A Grammar Of Mina
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A Grammar Of Mina
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-06-03
A Grammar Of Mina written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier 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 2011-06-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The outstanding characteristics of Mina include: vowel harmony; use of phonological means, including vowel deletion and vowel retention, to code phrasal boundaries; two tense and aspectual systems, each system carrying a different pragmatic function; a lexical category ‘locative predicator’ hitherto not observed in other languages; some tense, aspect, and mood markers that occur before the verb, and others that occur after the verb; the markers of interrogative and negative modality that occur in clause-final position; the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in the subject function that differs from the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in all other functions.In addition to the coding of argument structure, adjuncts, tense, aspect, and mood categories, Mina also codes the category point-of-view. The language has a clausal category ‘comment clause’ used in both simple and complex sentences, which overtly marks the speaker’s comment on the proposition. The discourse structure has the principle of unity of place. If one of the participants in a described event changes scene, that is coded by a special syntactic construction in addition to any verb of movement that may be used. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the Grammar of Mina will be of interest to a wide range of linguists.
A Grammar Of Hdi
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-03
A Grammar Of Hdi written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier 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 2011-05-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
A Grammar Of Lele
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Release Date : 2001-01
A Grammar Of Lele written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores the use of vowel harmony as a means of coding categories of morphemes.
A Grammar Of Gidar
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2008
A Grammar Of Gidar written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This reference grammar of Gidar, spoken in the Northern Province of Cameroon by some 40.000 people, contains hypotheses on the forms and functions of its linguistic structures and supporting argumentation and evidence. The language belongs to the Central Branch of Chadic languages, but its phonology, morphology, and syntax differ significantly from those of related Chadic languages and include rare or hitherto unobserved phenomena. Gidar has fronting and rounding long distance vowel assimilations that operate to the left and the right of the triggering vowel. Some prepositional phrases are incorporated within the verbal piece framed by aspectual markers. There are two tense and aspectual systems. The focus on the verb requires the formation of a special phrase whose head is an infinitive form of the verb with its object.
A Grammar Of Pero
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Grammar Of Pero written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Chadic languages categories.
A Grammar Of Mupun
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Grammar Of Mupun written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Mupun dialect categories.
Mupun is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria, in an area within the Lankan District. It is considered a dialect of Mwaghavul.
A Grammar Of Tukang Besi
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Author : Mark Donohue
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-12
A Grammar Of Tukang Besi written by Mark Donohue 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 2011-05-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
A Grammar Of Giziga
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Author : Erin Shay
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-01-18
A Grammar Of Giziga written by Erin Shay and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is spoken in parts of the Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon.
The Isizulu A Grammar Of The Zulu Language
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Author : Lewis Grout
language : en
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Release Date : 1859-01-01
The Isizulu A Grammar Of The Zulu Language written by Lewis Grout and has been published by Dalcassian Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859-01-01 with categories.
A Grammar Of Wandala
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-05-29
A Grammar Of Wandala written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier 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 2012-05-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Wandala is a hitherto undescribed Central Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. The Grammar of Wandala describes, in a non-aprioristic approach, phonology, morphology, syntax, and all functional domains grammaticalized in the language. The grammatical structure of Wandala is quite different from the structure of other Chadic languages described thus far in both the formal means and the functions that have been grammaticalized. The grammar provides proofs for the postulated hypotheses concerning forms and functions. The grammar is written in a style accessible to linguists working within different theoretical frameworks. The phonology is characterized by a rich consonantal system, a three vowel system, and a two tone system. The language has abundant vowel insertion rules and a vowel harmony system. Vowel deletion marks phrase-internal position, and vowel-insertion marks phrase-final position. The two rules allow the parsing of the clause into constituents. The language has three types of reduplication of verbs, two of which code aspectual and modal distinctions. The negative paradigms of verbs differ from affirmative paradigms in the coding of subject. The pronominal affixes and extensive system of verbal extensions code the grammatical and semantic relations within the clause. Wandala has unusual clausal structure, in that in a pragmatically neutral verbal clause, there is only one nominal argument, either the subject or the object. These arguments can follow a variety of constituents. The grammatical role of that argument is coded by inflectional markers on the verb and most interestingly, on whatever lexical or grammatical morpheme precedes the constituent. The markers of grammatical relations added to verbs are different for different classes of verbs.