A Grammar Of Kewa New Guinea
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A Grammar Of Kewa New Guinea
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Author : Karl James Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A Grammar Of Kewa New Guinea written by Karl James Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Kewa language categories.
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A Grammar And Dialect Study Of Kewa New Guinea
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
A Grammar And Dialect Study Of Kewa New Guinea written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Kewa language categories.
A Kewa Dictionary With Supplementary Grammatical And Anthropological Materials
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Author : Karl James Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
A Kewa Dictionary With Supplementary Grammatical And Anthropological Materials written by Karl James Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A Grammar Of Mauwake
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Author : Liisa Berghäll
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2015-10-07
A Grammar Of Mauwake written by Liisa Berghäll 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 2015-10-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language and the only published grammar of the Kumil subgroup to date. Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author shows how the language is similar to, or different from, related TNG languages especially in the Madang province. The grammar gives a brief introduction to the Mauwake people, their environment and their culture. Although the book mainly covers morphology and syntax, it also includes ashort treatment of the phonological system and the orthography. The description of the grammatical units proceeds from the words/morphology to the phrases, clauses, sentence types and clause combinations. The chapter on functional domains is the only one where the organization is based on meaning/function rather than structure. The longest chapter in the book is on morphology, with verbs taking the central stage. The final chapter deals with the pragmatic functions theme, topic and focus. 13 texts by native speakers, mostly recorded and transcribed but some originally written, are included in the Appendix with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and a free translation. The theoretical approach used is that of Basic Linguistic Theory. Language typologists and professional Papuanist linguists are naturally one target audience for the grammar. But also two other possible, and important, audiences influenced especially the style the writing: well educated Mauwake speakers interested in their language, and those other Papua New Guineans who have some basic training in linguistics and are keen to explore their own languages.
A Grammar Of Mian
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Author : Sebastian Fedden
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-10-27
A Grammar Of Mian written by Sebastian Fedden 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 2011-10-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and meaning.
The Papuan Languages Of New Guinea
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Author : William A. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-11-20
The Papuan Languages Of New Guinea written by William A. Foley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-11-20 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.
The Languages And Linguistics Of The New Guinea Area
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Author : Bill Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-04
The Languages And Linguistics Of The New Guinea Area written by Bill Palmer 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 2017-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
A Kewa Dictionary With Supplementary Grammatical And Anthropological Materials
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Author : Karl James Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
A Kewa Dictionary With Supplementary Grammatical And Anthropological Materials written by Karl James Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Papers In New Guinea Linguistics
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Author : C. L. Voorhoeve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Papers In New Guinea Linguistics written by C. L. Voorhoeve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Agarabe language categories.
The Yimas Language Of New Guinea
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Author : William A. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991
The Yimas Language Of New Guinea written by William A. Foley and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A "study of the Yimas language, its grammar and lexicon, the social and cultural contexts of the use of the language, its history and genetic relations, and its interactions with neighbouring languages." -- Pref.