A Grammar Of Pangkhua
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A Grammar Of Pangkhua
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Author : Zahid Akter
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-09-03
A Grammar Of Pangkhua written by Zahid Akter 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 2024-09-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Pangkhua is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by about 2000 people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. This volume provides a comprehensive grammatical description of the language, based on more than a year of original fieldwork in a Pangkhua village. Taking a broadly functional typological perspective, Zahid Akter analyzes Pangkhua phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. Some of the typologically notable characteristics of Pangkhua include presence of a relatively large number of sesquisyllabic words, an elaborate person marking on verbs, absence of a clausal conjunctive, and lack of a distinct word class of adjectives. As the first comprehensive description of the language, this grammar contributes to comparative Tibeto-Burman linguistics more broadly by laying the groundwork for further studies locating Pangkhua in its genealogical, areal, and typological contexts. It will also serve as an invaluable resource for the maintenance and revitalization of Pangkhua language and culture.
Clause Chaining In The Languages Of The World
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Author : Hannah S. Sarvasy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-02-20
Clause Chaining In The Languages Of The World written by Hannah S. Sarvasy 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 2025-02-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the Americas. Clause chains consist of several dependent clauses and one main clause, and are used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants; they often go together with switch-reference marking, an indication of whether upcoming subjects will be co-referential with preceding subjects or not. The introductory chapter features a discussion of the typological properties of clause chaining, with a brief overview of previous approaches to and investigations of clause chains followed by an overview of their recurrent grammatical features; it ends with an appendix featuring notes for fieldworkers. The first part of the book explores general issues in clause chaining, including prosody, acquisition, and language contact and history; later parts then examine clause chaining and related phenomena in a wide range of languages from around the world.
Language And Decolonisation
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Author : Finex Ndhlovu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-23
Language And Decolonisation written by Finex Ndhlovu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study. Edited by leading figures in the field, the chapters offer new insights on how ‘decolonising’ can be adopted as a methodology for charting the next steps in solving practical language-related problems in educational and related social policy areas. Divided into two sections, the book covers the coloniality of language, the materiality of culture and colonial scripts, the decolonisation imperative, multilingualism discourse and decolonisation, and decolonising languages in public discourse. With 20 chapters authored by experts from across the globe, this pioneering collection is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars, and researchers of language and culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.
Mermaid Construction
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Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Mermaid Construction written by Tasaku Tsunoda 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 2020-08-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides detailed studies of the crosslinguistically unusual mermaid construction in seventeen languages of Asia, including Modern Standard Japanese, and one language of Africa. This construction appears to be absent in languages of Europe, Oceania and the Americas. The name - mermaid construction - alludes to its paradoxical make-up, where the structure closely resembling a verb-predicate clause ends with what may look like a noun-predicate clause. Superficially it looks biclausal; however, syntactically it is monoclausal. It has a compound predicate which contains an independent noun, a clitic or an affix derived from a noun, or a nominalizer. Its compound predicate has a modal, evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic or discourse-related meaning. The paradox is resolved from a diachronic perspective insofar as a biclausal structure is reanalyzed as a monoclausal one. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a constituent of a predicate. It constitutes an important contribution to research on grammaticalization and in particular, the grammaticalization of nouns and more generally, to the typology of syntactic reanalysis.
Proto Kuki Chin A Reconstructed Ancestor Of The Kuki Chin Languages
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Author : Kenneth VanBik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Proto Kuki Chin A Reconstructed Ancestor Of The Kuki Chin Languages written by Kenneth VanBik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
This book represents a high-water mark in our understanding of the history of the Kuki-Chin branch of Tibeto-Burman. Nearly 1400 reconstructed cognate sets are presented, at various taxonomic levels: Proto-Kuki-Chin, Proto-Central-Chin, Proto-Northern-Chin, and Proto-Maraic. Special attention is paid to the subgrouping of this highly ramified family, based on the patterns of shared phonological innovations which the various languages display.
Mizoram District Gazetteers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Mizoram District Gazetteers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Mizoram (India) categories.
Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie
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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Ethnology categories.
Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie Und Ihre H Lfswissenschaften Als Lehre Vom Menschen In Seinen Beziehungen Zur Natur Und Zur Geschichte
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Author : Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie Und Ihre H Lfswissenschaften Als Lehre Vom Menschen In Seinen Beziehungen Zur Natur Und Zur Geschichte written by Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Anthropology categories.
The Transnational Redress Movement For The Victims Of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
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Author : Pyong Gap Min
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-02-10
The Transnational Redress Movement For The Victims Of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery written by Pyong Gap Min 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 2020-02-10 with History categories.
This book examines the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery in South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. comprehensively. The Japanese military forcefully mobilized about 80,000-200,000 Asian women to Japanese military brothels and forced them into sexual slavery during the Asian-Pacific War (1932-1945). Korean "comfort women" are believed to have been the largest group because of Korea’s colonial status. The redress movement for the victims started in South Korea in the late 1980s. The emergence of Korean "comfort women" to society to tell the truth beginning in 1991 and the discovery of Japanese historical documents, proving the responsibility of the Japanese military for establishing and operating military brothels by a Japanese historian in 1992 accelerated the redress movement for the victims. The movement has received strong support from UN human rights bodies, the U.S. and other Western countries. It has also greatly contributed to raising people’s consciousness of sexual violence against women at war. However, the Japanese government has not made a sincere apology and compensation to the victims to bring justice to the victims.
Ethnologue
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Author : Summer Institute of Linguistics
language : en
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
Release Date : 2005
Ethnologue written by Summer Institute of Linguistics and has been published by Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth Edition is a comprehensive reference volume with entries for the 6,912 languages in use in the world today. Ethnologue is published from SIL¿s language database that has been in use by linguists for over fifty years. The new fifteenth edition is now in hardcover for durability of use in libraries and reference collections. New and updated features include: 208 color language maps, statistical summary tables, entirely restructured indexes including over 39,000 language names, and the three letter language identifiers from the new ISO/DIS 639-3 draft international standard.