A Grammar Of Kwaza
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A Grammar Of Kwaza
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Author : Hein van der Voort
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2004
A Grammar Of Kwaza written by Hein van der Voort 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 2004 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Review text: "We are lucky to have this book."Laurence Krute in: Anthropoligical Linguistics 2/2005.
A Grammar Of Kwaza
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Author : Hein van der Voort
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-08-22
A Grammar Of Kwaza written by Hein van der Voort 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 2008-08-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon region in general. Linguists expect that the majority of these peoples will cease to exist as distinct language communities during the coming decades. The present work is intended as a contribution to the documentation and preservation of the languages of the Amazon basin. In this respect, Kwaza has represents an especially urgent case in view of its undetermined classification, the lack of documentation and its endangered status. This work is based on the author ́s personal fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2002, and it consists of three parts. Part I contains a thorough description of the phonology and morphosyntax of the language and a concise overview of its social, cultural and historical context. Part II contains a diverse selection of transcribed and translated texts with interlinear morphological analyses. Part III is a dictionary of Kwaza, including many examples and an English-Kwaza register. This complete description is of interest to linguists in general, scholars of South American languages in particular, and anthropologists and historians interested in the Guaporé region.
A Grammar Of Kwaza
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Author : Hein van der Voort
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
A Grammar Of Kwaza written by Hein van der Voort and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Indians of South America categories.
A Grammar Of Kwaza
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Author : Hendrikus Gerardus Antonius Voort
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
A Grammar Of Kwaza written by Hendrikus Gerardus Antonius Voort and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
A Grammar Of Khatso
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Author : Chris Donlay
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-05-06
A Grammar Of Khatso written by Chris Donlay 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 2019-05-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first grammar in English of Khatso, an endangered language spoken in a single farming village in China by descendants of Kublai Khan’s Mongol soldiers. Based on natural language from dozens of speakers, this analysis captures the way Khatso is spoken in daily life. As a result, it is the most comprehensive description of Khatso yet, providing an in-depth look at the features, structures and systems that comprise this unique language.
First Steps In Zulu
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Author : John William Colenso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
First Steps In Zulu written by John William Colenso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Zulu language categories.
First Steps In Zulu Being An Elementary Grammar Of The Zulu Language Second Edition
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Author : John William Colenso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
First Steps In Zulu Being An Elementary Grammar Of The Zulu Language Second Edition written by John William Colenso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with 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 Language Arts & Disciplines 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.
The Languages Of The Amazon
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-18
The Languages Of The Amazon written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 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 2012-05-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300 languages. She sets out their main characteristics, compares their common and unique features, and describes the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The languages abound in rare features. Most have been in contact with each other for many generations, giving rise to complex patterns of linguistic influence. The author draws on her own extensive field research to tease out and analyse the patterns of their genetic and structural diversity. She shows how these patterns reveal the interrelatedness of language and culture; different kinship systems, for example, have different linguistic correlates. Professor Aikhenvald explains the many unusual features of Amazonian languages, which include evidentials, tones, classifiers, and elaborate positional verbs. She ends the book with a glossary of terms, and a full guide for those readers interested in following up a particular language or linguistic phenomenon. The book is free of esoteric terminology, written in its author's characteristically clear style, and brought vividly to life with numerous accounts of her experience in the region. It may be used as a resource in courses in Latin American studies, Amazonian studies, linguistic typology, and general linguistics, and as reference for linguistic and anthropological research.
Number In The World S Languages
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Author : Paolo Acquaviva
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Number In The World S Languages written by Paolo Acquaviva 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 2022-06-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.