A Grammar Of Fongbe
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A Grammar Of Fongbe
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Author : Claire Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-09
A Grammar Of Fongbe written by Claire Lefebvre and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides language-specific syntactic tests which were developed in the course of this research. Finally, we provide the reader with the most exhaustive list possible of references on Fongbe, and on the Gbe languages in general. This book thus attempts to represent a "state of the art" of the language itself, and of the analyses proposed to account for its particular constructions. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in comparative linguistics or in the reconstruction of language families, and creolists who work on the languages spoken in the Caribbean area.
A Grammar Of The Old Friesic Language
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Author : Adley Hooke Cummins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
A Grammar Of The Old Friesic Language written by Adley Hooke Cummins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Friesian language categories.
Associated Motion
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Author : Antoine Guillaume
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Associated Motion written by Antoine Guillaume 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 2021-03-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
An Areal Typology Of Agreement Systems
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Author : Ranko Matasović
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-24
An Areal Typology Of Agreement Systems written by Ranko Matasović and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.
Journal Of African Languages And Linguistics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Journal Of African Languages And Linguistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African languages categories.
A Grammar Of The French Tongue The Fifth Edition Revised And Corrected
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Author : Louis CHAMBAUD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1775
A Grammar Of The French Tongue The Fifth Edition Revised And Corrected written by Louis CHAMBAUD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1775 with categories.
Defining Creole
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Author : John H. McWhorter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-03
Defining Creole written by John H. McWhorter and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate its structure, focusing upon features vital to communication and shaving away most of the features useless to communication that bedevil those acquiring the language non-natively. When they utilize their rendition of the language consistently enough to create a brand-new one, this new creation naturally evinces evidence of its youth: specifically, a much lower degree of the random accretions typical in older languages, which only develop over vast periods of time. The articles constitute a case for this thesis based on both broad, cross-creole ranges of data and focused expositions referring to single creole languages. The book presents a general case for a theory of language contact and creolization in which not only transfer from source languages but also structural reduction plays a central role, based on facts whose marginality of address in creole studies has arisen from issues sociopolitical as well as scientific. For several decades the very definition of the term creole has been elusive even among creole specialists. This book attempts to forge a path beyond the inter- and intra-disciplinary misunderstandings and stalemates that have resulted from this, and to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.
Synchronic And Diachronic Perspectives On Contact Languages
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Author : Magnus Huber
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2007-09-27
Synchronic And Diachronic Perspectives On Contact Languages written by Magnus Huber and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a significant overlap of interests; the sections also cover sociolinguistic subjects, give both theoretical and functional linguistic analyses of language data, and discuss issues of grammaticalization. Thus, in discussing a number of issues relevant far beyond the study of pidgin and creole languages, as well as providing a wealth of linguistic data, this volume also contributes to the broader field of linguistics in general.
Advances In Contact Linguistics
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Author : Norval Smith
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-10-15
Advances In Contact Linguistics written by Norval Smith and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.
A Grammar Of The Bengal Language
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Author : Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1778
A Grammar Of The Bengal Language written by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1778 with Bengali language categories.