatical description is based on a corpus of recorded texts and elicited sentences that were collected during a total of about twelve months of research carried out between 2015 and 2018. The book aims to detail as many aspects of Ulwa grammar as possible, including matters of phonology, morphology, and syntax. It also contains a lexicon with over 1,400 entries and three fully glossed and translated texts. The book was written with a typologically oriented audience in mind, and should be of interest to Papuan specialists as well as to general linguists. It may be useful to those working on the history or classification of Papuan languages as well as those conducting typological research on any number of grammatical features.
Embodiment In Cross Linguistic Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-12-19
Embodiment In Cross Linguistic Studies written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This comparative volume explores how speakers across languages use the concept of the ‘face’ to describe emotions, human interaction, and directions. The analyses discuss cognitive processes involved in extending human body parts to concepts beyond the body.
A Sketch Grammar Of Pondi
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Author : Russell Barlow
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2020-07-28
A Sketch Grammar Of Pondi written by Russell Barlow and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A Sketch Grammar of Pondi includes ethnographic information, with ample discussion of language vitality and endangerment. The grammatical description begins with phonetics and phonology, before turning to major and minor word classes. The description of nominal morphology focuses especially on Pondi’s irregular number affixation and stem alternation, while the description of verbal morphology is largely concerned with aspect and mood suffixation. Syntax is discussed both at the level of the phrase and at the level of the clause. Topics in syntax, such as questions, commands, negation and conditionals are discussed. Following the grammatical description, there is a lexicon of over 600 Pondi words, presented both as a Pondi-to-English word list and as an English-to-Pondi finder list.
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 1 Grammar
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Author : Anton Lustig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 1 Grammar written by Anton Lustig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Tsaiwa language categories.
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 2 Dictionary And Texts
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Author : Anton Lustig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Grammar And Dictionary Of Zaiwa 2 Dictionary And Texts written by Anton Lustig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Tsaiwa language categories.
