A Grammar Of Izi An Igbo Language
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A Grammar Of Izi An Igbo Language
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Author : Paul E. Meier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
A Grammar Of Izi An Igbo Language written by Paul E. Meier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Izi language categories.
A Grammar Of Contemporary Igbo
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Author : Emenanjo, E. Nolue
language : en
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Release Date : 2016-02-22
A Grammar Of Contemporary Igbo written by Emenanjo, E. Nolue and has been published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The chapters are organized in four discrete parts: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. They are uneven in terms of scope covered, length, the density of their contents and their degrees of difficulty. Each chapter ends with ‘Some References’ relevant to both the topic(s) treated in the chapter, in Igbo linguistics, and in general linguistics.
The Tonal System Of Igbo
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Author : Mary M. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-09-20
The Tonal System Of Igbo written by Mary M. Clark 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 2011-09-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The World Atlas Of Language Structures
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Author : Martin Haspelmath
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-07-21
The World Atlas Of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.
Elements Of Modern Igbo Grammar
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Author : E. Nọlue Emenanjọ
language : en
Publisher: University Press, Nigeria
Release Date : 1978
Elements Of Modern Igbo Grammar written by E. Nọlue Emenanjọ and has been published by University Press, Nigeria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Functional Grammar
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Author : Simon C. Dik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Functional Grammar written by Simon C. Dik 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 2021-03-22 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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Demonstratives
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Author : Holger Diessel
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1999-12-15
Demonstratives written by Holger Diessel 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 1999-12-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.
Causatives And Causation
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Author : Jae Jung Song
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
Causatives And Causation written by Jae Jung Song and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study.
A Thesaurus Of African Languages
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Author : Michael Mann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-18
A Thesaurus Of African Languages written by Michael Mann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages in classified order with notes on each language, their variant names and immediate classification, and reference to the sources consulted. One section offers an exhaustive list of the languages spoken as home languages by local communities in each state, together with details of languages widely used for inter-group communication, given official recognition, or used in education or the media. There are brief phonological analyses of a broad sample of some 20 African languages and a comprehensive bibliography and language index to the whole work
Quotative Indexes In African Languages
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Author : Tom Güldemann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-11-06
Quotative Indexes In African Languages written by Tom Güldemann 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 2008-11-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.